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I switched http://ideasai.com's auto app and landing builder to @xai Grok now Grok 4.6 is apparently as good as Fable 5 (without the constant preaching and blocking you from doing anything due to SeCuRiTy)
Grok 4.6 is roughly the same performance as Fable 5 Max at an 85% discount. 80% cheaper for input tokens and 88% cheaper for output tokens. Pareto dominant. Grok 4.7 will be significantly better as is a much larger model with the Cursor and SpaceX data included in pretraining.
😋 Tasty recipe by @denisyurchak
My variation on Piet’e acid mushrooms I didn’t have balsamico so I used the juice form a whole lemon 🍋, a tea spoon of sugar to imitate balsamico sweetness and a lot of smoked paprika The proteins part is played by grilled smoky paprika chicken breast 🐔 Normally chicken breast is very dry, but if you use the grill mode of the air fryer, it gets juicy, more like suvlaki (but you need a grill plate for that) Overall you get a tasty and balanced meal (better than in 99% if restaurants in Western Europe)
It's always the most mid girls who want these shots
Instagram has done a lot of damage All these people were waiting in a f*cking one hour line under the sun, at 2PM, with a UV index of 9... All just to get “the Santorini Instagram photo” with the blue dome in the background... Good Lord
This is the problem with most modern yogurt It's only 3% protein This one isn't high in fats or sugar though so not unhealthy, but useless if you want to hit protein goals
Skyr is great, but traditional Bulgarian yogurt is outstanding. Only two ingredients: milk and Lactobacillus bulgaricus. This is the bacteria that makes the milk thicken and also gives this specific taste. Some brands also use Streptococcus thermophilus. I eat at least 4 packages (500mg each) of this per week.
Skyr is minimally processed I recommend using the NOVA scale, it's a great way to figure out if your food is clean or not, and essentially if you should be eating or not Just take a pic and ask AI what NOVA scale your food is I generally flat out avoid eating from groups 3 and 4 nowadays (except cheat days once in a while ;)) What's interesting is that a lot of the food that used to be NOVA 1 (unprocessed) a few decades ago has now become NOVA 4 (ultra processed) due to inflation The reason is that unprocessed food is cheap and boring and hard to market, so you can't make much profit on it. A steak is a steak and it costs roughly the same everywhere. But if you sell it as Grill Masters Sweet & Smoky BBQ Angus Beef You can add a beautifully designed label, market it in ads, and all the stuff you add it (salt water, coloring, additives) to increase the weight, so you can charge much more Selling ultra processed food is a much better business to be in than selling unprocessed food (boring and no profit margin) Thank capitalism for this! An example is a type of meat my parents used to eat in the Netherlands, it was unprocessed then, and is now sold as ultra processed full of preservatives, emulsifiers, coloring and additives, and my parents have no idea because it looks roughly the same. It makes them sick though Also yogurt, I grew up and it was just you know, yogurt, fermented milk, classified as NOVA 1 unprocessed. But modern yogurt isn't that anymore. A premium brand I used to buy called OIKOS by Danone, used to have 2 ingredients: milk and fermentation bacteria. Now it's some milk, a bit of cream, a lot of milk powder (with dubious origins) and fermentation bacteria to save money but the price went up! And that's the plain one. The flavored yogurts are full of artificial sweeteners, emulsifiers, additives etc. So you can't really trust your eyes anymore to judge if food is clean or not, because most of it has been turned into processed or ultra processed to save money and/or market to you to sell for a higher price When in doubt, try the NOVA scale
@levelsio “Not processed like X. But made through a process 😊
Skyr is really exceptional €1.65 for 400g 48g protein Just 200 calories! Not processed like protein powders, shakes and bars. But a natural 🇮🇸 Icelandic process of heating cow milk, adding rennet and fermenting it. It's actually classified as a cheese but tastes like yogurt! 🍋 Add half a squeezed lemon 🥢 Add cinnamon powder Mix it up and it's tasty and you got 1/3rd of your daily protein (depending on your diet)
Yes, so I recommend eating 500g of Skyr, I usually eat it every day Skyr is magic because: - completely natural (unlike protein yogurts or powder or shakes or drinks) - 12% protein = 60g protein, that's a lot! - 64kcal per 100g = 320kcal Then before that I try get it from beef or chicken, so 400g of chicken or beef and you have about 100-120g of protein! += 180g/day
Same Claude is getting extremely preachy every day flat out refusing me regularly I'm pretty happy to jump ship to Grok if it gets good enough for coding My sites already run fully on @xAI back end
Seriously thinking of cancelling my Claude subscription They used to be great… but lately the models are extremely woke, flat out refusing to create content or to write what I ask them to write Plus, non Fable models are basically unusable now And now this Thinking of going with either Manus or Chinese models. What do you recommend?
