Customer service reps have almost the same information that a customer would have. The only difference is they have a few more tools available to them.

Asking policy questions or anything at this level would likely get no useful info.

Airplanes fly typical routes, so it’s possible, but not guaranteed.

Gemini is wrong quite often. You shouldn’t rely on it to tell you facts.

If I need to double check it, then it’s worthless to me.

It’s also underselling what they are providing.

You get to skip all the AI garbage, all the sponsored links, and the “what other people are asking” sections and just go straight to the search results.

Privacy is the primary selling point, but the clean “old school” google interface is what I’m really excited about. I’ve set my default search in the browser to Leta for now.

Not all cd players had an accessible lens. A car deck had a slot insert and there was no way to get at the lens without disassembling the whole thing.

Computer CD players also had a tray that extended so the lens was mostly hidden.

Boomboxes and portable CD players had pop up lids where you could see the lens, but there were probably an equal number of players where you couldn’t access it.

I write code every day at my job. I use vim.

It does everything I need it to do, and it works exactly the same way on every system I touch, and functions the same way since I started using it decades ago (aside from being able to use arrow keys now instead of hjkl)

If I HAVE to do any coding on Windows, I use notepad++.

Curious why he didn’t start with one of the Parameterized “Waterproof” boxes.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4838803