If it hasn't already been mentioned huge fan of newsboat paired with Lynx in the terminal. Travels easily and with lynx browser kinda brings me back to a more focused reading experience.
Not saying it's your exact use case, however, in the "saved info" section of gemini I have a prompt about the llm letting me *know what's on it's mind " along with some other details to where when I am just "chatting" it has brought up relevant books to our previous discussion / projects. Alongside local events (bay to breakers, roots game memorial day weekend, some single events, etc within that first" hello" of our conversations and brought some news to the foreground that was relevant to me, although I wouldn't necessarily seek out that info. It's been so handy to bring relevant info into my hands in an actionable amount of time. Plain Jane gemini didn't offer those amenities but I was able to build them out.
Agreed! I use Gemini and have found that I've been able to successfully shape the tone of the outputs -specifically away from the overly cheerful default by using the "saved info" section where you can basically act like a director for it.
It's definitely why I finally bit the bullet and spent about a week or so to refine all of my "focus" status in iOS and have them automatically engage depending on geo-location or specific time of day.
After a week of observing what worked/didn't work for me I enjoy my phone more and get the notifications I want when I want.
Before setting up the focus groups I definitely was receiving too many useless notifications damn near every hour.
Of all the streaming options out there (Netflix, MAX, insert-your-service here) I pay for Youtube Premium. Has paid for itself many times over, especially with YT Music which is really good -it pulls from YT so I can get those rare songs/mixes that some individual just decided to upload from their personal collection. Also can download pretty much any video for offline vewiewing in the app.
The "free" movie selection is also really good (no ad's in premium). It's curated (read not endless fluff) and I spend less time thumbing through the damn menus (looking at you Netflix) and just watching stuff.
As an example YT Movies>Free just released James Cameron's Doc: Deepsea Challenge right after the Titan implosion. This type of realtime, zeitgeist curation happens all the time in their "free movie section" If you are starting from 0 in the submersible space great way to break the ice and start to grasp what that type of exploration entails. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZD_nbS1_II
Been with them since the Google Play Music days, just a happy customer.
There are levels to everything. When I found myself losing close to 60lbs the weightloss in a sense was easy with a very basic plan. IMO I feel the mental component is not brought into the equation enough.
After the physical weight loss I still had to work through the mental issues with losing what felt like half of me (positive but still strange to witness in the mirror), becoming visible in spaces (think socially) I was typically invisible (despite being so large), and transitioning out of a year long weightloss mode to a life long sustainable "maintenance mode" to keep the weight at bay but not go crazy.
While the weight has fluctuated a bit since the intial weightloss over 10 years, the bulk 45ish lbs has not come back. One key are for me personally was wrapping my head around all the stuff surrounding my unhealthy habits, many not tied to food and working to shore up those areas in my life as well. Mind. Body. Soul.
Just wanted to throw that into the ring. Everyone has their own journey and the steps are really basic from a nutrition stand point. It can be a fascinating oppurtunity to learn about oneself through focused observation.
CNBC had an interesting video about the Tesla semi's that Pepsi Co. is using. I say interesting because it just broadly touches on the project and in certain segments feels more like a marketing puff piece than journalism. Nonetheless still some stuff that can be extracted:
