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That sounds infuriating. My iPhone SE (2022), bought second-hand for $250, has a fantastic fingerprint reader; indeed, when I have headphones in and Siri asks me to unlock my device to do something, I slip my hand into my pocket and find th
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Crazy how ‘our’ operating system(s) begin to exploit us, instead of serving as our tools; just as the modern web demands an adblocker, OSes require workarounds like this. On that topic, I can just see the dystopian future where this bypass
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More than any other piece of technology I own - phone, laptop, watch - my Kindle makes me happy. A big part of that is the display and it's paper-likeness.
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Another option for displaying things on a jailbroken Kindle is to use kterm to ssh into a computer and then connect to a tmux session. I've used this to read man pages - it's quite satisfying to press 'f' on my laptop an
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by 0x38B 3y ago
I've always dreamed of having Maya-like menus (1) on mobile. The edit menu they demonstrate in the article (2) reminds me of them. On the topic of mobile text editing: I use an iPhone SE (2nd gen), which has a 4.7" screen. The oth
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Ride public transport in Eastern Europe and you'll see Androids running versions as old as 4; such devices are cheap, and ubiquitous phone repair shops will fix or replace components, such as batteries, speakers, and more. If the situa
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by 0x38B 3y ago
On Linux you can use libimobiledevice’s (1) idevicebackup2 to backup an iOS device. 1: https://libimobiledevice.org/
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You can side load apps, but need a Mac or a MacOS VM and XCode. But without paying the $99/year developer program fee, apps have to be reloaded every week. I paid the $99, as I grew tired of reinstalling the tethering app or GBA/P
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by 0x38B 3y ago
I saw the title in my email and had a moment of panic; my favorite laptop maker, in trouble? The first paragraph relieved my concerns and reading about Ryzen graphical performance on the Framework 13 got me thinking about upgrading my 11th
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Worth mentioning that the jet was on autopilot: > But here's the kicker: the DoD is saying the F-35B was put on autopilot prior to the ejection.
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I’ll admit I always thought ‘Meduza’ was from the Russian /meduza/, meaning jellyfish, but they did indeed mean the Greek Medusa (1): > Question - why Meduza in particular? That's a slippery, unpleasant creature > Journ
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by 0x38B 3y ago
Sway is fast, minimal, and flexible. Their recommended tools/addons are worth a look: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Useful-add-ons-for-sway From that list I use greetd + tuigreet as my login manage
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> Shortly thereafter my family gained access to broadband internet and I was able to delve into Linux again, this time thankfully without obliterating my computer's access to the outside world. As a teenager, my first experience wit
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Looking back, the main value of super-customized Emacs distros (really) was to show me what's possible. Spacemacs blew me away, yet overwhelmed me when I tried to customize it; so I started with vanilla Emacs and then added things, pac
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I found what appears to be an actual ID card you order for your cat (1 - Japanese), (2 - translated). It even has a place to specify where they like to be petted! May resolve GP's problem as it has a spot for the birthday. 1: https:&#
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This is sad; I agree with other commenters about meeting interesting people thanks to open campus access. Last night on campus I met a welder from up north. He’d come to play D&D with a group that meets on campus, and we spent a couple
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I leave my laptop in the cafe all the time. Depending on the location and the people around, I’ll ask someone nearby to keep an eye on my stuff. Edit: this is in America. In Eastern Europe, where petty theft was widespread, I’d only do it i
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You've described moose attitudes perfectly. Was walking the other night and stopped to pull some birch bark off a dead tree. The bark made a loud ripping noise, and as it came off I heard something big and heavy stand up in the dark fo
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Roads tend to be clear of snow, making for easier walking for moose in wintertime. I read that in deep-snow years, moose may get annoyed if you make them leave the road or trail. I was skate skiing on Anchorage's Coastal Trail when I c
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The 12.9” is a huge, quality canvas for drawing or viewing photos and videos. It’s great for entertaining kids: make a drawing together, look through photos, or open a children’s book. Yet for its size it is agile and light, easy to carry.
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I used AirPods and loved them, but have gone back to wired EarPods plus Shure IEMs. I’m happy with this combo, perhaps because I don’t use earbuds very much. Plus, the EarPods’s mike is much better than wireless earbuds for calls.
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Side note re: Lego, I have fond memories of the first Lego X-Wing and Snowspeeder. I’ll never forget losing pieces in the grass outside and calling up Lego. They asked me for the page number and sent me more pieces than I needed.
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I enjoyed my Nokia 2720 flip phone for half a year. It’s got a Google Maps web app that supports voice search, enough for looking up hours or a phone number. The camera is bad, but enough for photos of products or things to remember. If you
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Not if you count that as cumulative time spent (wasted) over the course of a day… (video). Video: https://nexus.armylane.com/files/kaios-I-test.mov
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> To be in Positano as a middle-class person — someone who can afford to travel and take time off work but not, say, afford to buy real estate in the city where they live — is to feel like an idiot for believing it could have been any be
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Thanks for the link. I never used MacOS back in the day, but it looks beautiful running on the iPad. I used iPads from the first to the 2017 Pro model as my primary computers on the go, but the lack of a terminal and Unix tools (zsh, rsync,
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A sibling post shows UltraPaint running on his iPad Pro: https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2021/04/17/turning-an-ipad-p...
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I guess I got hit by this? I updated my Framework‘s Arch install (to kernel 5.19.12) the other day and the display began flickering on and off on boot up. Had to get out a live USB to revert.
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A lot of sellers (especially small sites) use them. I just bought a knitting pattern and the only option was PayPal. I only use them when I have to; I recently had some money waiting for me. When I tapped “accept the money”, PayPal wanted m
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This reminds me of a story from my Russian teacher. She was speaking with some American Russian-speakers who work for our three-letter agencies or something, and their Russian was perfect, amazing - but one thing gave them away: conjugating

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