Sam Lander
- Level 8
Comments & Reviews
Reviewed Microsoft OutlookIt'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.
Reviewed KimiNot 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...
Reviewed BetterWorldBooksThey 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.
Reviewed Sigma BarPrepStraight and to the point bar questions.
Reviewed Google GeminiOnly the Pro model is worth anything and they just changed how many credits you get if you pay to a laughably low number. You start getting warnings after like 10 prompts that your credits are almost used up if you ask it to do anything complicated.
- Reviewed tuigreet
Nice and simple login TUI for linux
Reviewed Jetify DevboxIt's much more lightweight than distrobox for creating environments.
Reviewed RapidOCRFast, and decent layout support. You don't miss a whole lot from paddle for day-to-day, unless working on complicated layouts.
Reviewed TelnyxIt has great prices and features, with a similar api as Twilio, but abysmal customer support. If you have a problem with something like credits, don't be surprised if you have to wait a week for a reply.
Reviewed Nextpad++Be cautious of the security, it looks like it was largely just AI coded. If you open up random files in the Github you see AI comments like:
// Phase 2: title-bar close button moved to shared PanelFrame.
Reviewed FairScanBuggy. I like the open-source, offline nature, KISS nature. But it is just not to the level of OSS Document Scanner yet.
I tried "scanning" multiple documents, and it would often crop it unexpectedly, and doesn't provide the nice whitepaper corrections.
Reviewed DirectusReally great code. Faster than Supabase (only on free tier of Supabase) and includes simple admin UI.
The problem is that it provides application-level security rather than row-level security enforced inside the db itself, so it is inherently less secure than using something like Supabase or Hasura.
Reviewed BlogSEOThis is horrible as another user said. We are seeing more and more websites pop up that are almost entirely written by AI (and obviously).
Current LLM being trained on the internet will really need to get their act together or its just going to be self-reinforcing its own biases.
Reviewed PissMailWorks well. Privacy friendly
Reviewed PortmasterIt's not a bad app, but it is quite bloated, and lacks useful features like anonymized DNS through DNSCrypt currently. It would actually use less system resources to have Simple Wall + a dns service like YogaDNS, unbound, pi-hole. And you can have better ad-blocking with a client adblocker like Zen ad-blocker (and of course browser ad-blockers are even better, being able to block scripts and content filters).
It does have pretty granular control over connection, so that's good. But not as...
Reviewed Resend.comIt has a free tier and offers a more modern pipeline than most other free tiers (react rather than html). Also connects with Supabase easier.
Reviewed Polar.shGreat alternative to Stripe. The fees are a bit higher, but they do the taxes for you, so if you need to make sales that trigger state taxes in other places, it's worth it.
Reviewed Athena - Firewall & AdblockerVery comparable to RethinkDNS. I like the interface better than Rethink though.
The adblocking is about the same as Rethink, so not very good. You have to pay to use custom lists.
Reviewed EuriaI love Infomaniak and use many of their services like hosting.
But this AI chatbot has so many guardrails it is almost useless.
Reviewed Void LinuxPerhaps the best daily driver for security and low system resources. Not as easy out of the box as Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora.
It is pretty straightforward to install, but this tutorial is a straightforward way to ensure it works on VirtualBox: https://linuxiac.com/void-linux-installation/
Reviewed ClioReally overpriced. Other similar services offer any services under one plan for $50-100/month. This one separates them, so you will have to pay at least $300/month per user just to have collaborative drafting, billing, management, and, and a very basic website template builder.
Reviewed ChatGPTChatGPT soon will be rolling out ID verification. If they think you are under 18, or are from a "risky" country, or use VPN too much, expect to have to upload ID.
Reviewed Google VoiceThey can cancel your membership at any time.
I paid for a number, and they randomly canceled it, with no warning. I used it when I traveled abroad just to talk to family.
Reviewed PicocryptI really love small, portable apps. But when it comes at such a loss of performance, I don't think it's worth it. This encrypts about as fast as VeraCrypt, without all the benefits of VeraCrypt portable.
Seriously, it's so slow (without compression and without paranoid mode). 7Zip, with compression and encryption is faster. Sure the encryption is not as good technically. But the encryption of Picocrypt is not as good as VeraCrypt. So I see very limited functionality in this.
