Category: Links of Interest
Open Source Contacts Made My Business Too
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From Heather Burns: After years of dragging my arse to the only mildly tolerable option, an open source community meetup appeared – in the function room of a twee Oirish pub, no less – and what ensued didn’t so much pivot my business but my entire life. And on that evidence, it’s no wonder that…
ASUS ROG Z13 – Better than the iPadPro?
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Sure the iPadPro may be more powerful than this1 but this runs a full fat operating system. So it can be a tablet, and my full-time computer for all tasks. My iPad still doesn’t do code well. I never checked I’m simply guessing because M1/2 chips are so fast. ↩
Writing is a transit system for electrical brain sparks
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From Analog Office: The magic is in the fact that writing is a transit system, which transports little electrical sparks in your synapses into things that affect shared reality. Yes I love Obsidian. Yes I write down most notes during the day in a notebook.
Matt Birchler – AI Hype is Like Chatbot hype from 2016
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There is so much to agree with in Matt’s post. Tech hypes so much that will “revolutionize” our lives and lots of it fails to bring these innovations. How do we always forget the broken promises and blindly trust the new thing tech is hyping?
How Will AI Change Note-Taking?
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AI will solve the need to organize your notes!!! But will it really? Crypto was supposed to solve banking and make it modern. Instead it’s crashed a bunch and rich people got in early then cashed out and got richer. Ride hailing was supposed to revolutionize personal transportation. Instead they used data to drive down…
Repurposing a ThinkPad 701C with Framework
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I love this repurposing of an old computer with new brains from Framework. Before I purchased my 13″ Framework I tried to get an older ThinkPad, but after numerous shipping issues, I never got any of them. I love my Framework laptop. I love that even though I missed out on their latest upgrades by…
The Richest School Can’t Afford to Pay Workers Properly
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This story from Vice about Harvard shows the sad state of affairs across the working world in North America. Harvard is doing the “great service” for it’s student workers of showing them resources to help them pay for things, like food. They want to be congratulated for this, while we look the other way as…
Canadian Government Sinks More Money into Propping Up Fossil Fuels and Planes
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Sigh…so it appears that the current federal budget has money earmarked for “making improvements to air travel”. They have $1.8 billion dollars devoted to this nebulous “improvement” campaign, specifically to improve security screening. Most of us know that the pain we go through at airport security is useless. It does almost nothing to keep flying…
Control Sonos from Fedora
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For a while now I’ve controlled my Sonos system via AirPlay from any one of my Apple devices. But with a Fedora Framework laptop in my house, I needed to find a new way to send audio to the speakers without needing AirPlay. Unfortunately, Sonos doesn’t make an official Linux app, but open source to…
PKM Weekly March 26 2023 – Issue 062
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Welcome to the PKM weekly newsletter. My goal is to round up good resources in the PKM space so you don’t have to. This issue was sponsored by Reflect.app. Reflect is a note-taking app that mirrors the way your brain works through networked notes. It has a GPT-4 AI assistant that lets you save your…
