exodust

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by exodust 8y ago
Very true. The way they abandoned Picasa desktop was rotten. A family relative of mine, not tech savvy, loved Picasa. When Google killed it, and tried to replace it with "Google Photos" where everything must be put online, this wa
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by exodust 8y ago
And if "other people" don't have or want gmail accounts then tough luck? Doesn't sound like a valuable feature.
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by exodust 8y ago
This is a good strategy. To write your own thing, and not rely on Google and others, who insist that you log in and remain online just to write a simple note.
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by exodust 8y ago
I signed up. I've been waiting for years for a way to animate Google Earth. Don't care that it's Chrome-only, good to see they addressed this in their FAQ.
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by exodust 8y ago
Okay thanks. The PC I'm assembling is for an 80yo guy who doesn't trust the internet, and would be horrified to learn how much Microsoft wants to track his usage. I won't be telling him about that. He deletes emails and even
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by exodust 8y ago
> here's why Slightly OT, but 2018 seems to the year that "here's why" became the go-to clickbait hook. It's interesting how clickbait terms have a shelf-life. When overused, saturation sets in and the terms fa
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by exodust 8y ago
I'm about to set up a new PC for a relative with Win 10 Home, parts have just arrived. Any advice on set up procedures or things I can do to keep Microsoft from spying on them and collecting their data? Or is it just not possible any m
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by exodust 8y ago
I'm confused about what this means when for example I want the video to play via javascript external to the embedded player. For example, when user clicks text link on page that opens a lightbox (such as fancybox) containing an embedde
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by exodust 8y ago
Only one cat image on that page and he doesn't look pleased about his collar to be honest. Cats need their agility unobstructed by an anchor around their neck. I'm still waiting for smaller tags. https://www.whistle.co
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by exodust 8y ago
I'm still waiting for GPS trackers to get small enough for cats to wear comfortably on their collars. It would be fun making an app that did interesting things with that data. I'd be more curious to look at my cat's "fit
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by exodust 8y ago
Don't worry, nobody is going to build back doors into anything for a government which can't keep its own pants from falling down every couple of weeks. They're fishing for likes, desperately wanting to "keep Australia sa
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by exodust 8y ago
I think the author's advice is more aligned with moving away from Google products in general. See step 10 of his list. Although he does contradict himself by admitting he will stick with Maps and Docs. His article is basically an ad fo
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by exodust 8y ago
Yeh you can elect to contest any fine in court. I've done it twice here in Aust, and had the fine thrown out both times, including a big $750 driving unregistered fine. It takes about 4 hours or more out of your day to attend court whi
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by exodust 8y ago
> but it's hard to deny that it works. Australia has some of the lowest per capital road deaths in the OECD Actually, we're in the middle according to the data, there's a few countries with better rates: https:/&#
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by exodust 8y ago
Old Tom is right. Motion smoothing looks awful in movies. It doesn't represent what was actually shot, which is never good. Some people don't care, or don't notice. Me, I turn it off. I don't want fake computer frames ad
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by exodust 8y ago
> have you tried turning down your monitor's brightness? Not all content is too bright and white. Videos for example playing at full screen, I would not want reduced brightness for. It's the bright 100% white background of we
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by exodust 8y ago
Why trust this as a source of data? Sounds unimpressive where they get the stats from. Unspecified "Social bookmarking sites". Probably something I've never visited.
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by exodust 8y ago
What's weird is your conviction of facts based on some bloggy article which seeks to link this incident to a wide-spread problem. With a $100,000 surgery bill and talk of law suits, you're quick to take the side of the person wan
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by exodust 8y ago
I believe the rental scooters can not be folded. They install a collar around that part to prevent them being folded up and stolen. Or perhaps it's just to reduce any risk of them not being unlocked properly from folded position.
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by exodust 8y ago
A few points... Eating asphalt was a consequence of user not knowing the scooter has a rear foot brake. We also don't know exactly what happened except for a 63yo rider decided to scoot down a hill on a rental, and claims brakes didn&#
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by exodust 8y ago
The brakes may have malfunctioned since last inspection. Another idea is when you're 63, find a more suitable form of transportation. If that's too offensive, then check the brakes work before going down a steep hill. Also learn h
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by exodust 8y ago
Why didn't she use the rear foot brake? If you're going down a hill, you will definitely want to hover your back foot on the brake. The foot brake can't malfunction because you are physically pressing the rear guard against t
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by exodust 8y ago
I like headphone jacks. They're small, harmless, useful, and work easily. A good idea would be to put them in a phone for customer and listener convenience.
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by exodust 8y ago
> only read divisive threads and thus see it as a monoculture. Wouldn't a divisive thread be seen as the opposite of a monoculture? Where you have disagreements, you have a range of perspectives.
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by exodust 8y ago
> Google News links duplicating the headline and providing a summary. What summary? I only see headlines on Google news. Where is the summary? Often there's long headlines, but that's just writers trying to get good at SEO. N
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by exodust 8y ago
If we're talking about news.google.com, then yeh it's ridiculous. That site is just headline links. It's not "content", it's a list of text links. The foundation of the web is text links. So the EU wants to ch
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by exodust 8y ago
The whole site has a trashy click-bait vibe. They're even using the classic click-bait word "jaw-dropping" in the story title. I've noticed other news outlets who picked up this story used the alternate click-bait word &
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by exodust 8y ago
Good points, I agree with all that. Political correctness and the efforts to flip stereotypes, were overcooked. It's a shame that stories are managed now instead of written. The whole "screen slave" thing was also a bit too c
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by exodust 8y ago
Very thorough piece, it's good seeing all the images that form the inspiration. I'd like to see something similar for the original Incredibles. The original Incredibles is one of my favorites. There's a simplicity, pace and e
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by exodust 8y ago
Presentation is not good. Endless headings followed by double space followed by short paragraph or bullet points. Hard to read, annoying to scan. I can see a lot of generic fluff. There may be pearls in there, but I didn't spot any on

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