I also much prefer handwritten notes. The act of writing something down helps it to stay in my memory more than typing it up. The main for me downside is there's no Cmd+F for my handwritten notes.

I read a post recently about using a local LLM to OCR handwritten notes that I intend to trial soon:

https://andrewdoering.org/blog/2026/remarkable-local-handwri...

The premise of that article is neat, but it looks to be entirely LLM-generated (in addition to the header image) that it’s almost impossible to read.

I did notice that, and the other article I have saved about setting up Ollama on a Macbook Air is even more clearly AI. But I'm assuming/hoping the author had an LLM generate it from their notes/Github project.

I've noticed that most people nowadays, myself included, don't use mics when they play. There's not a lot of banter or trash talk in lobbies anymore.

So true - same for me. Maybe because I'm older now? Not sure.

Moka pot coffee is definitely strong. If that's your only coffee maker, I'd just dilute that with more hot water.

An Aeropress is less concentrated in my experience, and it's pretty easy to use. I prefer iced coffee unless it's cold out, so I fill the collector with ice before I brew. The melted water dilutes it nicely, in my opinion.

> Or even worse, your account made it onto some pre-shared blacklist so you'll be invisible before you say a word.

Seems to me like people who subscribe to a blocklist that I'm on aren't people I want to be visible to/communicate with.

At the moment, you can do that, but not with an app hosted on the Play Store. I use a git client to sync my notes between my computers and my phone. But I had to get the app from FDroid, because it required the read all files permission to track changes.

I used to fly Virgin America twice a week. That song would get stuck in my head every time I checked in. I still can sing most of it.

"In the unlikely event we need to get you outside, these exits come equipped with an inflatable slide..."

I've only flown Virgin America once. In 2014. Yet here I am in 2025 posting about it on HN. The selectiveness of my memories is weird.

> Kobo's store does have DRM, but it's easily bypassed by Calibre

I'd say this is the case for Amazon as well, if you have an actual Kindle. I was able to convert my whole library to standard epubs last weekend using Calibre.

Only until Feb 26th. After that they will be permanently locked.

https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/download-kindle-books-to-comput...

You’re lucky. There are now some KFX protected files that the DeDRM plugins don’t work against. I expect it to get tougher and tougher going forward.

I suspect it won't end up mattering too much for most people anyway.

Eventually, we'll just end up in the same situation as we are now with video DRM; DRM being hard enough to bypass that the methods of doing so will be closely guarded scene secrets, but the output of those methods will hit Z-lib / LibGen / AnnasArchive / all the usual places.

The thing with books is that they're small by todays bandwidth and disk capacity standards, so it's really hard to stop their proliferation.

This is one of the reasons I ditched Amazon for Kobo a couple of years ago: not only was it getting harder to strip DRM (which I did regularly), but harder to get non-Kindle books onto the device. My Kobo Clara B&W is comparable to a Paperwhite, and I don't miss Amazon or Kindle at all.

How were you able to do that? You can still download to USB but that is going away. I'm not aware of any way to convert the files on a recent Kindle to epub, does that exist?

Yeah I believe calibre can pull the files from the kindle as well as push to it. But I've only got an old kindle not a new one.

> I've lost more than one bike ride because the start/stop button was bumped on the Forerunner and it turned out not to be recording.

I've had that happen to me during yoga and boxing workouts I've recorded. There's a way to lock the physical buttons (at least on my Instinct watch), which requires multiple presses to stop/start a workout. IIRC, it's by holding the light button.

OK, I'll bite: What happened to the first amendment in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic?

The government colluding with private companies to censor people.

"Public Service Announcement: The Right to Free Speech means the government can't arrest you for what you say."

Where were people arrested? Or their talk declared illegal?

Visibility on some plattforms was reduced and you can argue, that it is a slippery slope, if government intervention with cooperations that host those plattforms, happens in a nontranparent way. (I do think this was bad, opening ways for secret manipulation)

But people could (and did) continiue to talk about their alternative theories for ages.

> My employer almost called the cops on me, because I didn't drive in one day and used uber.

What was their reasoning behind this? Unknown car at a secure facility?

No it was because literally a person there with no car was strange. Is he some random wack-job snuck in the building? It wasn't really main work hours.

It's not like proof of my point, but in the times I've not-driven, I've noticed it draws strange, weird attention. This was just the most outlandish.

It was just an honest misunderstanding. She should have been able to catch me on video and card swipe.

Btw, I know this isn't the slam dunk proof of my point. Just imagine you were thinking this stuff was weird, then someone finally threatens to call the freaking cops on you! (not really, she was nice we just cleared it up).

I'd guess there are places where refusing to drive suggests you're drunk.

No it was nothing like that. It was basically their fault and they just verified my identity. It's literally just such an inexplicable activity that they have to investigate, and there's this weird pedestrian bias too IMO. (they thought I was a random weirdo in the building or stealing stuff)

It's honestly not something that's the most meaningful, but among other things it's made me distinctly aware how weird the culture is if you want to make driving not necessary to be a first class citizen. So while it doesn't prove my point, even prior I felt like "people are just gonna start calling the cops on me for not driving", and it basically was like that.

See how I'm now still kinda having to explain myself? I can't help but think this is a little proving my point. Now the notion of not-driving is such an inexplicable concept that it must be explained?

That's a hell of an assumption from my car wouldn't start. Or my wife's car wouldn't start so I let her take mine. Or any number of reasons before jumping to that conclusion. Why even jump to a conclusion, and just let the person tell them why, to even WTF does it matter?

That's not to mention the reasons that could relate to not wanting to tell you. For instance, they could be complying with those great license bans everyone things are so swell. Or they could suffer from medical problems that would also make them responsible if they hurt someone.

Do you want to make everyone that has a severely limiting disability have to constantly explain themselves? Or maybe their fucking car is in the shop.