PCR has been around since the 80s, though it has continued getting more efficient and cheaper

Apparently it can. I think I tried it once when they had a promotion but hard to remember.

I believe PayPal can do it IIRC?

Coolio, the traditional Chechen artist

It is nice to generate generalizable code examples, to give me clues how stuff works. I find that my work (marine biogeochemistry) is obscure enough that there’s a certain level where I am still on my own. Which is a good sign for my future employability!

The backstory is that he wrote it in a letter to Charles Lyell, and also used the opportunity to rant about how much he hated orchids

(During grad school, I had this quote printed on my office wall because I identified with it)

You are one of the blessed minimalist ones. I feel most users are drowning in tabs.

And poor drainage, the wrong light, lack of nutrients, and build up of minerals or being pot-bound.

Might be talking about Sidebery. I like them both and switch back and forth

I used Panorama a lot. Was sad when it went away

I am syncing between two laptops, a phone, a tablet and nvidia shield (not for Joplin on the shield lol, just files). The only issue with Syncthing is that it sometimes gets battery optimized by Samsung despite everything I have tried to get it to stay foregrounded. But as soon as I open Syncthing it syncs instantly since markdown files are so small. Then Joplin can pull from the local files. I have it set to be encrypted so it takes a little longer to import than it would otherwise. For Joplin, now that it has automatic system dark mode it is almost perfect. The only thing I’d prefer was a better tablet UI with a paned view. Other than that I am content! They also have OCR in the betas, which gets it a little closer to being an Evernote premium replacement. It is impressive what they’ve added despite being a nonprofit open-source project made by volunteers

I like Joplin. It’s not a full replacement for Evernote, most notably lacking handwriting (though there is a plug-in for windows and one on the way for android beta), but it is pretty nice when syncing with syncthing!

yes, many of these apps feel kind of lobotomized

agreed, I opened up some old photospheres of past apartments, places I visited during study abroad and it was kind of eerie how it teleported me back to the moment! much more than a picture or video would

I tend to think the modern material doesn’t provide nearly as much opportunity to be colorful and provide a unique visual identity as the OG material did.

Running natively rather than on the xamarin/maui framework would hopefully mean it’s more responsive. It is a bit sluggish to load right now

Yeah, not a critique of Firefox, just that bookmarks could use a breath of fresh air as a concept.

Bookmarks in general could be so much better. It could be like a notes app in the browser, like a third brain, and it could auto-share with Obsidian and other notes apps. Instead we just have folders of links.

Previously big Chinese OEM. Got attention in the West for being one of the earliest to clone the iPhone, built on top of Windows CE (lol)