> I’m surprised with what all worked out of the box, like hibernating, external monitors/keyboards, media keys. Not sure how much is thanks to DHH’s Omarchy, and what’s native Arch Linux support
It's pretty much ALL Omarchy. If you install Arch by itself you get a tty prompt... and that's about it.
Omarchy looks super impressive. Haven't used it myself, but the scripts and dotfiles in the Github repo (https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy) have been inspiring
They're not a model company. The risks of deploying something half-baked to their users is unacceptable. They're taking it slow and trying to do it in a way that doesn't damage/erode their brand.
Wait it out, let the best model(s) rise to the surface (and the hallucination problems to get sufficiently mitigated), and then either partner with a proprietary provider or deploy one of the open source models. Makes more sense than burning billions of dollars training a new foundation model
This is a reasonable approach, but unfortunately misses what made Apple soooo successful. Apple is the master of controlling the brand. Apple DOES NOT like to highlight their suppliers. Nobody knows who makes iPhones displays, or sensors, or RAMs.
They love to "invent" brands that they control, so that they can commodotize the underlying supplier. Hey user, it is a retina display and dont worry whether it is LG or Samsung is making it.
Apple tried this with AI, calling it "Apple Intelligence". Unfortunately that faltered. Now Apple will have to come out and say "iPhone with ChatGPT" or "Siri with Claude". AND APPLE HATES THAT. HATES IT WITH PASSION.
People will start to associate smartness with ChatGPT or Claude, and Apple loses control and OpenAI/Anthropic's leverage goes up.
Apple has painted themselves into a corner. And as I said elsewhere, it is a train-wreck happening in slowmotion.
Please go rewatch the iPhone keynote by Steve Jobs. Everyone remembers the beginning; few seem to remember that he brings out 3 other CEOs to highlight the integrations between the iPhone and those companies.
Or consider that they spent a decade highlighting that their computers were powered by Intel, after leaving their proprietary PowerPC architecture—again, under Steve Jobs.
Or go all the way back to 1997 when Steve Jobs had Bill Gates on the screen at Macworld and announced that IE would be the default browser on Mac.
It’s easy to fall into a caricature of Apple, where they insist on making everything themselves. What is more accurate is to say that they are not afraid to make things themselves, when they think they have a better idea. But they are also not afraid to do deals when it is the best way forward right now.
They already deployed half-baked models (eg needing to disable news summaries because they were so bad), and haven't delivered on other aspects of apple intelligence. This is hard to call being cautious, this is them not being able to keep up.
Exactly. Another mobile.me moment that adversely impacts customers is worse than making something useful that works. Anyone that “needs” AI can use an app.
All legal docs pages seem broken (at least on mobile).
I’m your target customer but would never use this because it inspires no confidence that when the shit hits the fan (ie: contract dispute) your signing tool will stand up to legal scrutiny. The sales page is all about being cheap and mobile responsive, but it doesn’t mention anything about the legality of document signatures processed through the tool, or the data security/privacy standards you uphold.
I had similar RSI issues a couple years ago and explored text to speech as an option, but the solutions at the time were clunky and inaccurate. I gave up and went with more practical solutions (yoga, working less, using a split keyboard). I’m sure with the recent developments in LLMs and speech models the situation is much different now. I’ll have to check this out
DOTS is effective for TB because it’s a time-limited treatment (usually 4 months for drug susceptible strains of TB) and is only relevant for treating infected individuals
DOTS wouldn’t be feasible for a prophylactic treatment like this as the number of participants would be huge and the treatment period is indefinite (ie: the patient’s lifespan)
I've been surprised by the number of companies adopting nextjs as their defacto framework without concern for the uncomfortable reality that the framework is built to be hosted on vercel with self hosting largely supported as an afterthought.
It's great that opennext exists, but it really shouldn't _have_ to exist (as I believe some of the maintainers have publicly stated)
I’m uncomfortable using most JS frameworks. The churn is so high and something new comes out every couple of years.
At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old developer, I am currently using minimal JS, native when possible and jquery as needed. The UX is just fine. Some pages have interactive JS but most reload the page. I have a hard time imagining this isn’t an option for most web apps.
It is fine to sound like a grumpy old developer. We have clients using nextjs and it might have its place if you have apps in active development with dedicated teams, however for LoB apps for instance that don't change a lot and/or don't have continued dev or a dedicated team over time, it's a bad choice imho. Personally, I consider it a terrible choice always, because of the churn mostly; the current info in SO and LLMs is often wrong because of that churn. Best practices change and you have to pin everything or things auto-break. We get hired for a lot of $ to fix that in emergence settings, but I rather would have that people not use this stuff at all. It's not even a good dev experience imho, but I guess that's personal as either others are resume-devving and lying or just have another idea about what is a nice experience.
It doesn't have to exist - I run next.js self hosted and it's arguably better than hosting on vercel (no cold starts, dedicated cpu, next to my api server/db).
I don't know why people keep saying this. There are some features of Next.js that are better supported on Vercel. That doesn't mean that you have to use Vercel. In fact if you are just building a static React site without any server components (so, 99% of sites created with Next.js) then it makes literally no difference where you deploy it.
Remix is growing, and when react router 7 lets you add SSR into any react SPA, I would guess next's market share will slowly shrink in part for that reason
The basic outline of this post isn’t bad, the problem is that’s all there is - a basic outline. If you haven’t dealt with these problems before the checklists are meaningless. If you HAVE dealt with these problems before the checklists are redundant
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It's pretty much ALL Omarchy. If you install Arch by itself you get a tty prompt... and that's about it.
Omarchy looks super impressive. Haven't used it myself, but the scripts and dotfiles in the Github repo (https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy) have been inspiring