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by avh02 5y ago
disclaimer - didn't read the article. but here's the thing - exit seats used to be free (i used to check-in early at the airport and ask politely, i always got them), but: 1) they're often narrower due to trays/screens i
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by avh02 5y ago
Last time I exported it included their predictions on likely forms of transport, didn't care about that data so didn't really look in to it but something is definitely included
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by avh02 5y ago
> Spotify works in a browser Anecdata: I have used this functionality literally once in ~5 years. Safe to retire it and build a real client. I suspect most people don't use the browser.
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by avh02 5y ago
oh? I'm on stable version from snap and it's still alive - time to find a way to keep an old version around just in case (apparently snaps don't make this easy.)
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by avh02 5y ago
dunno how long it will last for, but you can add `ui.experience_override="classic"` to your prefs file to hold out a little longer.
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by avh02 5y ago
It was a few things all tied in together: 1) their "device simulators" could not be relied upon 2) certain devices running certain versions of their OSs would have APIs function or not (i.e: a library call may work in one OS versi
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by avh02 5y ago
definitely taking a look at this book - spent a short part of my career as a blackberry OS developer - worst dev experience of my life, so I'm glad they're dying a slow and excruciating death for it.
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by avh02 5y ago
had no idea there was this level of dodgyness (nor consolidation) going on in the industry :(
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by avh02 5y ago
don't know the source or quality/people building it, but i did use [0] (get the detailed table and change to "all") when picking a VPN to roll with. After i had already found OVPN i was amazed that they had the option to
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by avh02 5y ago
the comment i was replying to stated: > Why haven't those vendors been already co-opted by governments (Kaspersky on the Russian side, Microsoft in the USA side) into scanning for illegal, copyrighted or secret material and reportin
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by avh02 5y ago
HTTPS and E2EE were not common many years ago
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by avh02 5y ago
Officially, they don't need your PII to validate your certificate: "The personal data of the certificate holder does not pass through the gateway, as this is not necessary to verify the digital signature" [1] That said, I&#x2
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by avh02 5y ago
Haven't done it myself yet but did pick up an rpi cm4 based board to do this: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/two-tiny-dual-gigabit...
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by avh02 5y ago
I've had a kindle for years, though it was idle for about the last two... Recently brought it back to life, read a few pages then tried to continue reading on my phone (which I had never used before). First thing it did was take me to
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by avh02 5y ago
> I preferred the old version. But my wife, who had never used it until last year, got on fine with the new one. This could be one of those things where you don't know it can be better until you see it. Things like - faster computer
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by avh02 5y ago
I'm very happy to use green technologies when they're equivalent or better than the classic technology they replace. Low power bulbs were one example of this, some models taking minutes to reach full brightness, nowadays led bulbs
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by avh02 5y ago
I use an hp spectre x360, it's not the most powerful thing in the world and has occasional issues knowing when to charge but otherwise I love it with ubuntu/i3wm
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by avh02 5y ago
Apps weren't mandated, restaurants and such are required to request you check in, but people didn't always fill them or otherwise filled them with junk (especially after they were abused)
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by avh02 5y ago
Ah, you were never exposed to RIM's blackberry signing servers... Those were not the days. I'm glad they were slowly snuffed out of existence.
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by avh02 5y ago
The problem with just bookmarking is link rot, I've had a few links 404 or the domain disappear - instead I use wallabag (imperfect but good enough) to pull in the content for another day
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by avh02 5y ago
Or don't keep a browsing history, I just keep better bookmarks.
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by avh02 5y ago
what i think people forget is that this isn't (IMO) about what the company wants or whatever, it's about the fact that offices are a nasty space where everybody breathes everybody's air - and diseases simply don't give a
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by avh02 5y ago
> Last I checked, I didn't need a license to go outside or buy a coffee What I heard though is you may get carded to buy alcohol.
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Google Maps prevents searches for “corona test”(twitter.com)
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by avh02 5y ago
obviously at that point people start to question if ownership is necessary given how easily and quickly you could summon a unit out of a fleet and only pay for what you use. And thus uber for self-driving-cars was born. Longer term traffic
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by avh02 5y ago
I'd not put that on my primary device either, maybe leave a spare plugged in near an open window, etc
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by avh02 5y ago
You'd have to corroborate with the network I guess
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by avh02 5y ago
How hard would it be to create a community network of crappy microphones to do what shotspotter does? You have a million phones that all have gps and microphones
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by avh02 5y ago
as someone who lived abroad but had a US based account i wanted to use to buy things with - "clever" moves like this were the bane of my existence. Combine that with a bank that would freak out if you used the account from abroad
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by avh02 5y ago
> Why would both have to be outside the EU? Because email/chat is rarely a monologue

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