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by jbj 6y ago
Any clue what the impact of this will be if you use an android phone without a US phone number? I am currently outside of US with a local, non-SIM card, hence getting US phone calls solely over data inside the Hangouts app. (I also wonder w
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Google Voice Phone calls in classic Hangouts will be turned off in early 2021(support.google.com)
7 points by jbj 6y ago|3 comments
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by jbj 6y ago
possibly to allow people to explore the airport and go home after without breaking the rules. Additionally pilots will have a better opportunity to track their flight hours to maintain their license.
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by jbj 6y ago
I am so surprised to be redirected to rate the linkedin app while using their mobile web interface, I usually give them 1 or 2 stars for wasting my time. Maybe I actually misclicked on one of those pop ups that takes me to their app. makes
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by jbj 6y ago
Apparently there is a non profit that relays some of those messages via satellite: http://forums.othernet.is/t/aprs-outnet-on-outernet/2620
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by jbj 6y ago
I tried a "EPIC similator" at a medical museum, it was a bunch of drop down menus combined with slow loading pages I could navigate between. I get an impression that hospitals are wasting many expensive workhours from highly train
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by jbj 6y ago
I used 3 different unlocked phones in US, as for US sim cards, I used MetroPCS, T-mobile, and Cricket, non of those added anything, althought their respective websites told me about an app they strongly reccomended. Only trace was the Sim
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by jbj 6y ago
"Some anti-virus products may falsely report OpenRCT2 being unsafe" nothing against this software, just pondering over this ... what would prevent a malicious software to make a similar claim, and if we always trust the software w
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by jbj 6y ago
today I wanted to use google maps to get bicycle navigation to a particular café. Searching in google maps, it gave me the right café in the top, I obviously expected the address/location/navigation, but all I got was info on how
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by jbj 6y ago
Especially now a-days where games can have concealed elements of gambling as well as using other tricks to keep engagement.
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by jbj 6y ago
I used to sync my old 910 via ANT+ to my former Samsung Galaxy which has ANT+. Using a third party transfer app. and then viewing it with another third party app, directly on my phone. no battery complaints, but those ANT transfers were pre
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by jbj 6y ago
I never really liked the fact that I need an internet connection to sync the fit files from my activities from my watch via my smartphone to a database, in order to then download it from the web to see it. Fortunately the watch appears as a
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by jbj 6y ago
I use barrier on my raspberry pi, and have a keyboard shortcut to pick wich machine receives the keystrokes and mouse movement. Additionally to this keyboard shortcut, I also need to click a button on my monitor since it can receive hdmi fr
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by jbj 6y ago
Debian on a simple laptop. ubuntu Mate/Manjaro on laptop with a graphics card (what I would put on a desktop if I had one) Debian/ubuntu server if in need of server. Debian has quick and easy keyboard shortcuts to easily move&#x2F
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by jbj 6y ago
My experience in Continental Europe with DAB is that when you receive the signal it is fine, but when the signal is flaky it is useless. For FM signals, the quality drop at bad reception is much more linear, and not a binary type of recepti
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by jbj 6y ago
I wonder if chess is actually the first ever online game. My granddad used to play chess over his rotary land line. Some enthusiasts must have tried a game over telegram/morse or other technology.
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by jbj 6y ago
I think they mean "on demand" is that the Cas9 proteins is activated upon activation of the light source. As the CRISPR/Cas9 complex is already in place due to the chemically boxed guide RNA, the way I understand it from brie
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by jbj 6y ago
I heard of a few, but havent tried them: disaster.radio serval mesh meshtastic a different and cool project worth mentioning, more for distibuting teaching materials as I understand: othernet.is
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by jbj 6y ago
I made exactly the same mistake initially :)
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by jbj 6y ago
Just Eat was originally Danish. Takeaway was originally Dutch. Just Eat Takeaway is a Dutch company listed on London Stock Exchange since February 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Eat_Takeaway
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by jbj 6y ago
Ahh, the name of the company flew over my head completely. I read it as "Just Eat, takeaway" not as a concatenated company name which apparently is "JET" on the LSE https://www.londonstockexchange.com/sto
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by jbj 6y ago
I am a bit confused by the legal structure of this business: Article states that just eat is dutch, but it is not based in the Netherlands. It is a UK company that used to be based in Denmark. According to Wikipedia it recently merged with
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by jbj 6y ago
You can also look into receiving weather forecast from the sky: https://forums.othernet.is/t/wiki-pages-for-the-othernet-dre...
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by jbj 6y ago
I think I remember reading or hearing Malcolm Gladwell reccomend to visit less fortunate/developed parts of the globe, and understand what really matters for humans, as well as realising how small things even can help. For an extreme c
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by jbj 6y ago
Assuming the two options are equally secure: Depending on your setup, it could add a level of convenience. Potentially, sending just keystrokes as opposed to a full graphical interface might be less prone to lag (just hypothesizing here) F
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by jbj 6y ago
It is apparently a fork from a program called synergy which at some version turned into a paid software. I guess the devs priority was to make the open source version up to date.
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by jbj 6y ago
I just installed barrier server on my raspberry pi and set up hotkeys to switch between 3 machines to send the input to, there is also an option to have the mouse continue out of the screen into the next screen monitor on a different comput
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Barrier = Single keyboard/mouse solution for controlling multiple machines(github.com)
61 points by jbj 6y ago|14 comments
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by jbj 6y ago
couldn't edit, but want to add that there are now more alternatives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7LFPw9Z2aM
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by jbj 6y ago
Sailfish is pretty great and I wish them all the best, I did find myself in need of a few features while using it, one thing being their web browsers lack of usb access for devices like yubikeys: https://together.jolla.com/q

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