Saw this ad today. It seems like someone came up with the brilliant idea of paying you $2/hr for recording your entire screen.
This includes recording everything you do including your keystroke data. Why? for AI training.
What dystopia have we found ourselves in?
From what I saw on the official X page the "off peak" prices of V4 Flash will be $0.22 - 0.66 for input and output. Currently some providers on openrouter are as low as 0.07 - 0.014. Will this change soon? Even official "DeepSeek" is at the old rate currently.
Love to see that the backlash against Sony's decision to ditch discs has not gone out yet. Even if some of the ideas are straight up crazy (in a good way).
Being someone who only has a PC for gaming (and no disk drive anyway) I am not that mad about discs. But I also trust Steam more than Sony when it comes to not taking away access from things you've paid for.
We need more discussions happening over game preservation and ownership of things we paid for.
Johnny Bravo banana with normal banana for scale.
I was buying chheda chips from dmart for god knows how many years. It costs more than Lays and seemed to be decent quality too. Kind of shocking to see that they have been upto this.
If a brand like chheda was handling food next to decomposing waste then I don't know what's going on with our other products.
I sincerely hope the actions taken by Tukaram Mundhe now strike fear into these food companies for years and years so that they clean up their act.
Need for Speed 2 SE was the very first PC game that I played. What was yours?
(Device in image: R36S running the PS1 version of NFS 2 SE).
Recently I purchased a lint remover from this brand called NUUK and it came with this free pouch. The size seemed to be quite close to my Clara BW so I tested it out and it fits almost perfectly! It's also a pretty nice material.
I have been avoiding getting a case so far because the official cases are kinda overpriced IMHO and there aren't any cheap third party options for me. So this cover seems to meet my needs (mainly just keeping dust off the eReader) pretty well.
DeepSeek claimed that it was smart engineering which led to their API prices being so low.
I for one was happy about this because we need that kind of efficiency in a world where LLMs are being used for anything and everything regardless of whether it makes sense.
Data centres are popping up in residential places with water shortages and most companies are throwing more compute at the problem of making their models smarter.
So when I see a company offer a competent model for cheap I think that this can be how we should proceed in the future.
But now, first DeepSeek introduced "peak-valley pricing" and soon now they want to increase the overall prices and that too "significantly".
So were all the claims of efficiency just marketing fluff to undercut other models?
I didn't have peanut butter for a while now and I was kinda bored of the Yoga Bar flavours so I gave this a try and it's pretty neat. Although a bit too expensive unless you buy it on a big discount like I did. 65 INR for 4 such packets.
I see a lot of "why are you using Canva" questions pop up whenever someone's either learning design with it or plans to use it for work. So here are some of my thoughts, as someone who has used this for client work for years now.
Like many others, I learnt graphic design using Adobe's tools - Illustrator, PS etc. The only reason why I tried Canva was because some of my clients wanted easy way to edit designs.
Initially the limitations annoyed me but after having used it for a while now, I feel like the limitations are a fair tradeoff for the ease of collab.
I also feel like working within the limitations of a specific tool that your client prefers is a useful skillset to have.
All that said though, there are some things that still annoy me:
The video editor: This is spectacularly bad. It's almost amazing how bad it is because all they had to do is build a traditional timeline based layout but instead it's some kind of frankenstein's monster that's missing an arm and a leg.
The AI features: Canva's AI tools are not very good. People generate stuff in other AI tools and import that to Canva though. So I feel like they should focus on fundamentals instead of these half baked AI tools.Wha
Some basics still missing: If anyone works at Canva I gotta ask.. why is clipping mask not a thing yet in the big 2026? It has layers, it lets you put images in frames, why not just add a proper clipping mask feature?
Plus now that they own Affinity, I hope the same logic from the web tools does not seep into that.
Anyways, could go on longer but I just feel like it's a good useful software and the dev team is talented but they need to get their priorities straight.
And anything that helps counter Adobe's tyranny is a good thing.
Portronics mice seem to be pretty terrible. This one's not even 3 months old and the wheel just stopped working. Opened it up and I realised that the lever of the scroll wheel broke. Didn't want to throw away the whole mouse though so I remembered that I have an old mouse so I tried fitting it's scroll wheel onto this. Lo and behold it actually worked! I feel quite happy rn that I managed to fix this thing and while the black stands out, it looks like an intentional mod rather than a jerry rigged fix xD
Moral that I learnt from all this: Don't buy portronics.
So I got these Airpods 4 in May. The battery life is satisfactory but I noticed now that one side drains quicker than the other. This does not happen every time but it is still concerning, especially how much difference there is in the battery levels here.
Also both did charge fully before using so it was not a situation where one side didnt charge inside the case.
I usually avoid any tech from brands like MR DIY as its fairly cheap quality wise. But this caught my attention. I was looking for a small, compact keyboard and this one's pretty decent looking. Kinda reminds me of Noctua fans with that orange and biege color.
800 INR though and not mechanical (which I guess makes sense). So, has anyone actually tried their (Mr.DIY) keyboards? are they any good?
Saw this Flag Planter achievement unlock today and read the description and thought its pretty neat. It's like Reddit has got an achievement for everything.