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Echo chambers seem pretty popular tho.

I hated Google home too. I switched to Home Assistant and was amazed at how much better it was. I don't use any voice recognition though, so I can't speak to that.

This is part of the problem with having an administration that so obviously corrupt and so frequently tells the most obvious lies and consistently acts with such obvious, naked partisanship. You can't trust them about anything.

Seriously, the product focuses on personal and independent content, primarily published on websites, but the app only works in iOS. That seems like a fundamental mismatch.


Browser* Buddy

*Not available in a browser.


We originally started with a webapp but found ourselves using it much more on our phones.

Happy to bring back the webapp if there’s strong interest!


Well, by limiting yourselves to iPhone you are eliminating at least half of smartphone users, and 100% of non-smartphone users.


Please do. Also try making a newtab page.


Would be much easier to try. I was expecting a chrome extension.


yes please bring it back. browsers work perfectly fine on phones


We're working on porting the recommendation system to the web but our landing page now has the "essay search" part of the mobile app for you to try!

https://www.browserbuddy.com/


lol yeah why not do webapp so much easier than ios


It looks like you have to be logged in to edit on crockipedia. I'm not willing to create an account to test this theory tho.


Voice control. Give me a keyboard and a mouse or track pad any day. I can't even articulate a reason, I just don't like it.


> I can't even articulate

That seems like a good enough reason.


I don't use anything like a "writer deck" but for me pen and paper is a non-starter due to hand fatigue. I can type for much, much longer periods than I could ever hope to write by hand.


It also introduces significantly more lag, at least for me, between the thinking and actual writing down of the words.

Sometimes slowing down the process like this is helpful, in other cases it's better to make the emission of the words onto the page as immediate as possible, depends on the piece.


> hand fatigue

Try a fountain pen. Seriously. Many people press far too hard with ballpoints; with a fountain pen, you can't -- you'll bend the nib and smudge.

Some adults won't have written with one since school; younger ones, never. But they exist for goods solid ergonomic reasons.

After you get used to them you write better, too.

There are good disposable fountain pens now, and I've been using them for a decade and a half. I like the Pilot V-Pen.

https://macchiatoman.com/blog/2020/1/22/pen-review-pilot-v-p...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pilot-Pen-Disposable-Fountain-Black...

Costs about £5, lasts many months of heavy use -- much more than any cartridge pen as the whole barrel is full of ink -- and I have never ever had one leak in my bag or pocket.

Highly recommended.


> but for me pen and paper is a non-starter due to hand fatigue

You may want to look into writing with your arm instead of your hand


Or just using a different type of pen, rather than trying to re-learn to write.


Not the person you were replying to, but “oh, gee, I wish I’d thought of that! /s”.

I spent my first few decades trying to train myself not to write in a way that causes physical pain. The closest I got was when I discover Lamy Safari pens, which won’t let me hold them the “wrong” way. That only makes it a little less horrid.


>actually make slightly less profit

Blaspheme!


> Real life isnt a Tom Clancy novel. Jack Ryan wont save the day.

What made this movie suspenseful* for me was not how realistic it was, but how only half of it was realistic and the other half was completely disconnected from reality. A random incoming nuke of unknown origin, I can easily buy that happening. A deliberative process among highly competent officials deciding on a response, sorry but that is just not real life. Maybe it was at some point in our past, but certainly not in 2025.

As for the ending, it felt like a cop-out to me, but it didn't really matter to me.

*suspenseful, but not good.


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