Do you know me and my friends don't even report crimes when they happen? The police won't even come out and going to the station you just end up in a Kafka-esque nightmare of queues to report crimes because they're underfunded and no staff No shit crime numbers is going down!
@levelsio Horrible incidents. I was thinking that statistically, crime is down in most cities, despite the gruesome headlines. But any incident is one too many and contributes to the sense of not feeling safe.
This seems most accurate China is authoritarian + capitalist America is democratic + capitalist Europe is democratic + socialist Both US and EU starting to lean authoritarian more btw maybe as a response to China
Yup. China is authoritarian capitalist. IDK if I entirely agree chart but generally, yeah. I hope we can all agree that the top left of this chart (communism) is horrible.
Fair but then what about the test "can you and your partner and kids walk home at night safely alone?" Because increasingly you can't in most capital cities in the West But you can in China, Japan and Thailand!
@levelsio there's always the classic test: "can you say your leader is bad without getting in trouble?"
China hasn't been communist since Deng Xiaoping started his capitalist reforms in the eighties I'd argue the West has much more communist ideology in its governments and institutions than China now Especially in Europe, California, NYC and Canada
I don't want to use my feet to communicate with chinese communists. There is a reason there are so few tourists in china.
My marketing spend is negative @X pays me $17,000/month to promote my apps on here
@levelsio Do you advertise/market any of your products? I see no advertising cost. Will definitely try this tonight because like your pool, i am definitely leaking.
A very fun exercise is to export all your bank accounts (as CSV) both personal and business and stock broker And dump it all into Claude Code and ask it to make a little dashboard showing your spending It's hard to know how much you actually spend over lots of accounts so this can help you understand that You'll spend some time merging transactions (like company names change or their statement label changes), and categorizing, you can just do this by talking to Claude Code btw very easy, I also hooked it up to @xai Grok so it can use that to categorize mass transactions (very cheap) The best part isn't the dashboard it makes but that once you have all the data collected, you can ask Claude Code lots of questions directly about your finances and learn stuff, like I learned: - I was paying for some subscriptions for 2 years I forgot about ($$$) - My US stocks charge me withholding tax (30%) on dividends, which I knew but never realized how much $$$ it was (which is why non-US citizens should buy UCITS ETFs not US stocks!) - My pool remodeling was ridiculously expensive compared to the rest of the home remodeling and we got fleeced hard (that's life!), then the pool company caused a €9000 water leak that they won't pay (funny) - I spent $400K on domains over the years, I should probably stop spending money on them, it's an addiction @marckohlbrugge gave me and it's way more than my gf's shopping - My biggest monthly cost by far is AI at about $24K/month in GPU costs for Photo AI, but that's just how it is, I already got the cheapest rates possible, AI is pricey! - My 2nd biggest cost is taxes, who would have thought??? - Travel is quite expensive, flying business class, getting nice hotels and regularly traveling adds up a lot! - My business costs without AI (!) are extremely low, about $5K/month on revenue which is about 98% profit margin (!), with AI it goes up to $28K/mo or about 86% profit margin (still good!) - Lawyers become quite an expense in this part of my life, you buy a house you pay a lawyer and notary, you register trademarks for your business you pay a lawyer, but they're a great thing to spend money on I think because they protect you from losing much more money than they cost! - I started spending much more money since 2022 because of AI costs but also making much more money because of AI, so it's good - My spending has remained remarkably consistent as a percentage of my net worth at "just" 5%/year, which is close to FIRE which is always my goal (don't spend over 3%/year of your net worth), in my case it's different cause I actually have company income, so it's more of a fun goal to be responsible with my money - Around 2024 my life definitely switched from barely spending money and living as a digital nomad to buying a house and spending on that a lot, I knew a house was a money pit, but it's also a nice money pit and it helps me sleep better (great AC and bedroom), live healthier (home gym), and work better (coworking), so it's worth it - I barely have any personal subscriptions except Netflix, YouTube and Spotify, I asked it to built a "Recurring subscriptions" box too so I can see what subs I have and cancel them Try it!
