Great for giving incantatons for ffmpeg, imagemagick, and other power tools.

“Use ffmpeg to get a thumbnail of the fifth second of a video.”

Anything where syntax is complicated, lots of half-baked tutorials exist for the AI to read, and you can immediately confirm if it worked or not. It does hallucinate flags, but fixes if you say “There is no --compress flag” etc.

vim vs. emacs

It doesn’t matter if you personally like emacs more, far fewer people use it.

https://plenz.com/tmp/vi.html

For my family member who moved out of country, signal’s voice quality was not very good. WhatsApp’s quality was better than a regular phone call, very impressive.

Also, outside the US WhatsApp is some kind of standard the way rich Americans think iMessage is. Companies will ask her to contact them on WhatsApp, so she’ll have to have it regardless of your personal involvement.

There’s also jitsi.

Tangentially related: Barber also wrote his Adagio for Strings as an Agnus Dei. It’s great.

sudo apt remove ratpoison

I discounted this theory the first time I heard it because it’s too cool.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.markuspage.android.atimetracker/

has served me well.

I love the weird fast-scrolling button in Hews.

It’s pretty ironic that a page about bad UX, specifically en mobile, contains a 99 page slidedeck that I can’t zoom in to read on mobile…

A “solution” to this might be for lemmy instances/apps to have the option to “load remote images” the way e-mail providers do. So I have to actively click to load the images. Could even be done per subscription, so I could declare that I just want everything loaded when I see lemmy.ml/c/pics but not in general, where I usually want text.