Because the iPad form factor is actually very useful sometimes, but you don’t necessarily want to carry an iPad with you all of the time. I personally do (and use a mini as a daily phone), but can understand why some people would want something easier to carry.

Fastmail. They are good.

It mostly is. Has pretty much caught up with all of rust actually (while being much more readable).

It’s not possible. Logging in to a banking website is becoming strictly speaking impossible w/o a phone.

Choose a different bank, then. I've gradually stopped using the phone apps, not really by design but just because I don't often feel like that works better than the real web site. Both USAA and my local credit union have perfectly good desktop web sites.

I've never really experienced that. Which banks?

More info on this is going to come out, but banks are going through hell right now with AI agents accessing user accounts and even firing off transfers and other accounts activity, and their legal teams are losing their minds.

So a bank shutting down a website right now and the "forcing" some Google/Apple "verification" makes a lot of sense in that context.

Belfius for example of you have ever used itsme with them. Also Digi (a mobile phone company in Belgium) since it uses itsme for authentication. Itsme is strictly an Android and iOS app.

Yes you want a phone for SMS to log on to the web site. But I avoid banking apps on a phone. Dont need them.

In the EU the app is often mandatory, no SMS fallback

Somebody downvoted you but I agree: I must use a banking app to either enter a code or use my fingerprint to authorize operations, login included. No bank is using SMSes anymore here (Italy.)

SMS are an American thing. Only credit card companies are using them and they are American.

I never do Banking on my phone and never had an issue.

I love Easter eggs like those.

It. Don’t anthropomorphize AI.

In 1952, people were arguing that using words like "instruction" and "memory" were anthropomorphizing computers: https://3e.org/private/ai_words.pdf

Do you refer to NPCs in a video game as "it"?

I think it's reasonable to consider them self writing fictional characters, which people tend to anthropomorphize, but not as real persons.

Given that anti-AI posts are flagged faster than I thought possible despite a lot of positive comments, there are probably a lot of silent viewers that are pro-AI…

I am pro-AI and am not really participating in the more combative discussions. Why would I fight battles in a war that I am winning anyway and can just sit it out.

me too…

> but if it becomes commodity im gone next day

AFAICT it’s pretty much already a commodity. DeepSeek 4.1 has similar results for a fraction of the price.

There is a world of difference between Opus 4.5 and 5.5. I was under the impression DS and such were still at 4.5 levels.

That is correct. Open source is at least 7 months behind right now. Opus 5.5 is a step change way beyond any other model including sol 6.1