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by climb_stealth 2y ago
I know someone who paid off their credit card debt with an inheritance of roughly that size. It completely changed their outlook on life. Before every month was a struggle to just stay on top of the credit cards. Now they are debt-free and
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by climb_stealth 2y ago
It's always interesting to read these discussions from a misdeveloped country like Australia. Where symmetric broadband is a pipe dream. And the lived reality in the city is 100Mps down and something like 17Mbps up. I mean it still wor
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by climb_stealth 2y ago
I think that's actually a known psychological phenomenom. The more people there are, the less likely someone steps in to help. Because if help was needed, someone of all the other people would have already helped. Same with driving pas
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by climb_stealth 2y ago
I think the scale has changed. Hanging out in forums back in the day I used to know everyone. Not personally, but I'd have an association of who a given user is. You'd have your regular posters and new people join, but it was all
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by climb_stealth 2y ago
This is so true. I only exceeded the 300 queries once but the following anxiety around hitting the limit was really bad for some reason. On unlimited for a few months now and it is so much nicer to not worry about it anymore.
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by climb_stealth 2y ago
Funnily enough I quite like my Kagi t-shirt. Especially because it does not look like a tech company shirt at all. Could they do better things with their time and money? Probably. Do I care? Not really. But, I don't care about AI integ
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by climb_stealth 2y ago
Thanks for linking it! Looks like it is just a license for a single machine. So that still hurts :/
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by climb_stealth 2y ago
I'd say stay away from it! From what I understand it mostly depends on what OS is running on the phone. Phones on their old Xiaomi OS can be unlocked reliably. You have to register an account, wait 30 days, and use the unlock app on a
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by climb_stealth 2y ago
Very true, yes. 4G connectivity is the main reason for me to upgrade. My Poco F1 doesn't support the main 4G frequency used in Australia. So connection and bandwidth is pretty crappy since 3G got sunset. Unfortunately the intersection
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by climb_stealth 2y ago
Out of curiosity, what do you buy? I had Xiaomi last and bought another one recently and they have made it pretty much impossible to unlock the bootloader. Apparently limited number of unlocks at 12am Beijing time. I have tried a few times,
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by climb_stealth 2y ago
My vote goes to that sentence being terrible. It's like saying I was at the beach with my family for 12 hours. But we were there for 3 hours and there are 4 of us...
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by climb_stealth 2y ago
There are still plenty of advertisements placed by the channels themselves. Almost all the big ones I follow do so unfortunately. It's a bit of a shame. Sincerely, An otherwise happy youtube premium family customer
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by climb_stealth 2y ago
Haha, sure. Or full vigilante style
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by climb_stealth 2y ago
Dear god please no. The kind of people who don't notice empty batteries also don't notice the annoying beeps. But I do. Apartment living can be hell when there are neighbours who don't replace their smoke detector batteries.
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by climb_stealth 2y ago
I wonder if that is actually tru. Because interestingly enough my youtube account is the only remaining link I have to the internet of the past. Created in 2006 and I'm still using it. I'm not aware of anything else that has persi
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by climb_stealth 2y ago
I was thinking of a case like this: if (foo) return; Perfectly valid and people do it. But then later on someone might put a debug statement above the return to check something. Or add some other logic. if (foo)
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by climb_stealth 2y ago
Bugs. Subtle horrible bugs that can take forever to find. Not having the braces makes it so easy to accidentally break in later changes or refactoring. Sure on its own it's super obvious, but next to other changes or refactoring it is
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by climb_stealth 2y ago
Thank you for mentioning this! That's utterly terrible. I have had a Synology for years but never got around to trying the Photos app. This makes me not want to bother trying. Personally I'm running a combination of Google Photos,
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by climb_stealth 2y ago
The Electronic Frontier Foundation sells a set of stickers exactly for this purpose [0]. I have a set and it works reasonably well. And it supports a good cause. [0] https://shop.eff.org/products/laptop-camera-cover-set
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by climb_stealth 2y ago
That's what I was wondering. Floating in formaldehyde...
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by climb_stealth 2y ago
The article mentions he has two methods of preserving. Wet and dry. But then only explains the dry one. :/ How does the wet preservation work?
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by climb_stealth 2y ago
Huh, this makes me wonder how open sourcing aligns with warrant canaries. See the comments from six years ago [0]. Not that I fully follow it all, but I moved away from SpiderOak when that happened. The name has been tarnished in my mind ev
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by climb_stealth 2y ago
Is it possible to mute it? I have found the touch screen interface bothers me a lot less when everything is silent. Our microwave is permanently muted. No beep on button presses, no beeping when it is done. Just blissful silence other than
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by climb_stealth 2y ago
FWIW that should just be a matter of using the right configuration and mail client. With Fastmail for example I get to use a catch-all setup with my domain, and respond to whatever email it was sent to. And the other way around as well. Sen
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by climb_stealth 2y ago
Not sure if you are being facetious. I'll put my hand up as someone who reads at least an hour at night before going to sleep. Like anything it becomes normal eventually. As a matter of fact I'll put my phone away and get my book
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by climb_stealth 2y ago
This, so very much. Nowadays I go to great lengths to avoid reading any reviews or opinions on media I want to consume. Regardless of whether it is a book, movie, tv show or game. I ask my partner to order books for me or to check what othe
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by climb_stealth 2y ago
I appreciate that the data is still available via IMAP. But, it feels fastmail is slowly drifting towards the inevitable enshittification. Maybe that is a bit harsh but still. Some things that have been bothering me in recent months: - It i
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by climb_stealth 2y ago
I use this one [0] to run Taskwarrior on Android. It's abandonware but still works well enough for me. Enough for adding, removing, moving and ticking off tasks. I have the TaskWarrior server running on a VPS. Only works with the 2.x v
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by climb_stealth 2y ago
Switched from Plex to Jellyfin a few years ago and have been happy with it. Plex had issues with movies with subtitle files. It tried to constantly reencode stuff. Couldn't work it out. Jellyfin works fine. Also, I'm not getting n
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by climb_stealth 2y ago
I always have to think of this one episode of A Touch of Frost I believe where a murdering gunman was on the loose in the UK. And it triggered this big mobilisation where suddenly all the cops had to be equipped with pistols. Because the ty

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