In particular, Notion employees are saying that they are not listening to audio from your microphone, but just checking whether other processes in the system are using the microphone. There is a setting to disable this entirely.

Copy-pasting from the thread:

1. Notion records audio only during your use of the Meeting Notes feature. Here are the docs: https://www.notion.com/help/ai-meeting-notes

2. Notion desktop app has notifications about meetings that ask you if you want to use Meeting Notes, it recognizes this by detecting that your microphone is on (i.e. it does not listen to audio coming from your microphone). This feature is a setting in preferences btw, under Notifications > Desktop meeting detection notification.

source: I work for Notion

The Notion desktop app will observe if there is a process running on your computer that is actively using your microphone, such as Zoom.

I’m using the latest version of the app and I don’t see this setting. I’ve also never seen these meeting notifications. It’s possible that you only get them if you have AI features enabled in your workspace, which I don’t. (I read a while ago that you can email support to ask them to disable it. I wrote a short email, and they replied within a day that it had been done, no questions or push-back.)

But she added: “We know a lot of that information is out there anyway, but people will be worried”

The fact that others have insecure systems is not an excuse for keeping one yourself.

I recommend Borgmatic, a declarative way to set up borg backups. I find it much nicer than a having a backup.sh script and the configuration is really straight-forward.

Yeah, I think it might be some kind of rate limiting. In another thread, it happened to someone else after batch-downloading videos with yt-dlp, which also prevented yt-dlp from downloading. Then it was back to normal (no sign in required) a few hours later.

That’s very informative! Thanks a lot for your input.

What is it about Samsung software that you find more robust? Have you ever felt like the OnePlus was unreliable when you needed it?

Thanks for your comments!

Have you experienced any bugs or reliability issues with the OnePlus phone? This is my biggest concern with it compared to Samsung.

I’ve seen anecdotes from people saying they prefer 13R over Pixel 9. What worries me the most is the quality of the software: I keep seeing screenshots of UI glitches, and I don’t know if that suggests reliability is mediocre.

Samsung’s software has been rock solid for me. This is the biggest plus for Samsung in my book.

Have you also used a recent OnePlus? Do you know how the two would compare?

all you have to do is circumvent the security settings in your browser and suppress warning messages

I think this is a very important point that too few people are raising and it’s getting buried under the spam of “switch to Firefox” messages. Yes, switching to Firefox is an option. But clearly some people don’t want to do it, and we give them these workarounds without saying what they really do and without highlighting that they are potentially dangerous. You use your browser for a large part of your interaction with your computer, so any downgrade in security is going to be significant. To me, the short-term implications of this are far more important than the longstanding Chrome-vs-Firefox discussion.

I agree. This style of handling is common in newer NFS games and probably what I miss the most from the older games. I particularly dislike the grip-vs-drift upgrades, especially since drift is mostly “press X to drift”.

That being said, I did find some cars fun to drive in once they’re tuned a little, and I liked that different cars could have significantly different feel, which unfortunately can’t be said about all NFS games, especially the newer ones.

The soundtrack is horrible. An yet, it feels like a masterpiece compared to Unbound’s soundtrack…

I thought the same until I played Heat a couple of years ago. Heat is solid and definitely reminds you of the golden age of NFS with Underground and Most Wanted.

If you don’t want a GUI, dockcheck is an easy way to update many containers at once from the CLI.

Are you using Kitchenowl for storing recipes? If so, what’s your experience with it?

I’ve tried Tandoor, the common suggestion for recipe management, but I’ve found it too clunky to add recipes to. I like the concept, but it would take a long time to move all my recipes into the specific format they use, and the web UI does not make things easier.

Firefox starts with a bigger disadvantage than both Chrome and Safari on mobile. On iOS, it’s all Safari under the hood anyway, so a lot of people don’t see any point switching skins. On Android, in my experience it works well, but you still find occasional sites that expect Chrome and miss features on Firefox, especially around Google Pay.

I used to use Firefox on Android several years ago, but at the time Nightly had significantly better performance than stable or Beta, and I think some extensions were also only supported on Nightly. Stable or Beta didn’t perform well enough for me to warrant choosing over Chrome. But because of the nature of nightly, every now and then an update would introduce UI or UX bugs, or occasionally even battery/performance issues. I use my phone as little as I can, so when it’s frustrating if it doesn’t work right when I need it. So, I have moved away from Firefox on mobile.

I’ve actually switched to Vivaldi. It works as well as Chrome in terms of sites playing nicely with it, and it also has good customizability. It doesn’t support extensions, but that alone isn’t enough for me to pick Firefox.

I’ve liked the look and feel of Motorola Edge phones for a few generations now and I’d give one a try for a few years—the price point is often good enough that you can justify it for a a few years only, whilst software updates are supported—if it wasn’t for the MediaTek chips. I know people generally praise their performance, but I’m really not confident that they aren’t backdoored.

I’ll start with two new addtions for me:

• Capy Reader (code, F-Droid). While curating my Feedly subscriptions, I decided to try switching to some RSS feeds instead, which I had previously put off because I hadn’t found a client I liked. Capy Reader is excellent both in performance and user interaction, and I find I much prefer reading my sources this way than through Feedly now.
• Readeck (code). Not technically an app, but the website works perfectly well through a mobile browser. A read-it-later service that snapshots web pages and displays them in a friendly, customizable reader mode. The only downside is that it doesn’t cache the full content of the saved pages offline, so you can’t use it without Internet access.

if you regularly switch between espresso and pour over/immersion

I think this is the biggest con of this grinder. The dial does have multiple turns, and you will need multiple turns to go between espresso and filter range. So the problem then becomes keeping track of which range you are in and getting back to the other one. And because the dial doesn’t have very high precision, relatively speaking, it will be hard to get back to the exact point in the other range where you were before.

To me, this would become frustrating quickly. If a small difference in grind setting is fine for filter, I would find that for espresso I have to spend a lot more time dialing in, and, the worst of it , that I would have to re-dial whenever I switch back from filter.

While I think it’s a good grinder for espresso overall, I would personally not get this if I plan to alternate between filter and espresso. I would perhaps look for a grinder without multiple turns, one where getting back to the previous position is easier and more obvious.

Oh, hahaa, I forgot about that! I don’t have a food processor big or sturdy enough, so I just make it by hand. Still works great!

I’ve made several of his dough recipes (no-knead, same-day NY, cold-fermented NY) and they all work really well. No other recipe I’ve tried has been so foolproof.