- Is the UX even the issue with these competitors? The cost for bandwidth and storage and having fast enough servers is the real issue here.
- I wonder how did we get to this scientific age of magic and wonder and technology when people had nothing but pen & paper. Hell, for 10,000 years before that, we didn't even have pen & paper. Where did all those amazing thoughts go??
Also, I'm counting the days until the battery in one of those things bulges while someone is on an airplane... again...
- Classic Vitalik logic. A giant mountain of word salad and he still somehow magically fails to name the fifth and most important group: Scammers.
- It is very plainly visible that society has not been benefited much from the public service of many of those people. In fact, it has declined dramatically.
- Ultimately, someone needs to build a 100% decentralized and automated version of it. Something like Nostr.
- Do we have enough grapevines to replace all plastic in the world? If we need to destroy ecosystems to plant more grapevines, forget about it.
- This sounds bogus.
What if something else causes negative thinking and then in the long run cognitive decline...
...like... eating excessive amounts of carbs and seed oils while also having a sedentary lifestyle and no exposure to the sun.
- The problem is, these companies invest billions to find ways to lock you in, often using illegal ways abusing their monopolies.
"don't like it? buy the competition!" is easier said than done.
- This is exactly what has worked for me as well. Before this, the iPad was rotting in a corner for years, because the phone was just always available and I had consumed everything on the phone already, obliterating the need for the iPad.
- Time consider your party affiliation then.
- If you want cloud hosting and fully E2E encrypted by a team that deeply cares about privacy and security, try Ente. They also have Google Authenticator alternative called Ente Auth.
- Uh... why don't they put the cameras... into the car (it works for human drivers)???
- After their recent change in tune to retain data for longer and to train on our data, I deleted my account.
Try to do that. There is no easy way to delete your account. You need to reach out to their support via email. Incredibly obnoxious dark pattern. I hate OpenAI, but everything with Anthropic also smells fishy.
We need more and better players. I hope that XAi will give them all some good competition, but I have my doubts.
- Wow. Thank you for sharing this. I have never been to the US (Germany, Singapore)... this sounds just completely and utterly bonkers to me.
- Not sure I have a satisfying answer. I didn't do too much research and did not compare all available options. Isn't Immich self-hosted? That rules it out for me, can't be bothered to run my own servers, I just want to pay a fair amount of money and get peace of mind in return.
- Great effort! For photos I can highly recommend Ente. Fully E2E encrypted. Works on all systems, syncs reliably, has great on-device AI stuff to build a vector database of your images, has very good UI/UX and is reasonably priced. Once I had all my 20k+ photos uploaded into Ente, I was finally able to delete all my photos from iCloud and cancel my iCloud subscription.
- Isn't that totally normal?
When I have to touch Android or Windows, I feel absolutely awful because I am used to MacOS and iOS.
Likewise, Android and Windows users will feel awful when having to use MacOS and iOS.
It's simply a matter of habit and experience.
Having used Windows and Android for 10+ years before switching to the Apple ecosystem, I can say with confidence though that MacOS is not weird at all. It makes far more sense than the insanity that is Windows/Android.
- ooph. wouldn't the dust particles go through a whole lot of other bodily defense mechanisms before they reach actual lung cells?
- Once the cars are fully self-driving, this is exactly what will happen... just wait and see..
And of course one of the top comments is... shitting on the way this is written. HN never changes.