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Is there an added health or digestive benefit of fully soaking the oats, overnight or microwaved? Or is it just a matter of taste? I just add some hot water and milk (indeed I'm not sure if what I have are plain or instant oats)

Plain oats is a pain in the ass to cook. It takes real long and requires constant vigilance. Instant oats just needs some boiling water and 30 seconds in the microwave.

I might be wrong, but I do think non-instant oats is more nutritious.

But to answer your question, it's a combo of laziness and taking care of future me. Nothing beats opening the fridge in the morning, groggy AF, and finding delish breakfast ready to go, and it's dirt easy to prepare with no pots to clean afterwards.


I'm a bit confused on how this works, besides using the search each time I need to launch an app. Could I have more shortcuts in the home screen, or just what I pin as favourite apps?

And am I limited to only one space/desktop, normally if I swipe right, I get to the next desktop where I have other apps. So I can launch an app from the 3rd desktop with 2 swipes and a press. Now, swiping right I get the full list of apps where I'd need to search.

I couldn't find answers to this in the documentation


IMO the whole point of KISS is to _not_ have desktops and access all of your apps via search. If I want to open my Hacker News app, I open the search, press "h" and click the first app. All apps I use frequently naturally float to the top of my history list and can be accessed with 1, or at most 2 characters in search.

Where this really shines is chat apps -- all of your chats get their own "activities" which can be searched as well, so if I want to open Discord DMs for someone, I can search their username and one of the options is the Discord DM activity for them.

Yes, this is a couple more taps than having desktops but it's 100% dynamic (never have to manage layout) and almost eliminates the chance of getting distracted when opening my home screen.


To add on to this, KISS also sorts apps/activities based on how frequently you select them, so it "learns" what you use most commonly. For example, if I type "f", the first app that comes up is F-Droid, because that's the app that matches that I use most frequently.

There is a single row of apps that can be favorited on the bottom row of the screen for quick access. There is also a search bar that searches across apps, some direct app actions (like Firefox: New Tab), contacts, and some settings. The search bar might be able to pass the query to the default browser, but

There is not another "desktop" that can be swiped to right and left. Widgets can be added, if desired.


thankful for all the answers, I'll give it a try for a while to 'learn' me and see if I can lean into the workflow.

Optimistically speaking, the only drawback would then be I only get one screen/desktop for adding widgets – which, I guess, might be a reasonable trade-off.


Huh, can one natively edit Markdown in Google Docs? This would be one of my main requests for gDocs (as a long time NvAlt/NvUltra daily driver), but how?


There are sorta two separate features:

1. Notion-style realtime "autocomplete" for heading and inline formatting Markdown

2. Full Markdown import/export and copy/paste

These features make Docs interoperable with Markdown, but don't make it a Markdown _editor_ in my view.

Anyway, you can enable the features from Tools > Preferences > Enable Markdown


'As good as it gets'


I searched directly for Faraday through the comments. Waiting forward for the apparel company that builds this.

And we've been laughing all this time at tinfoil hat types..


So much this. I for one haven't opted out. I feel it's in our best interest to have better models. It would be ideal to be able to opt in/out per thread, but I don't expect most users to pay attention / be bothered with that.

In this aspect, it would've been great to give us an incentive – a discount, a donation on our behalf, plant a percent of a tree or just beg / ask nicely, explain what's in it for us.

Regarding privacy, our conversations are saved anyway, so if it would be a breach this wouldn't make much of a difference, would it?


Agreed. I'm happy they're training on my data.

My reasoning: I use AI for development work (Claude Code), and better models = fewer wasted tokens = less compute = less environmental impact. This isn't a privacy issue for work context.

I regularly run concurrent AI tasks for planning, coding, testing - easily hundreds of requests per session. If training on that interaction data helps future models be more efficient and accurate, everyone wins.

The real problem isn't privacy invasion - it's AI velocity dumping cognitive tax on human reviewers. I'd rather have models that learned from real usage patterns and got better at being precise on the first try, instead of confidently verbose slop that wastes reviewer time.


Study finds that a generative AI chatbot significantly reduces symptoms of major depressive disorder, generalised anxiety disorder, and clinically high risk for feeding and eating disorders.


desktop, or offline? isn't the PWA satisfactory?


I can’t back up the data in a PWA.


If you store notes on disk, which is what I do, you can back them up with any file backup tool.

I store my notes (encrypted with a password) on OneDrive.

See https://edna.arslexis.io/help-win#storing-notes-on-disk

I even have a settings option for a daily backup which exports all notes into a single .zip file in `backups` sub-directory. Not sure if it makes much sense, but it's there.


For me, I like that HeyNote auto saves to buffer.txt and I can have a crib job auto commit that to git at regular intervals.


You can do that with Edna too.

Store notes on disk (https://edna.arslexis.io/help-win#storing-notes-on-disk) and you can auto commit the whole directory with git.

Personally I store my notes (encrypted with a password) on directory managed with OneDrive.

Edna also auto-saves files.


not everyone has 24-hour online access


PWAs don't need online access. They only need initial access to download them.

Same with plain old websites if they're made to run offline (e.g. https://devdocs.io/offline).


> ... Jakob Fugger was already representing his family business in Venice in 1473 at the age of 14


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