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by crimsontech 3y ago
I showed my son Anki when I was using it to memorise things for an exam I had to do. He has been using it very successfully to memorise things too.
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by crimsontech 3y ago
It caused problems with dark mode for me. All sites displayed in light mode so I had to disable it.
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by crimsontech 3y ago
10km in one go, or 5k twice, or something else? Is this about 2 hours walking a day? Outside? Desk treadmill?
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by crimsontech 3y ago
Both apps can edit the same notes because Obsidian is just a folder with markdown notes in it.
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by crimsontech 3y ago
I’ve had a few corporate MacBooks sent to me by clients for security testing and they always seem much slower than my own. It’s normally down to security tooling they install on them.
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by crimsontech 3y ago
Assuming this is kids (like my situation) work out how much you are spending on subscriptions for stuff and give them the money instead, if they want to spend it on subscriptions they can. I think it's a good idea personally, it allows
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by crimsontech 3y ago
> I seriously don't understand the issue. You don't understand it because it doesn't impact you? I keep an eye on my subscriptions too, mainly because my banking app automatically categorises outgoings so they are easy to
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by crimsontech 3y ago
And the KinT custom controller for Kinesis Advantage keyboards https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2020-07-09-kint-kinesis-...
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by crimsontech 3y ago
I used to pay for premium but I stopped just incase they thought ramming shorts and ‘people also watched” videos on me was the reason I was paying.
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by crimsontech 3y ago
Imagine the data showing you only went to bed at 2am being used to argue a car accident was your fault, when it wasn’t. There are plenty of ways your data can be used against you and used to make incorrect assumptions about you.
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by crimsontech 3y ago
But how do you get an LTSC license for Windows as an individual?
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by crimsontech 3y ago
But with google this is the price you pay to use their products. With Microsoft you pay for the product and they still collect your data and push adverts on you.
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by crimsontech 3y ago
Fully agree. I work in security and sent Apple a bypass for child restriction policies on iOS, they told me to send it to feedback. Testing, reproducing, writing it up all takes time and effort. I didn’t want anything from them other than f
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by crimsontech 3y ago
In the UK you can still get them on the phone really quickly. I have never had any issues with their CS, I even use Amazon pay for any sites that support it because I had an issue where the shop wanted me to wait for an RMA process for a gr
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by crimsontech 3y ago
Wow, I hadn’t heard of this before but it’s actually disgusting and despite this happening some time ago they just got added to my shit list of companies I won’t buy from. “North Face Brazil’s CEO said in a statement. “With the ‘Top of Imag
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by crimsontech 3y ago
> At some point these people are either going to buy premium or turn off the ad-blocker. Or they stop going to YouTube. In the past 12mo my use of these platforms has reduced a huge amount. I no longer visit Twitter or Reddit because the
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by crimsontech 3y ago
I paid for premium for a while but had to use scripts to block the “other people watched” and other junk like shorts showing in my search results. Eventually I stopped my subscription and used adblockers instead. I use YouTube to search for
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by crimsontech 3y ago
I ran windows update last night on a modern laptop and now it just blue screens instead of starting. I will probably just install fedora on it too. I seem to have nothing but unwanted surprises on windows.
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by crimsontech 3y ago
I don’t get it.I would be fuming, it’s a 4k card and it is sputtering out 45fps at 1080p.
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by crimsontech 3y ago
Everything seems to be a popularity contest now. I’ve seen people with the job title “Cyber Influencer”. It could just be that the researcher is immensely proud of their work and wants to show it off with its own website, logo, clever name,
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by crimsontech 3y ago
Both, as a battery ages from use its capacity diminishes which is why it runs out faster.
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by crimsontech 3y ago
This is the opposite for me. I used to use Twitter and Reddit constantly through 3rd party iOS apps. Both platforms banned 3rd party apps and I simply don’t use the platforms anymore. They added enough friction through ads, cookie banners,
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by crimsontech 3y ago
It’s not just security updates though is it? It automatically pushes unwanted feature updates. I had a powerful windows development system running windows 11 pro. I would RDP to this system to work, a while back it wouldn’t connect. The mac
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by crimsontech 3y ago
I was wondering this too, could it be repaired and continue to live?
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by crimsontech 3y ago
No it’s in the phone now, unlike how it was with lightning cables. You could stick a toothpick inside a lightning port on a phone to remove pocket lint, you can’t do this with USB-C without a higher risk of damaging the phone. USB-C on the
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by crimsontech 3y ago
I mostly use the iPad for reading, ebooks, pdfs, saved web articles, HN, etc. I initially got the biggest iPad but it was certainly too heavy to hold like a book and read comfortably. I switched to an iPad mini which was perfect for reading
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by crimsontech 3y ago
This statement get me every time I see it. Could just mean they weren’t logging anything so they have no evidence.
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by crimsontech 3y ago
I stopped following the news sometime in 2017 I think, it wasn’t really a conscious decision, I just felt annoyed or saddened by it. A few years later I was talking to my dad and he was in a state, going on about current events and how bad
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by crimsontech 3y ago
The settings in MacOS have become increasingly more frustrating. Especially security or privacy permissions given to applications. I installed a capture card recently that needed a kernel extension and after agreeing a confirmation box to i
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by crimsontech 3y ago
Given that OpenAI is probably more poplar with people interested in technology I suspect most users would use a password manager and generate unique passwords. I work in security though so maybe I’m just surrounded by people that do. I’ve

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