How did you like the book (compared to the movie)?

I like the old world charm

The book was written in the 50s, its way slower than the movie (though still a short read). Some things from the movie plot are the same

I love details like how difficult it was to get something communicated across a border only 75 years ago

Has it really vested at that point then?

Or is it just a longer vesting period?

I guess that depends on your understanding of "vesting" - and my understanding may be faulty.

As I understand it, if I leave the business before the vesting I get nothing. When the stock vests it becomes mine.

A lock down of the stock then means I can't trade it, but it remains mine (regardless of whether I stay or leave.) Once the lock is lifted I could sell it.

So in that sense there's a difference, yes.

Free as in speech[0] and beer too!

[0] - https://github.com/lichess-org

I'm not sure it was actually Apple's original intention. Rumour has it the decision was made on stage[0]

[0] - https://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/05/11/facetime-standa...

What an absolute legend, that guy, making product decisions on stage hahaha. I absolutely love it.

Which browser? I've had zero problems with 4GB laptops when avoiding Chrome

Can't avoid Chrome on a Chromebook. On the MBA, I use Chrome as well. I've migrated to Firefox on my Windows and Linux laptops, but I thought Firefox had battery issues on MacOS.

I usually keep about 5-7 pinned tabs open (Gmail, Contact, Calendar, Keep, Drive, HackerNews, etc) and cycle through ~3-7 transient tabs, and I find that the browsing experience is not enjoyable on 4GB machines anymore.

I don't have any distinct cpu/memory/battery profiling datasets to provide anything but a personal anecdote. I dropped Chrome due to general laptop responsiveness in favour of a combo of Firefox with AdNausem and Privacy Badger. Which, has worked fine for my use (not noticed any adverse battery effects but I've also not been actively monitoring), though I don't use nearly the number of google services you've listed. Your results may differ, I've heard mixed reviews (again, anecdotally, so take with a grain of salt) of google services in firefox and safari.

> but I thought Firefox had battery issues on MacOS.

Does it still, are you referring to 70+? Firefox 70 in October came with big improvements[1], I didn't do any testing though. I think I saw some benchmarks showing it's slightly worse than Chrome, but it was minor. Can't find them right now unfortunately.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/firefox-70-brings-en...

> Can't avoid Chrome on a Chromebook

It is deeply psychologically jarring, but Firefox runs through the Android and I think Linux compat layers on a Chromebook just fine. I have no idea how much this actually buys you when the OS is by Google for running Chrome, but it does work.

Which Chrome-avoidant browser?

Firefox, IE, Safari, or Edge (but not Edge Beta) to name a few. IIRC, there's Pale Moon or something else based off Firefox as well.

I enjoyed Thomas Sowell’s Basic Economics

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0465060730

Could I ask how you dump the highlights to an external service?

I guess he is using a technique similar to those posted in this SO post. [1]

Google tells me there are some third party libs/api's to do this, but nothing official, ISFICT.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5374045/how-to-access-ki...

Is that true?

systemd is part of freedesktop.org (https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/) > freedesktop.org is a completely volunteer organisation with no corporate backing or funding stream. We are a member project of Software in the Public Interest, Inc., for the purposes of holding assets.

meanwhile gnome has it's own foundation at https://www.gnome.org/foundation/ > The GNOME Foundation is a non-profit organization that furthers the goals of the GNOME Project, helping it to create a free software computing platform for the general public that is designed to be elegant, efficient, and easy to use.

Would something like pihole not work in this case?

Let me try that and see how it goes. Let me go and install it.

Pihole does not block YouTube Ads. You can use Smart Youtube TV to watch ad free YouTube on your TV.

https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartYouTubeTV

Thank you lavios. I will install it later.

I'd agree with this suggestion, especially if you're willing to put in a bit of legwork to start and learn some of the basics of org-mode.

To me though, one of the killer features of org-mode (compared to some of the other, SaaS product offerings) is that under the hood it's /just/ a plain-text file. You know (unlike the SaaS stuff) it'll be around for 30+ years. To me, it's incredibly valuable when building my own personal information repo/db to know it'll be around as long as I am. Not contingent on a company to remain around or profitable to keep access to my data.