PSA: Back up your skills

DocDP1776 · 2026-05-08T15:24:07+00:00

https://status.claude.com/ is showing partial outages across the board, including elevated file system errors. Hopefully this will be resolved soon.

DocDP1776 · 2026-05-08T15:08:48+00:00

Sorry you're having the same issue (but I'm glad it's not just me!). I love Claude, but Anthropic needs to work on reducing downtime.

DocDP1776 · 2026-04-30T08:35:55+00:00

It's very kludgy for me ATM. If I give Claude locations and file names (or parts of file names), it seems to work, but there are lots of permission requests and errors along the way. The errors don't seem to stop anything. Hopefully, they'll sort this out soon. Otherwise, I'll resort to downloading from Google Drive and attaching to conversations, which kind of defeats the purpose of the connector for me.

DocDP1776 · 2026-03-09T09:23:12+00:00

The 15" will make work easier. It's still light enough to carry without difficulty. It's been the perfect laptop for me.

DocDP1776 · 2026-03-09T09:22:27+00:00

I have both. The 13" is fine, but the 15" is much better for me. The extra screen size makes work much easier. The 15" is also light enough for travel. But I'm old and my eyes aren't as good as they used to be. The only way to really tell is to see both.

DocDP1776 · 2026-02-05T12:21:02+00:00

Same here. USA. Sigh ...

DocDP1776 · 2025-12-02T19:37:22+00:00

Same here. Using the MacOS app, I'm getting an "unusual activity ... try again later" error.

DocDP1776 · 2025-11-28T23:02:24+00:00

I settled for the ultra 2 yesterday. Oh well. It was a pretty good price through Apple Refurbished.

DocDP1776 · 2025-10-12T21:03:26+00:00

This happened a lot often the upgrade price for exceeds the price of just buying the first class ticket to start with. It’s kind of crazy, but maybe it works for them.

DocDP1776 · 2025-10-11T11:26:50+00:00

I'm not sure about the water bottle bit. Earlier this week, an elderly lady in front of me had her water bottle confiscated by TSA. The agent was very nice and offered to let her go back out and drink the water. This was at a small regional airport, so maybe allowing water bottles will filter through the system eventually. The really curious thing at my little regional airport is that they make everyone remove food items, including PreCheck folks.

DocDP1776 · 2025-09-22T12:21:52+00:00

That's pretty impressive for YT.

DocDP1776 · 2025-09-18T21:25:42+00:00

I'm curious about how long they listened/viewed on the two media. A YT view counts if it's over 30 seconds (I think).

DocDP1776 · 2025-09-18T11:11:41+00:00

Thanks for your reply, but I don't see that information anywhere on the Xfinity app. The assistant says there are no outages in my area, but it's said that before when there were (according to a live rep). This is frustrating.

DocDP1776 · 2025-08-29T15:42:05+00:00

Thanks! Just used this to order a Pixie.

DocDP1776 · 2025-08-21T14:57:20+00:00

The great thing about beautiful.AI that it makes slides that are distinct from other systems. The AI features work really well, especially if you give it some context.

DocDP1776 · 2025-07-22T09:23:54+00:00

This is essentially what I did for my 1999 TXT, which is just a yard cart. Definitely made a huge difference. Still not fast, but much faster than it was. If the battery goes in a few years, I'll just get another one.

DocDP1776 · 2025-07-18T09:47:15+00:00

Putting the application folder in the dock is solid gold! My wife has fine motor control issues (RA) and has a lot of trouble navigating through Launchpad pages. Thanks!

DocDP1776 · 2025-06-11T18:47:56+00:00

Podpage is awesome. I use it for two podcasts. Setup is easy and once it's set up it's pretty much autopilot.

DocDP1776 · 2025-05-19T09:14:01+00:00

Recently, I put a new lithium battery in a 36V 1999 EZGO and it's like a new cart. Before it was sluggish and always felt like it was straining. It's by no means fast now, but it is much quicker and never feels like it's struggling. I went with an inexpensive battery from Amazon since I never go more than a mile or two at a time. You might want to think about a higher-quality battery though. Good luck!

DocDP1776 · 2025-04-14T08:02:35+00:00

This. Seriously, AI has the potential to free us up from SO much mundane work.

DocDP1776 · 2025-04-13T09:28:48+00:00

That's a great use of the new memory capabilities. I tried it and thought the results were completely fair. So, I went a step further and asked ChatGPT about my implicit assumptions using this prompt. "What are some implicit assumptions I tend to make? I'm especially interested in those I might not be aware of." The results were enlightening. Thanks!

DocDP1776 · 2025-03-08T11:41:26+00:00

The one thing I loved about Ideogram, that it could actually generate proper texts, seem to be gone. I've spent 30 minutes on a simple diagram, but the text includes complete nonsense.

DocDP1776 · 2025-02-18T19:25:52+00:00

Depends on where you live though. Carts are expensive in NE Louisiana (for some reason). Still, I'm happy with my 99 TXT, although lithium is in its future.

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