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Still can't have 2 WhatsApp accounts on iPhone, though.


ChatGPT's logo looks like an anus yet they're doing just fine.


On Notes:

1. If you copy some text

2. Select other text

3. Paste the text you copied to replace the selected text

Notes will crash. This has been known for years.

Also if you turn off all suggestions in Spotlight on iOS and just use it as an app launcher, it will still take seconds for Spotlight to show you the results. For something that's supposed to be an indexed look up.


I keep annual journals in Notes and I’ve noticed (on iOS) that the keyboard becomes increasingly laggy as the year drags on / as the note length increases. I can only assume they are synchronously flushing the file to disk on the main thread during the keyboard callback handler.

I don’t mean to be rude, but that’s how an iOS intern would implement it.


> I don’t mean to be rude, but that’s how an iOS intern would implement it.

A bad one maybe


I can't reproduce the crash. Does it happen every time for you or only after a few times?


Select/Copy/Paste has been bad from the start on iOS, another I can’t get over is how the backspace behavior has the absolute worst timings for jumping to words and paragraphs.


>I can’t get over is how the backspace behavior has the absolute worst timings for jumping to words and paragraphs.

I wish they implemented backspace like they do with fine scrubbing on seekbars. i.e. you could move your finger up & down while holding the backspace key to select the granularity of deletion between letters, words and paragraphs.


Never used an iPhone, but TBF these functionalities are equally hard on Android phones I used (but I never used any "higher end" phones such as Pixel). I came to the conclusion that human fingers are not exactly the best tools for them.

Not sure about iOS, but Android has sort of magnifier when users start to select so they can clearly see what characters they are selecting. It definitely helps. However, what I should want is some sort of arrow keys that I can press to select characters instead of relying on my fingers.


And the auto complete on proper nouns. I'm typing someone's name and it'll often get corrected and will take more than one attempt for what you actually intended to stick.

No, Ellie isn't a typo and I didn't actually mean Emma.


Not just proper nouns. Often it tries to autocorrect a real but less-commonly-used word to a more common but completely different word.


I wonder why they don't bother fixing it. Clearly it hasnt hurt their bottom line much, but you'd think they'd sell more phones if they were still the kings of "it just works" (and they aren't).


On Mail:

Cannot get notifications for new mail on iOS.

On Languages:

Cannot swipe-to-type and dictate in less spoken languages even though this has been possible on Android for over a decade.


Hmm. Can’t reproduce Notes on neither iOS 18.3.1 nor iPadOS 18.3.1


Notes on my laptop would take minutes to load, it was only fixed in the latest macOS release, after more than a year.


I cannot reproduce that Notes crash.


So Meta can train its AI on all the pirated books in the world but people are losing their mind over an AI learning from another AI?


People here have been vocal against training on any unlicensed content.


Isn't the real number around 46,000 people, though?


At least according to the OCHA you're right . Though there's also a dashboard which shows around 7k for the entire Israel Palestine conflict since 2008. Maybe it got confused by the conflicting info on OCHA's website.

https://www.ochaopt.org/data/casualties


It's way higher than that. 46k is about when the stopped being able to identify the bodies. Gaza Health Ministry was very conservative - they only claimed a death was caused by the occupation when the body could be identified.

Estimate is much higher: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...


No one knows the real number.


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That statement is hotly contested, as it doesn't align with the prevailing evidence


> Except for Math Notes. Holy crap. I love Math Notes so much. I wish other note-taking apps had it. It's easily the best feature they've ever come up with.

The Cursor editor literally has this.


you use Cursor as note-taking app?


Yes. Features I use all the time when taking notes in Cursor / VS Code:

- Ctrl + click -> open link in browser

- Alt + shift + click -> create multiple cursors

I keep Cursor minimized when I'm not using it the rest of the time.


You can also use Supermaven. Steps:

- Click on the Copilot icon on the bottom bar

- Select 'Use Supermaven'

More info here:

https://zed.dev/docs/completions


> Lack of conversation sharing... [there is] no way to even print the conversation because it cuts off on the browser (tested on Firefox).

Until they make conversations shareable, in the meantime you can print the whole page in Chrome by:

- going to Developer Tools (Ctrl + Shift + I)

- opening the Command Palette (Ctrl + Shift + P)

- searching for 'screenshot'

- selecting Capture full size screenshot


The link you shared isn't on the front page now, though :(.


> in over 150 countries

In 177 countries to be exact. For context, there are 195 countries in the world.


The list used by steam contains like 250 countries, because they split some countries in different regions, e. g. Mayotte is listed as a separate country despite being part of France


Same with Italy and Sardinia


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