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I do like OpenCode, and have been using it in and off since last July. But I feel like they’re trying to stuff too much GUI into a TUI? Due to this I find myself using Codex and Pi more often. But am still glad OpenCode and their Zen product exist.

A couple months ago, the battery in my Sony wh1000xm3’s failed to hold any charge at all. Was an easy replacement tho and they’re as good as new.

I also have that model, and even though the battery still seems to last for ages, I was wondering if it was replaceable.

Does Sony sell a replacement, or do you have to go through a 3rd party? Is everything held in place with screws, or do you need to mess around with glue and whatnot?


50s here. I love building and designing software to solve problems. For years now I haven’t liked the actual coding part. AI has given me a super power.


I do this with an extension. I run all bash tools with bwrap and ACLs for the write and edit tools. Serves my purposes. Opens up access to other required directories, at least for git and rust.

I think I published it. Check the pi package page.


Do you feel the same way if the CLA is to assign copyright to an non profit foundation that is a steward of that open source project?


Obviously no, if you trust that foundation; hence my

> few exceptions apply, e.g. the FSF in the past


I want profiles. For example, work and personal. Different bookmarks, different plugins. Even some different settings.


Firefox now has improved Profile mangement

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-management


Firefox profiles are still janky and I had a lot of issue switching and managing two profiles effectively. Specifically the biggest problem I had was that clicking on work links would not open them in my last used profile (work profile). They would always open in a default profile (non-work).

I ended up keeping chrome just for work, and using firefox for personal life.

Then I grabbed Browser Tamer and set up an AHK v2 script that, when I click on and focus any browser window, it executes browser tamer's CLI to update the default browser. Thus I get the behavior of "open links in last used browser", which is the correct browser for whatever link I click 99.9% of the time.


OK, that mental overhead of "last used browser" would drive me nuts.

My solution is: The system has a default browser that opens default links. On my work machine I have a different browser where I am for example logged in to my private github account I just never want to open a clicked link there anyway. Copy/pasting 2 times per day is fine.


so youre just manually doing what i automated but that 1% of the time when it opens in the wrong browser is too much mental overhead? if youre at work and you tap a link you were almost certainly last using your work profile so its nearly always right and its not something i ever have to think about


I hope they don't get rid of `about:profiles` which is perfect for anything I wanted to do with profiles in the last decade.


I'm on Firefox 142 and the "account icon" menu only has "Sign in", "Monitor", "Relay" and "Mozilla VPN". No mention of profiles.

Edit: found it: it's hidden behind the browser.profiles.enabled setting in about:config


This initially excited me, but its pretty poor compared to what Chrome and Chrome based browsers provide.


As a contractor, this is absolutely critical for me, and one reason I still use edge (along with edge syncing with client ad accounts).


This is why I like Safari, it has completely separate profiles.

My work profile is logged into my work Gmail + AWS

Personal profile has my personal Google account.

The two won't mix.


When I want that sort of separation, which I do between work and play, I run browsers (and everything else) as different users. That works with any browser and I don't even have to worry about bugs in profile or container separation, and it reduces (though of course didn't remove) the chance of idiot here using the wrong instance for the wrong use. Heck, where possible I even use a separate machine. DayJob provide a PC on the office that I remote into (via VPN+RDC) for work purposes, so the contact point between that work and everything else is minimal (in fact my main desktop is a VM I "remote" into, I only use the base metal when I take have too which is usually things unhappy running that way (Bambu Studio and games, which do not like the lack of faf free access to the GPU)). You can still access everything from one machine, or even have the different users instances on the same desktop (this does reduce the barriers a touch though).

The only real cost is that running things this way eats more memory, but I've not experienced OOM issues for years away from deliberately small VMs (for testing or small sever tasks) that turned out to be too small.


In my recollection, Firefox used to ask you which profile you wanted to use on launch. I don't think I've seen that in years.


IIRC you can use the -p flag to open that menu on launch. It also opens when you haven't set a default profile. And it's possible to access other profiles via about:profiles.


You can decide if you want to get asked at startup.


Not free after a certain point then gets expensive fast as you move out to CDNs.


I recently tried Vibe (https://github.com/thewh1teagle/vibe) from a recording of a meeting taken on one side. It was able to identify the speakers. As Speaker 1, 2, etc. But still useful to see.


yeah vibe is a great app. we're actually friends with the maintainer :)


I fall into the 25 year of experience category. Probably a few more. For me, this agentic coding couldn’t have come at a better time. I still love thinking about solutions to problems and creating those solutions. I’m becoming less and less interested in the implementation details of those solutions.

I tend to use Claude Code in 2 scenarios. YOLO where I don’t care what it looks like. One shot stuff I’ll never maintain.

Or a replacement for my real hands on coding. And in many cases I can’t tell the difference after a few days if I wrote it or AI did. Of course I have well established patterns and years of creating requirements for junior devs.


We are in a similar length of experience, but weirdly as I got older, it's the opposite for me: I got more particular about clarity, readability, especially in the context of handling edge cases. The 10% of situations that require 90% of effort. My new hobby is a codebase that can read as a business rulebook.


I’m grateful for the likes of you out there.


Both of my wife's parents died with cancer in their 60s before MAID. These days we're seeing the parents of others, and even our peers choosing MAID. It breaks my wife's heart every time that MAID wasn't available to her parents.


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