My lesson in this came really early in my career. One of our execs was selling vapourware. Just promising our product, that we hadn't made yet, could do literally anything. Then he insisted we build it on this platform he must have had shares in the way he pushed it, only it was also vapourware and didn't do half the things it said it did.

He found it utterly inconceivable that a company would sell a product that didn't do what it said despite doing the exact same thing himself. He was completely delusional.

The difference is the others don't require a tropical environment to grow. So you can grow them without any deforestation.

I use this, works great. Have it on a server that is publicly accessible and has access to immich. I have it on a VPS which connects to my LAN over VPN. In immich you can configure a public domain for sharing where you put the proxy domain.

Then just share as normal and the url immich gives is the proxy.

The UI you get is very basic but functional.

Universal healthcare doesn't mean you can't pay for private healthcare. The UK has both. Jobs can often come with health insurance. It's typically much cheaper as well because it doesn't cover emergency services.

A couple of our locals have now. Haven't used an app in years. It was always a terrible experience and way more expensive.

One of them you can pay by card on delivery, the driver brings a wireless card terminal. Works great.

Thats a nice way of putting it. I always just thought of it as inserting themselves into things that worked fine before but now they extract margin from everyone involved.

I used to just phone a local business and someone would who worked for them would bring me food. It worked fine.

Based on the recently leaked OpenAI figures, still not profitable but it's much closer. They would have lost $1.7B rather than $20.9B

A better example for me is driving, we don't let children drive, millions of children have access to cars, there's no age gate on the ignition.

Ultimately its the parents that stop kids driving.

Ban kids from using it. Then treat it like a public health problem and educate everybody on the problems, how to identify misinformation, keep themselves safe etc. And require the companies to provide the tools parents can use to protect their own kids. Parental controls exist but i feel they aren't widely used because it's difficult and complicated.

I'd go further and start regulating the use of algorithmic feeds for everybody but that's probably harder to achieve.

It's been truly terrible. When i first tried it, you didn't get a tooltip showing the actual URL of links before you click them, you know, the thing literally every mandatory phishing training I've had to do for the past 20 years.

I got the same email with 25% discount for this year. Can't argue with lack of transparency on that and it's a bit unreasonable to expect no price increases ever

I used to agree with this until i got private healthcare through my employer. My wife had been waiting 6 months for a referral and had been cancelled twice.

Once we got on the private healthcare figured we might as well use it. Had an appointment 3 days later with the same Dr who had cancelled her twice.

It's not saving resources for the nhs, it's extracting them. For all we know, she got cancelled because someone paying privately booked an appointment so got priority.

One tip for persistant notifications, if you long press on it and go to settings then drill down through 2 or 3 screens there's an option to minimise. It makes it smaller on the notifications drawer and doesn't show on the starus bar.

Still sucks that apps have to do this to run in background.