Tom / is on Nostr

IT person by trade, nerd by calling. Sometimes I write things in a text editor.

Pronouns: he/him
Link Page: https://tommertron.com
City: Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦
Blog: https://coefficiencies.com/

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2024-04-16 16:09:34

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I’m so curious how much of this bolt on ai stuff survives 5 years from now.

2024-04-16 15:29:21

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Oh yeah, Google Maps was another one! Google just had such an amazing run in the early 2000s.
The closest I've come to being that excited is ChatGPT, but as the months have gone on, it just feels more like a cheap party trick (that is actually enormously expensive in compute costs.) I dunno, maybe it is an age thing.

2024-04-16 15:09:41

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I think I’m just sort of missing the days when I was excited about new products. The Humane Pin, the Vision Pro… the next big thing just seems so underwhelming to me in a way that Gmail, the iPhone, the Wii did not. Either the early 2000s were just an incredible time for new products or I was just less jaded overall.

2024-04-16 15:07:31

I don’t know if it’s just schadenfreude or what but I can’t stop reading stuff about the Humane Pin.

2024-04-14 17:39:21

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Just tried - agreed! I still prefer native apps though.

2024-04-08 21:26:48

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For me it’s just a point of pride that if you came to my house ten years ago (and I suppose joined from a device that you’ve transferred the settings from since then) you’d still just join the wifi when you come again.

2024-04-08 01:46:18

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Most people don’t even realize there’s a difference between their ISP and their Wifi. I mean, I get it but it’s just kinda sad. I tried my ISP’s router and just couldn’t.

2024-04-08 00:33:14

I always quietly judge people who change ISPs and don’t set up the new router to be the same SSID and credentials as their old one.

2024-03-30 16:10:16

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That’s a cool idea. I bookmark so much stuff that I’ve thought about just making a feed out of it.

2024-03-30 15:20:56

I wrote up my little love letter to plain text.
https://coefficiencies.com/2024/03/30/the-power-of-plain-text/

2024-03-30 03:32:44

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If you have a better idea on how to remove popcorn kernels I’m all ears.

2024-03-30 03:11:01

I’ve had a popcorn kernel stuck in my teeth for 24 hours now and only just realized you can order professional dental tools on Amazon FOR TEN DOLLARS. Eagerly awaiting tomorrow’s delivery.

2024-03-28 21:24:00

So… I kind of want to get a Steam Deck.

2024-03-28 17:54:18

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Ha nice. It’s so funny how much people undervalue cloud services and yet don’t realize how cheap this stuff is in the grand scheme of things. It’s insane the amount of money people casually drop on restaurant dining and yet balk at paying 5 bucks a month to back up their precious memories.

2024-03-28 15:47:08

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I do something similar. But I just have an always on Mac that downloads all my photos using the Photos app, then have an external Time Machine disk there. It’s crazy to me that some people don’t even pay for cloud storage and lose their phone and freak out because they lost their photos. Like, your photos are irreplaceable!

2024-03-23 15:21:42

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I did the same for a while with my iPhone at meetings. It would kind of blow peoples minds to see my touch typing while they talked and the words showing up on my iPhone.
Plus the Palm keyboard was foldable! It was so cool!

2024-03-23 04:25:23

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Oh man it changed the game for me in university. Once I got a keyboard I could take it to class and to the library and take notes quickly, then sync them up to my computer later for turning into essays and study materials.