I'm curious how you use Sheets as a Trello-like replacement. I use Trello from time to time but my most recent project is using actual Post-It notes stuck to my monitor, wall etc.

If Sheets works (I love simplicity) then I'll give it a go but I checked and I can't find any templates for Kanban or such.

Ok, seems management was not change. Same issue with tablet project. Gave up in the end.

Maybe it's just me but why is it on by default? Why is this shit not off in the first place? Why can't Firefox just be a browser with great html, css, js rendering and then have a bunch of toggles for extra crap that people want? Do they actually have metrics that show "When we enable this crap by default we make an extra $X Million per year"? I'd put money on that being untrue. I bet it's like the data-driven ad spend - I've yet to see anything that proves that hoovering up bajillions of data points on each person moves the needle on spending beyond just showing a context-relevant ad, e.g. An ad for fishing gear on a blog post about fishing gear!

Honestly, I feel more and more every day like old-man-shaking-fist-at-clouds! Can we not just have something that works without spying, without engagement-driven shit switched on all the fucking time?

I think of the Simpsons Mr Brown meme where he's asking "Is it me that's wrong?".

I can't be the only person that thinks this way!

Because the vast majority of Firefox users aren't contrarians or diehard anti AI crusaders. These features are helpful to people. So they're on and available for people to use, and since it's a foss customisable browser, users with strong opinions can change it to their liking.

I don't think the AI features are used for advertising data harvesting but I'm happy to be educated if you have a source saying otherwise.

>Maybe it's just me but why is it on by default? Why is this shit not off in the first place?

Because there would be millions of emails to support asking "why can't Firefox translate a page the same way chrome can?" from people that couldn't find the AI opt-in switch.

> Can we not just have something that works without spying, without engagement-driven shit switched on all the fucking time?

Absolutely not! Making someone opt-in (the horror!) would result in too much confusion and support tickets! We can't ignore those tickets and tell people to figure it out, we have to cave and turn all the bullshit on by default.

I think a lot of our problems can be explained by: corporations lacking a spine and people unwilling to learn about the computer they use everyday. It's basically unacceptable to not know how to change a tire if you own a car but clicking through some browser settings is too hard, I guess.

Expecting everyone to learn a lot about Firefox to turn on features they want is a lot more of a burden on the users than expecting opinionated power users to remove features they don't want.

Firefox translation is entirely offline, so is the LLM powered tab groups. Nobody is making money off Firefox Translations.

Sounds like LibreWolf would suit you better: https://librewolf.net/

I can tell you with almost 100% certainty: no banks in the UK use any 2FA other than SMS-based.

I spent December last year looking for a new bank to move to. One of my criteria (not the most important but it was on the list) was better-than-SMS 2FA.

No one offers it. There may be some niche, loosely-based finance org that does but none of the banks or Building Societies do.

So, unfortunately, you need it in the UK.

Barclays, with standard current accounts, provides several methods none of which are SMS. There's a separate pin-code device (called Pinsentry) that does TOTP and challenge-response, or passcodes for both telephone and Internet banking.

Yeah, Nationwide has the little PIN code device which definitely helps with transactions but not logging in: that's still old-school.

Most VoIP services support SMS. Still no cell phone hardware required.

> Considering there is very little moat left in software and big companies can copy your product in no time?

Having worked in the corporate world all my working life I can safely say with confidence that big companies absolutely DO NOT move fast. Do not underestimate the power of middle-management to destroy momentum!

Solve a problem for someone and if it was a painful one, they'll pay you for it.

An interesting paper in this context is "Structural Inertia and Organizational Change" by Hannan and Freeman, 1984 [1]. A quote from the introduction: "...selection processes tend to favor organizations whose structures are difficult to change.".

In other words, it's typically a good thing that larger companies are slow to adapt. That's something that startups can make use of.

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/2095567

If you scroll further down, there's an image of a woman holding an opened keyboard with a SODIMM in her other hand so I'd guess that means it's user-swappable.

If really aimed at the business segment, as it appears to be, it's likely to have serviceable RAM.

Two things for me:

1. Develop discipline around the piano

2. Build my side hustle beyond a side hustle (Kopi - replicate a production DB schema and relational subsets of its data for local development in seconds)

My wife and I had a good chuckle at these. The one we both remember is the one about Penguin losing his lollipop and buying a Milky Way.

However, we both agreed that when comparing the UK(ish) and US(ish) variants, the UK ones are much more fun and colourful: The US ones seem a little, erm, boring!

I'm working on something called Kopi: a CLI tool that replaces the slow process of restoring massive production database backups on a dev machine with a "surgical slicing" approach, spinning up lightweight, referentially intact Docker containers in seconds: It spins up the exact schema of your source db and generates safe, synthetic datasets in seconds. It can, if you want, also replicate the actual data in the source DB but with automatically anonymized PII data.

It can replicate a DB in as little as 9 seconds.

It's Open Core: Community Edition and Pro/Enterprise editions.

Still a WiP --> https://kopidev.com

I'm replying to you from Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC courtesy of massgravel (or massgrave... not sure wth it's actually called now!) and it's activated until 2038.

The only thing it didn't have out of the box that I wanted was Microsoft Store (so that I could install Winget and Terminal) but you install it from an elevated powershell command with "wsreset -i" and that's it done.

It also has the original version of Notepad, not that abomination with the tabs and Copilot!

Oh, no Copilot whatsoever in fact.

All the instructions for IoT (including where to get it... legitimately) are on the massgrave github page and website.

And before I am accused of sailing the high seas... I'm not! The activation script just activates complicated processes built-in to Windows: it doesn't "hack" it or anything!

I still use a similar version of Windows 7 — licensed offline through an old enterprise activation. It just works for its specific purposes.