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Google preps Pixel ‘Audio Memory’ that ambiently tracks your ‘important conversations,’ like AI notetaker pins

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I switched a few months ago and overall its been an excellent experience. Some pitfalls though:

  1. Banking apps may not work, Santander in the UK for example but I'm going to transfer away from them
  2. Contactless pay through google wallet doesn't work, I couldn't find a way to attach a card to the back of my phone and also keep pixel snap usable so I bought a small pixel snap wallet that works nicely
  3. Recently Volkswagen and vw group enabled google play attestation for their app and not hardware attestation, so my cars app no longer works. This is probably the most frustrating for me because as an EV owner there's no other way to track the charge of your car other than via the app. This is particularly annoying when using public charge points and you can't track the charge progress when walking away from the car. First world problem, I can just leave it alone and let it charge without keeping an eye on it but that's annoying to me, I'm sure I'll get over it.
  4. Because of the above, I'm concerned other apps may start to follow suit. For example "too good to go" in the UK is "not compatible" with my device from the play store because it doesn't pass the play attestation... Hopefully it's not a trend.

Overall though I would highly recommend. All the other main features work flawlessly.

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Day 705 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

Nice work! Love your posts, keep them up :)

I also finished fallen order recently and moved on to survivor, I had some trouble with textures loading in randomly that were just blurry shapes and then not updating. Had to install some mods to fix that as well as frame rate issues but plain sailing since then. Would recommend if you end up suffering with the same thing.

May your streak continue upwards and the force be with you.

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nicest bloke from the south east

Similar but not the same - I live with my partner, just the two of us. We had next door neighbours (we share a wall) move in with the same first names and same initial (not same last names).

They didn't even blink, I thought we should be on some kind of documentary.

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After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad

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+10000 for notepad++, its he swiss army knife of file editing tools. Adding:

  • Plugins: CSV being read as a small dB table you can query is a game changer. Or have a JSON plugin that auto formats and queries as well as opens the JSON in a clickable nested window.

  • Pinned tabs: pin important tabs, I use one as a todo list.

  • Search for text within files in a folder: need to find a specific bit of text in one of dozens/hundreds/thousands/millions of files somewhere? Its lightning fast and works a treat

  • Search and replace with regex: amazing feature, use regex patterns to find complex parts of your files and replace them with something else Bulk operations: remove newline, replace line breaks etc

  • Multi format support: see line breaks from different OSs like Unix and windows and amend them Portable install: you dont have to install it, you can use a portable version

So much more, get it and you won't look back.

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Selfhosted alternative to google keep/onenote/evernote/goodnotes?

I've been getting on well with notesnook, the self hosting is in beta right now but its just a docker container. Docs are coming for self hosting in the near future.

https://notesnook.com/

The criteria for me when I was looking for a notes app were:

  • self hosted
  • e2e encrypted
  • supports images and other rich media as well as text
  • can use markdown for text formatting
  • supports mobile as well as some desktop interface
  • can make lists with checkable boxes
  • background sync

Notesnook hits all of these. I wish it had a dedicated desktop app but that's something I can just use a browser window for.