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I have MacWhisper Pro, and have been using Turbo large v3 for a long time. Do these models ever get updated? In other words, is it useful to delete the model and redownload it, assuming there might be improvements? Or will this only be the case when there is a v4? If so, why has it been so long since there has been a new version?

It's a Kindle daily deal in the UK. I'm wondering if anyone has read it and if it's worth the journey.

It's not the cost that makes me hesitate; I have literally hundreds of daily deal books I've bought, and this one is 1,700 pages...

https://link.amazon/B0hr2IhRG

I've been using Bartender for a long time, and I just updated my MBA to 27, and even the beta is totally broken. I tried a couple of other menu bar apps that have betas, and none of them work either. I've been reading some posts saying that menu bar apps won't work any more, but apparently if developers are releasing betas then there must be some way for them to do what they did in the past.

I kind of need this, because I create screencasts for a couple of Mac apps, and it's a pain to have to manually hide menu bar icons for the apps I use regularly whenever I want to record.

While this lamp was expensive, I really like the ability to change brightness and color temperature. Yesterday, the light died. For a few days, it would turn off randomly when I was using it, and last night it wouldn't turn on.

Interestingly, this is the second one I've had. I bought the first one in 2020, and Dyson replaced it in 2023 because it kept turning off. But now it seems truly dead.

I called Dyson support, and they say it's a power supply issue, and that they sell a replacement power supply for £59. For anyone who has had this problem, did this resolve the issue?

I see that there are third-party power supplies on Amazon for £18. Is it worth trying one of those?

has turned into a cesspool of ads and auto-play videos. It's a shame that such a useful resource is hosted by a site that has enshittified so much.

And, yes, I use an ad blocker, but ads are getting through it lately.

For the first time since I've been playing the game, about three and a half years ago, I set up a custom run. I play on Pilgrim, so I made some of the settings a bit more difficult. The calorie and thirst rates at medium instead of low are surprising. I need like 4l of water a day, and for food, I just caught four fish at Mystery Lake, each about 1.5 kg, my hunger meter was low, and the four fish didn't fill me up. If that's medium, I can't imagine what it's like on Interloper.

I wanted to check if I had accidentally made the settings more difficult, but I don't see any why to check them. I may scrap this run and do another one, leaving those settings at low, because I'm spending all my time trying to find food and boiling water.

I've been an audiobook listener for decades, and some of my work is tangentially related to publishing, so I know about rights. This series is the first I've seen that has had four different audiobook narrators: Simon Vance, Patrick Tull, Ric Jerrom, and Robert Hardy. I know that sometimes US and UK publishers will commission their own versions, but I find it odd that the last two are available, and the first two no longer so.

Sometimes a late author's estate may have something to say about such things, but the fact that there are two current versions suggests that they aren't involved with this.

UPDATE: So Patrick Tull's recordings are available in the US, along with Ric Jerrom, but not Robert Hardy. Weird.

I first read a half dozen of the novels in the 90s, but didn't read any more. Now I'm setting out to read the entire series; three down so far. Is Harbor and High Seas interesting enough as a companion? And does it work on Kindle (because the paperback is fairly expensive in the UK; it's a US edition)?

I've seen reviews on Amazon saying that there's not much info, and that each chapter has spoilers, so you can't read them before reading each novel; that's fine, I'd read them after just to be more familiar with the areas where each one takes place.

I use MW to transcribe interviews, and I'd like to use it for transcribing voice memos. These are longish recordings - 10 minutes or so - and when I do this, MW just gives me on block of text. I'd like to know if there's a way to get it to recognize long pauses, and insert paragraph breaks.

Or, if MW can't do this, is there anything that can?

I've had my Ank for a bit over a month, and have made a half dozen loaves of bread so far. (Dough hook FTW.) I made some cookies the other day, and I must say the plastic bowl is flimsy and cheap. It's unfortunate that they include this, and that a proper stainless steel bowl costs £99. Just saying....

I like the idea of balcony solar, but where do you run the cable? Do you just stick it in a window opening, allowing hot or cold air and rain to come in? Am I missing something? Are you expected to drill a hole in the wall to get the cable inside?

Many years ago, I read the first half dozen AM novels, and I have decided to new read them all. I'm up to the second, reading on Kindle. I bought the hardcover edition a couple of years ago, but found the paper too thin...

A Sea of Words looks useful, but I've seen some reviews on Amazon about typos and bad formatting in the Kindle version. Any thoughts on this?

I had an Oura ring a couple of years ago for about two months and then gave it away. I bought a new one a few days ago, and I’m wondering if the app takes into account the data from two years ago. I saw that I all my data from then to the present and start over. Should I do that, or is that data old enough that it will be ignored?