WalnutLum

There's a great podcast series around this idea: https://www.techwontsave.us/

I'm sure another DMCA for AI prompts is on the way

Yea it's the same for us, the complaints from people when they see a kid in public on a tablet are weird to me cause I know as kids we always had stuff like toys we brought into restaurants (or we went to restaurants with like coloring maps and stuff).

Parents have been desperately trying to find things to occupy kids while they're in public so they don't disturb the people around them for years and now that smart phones/ipads are universal it seems like there's finally something that will just keep the kids quiet for awhile without a lot of effort.

I think it's important to pay attention how much you/your kids are spending on "screen time" but it feels really disingenuous to say stuff like the current generation is cooked because of ipads.

crawls out of gnu logo-shaped hole

I use icecat and it's pretty nice, main issue is you have to manually approve all JavaScript scripts and cross-site requests manually, so it makes visiting almost any website for the first time a pain in the ass.

Luckily most stuff is concentrated to a few sites and I use private frontends liberally so it's not a huge pain.

Slinks back into free software hole

The dev cycle has gotten slower over time but it's not dead

The best self hosted alt I've seen is huginn: https://github.com/huginn/huginn

It's not as easy to use as ifttt and much less already built for you but it does the same things.

Former sublime text user here. Eating popcorn and chuckling at "lifetime license"

This is something Japanese train companies figured out awhile ago for train engineers. Because driving locomotives can be really repetitive, they train engineers to do hand signals and call out actions out loud even when they're alone in the car in order to help keep the brain active and focused.