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   by boogies 6y ago

   > And here's where a turn to renewables, solar and others would be helpful because you can afford to turn off the long-range transmission and rely on locally generated power. Isn’t California actually relying increasingly on buying
2. 542.▲
   by boogies 6y ago

   What about LibreOffice’s spreadsheets?
3. 543.▲
   by boogies 6y ago

   All of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_manager#3D_file_managers look interesting, particularly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_System_Visualizer reminds me of s3dfm and looks like it might b
4. 544.▲
   by boogies 6y ago

   It certainly doesn’t compare to Tor’s anti-fingerprinting, disabling JavaScript, etc., but I think there’s a fair chance it might help decrease the likelihood of a situation like the OP’s by a bit.
5. 545.▲
   by boogies 6y ago

   At least in Chrome or Edge. FF and Brave enable some basic tracking protection in private windows, and the latter also gives you the option of obscuring your IP adress with Tor.
6. 546.▲
   by boogies 6y ago

   This: you can keep a Librem 5’s modem’s hardware kill switch flipped to off when you’re staying in the same place for 8 hours.
7. 547.▲
   by boogies 6y ago

   You pay 18.80 GBP for > A phone number registered & operated under Purism > Help fund additional developmental services offered from Purism ? I don’t think anyone’s arguing that everyone wants this, but I think it (including “pri
8. 548.▲
   by boogies 6y ago

   Unrolled: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1311349445787672578.html
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   by boogies 6y ago

   Invidious ( https://invidious.site/watch?v=jzwMjOl8Iyo&dark_mode=true&au... does about as much in terms of recommendations/features, and much less in terms of ads and anti-features, I think it is a great compari
10. 550.▲
    by boogies 6y ago

    My pleasure, you’re welcome!
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    by boogies 6y ago

    Minetest: https://www.minetest.net/ . It’s a bit similar to “just use Minecraft” because it comes packaged with a barebones “game” — a mapgen algorithm and enough Lua to allow you to run around, mine, and craft, but stops sh
12. 552.▲
    by boogies 6y ago

    The ten minute minimum recently changed to eight.
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    by boogies 6y ago

    That’s not the same, that’s basically just AltGr. In X you can do ‘Compose, o, o’ → °, ‘Compose, C, o’ → ©’, ‘Compose, s, o’ → §, ‘Compose p o o’ → «a character HN doesn’t allow (U1F4A9)» and ~6000¹ other combinations. X also has a “mac” la
14. 554.▲
    by boogies 6y ago

    Their Tracking Protection doesn’t do that? I’d hope at least the Private Browsing protection does.
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    by boogies 6y ago

    I agree that there’s a serious amount of FUD around it. I think it’s at least in part because it proliferating could seriously harm Alphabet’s ability to freely grab people’s code to incorporate in their consumer products (YouTube, G Suite,
16. 556.▲
    by boogies 6y ago

    > People in fact do buy handheld devices that play games But do people buy devices exclusively for playing handheld games? The 3DS is now officially out of production (and hadn’t had first party games in years, IIRC) and the Vita has bee
17. 557.▲
    by boogies 6y ago

    What about the AGPL? Wouldn’t it grant “the right to study the code running on your hardware, the right to make modifications to it, the right to distribute those modifications” and provide protection from FAANG profiting without reciprocat
18. 558.▲
    by boogies 6y ago

    Or just stop allowing JavaScript.
19. 559.▲
    by boogies 6y ago

    Does that charging circuit need to be inside the hearing aid, and not in the charging cradle/case/dock thing?
20. 560.▲
    by boogies 6y ago

    > a connector, which take up precious volume. Wireless recharging requires a coil with the same problem. Couldn’t a “connector” just be a tiny gold contact to meet another in a charging cradle/case like a smart watch or wireless ear
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    by boogies 6y ago

    I wonder if it will ever look much like https://libreplanet.org . It’s the only site I’ve seen with a theme that modifies the actual layout (ie. the sidebar and Article | Talk / Read | Edit | View History tabs), AFAIK — I wo
22. 562.▲
    by boogies 6y ago

    I think that’s why the sentence immediately after the one including “we own and operate Slashdot and SourceForge” says “We didn't always own SourceForge, but we acquired it in 2016, and [immediately began improving]( https://
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    by boogies 6y ago

    > use some shell magic eg. 1600 SLOC: https://www.bkhome.org/shellcms/index.html 1194: https://github.com/cfenollosa/bashblog 82: https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/lb 15: h
24. 564.▲
    by boogies 6y ago

    Isn’t evince capable of this and the default PDF viewer on GNOME?
25. 565.▲
    by boogies 6y ago

    Actually was “Mozilla give up Firefox send and Firefox notes” https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/
26. 566.▲
    by boogies 6y ago

    It was “Mozilla gives up on …” before IIRC, the mods probably over-corrected the editorializing
27. 567.▲
    by boogies 6y ago

    I never use non-private windows, so I use Invidious or mpv for this. I put control + alt + m notify-send "mpv loading $(xclip -o)"; mpv --player-operation-mode=pseudo-gui "$(xclip -o)" || notify-send 'mpv er
28. 568.▲
    by boogies 6y ago

    You might like tldr.sh, bro pages, or cheat.sh (Edit: My pleasure!)
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    by boogies 6y ago

    Never heard of Azure Repos before. Do they have any unique features that could be merged into Github?
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    by boogies 6y ago

    I could fit my New 3DS XL with “clip armor” https://gameidealist.com/news/a-look-at-the-pdp-new-nintendo... in some pockets. I also had a sweater that I could fit the 3DS inside between the pockets and the innner linin