Are there are any note taking apps that claim they make their users smarter?

Well, I explicitly hide YouTube's recommendations and feed. So, this is good news for me.

I recently installed Fedora 38 on my desktop after years of using Opensuse Tumbleweed. It came with Wayland out of the box and that was my first time using Wayland.

After the switch, the major issue that I noticed was typing when searching for files in VSCode was very slow. Like a solid 1 or 2 seconds slow for the characters at the end to appear or to disappear after pressing backspace. The title of the window kept flickering as well as switching between the currently open filename and the folder name. It was very weird.

Some amount of Googling lead me to a couple of issues on VSCode's GitHub that attributed the root cause to either Electron or Nvidia misbehaving with Wayland.

Switching from Wayland to X11 solved the issue for me.

This could be said about any South Asian migrant worker in the gulf nations.

I like this! I am surprised to find out my accent heavily leans towards the US's despite me being an Indian. Then again I grew up watching a lot of American movies, it's not really a surprise.

I would guess that's because the numbers this thing spits out are crap. It seems to just output random crap every time. Always 70+ percent US regardless of any attempts at accents or even saying absolutely nothing. Try just mumbling into it

I asked ChatGPT for a list of words that Brits and Americans pronounce very differently, combined them into some silly sentences ("my aunt gave vitamins and herbs to the zebra in the bathroom"), and tested them in the app with my native British accent. It consistently told me that my accent was 80%+ U.S..

This app is, as we say in Britain, complete rubbish.

That must be it. It's almost always 70+ percent US.

Well that's probably because Indian accents are not present as a category and everyone is forced into the US/UK/AU categories?

Could be. But still one would expect the Indian accent to lean towards the UK's because of the colonial past.

As a React/Node developer who's testing waters with Rails by building a side project, I'm excited to try this out.

My experience with Rails has been productive so far. I'm very close to shipping something, thanks to Rails.

I pay for YouTube Premium in India. It's ultra cheap here.

2.16 USD per month for both YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium for a family of 6.

That comes down to 36 cents per person per month.

But I still use the Revanced app on my phone and watch YouTube on my desktop with uBlock turned on for two reasons:

1. I can't stand Shorts. 2. I don't like the clickbait-y and cringe inducing thumbnails that every creator uses now.

> I pay for YouTube Premium in India.

Surely indians could find better things to spend their money on.

When India banned tiktok, I remember thinking wow, they've finally got their act together and are developing their own social media platforms. Instead, they gave up tiktok to pay for youtube garbage. A nation of 1.5 billion and they can't build up their own tech platforms. How long before they start paying for facebook accounts. India never fails to disappoint. A nation with immense potential and terrible leadership and no vision.

> Surely indians could find better things to spend their money on.

That's not for you and me to decide. Indians are perfectly capable of making their own purchasing decisions, good or bad.

> How long before they start paying for facebook accounts.

Might I remind you that WhatsApp was offered to Indians for free while the rest of the world was paying $1? There's no way Facebook would be pay to use. I hope it would be.

> India never fails to disappoint. A nation with immense potential and terrible leadership and no vision.

I am not going to comment on this as is it not relevant to the discussion.

Pssssttttt! I have had a family subscription ever since they introduced the option in India. However, people think I'm crazy for, "something that you get for free." So, I tend to keep quiet amongst friends and I just shrug, "yeah, I just block all ads at the door of the Internet as it enters our home."

Youtube Premium is definitely worth it and economically viable to subscribe, here in India. (Similar story with Spotify.)

Update: just saw your edited comment. How do you turn off Shorts?

I use uBlock to filter out Shorts on web.

https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/143mdqv/

And I use Revanced YouTube on my phone.

Doesn't cover sponsor block though

True. But you could install the Sponsorblock extension. And if you are on Android you could also use the Revanced YouTube.

I pay for YouTube Premium because my mum uses an old Android phone and Revanced YouTube doesn't work on it. Also, my sister's kids watch YouTube on TV and they start crying rather loudly whenever an ad comes on.

How does uBlock help? Do you just block the thumbnail elements?

I use uBlock to filter out Shorts.

https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/143mdqv/

And I use a paid Firefox extension (one time payment of $1) called DeArrow to replace clickbait thumbnails and titles.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dearrow/

There's also a free alternative:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clickbait-rem...

May I ask what made you to switch from Laravel to Next.js?

Would like to know this as well. I switched from my last company’s WordPress app over to our Laravel side of things (with Vue/Inertia on the front end) and I really liked it. I’ve heard of Next.js here and there but seeing in the context of “switched from Laravel” I’m very curious.

This brings back memories of my childhood. I am from a coastal village in (northern) Andhra Pradesh, India.

We call it "పచ్చడి" (pachchadi) in Telugu. If it were to be made in a process usual to the rest of the state (or the country), it would not last longer due the village's close proximity to the sea.

So my aunt and grandmother would also add jaggery to the pickle, to stop it from developing fungus sooner and to give it a sweet taste along with sour and spicy taste mango pickles are known for. This addition would give the pickle a deeper colour.

I always preferred it over the regular mango pickle.

I love bellam Avakaya. And the ginger garlic varieties are to die for.

My uncle (60+ yo) is a true connoisseur though. He loves it so much and abhors the mass manufactured stuff that he actually gets small batches made in India and even sells it in the US where he lives.

I helped build a Shopify storefront for him at Avakaya.com

> He loves it so much and abhors the mass manufactured stuff

Sounds like your uncle and I would get along really well.

It's sad that Bellam Avakaya (or Bellapu Avakaya as we call it in our home) is not as famous as the other varieties.

the right term is ఊరగాయ or ఆవకాయ.

Isn't ఆవకాయ a specific type of ఊరగాయ? Atleast that is how the terms are used in Telangana.

It's how it is Andhra Pradesh too.

ఆవకాయ a type of ఊరగాయ. Made with mangos obviously.

I stand corrected. It is indeed ఊరగాయ.

I bought the OnePlus 11R a few days when my phone at the time, the OnePlus 9, developed the infamous green line in just a year of ownership. OnePlus offered me about $400 as that device reached EoL and they were out of spares.

I had to buy the 11R specifically because I could use that money only to buy another OnePlus and I did want to shell out more money for the 11.

What would be my next phone? I don't know. I usually keep my phone for 4 to 5 years and I am biased towards Android. I will see what's in the market after 4 years.