The 'once a day' fetching limitation is a fascinating idea. It really captures the vibe of reading a physical newspaper in the morning rather than constantly checking for updates. I think many of us could use a tool that enforces a bit of 'digital silence' like this.

It's actually more expensive than GPT-5.1. I've gotten used to prices going down with each latest model, but this time it's gone up.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/pricing

My question is, which real-world problem is actually solved by crypto? All I know is transferring money over the border gets much easier than pre-bitcoin era.

I don’t think life is generally worse than 20 years ago. Sure some things are tougher and it depends on your class how much you feel the stress - but looking at most metrics like child mortality, literacy, starvation and people dying in armed conflicts those improved compared to 20 years ago. Sure for some there is a recent change (most notably war in Europe and genocide in Gaza) - but overall it’s still positive.

That might not be true for the USA but overall it is.

What I think is a big cause for my generation (gen-x) is that we were promised this “perfect” harmonious world beginning of the 90s/00s with all kinds of tech marvels and no more wars and oppression and freedom and abundance for everyone.

Waking up to the reality of the human condition hasn’t been easy for that generation.

> To me, the big news here is that ~30% of devices now support AV1 hardware decoding

Where did it say that?

> AV1 powers approximately 30% of all Netflix viewing

Is admittedly a bit non-specific, it could be interpreted as 30% of users or 30% of hours-of-video-streamed, which are very different metrics. If 5% of your users are using AV1, but that 5% watches far above the average, you can have a minority userbase with an outsized representation in hours viewed.

I'm not saying that's the case, just giving an example of how it doesn't necessarily translate to 30% of devices using Netflix supporting AV1.

Also, the blog post identifies that there is an effective/efficient software decoder, which allows people without hardware acceleration to still view AV1 media in some cases (the case they defined was Android based phones). So that kinda complicates what "X% of devices support AV1 playback," as it doesn't necessarily mean they have hardware decoding.