albatrosstrophy (u/albatrosstrophy)

albatrosstrophy commented on Dropbox announces new gen server hardware for higher efficiency and scalability dropbox.tech/infrastructu... · Posted by u/juanviera23

Philpax · 16 days ago

Out of curiosity, do people here still use Dropbox? I've had an account for over a decade, but haven't used it since ~2014; Google Drive and Syncthing have largely replaced it for me.

albatrosstrophy · 16 days ago

Still the best cloud service for me for my Windows. But I'm interested to hear how you set up Drive and Syncthing. Is the UI as familiar to use as the the standard Windows folder?

albatrosstrophy commented on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/... · Posted by u/blenderob

ofrzeta · 18 days ago

I have an Amazfit smartwatch that gets charged by a simple USB cable with two pins that magnetically attaches to the back of the watch. When I was on vacation and forgot that cable I was able to make my own by cutting a USB cable and attaching the wires to the contacts of the watch with tape. That simplicity is hard to beat. And this watch is water resistant.

albatrosstrophy · 18 days ago

The battery is the single reason why I got the Amazfit. I use as a dumb health tracker and occasional GPS running. It easily lasts 4 weeks on a single charge. That's one less proprietary charging cable to bring on a trip.

albatrosstrophy commented on Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized nodaysoff.run... · Posted by u/friggeri

albatrosstrophy · a month ago

As someone who' just counting steps, I'm genuinely curious what's your average steps per day? And how many steps over 10 years?

albatrosstrophy commented on Mistral OCR mistral.ai/fr/news/mistra... · Posted by u/littlemerman

evmar · 6 months ago

I noticed on the Arabic example they lost a space after the first letter on the third to last line, can any native speakers confirm? (I only know enough Arabic to ask dumb questions like this, curious to learn more.)

Edit: it looks like they also added a vowel mark not present in the input on the line immediately after.

Edit2: here's a picture of what I'm talking about, the before/after: https://ibb.co/v6xcPMHv

albatrosstrophy · 6 months ago

And here I thought after reading the headline: finally a reliable Arabic OCR. I've never in my life found a good that does the job decently especially for a scanned document. Or is there something out there I don't know about?

albatrosstrophy commented on Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu theverge.com/2024/4/12/24... · Posted by u/ashton314

grugagag · a year ago

Will never upgrade to windows 11. It’s a downgrade really..

albatrosstrophy · a year ago

I wouldn't say it's a downgrade, but I had to run Windhawk and other mods just to make sure the start menu doesn't look like a phone's app drawer.

albatrosstrophy commented on Asia Sentinel Blocked in Singapore asiasentinel.com/p/asia-s... · Posted by u/tim_sw

8bitsrule · 2 years ago

Interesting place, Singapore. On the surface, very clean and orderly. (How?) (In the past few decades, some very popular musicians were not allowed to perform there. Who's doing the micro-managing?)

From Wikipedia's Singapore article:

Ethnic groups (2020)[b]

    74.3% Chinese

    13.5% Malay

    9.0% Indian

    3.2% Others ***

albatrosstrophy · 2 years ago

Interestingly while the minorities have a higher birth rate compared to the majority Chinese, the ethnic breakdown remains the exact same throughout the decades. This is because Singapore's unsaid migration policy is such that the government takes in more immigrants of Chinese ethnicity to make up for the shortfall.

albatrosstrophy commented on “Tinder for Canceling Meetings” meetcala.com/... · Posted by u/theonlyriggs

onion2k · 2 years ago

You don't need an app like this.

Just decline any meeting that doesn't have an agenda with a comment of "I don't think I'd bring any value to this meeting."

If the meeting does have an agenda but doesn't have any goal decline it with a comment like "I don't have a strong opinion about the goal here, so I'm happy to accept whatever the outcome is."

If there's an agenda and a goal then attend that one because you don't often get to see a mythical creature.

albatrosstrophy · 2 years ago

This is obvious yet brilliant. I've been working for so long without realising that meetings are a process, not the end. I.e. they have to lead to something.

albatrosstrophy commented on Could Ice Cream Possibly Be Good for You? theatlantic.com/magazine/... · Posted by u/astrange

ratg13 · 2 years ago

Too lazy to create an archive link from my phone but this quote has me interested to read the rest.

>Among diabetics, eating half a cup of ice cream a day was associated with a lower risk of heart problems

albatrosstrophy · 2 years ago

I would appreciate an archive link though

albatrosstrophy commented on Bookshop.org survives and thrives in Amazon’s world wired.com/story/books-boo... · Posted by u/donohoe

andrewstuart · 2 years ago

The thing that’s really going to hurt is when Amazon kills Abebooks.

albatrosstrophy · 2 years ago

I'm sad Bookdepository is closing.

albatrosstrophy commented on Amazon shuts newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print niemanlab.org/2023/03/goo... · Posted by u/thm

freetanga · 2 years ago

While I loved the kindle and still own one, I have since moved on an eink android reader with an isolated google account.

Calibre, Overdrive, RSS, Syncthing and obsidian plus a small portable Bluetooth keyboard and I can read and take notes anywhere.

albatrosstrophy · 2 years ago

You seem to be describing an Android tablet with e-ink display. Aside from Remarkable, what else is out there worth buying?

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