Category: Links of Interest

  • Matt Gemmell an a Second Screen with his iPad

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    Matt writes about using an e-ink screen to scribble on as a secondary screen with his iPadPro as the main device. The main issue he’s trying to solve is wanting to scribble on the iPad while it’s also his main screen for writing. I’ve solved this by having my iPad on a VESA arm on…

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  • Chris Lawley’s 2023 iPad Desk

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    Much like Chris, I’ve been using my iPad more again with the changes in iPadOS 17. My biggest problem was Obsidian being slow for a while, but after some testing Obsidian is no longer slow on my iPad.

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  • Disable Super P in Gnome 45 to Stop Resetting Your Monitors

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    Since I’ve moved my control keys to the home row I’ve had an issue where I hold a key too long and accidentally reset all my monitors. That leaves me with a system that is unusable until I head back to settings and reorganize my screens. After some research today, the keyboard command was Super…

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  • The Only Useful LLM Feature I’ve Seen

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    Casey Newton talked about how Notion Ai (it’s really LLM and calling it Ai feeds into the hype) will look at your data and let you extract content from it. So far this is the only thing in the current LLM/Ai hype-cycle that I’ve found compelling. I’d love to ask some questions about my notes…

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  • With Manifest V3 Coming to Chrome I’m Going Full Firefox

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    Manifest V3 is coming to Chrome which means that ad blockers like UBlock Origin and Privacy Badger will stop working or be greatly reduced in functionality. This is good for Google as it continues to try and race blocking technologies with it’s tracker technologies, with V3 it loaded the deck so that it’s no longer…

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  • Don’t Write in Books

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    From Richard: Some people claim seeing your old notes and annotations when you return to a favourite book enhances the experience. I beg to differ. Whenever I re-read a book on my Kindle, I find myself constantly distracted by my previous highlights. Lovely chap though he undoubtedly was, I don’t want Former Me telling me…

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  • A Lot of People have Benefitted from Associating Luddism with Techphobia

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    From A Working Library: A lot of people have benefited from the association of Luddism with irrational technophobia. But maybe instead of avoiding the specter of Luddism we should reclaim it. Asking good questions about how a technology will impact people isn’t unreasonable and it isn’t irrational; it’s right and appropriate and necessary. Blood in…

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  • Matt Gemmell on Home Row Mods

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    Matt talked about his modifications, which add your control keys to the home row of your keyboard. I’ve been testing this idea out since just before he wrote the post and I do like it, but there is a downside. The big downside is that when I grab my laptop to go work somewhere else…

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  • Framework Fan is Buzzing

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    I still love my Framework laptop, but for some reason one of the fans has developed a loud buzzing sound. It would seem that I’m not alone and that Framework is sending out replacements. So my support request is in and here’s hoping a new fan is coming my way soon.

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  • Unsurprisingly People Who Profit off the work of Others Don’t Want to Pay For it

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    Andreeson Horowitz says that Ai companies won’t be profitable if they have to pay the workers for the content they’re currently taking for free. I find it galling that Ai companies think they should get input for free, and then sell the output of our own work back to us. It’s like social media companies…

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