There are a few that kind of come close to being better, but everything has at least one drawback.

I’m just vibe coding my own booking system.

If all goes well, it will be up and running on my test server by the end of the day.

Basically I need a single calendar for clients to use to book services.

It does not matter which of my contractors does the work.

So most other platforms force a different calendar for each person which makes it confusing for clients who just want to meet with someone at 7pm.

I’m actually vibe coding my own booking system due to their pricing.

I don’t think learning how to use. AI is going to save their job. Because AI will do their job there’s nothing for them to do. I’m not saying it right. I’m just saying I don’t think her advice is right.

This is the real way to hurt a company. Once an open source version exists, even if it is not as good as the commercial offering, they will have trouble convincing people to pay for what they are selling.

Of course, they should be compensated for their work, but if you can build it yourself then the cost to a company does not need to be much higher than the costs of parts and labor for someone else to do it for you.

One of the things I want to do is build decent applications and release them for free so people can get the same functionality of their paid apps but not need to pay anything.

Main thing stopping me is time.

I couldn’t quickly find any information on streaming services. I’d love to swap out the slow smart tv ui for this, but if my wife has to fumble with webbrowers using a tv remote, it will not last.

It is allowing me to do things that I could not do on my own due to time constraints. It also allows me to do stuff that I could not afford to do (generate my company logo and variations of the mascot for social media posts.)

I know a lot of people think I am rich, but I live in a third world country and hardly have any extra to save, so I truly can’t afford to pay a graphic designer to do that work. I actually did once, on upwork, but the vector work she did was terrible and she couldn’t figure out how to remove these thick black lines. ChatGPT was able to fix it though.

Took me a while to get back to this. I got a bit sick over the weekend. Anyway, the opensource scheduling software is not too great. I am a little surprised by it as there are a few commercial options or opensource options that lock certain features behind a paywall even when selfhosting, like cal.com.

Cal.com is the only software that provides the feature set I need, but they charge about as much per user as Zoom does and it pisses me off that it’s so expensive to have a shared calendar so my clients will simply book a time and date and have round robin logic applied to who the client gets assigned to.

Because of this, I am slowly working on building my own scheduling system that I will selfhost. I am mostly vibecoding it as I am too busy running a small company to dedicate time to coding it properly, but that is some tech I can easily test for functionality and fix down the line when there is more time or money.

simplybook.me is another service I came across, but they charge you based on how many features you enable, and you basically can’t use their system for scheduling without adding on a bunch of features. Once your trial ends, you can’t turn off the features and go back to the free version without signing up for a pro account or whatever they call it.

I think is people don’t like it they don’t need to use it. I’m ok with rules stating ai generated content must be labeled though. I wouldn’t even mind a toggle so it could just be turned off.

But it is tech that is here to stay. It is useful to many people.

I’ve been looking into this a bit already. I’m actually on a road trip and will start driving soon, but if your respond to this comment I can fill you in on what I’ve learning in the next day or two.

In American anyone can run a business as a sole proprietor.

So that would essentially invalidate the law.

They would probably code the language to ban people selling access to a vpn, but not stop you from running your own.

I’m freelance, and AI can’t do my job yet…

But I’m sure it will be able to one day.

I love this! Wish iPhone would have this feature.

If so, I could do all my work with just my iPhone.

I have a 15, and will hold out on a new iPhone for at least 4-5 years. I may go longer if there is not a desktop mode by then though.

As far as I know you need to authenticate through them.

Alternatively, you could setup your own vpn to do all this, but it is much more work and will likely have some cost.

When you connect to Tailscale, via cli it should give you a link to use to connect it to your account. You can get the ip address in various ways. One of which is just looking on your Tailscale dashboard. You need to have Tailscale installed on every machine you want to talk with.

I was going to say Tailscale. You will need to give more details about what didn’t work with Tailscale, but it has been pretty seamless for me.

It will bring down the cost of producing the medicines. I’ll bet you will still pay at LEAST the same amount.

To this day, I I never owned anything higher than 1080

I think it’s true for most people. I’m thinking of people like my mom and dad. My dad bought a whole new computer instead of just using Linux mint.

He considered it, but just bought a whole new computer after he was worried about a scam he almost fell for.

I honestly think DE is one of the main reasons people don’t switch from windows.

They just want to use what’s comfortable. The large majority of people would be fine with Linux alternatives, but they don’t want to deal with the different designs.

Same!

I’m currently building my business to be platform agnostic.

For the most part I’m using open source for everything that can be.

Bow that I think of it, the only non-open source stuff I use are zoom, outlook (need it for shared inboxes), and my payment processor. I doubt I will move on from these platforms as their value is really good. Zoom is the only one I may transition away from from as costs grow.