jdeibele

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by jdeibele 4y ago
When my oldest went to the local middle school, there were 4 classes from one elementary and 3 each from 2 more making 250 or so kids. It seemed like there would be advanced English, regular English, and remedial English. Maybe 15-20% o
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by jdeibele 4y ago
It took me years to realize that there are people who will criticize anything you do. Donate nothing? You're selfish. Donated money? You didn't donate enough. Donate a lot of money? As you say, people will say it was just for the
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by jdeibele 4y ago
https://keyw.com/fred-meyer-oregon-is-scanning-your-drivers-... That's an article from September talking about how Kroger (Fred Meyer, QFC) stores in Oreogn are scanning drivers licenses for alcohol purchases and asks
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by jdeibele 4y ago
I do run firstname@lastname.org I would love to be able to use that with Mastodon as my one and only identity, regardless of which server I happened to be logging into. I like the idea of different servers as being Special Interest Groups
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by jdeibele 4y ago
You can definitely set up your own Mastodon server. I don't know how hard it is to get other servers to federate with you because I don't want to take on the overhead of running a server. Discussions of running your own mail serv
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by jdeibele 4y ago
I actively dislike the federation that Mastodon is using. If they would let me use somebody@gnail.com or somebody@hotmail.com, fine. Or somebody@mastodon.master-name-server. Instead, you have somebody@mastodon.technology. Guess what? m
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by jdeibele 4y ago
Near me, the QFC is tiny compared to the Fred Meyer stores. It's much more convenient to get in and get out quickly. Prices are higher than Fred Meyer on most things so we tend to use it for items we ran out of and do our weekly shop
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by jdeibele 4y ago
https://www.littler.com/publication-press/publication/new-yo... "The New York City Council has approved, by a vote of 43-3, a bill that would make it unlawful for most businesses to refuse to accept payments
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by jdeibele 4y ago
I was guessing that you were in Oregon or Washington because something similar happened here: a local chain (Haggen) tried to take over a bunch of stores and ended up in bankruptcy. Trying to take over 5X times as many stores as you were ru
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by jdeibele 4y ago
My father died of colon cancer at age 67. I've been getting screened every 5 years, first by sigmoidoscopy and the last couple of times with the full colonoscopy. With a sigmoidoscopy you're awake and the doctor will show you wh
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by jdeibele 4y ago
One end of the cable changed but I think the point was that the other end, the part that was built into your laptop, didn't. I still have a stash of USB-B, mini-USB, and micro-USB cables with the USB-A because I've got a printer,
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by jdeibele 4y ago
That was my first thought. If you're at a call center, you can talk to co-workers in the break room or bathrooms or on public transit or in the parking lot. If you're working remotely and every one else is doing the same, your o
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by jdeibele 4y ago
One approach would be to upload everything, wipe the phone, then log back in but not connect to iCloud (or Google). Once you've cleared the border, go to a coffee shop and download over their WiFi. Or not, if you're on a unlimited
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by jdeibele 4y ago
I added some gas in Frenchglen, Oregon. Population 11. You went into the store, told the clerk (owner in this case, I'm sure) that you wanted gas, she turned on the pump, then you took a photo with your phone and took it back to her
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by jdeibele 4y ago
Yes, but that doesn't work for having one iPad shared by family. That's about writing software to be used for shared iPads. iPads can be shared in a business or school setting and going through the administrative steps to impleme
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by jdeibele 4y ago
I think overall the IRS not providing the information is driven more by tax preparer lobbyists and anti-tax crusaders (like Grover Norquist). The tax preparers want the revenue and the crusaders want people to be irritated by the process.
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by jdeibele 4y ago
I completely agree with you. I tried updating my Nexus 5 with CyanogenMod for a while. I was very impressed with how well CyanogenMod worked but eventually I wanted manufacturer support instead of having to put the OS on an SD card and tr
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by jdeibele 4y ago
My mother kept the first utility bill of the year for electricity, natural gas, water and sewer, etc. She lived in the same house for 42 years and liked to be able to see how much the amounts had changed over the years. I’m not sure it wa
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by jdeibele 4y ago
The only thing that I could find other than regurgitations of the press release was an article on HackaDay. [0] "Most electric cars have batteries exceeding 70 kWh in capacity; it would take over 18 such canisters to provide the same a
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by jdeibele 4y ago
I'm surprised they didn't try UV-reflective paint. Amazon sells decals [0] that people can stick to their windows to reduce birds flying into them. The Humane Society has other approaches. [1] UV-reflective paint would hopeful
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by jdeibele 4y ago
Father lost his Gmail account and his Google Fi account. [0] Which means that he was locked out of a lot of other accounts because he couldn't access his email or SMS messages. I figure Google knows how to protect against attacks way
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by jdeibele 4y ago
I was told by two different tire places that my wife's car (2015 CX-5) uses the ABS sensors to detect if one wheel is spinning differently than the others. A flat tire rotates faster than one full of air because it's smaller. I h
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by jdeibele 4y ago
https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2001/CPSC-Announ...
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by jdeibele 4y ago
"Falsifying caller ID" sounds bad but: 1) we get calls if one of our kids misses class. The number is of their school but they use an outside service. 2) we get calls from business on one of their lines but they want the number t
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by jdeibele 4y ago
https://support.google.com/voice/answer/1065667?hl=en#zippy=... I've paid the $20 Google charges to make a number "permanent" once for myself and a couple of times for organizations. For myself, it&
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by jdeibele 4y ago
Surprised not to see Apple's Hide My Email mentioned. I was moving towards using my_email+short_company_name@my_domain when it was released. I found problems with the + syntax occasionally, where I could sign up with that address but
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by jdeibele 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13 "1986 Proposition 58 Proposition 58 allowed homeowners to transfer their principal residence to children without a property tax re-assessment, as well a
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by jdeibele 4y ago
Thank you for saying something about this. I make up answers to "security" questions like: first pet's name? Favorite teacher? and so on but that means that I have to record what the answer is. I've been doing that in
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by jdeibele 4y ago
Use reader mode. Worked for me in Safari on desktop, anyway.
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They're not easy to find. I got a notice last month from my credit union that I need to plan move my stuff out of my deposit box. The Credit Union "relies on a vendor for the software that is used to open, close, and maintain Sa

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