Sam Lander

Sam Lander

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Comments & Reviews

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X

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Twitter was very anti-free speech.

X became very free speech, so I originally gave it 5 stars, because I am in favor of individual liberty.

But now the Musk is having people banned for things he happens to disagree with, such as criticizing H1B. Still more free speech than under Twitter, but not much more.

Good, practical limitations. I don't much care for Etsy anyways, as they allowed the Chinese and Indian sellers in, selling mass amounts of Temu/Aliexpress junk as if it were handmade. And because the government (at least Chinese one) subsidizes their sellers shipping, it is cheaper for them to ship to the USA at least, than it is for USA to ship to USA (unless you are a big company like Amazon).

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Spellbook

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Basically an over-priced wrapper for common LLM with RAG connected to legal databases.

I'd give 3 stars, but 1 star for scammy advertising offering free things they don't provide to attorneys I know that took part in their promotions.

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Suno AI

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After Warner bought them out, they removed the AI models and put in inferior models so the average person could not compete with their artists. They just did this in September 2026.

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Microsoft Outlook

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It's fine to use in the browser, but they do not play well with IMAP, such as Thunderbird. I think this is intentional to try to move more people to using the Outlook Client, since many people have to use Outlook for work.

It is the only email that I ever have problems with connecting to Thunderbird, and it's a common problem based on Thunderbird's Github issues. The alternative is incompetent programmers.

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Kimi

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Not really impressed compared to Gemini/Claude/ChatGPT.

And in free mode, if you ever try to test the Kimi 3, no matter what time of day it says: "Too many people are chatting with Kimi right now. Subscribe to enter a dedicated priority queue!"

Just be honest and say you can only try it if you buy first...

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BetterWorldBooks

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They have a lot of books, especially if you are a Yank looking for specific English copies.

But I collect certain books and have had very bad luck with them. Good service, they will refund you, but every single order I've had has been the wrong copy or much worse condition than stated.

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Sigma BarPrep

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Straight and to the point bar questions.