I bought a Fairphone 4 off Clove.co.uk and I live in Canada. After a year and a bit of enjoying that my wife agreed to replace her Pixel 4a with a Fairphone 5.

I used to pick based on the package manager, leading me to apt-based distros. With flatpak now, I don’t feel as bothered by non-apt distros.

(And here’s my shoutout to openSUSE tumbleweed!)

I guess my notes are unstructured, as in they’re what I type as I’m in the meeting. I’m a “more is better” sort of note taker, so it’s definitely faster to let AI pull things out.

Infosec … I guess people will have to evaluate that for themselves. Certainly, for my use case there’s no concern.

I use it to review my meeting notes.

• “Based on the following daily notes, what should I follow-up on in my next meeting with #SomeTeamTag?”
• “Based on the following daily notes, what has the #SomeTeamTag accomplished the past month?”
• etc.

I’m not counting on it to not miss anything, but it jogs my memory, it does often pull out things I completely forgot about, and it lets me get away with being super lazy. Whoops, 5 minutes before a meeting I forgot about? Suddenly I can follow up on things that were talked about last meeting. Or, for sprint retrospectives, give feedback that is accurate.

To add: I’ve also started using AI to “talk to podcast guests.” You can use Whisper to transcribe a podcast, then give the transcript to AI to ask questions. I find the Modern Wisdom Podcast is great for this.

How long have you been using Kmail?

I tried maybe 3 years ago and I found it incredibly buggy. I’ve been using Thunderbird, but definitely wish there was a KDE or Qt-native mail app that did what I wanted.

One is a Pinebook Pro, which is an RK3399 processor. Another is a Surface Go 2 with an Intel Pentium Gold Processor 4425Y.

The actual issue is that the video conferencing works, but trying to do anything else is just suuuper slow. Well, the Surface Go 2 is actually fairly good as long as I’m not touching the ZRAM. But, trying to share a window in Google Meet will always involve a lot of waiting. Firefox and Chromium seem equivalent on the Surface, but the Pinebook seems better in Chromium lately.

I can bare-bones most apps I use on these laptops, but for video conferencing it seems like I have to drag along a whole browser.