I hope they include voyage to New Amsterdam too, same time
Panache Digital Games has announced the Early Access launch date for 1666: Amsterdam, a dark, story-driven action-adventure game set across three different time periods.
I swear I'm not a paid CCP shill But China is having its moment for tourists now, which is good, more travel = more collective understanding of each other Go visit! In most places you'll be the only one there And it'll be an adventure again like the first time you went traveling because nobody speaks a single word of English and yes that's kinda exciting You quickly realize that humans can communicate quite easily without using language and can use your hands and feet to communicate and pointing at things to make yourself understood fine! And people are generally very curious about tourists and foreigners and will want to help you out in any way Easily some of the friendliest people I've ever met!
Here's a video list for people who haven't been to China and people who want to come again for more. A Chinese photographer spent 5 years, visited 220 cities, and captured all of this. The place name is in the upper left.
Slow and steady...
🏩 I've started reviewing the hotels we stayed at myself on https://t.co/4p4dzTEtCE and was thinking I could start inviting people I trust to also review hotels, so there's no way to manipulate the reviews easily (as happens en masse on booking and review sites) I also added a "Request a hotel review" form so you can ask Hotelist to stay there (for now just me and my gf) but later on depending on location we can route the requests to people near to stay and review There's some risk of manipulation there too though as if they know it's a reviewer they'll be extra good to them, so we need to find some way around that!
Man I didn't know people were so gullible but they are People actually buying shitcoins (I guess?) based on those fake X accounts that then link you to a fake Whatsapp I don't even use Whatsapp!!!!
One thing I absolutely hate about American airports is that they charge you for the luggage carts Meanwhile China gives you free luggage carts that charge your phone!
Flew back to Shanghai two days ago, layover in Changsha The airport luggage carts have two screens on them. Big one loops ads and flight info, small one is a touchscreen you can browse the web or play games on while you wait And it charges your phone or laptop while you go China is putting a battery in everything😲
Internet is difficult to be honest Even if you find something that works, like a VPN, or use your Tailscale net to exit via, it might stop working a few days after The most reliable way to access internet without restrictions for me was getting eSIMs from Hong Kong, but I had to try a few diff providers to get one that worked Even then tethering it to my MacBook, would not make it work there weirdly, maybe DNS, but it'd work on my iPhone
is China viable for indie hackers internet-wise? quite critical to always have internet connection, since you need access to your business?
Got 3x Xiaomi Smart Air Purifier Elite, one for each floor To be fair they're not the prettiest (round and silver) but they're about the most powerful ones you can get, being able to clean 600 m³/hour for spaces up to 125 m², so essentially one big floor The best part though is the bigger the air purifier, the more silent they are, you just simply don't hear them, they're on Auto mode and unless the air gets really bad they won't spin up (so in my case they never spin up) Then I got a small one for the bedroom, the Xiaomi Smart Air Purifier 4, this one's actually just square and white and pretty Anyway here's the data before and after installing them, AQI went down from 59 in the gym, or about smoking 1 cigarette per day, to 22 (clean air) P.S. I bought Xiaomi based on the QT thread below, it's great, they actually have their own Home Assistant repo on GitHub which is how every smart home device should be: open and limitless! No bs API limits with 🇨🇳 Xiaomi unlike with 🇯🇵 Daikin (max 150 reqs/day) which tells you all you need to know about the modernity of Chinese tech vs the absolute stoneage levels of Japanese tech! inb4 "omg Chinese devices phone home" no you can just run these locally on your Home Assistant! Which is wild cause we live near the ocean in Portugal far from any city and you still have to deal with somewhat dirty air, it's just the reality of modern life. Now imagine what you breath in living in the city? My aunt died of lung cancer at 55, you never know why but she did live in a big Dutch port city with lots of container ships all day every day exhausting dirty oil fumes, so clean air is a priority for me (another reason I couldn't keep living in Bali and Thailand) One thing that's still bad is VOC levels (volatile organic compounds), today I learnt you can only get rid of that with carbon filters, no regular HEPA air purifier will help you with that (just like it won't help you with CO2, you just have to open the window or build a fresh air inlet into your house) Anyway, cleaner air, hooray! 💨
What's the best air purifier you know that is easily controllable with Home Assistant etc without hacking and hardware add ons? I need something that can react to the Airthings PM1/PM2.5 sensor and start purifying then We have clean air but lots of construction near so we get construction dust