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United will let AI agents search fares, but not book them. It says agents could cause unintended purchases or use your MileagePlus miles. United is worried an AI might add things you didn't ask for. The airline industry has notes.

Your MacBook trackpad has volume and brightness sliders hiding on its edges. SlideSense by @xcarnn is a free menu bar app for macOS 13+ that turns trackpad edges into controls. • slide the right edge for volume and the left edge for brightness • feel a haptic tick at every step • mute, skip tracks and play or pause with corner and bottom-edge gestures BetterTouchTool costs $15 for two years of updates. SlideSense costs $0 and reached 140 GitHub stars in 10 days. It isn't notarized yet and needs Accessibility permission. Link in the first reply 👇 Apple made the trackpad feel a click. SlideSense taught it volume.

Someone put AI agents in the team chat and gave them a monthly budget. Agentes (@agentes_chat) is a free, self-hosted Slack alternative for web, desktop and phone. • use channels, threads and DMs like Slack • add AI agents with a role, owner, memory and spending limit • approve merges, deploys and sensitive actions from cards in the chat Slack Pro costs $8.75 per person each month. Self-hosting this is free with your own model keys. It already has 324 GitHub stars, three days after launch. Link in the first reply 👇 Slack spent years charging for seats. Now the new employees are software.

Someone made SketchUp understand a dovetail. BenchUp is a free, open-source 3D design app for woodworking and furniture. It runs in your browser or natively on Mac, Windows and Linux. • plan boards, joints and whole assemblies with exact measurements • preview dovetails, mortise-and-tenon joints and grain direction • make cut lists, labels and PDF cutting plans with time and cost estimates SketchUp Go costs $129 a year. Pro costs $399. BenchUp costs $0 and has 788 GitHub stars, 20 days after launch. Link in the first reply 👇 SketchUp saw a dovetail and sent it to the Pro plan.

Reddit just turned its comment sections into a shopping tool. Reddit Reviews uses AI to summarize user discussions about roughly 10,000 products. It's rolling out across the US. Your argument about a toaster has been promoted to buying advice.

You could get roughly 12 GB back just by removing Apple's AI. RemoveMacAI by @OmLahorey is a free, open-source tool that turns off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27. • Deletes downloaded AI models and blocks them from downloading again. • Shows every change before applying it and lets you undo each one. • Optionally stops analytics and ads, quiets pop-ups and switches off other apps' background updaters. You lose Apple Intelligence features, including Siri AI features, Writing Tools, Genmoji and Image Playground. Dictation still works. Reverting brings the AI features back. The app isn't notarized. Space recovered depends on which models are installed. $0. 6,007 GitHub stars in six weeks. Apple removed the single AI on/off toggle in macOS 27; this gives you a way to remove the models too. Link in the first reply 👇 Six thousand stars for removing Apple Intelligence. Finally, an AI feature people are asking for.

Paying $11 a month for Docker Pro? This free alternative runs your Docker images too. Kiri is an open-source container runtime for Mac, Windows and Linux. • Keep using your Docker images, docker CLI, Compose and buildx. • Import images, volumes and containers from Docker Desktop or OrbStack with kiri import. • Create a Kubernetes cluster with one command and let the VM sleep after 60 seconds idle. Mac support covers Apple silicon and Intel on macOS 14+. Windows 10/11 uses WSL 2. In Kiri's own benchmark, a container started and exited in 14.2 ms versus 243 ms on Docker Desktop and 442 ms on OrbStack. Those are medians of 30 runs using the docker CLI. Docker Pro: $11/user/month. OrbStack Pro for commercial use: $8/user/month. Kiri: $0, with 1,480 GitHub stars in nine days. Link in the first reply 👇 Kiri even imports your Docker containers. The subscription can stay behind.

263 file formats. Converted offline. Someone actually built this for free. It's called Filee: an open-source file converter for Windows 10/11 and Linux, with a Mac preview. • Hold Ctrl, drag a file and drop it onto a compatible format at your cursor. On Mac, use Option. • Drag pictures or downloads straight from your browser and convert multiple files at once. • Set a watch folder to automatically convert files dropped into it. Images, PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets, presentations, video and audio. Your files stay on your computer. CloudConvert gives you 10 free conversions a day, then paid credits. Filee costs $0. It has 25,522 GitHub stars in six weeks. The Mac version is a preview and isn't notarized yet. Link in the first reply 👇 CloudConvert made the eleventh JPG a financial decision.

LokalBot keeps your meeting notes on your computer. The cloud will have to find its own gossip. Free, open source, built solo by @stevyhacker. Notes without a bot joining. Link in the first reply 👇