jdeibele

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by jdeibele 6y ago
You go inside and pay cash to the clerk who authorizes $20 of gas on pump #5. I'm in Oregon where we (mostly) legally can't pump our own gas. There may be pumps that are like vending machines: they take cards or cash. There are e
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I donate blood. The American Red Cross sometimes gives away small gifts ($5 Amazon Gift Card, windbreaker with ARC logo, etc.) to promote donation. The are now testing blood for COVID so I've had one free negative test so far. Ther
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So I don't believe that Vitamin D prevents COVID but I still increased my intake of Vitamin D because it seems like Vitamin D deficiency increased the severity of COVID. I wear a mask and practice social distancing to prevent COVID.
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The Friends are more popularly known as Quakers. My wife is one. We were married almost 20 years ago in a Quaker ceremony. There's a lot to like about their approach to things but consensus is difficult to deal with. Unreasonable p
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Intentionally or not, Phil Katz achieved "embrace, extend, extinguish" with the .ARC format. When his program was compressing it would use a very effective format that was not understood by SEA's program. It still would hav
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by jdeibele 6y ago
Looking at the design of the iPads and iPhones starting with the 12 it seems clear that there's been a change in design decisions at Apple. There'd been a drive to remove ports and to make devices as thin as possible, even if it m
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by jdeibele 6y ago
https://twitter.com/donk_enby claims to have downloaded all of Parler and has been posting screenshots as she goes. "the lack of moderation on Parler is not the issue. they actually have very robust moderation tools an
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by jdeibele 6y ago
So he goes on and on [0] about how great Parler is/was. But what I've seen reported is that: . You were shadow banned until the right users voted you up . To get more privileges, you had to scan photo ID . Influencers were
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It seems like a terrible situation to me. My wife, who's an attorney, says that the law is for the benefit of the child. Better to have somebody helping pay child support as well as the mother. Those laws were passed before DNA testi
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by jdeibele 6y ago
I have a niece who posts photos more to Instagram than to the family group chat (2/3 iPhone, 1/3 Android). I don't have any Facebook apps on my phone, tablet, or computer. I use Instagram and Facebook with Firefox with them
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by jdeibele 6y ago
Anecdotally, I had a high tolerance for caffeine and my wife's was low. We did 23andMe together and the results from them predicted exactly that. I used to drink 2 pots of brewed coffee a day (using an airpot) with no apparent effect.
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It's been a couple of years but I was able to set up 2FA for security keys (Yubikey and HyperSecu) and Authy (same as Google Authenticator but allows me to user more than one device to authorize). I then removed the phone number and ba
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by jdeibele 6y ago
Somebody posted a link to the YouTube video that showed a Dutch turbine exploding. In the description it said pieces went 500 meters. So there probably needs to be a physical safety zone of 1km or more, not that turbines seem to explode
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by jdeibele 6y ago
Looks like https://old.reddit.com/r/TargetedShirts/
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I recently received a M1 Mini and I was impressed with Apple's packaging. The white box the computer was in had plastic wrap around it but everything else was cardboard or paper. The cable was secured with paper, not twist-ties. Th
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by jdeibele 6y ago
Not the op and they might know different ones but GoodRx is the one I'm familiar with. In talking with the pharmacy at Costco, it turned out to be probably cheaper to buy my son's prescription medicine out-of-pocket with an HSA th
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by jdeibele 6y ago
The First Sale Doctrine [1] is what prohibits Apple or any manufacturer from preventing me selling my Mac on eBay. It used to be that you could buy or sell airline tickets to people. There used to be ads in the newspaper classifieds. The
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by jdeibele 6y ago
Portland is supposed to be one of the most bike-friendly cities in the United States. What the city has done is paint bike outlines on streets that are supposed to be mostly for bikes. It's supposed to be about every 10 blocks north-s
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by jdeibele 6y ago
We went to Riga for the first time last year. What has stuck with me is going to the Museum of the Occupation [1] and spending some time there. Latvia was occupied by the Soviet Union in 1940, then invaded by Nazi Germany in 1941, then th
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by jdeibele 6y ago
Seems to have happened with "momentarily". Used to mean "for a moment" but now most people use it to mean "in a moment". I remember being amused the first time a flight attendant said "we'll be takin
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by jdeibele 6y ago
Looking at a picture of a large container ship there's more of a challenge siting rotors. Up high they would be in the way of cranes loading containers and might require really strong (and large) towers to hold the rotors. Built onl
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by jdeibele 6y ago
Can I ask why? I'm using Reeder 3 and the only thing that I feel like I'm missing is that more recent versions of MacOS support adding an RSS feed from the browser. So I have to cut-and-paste the URL into Reeder. I use Feedly as
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Yes. We were told that we should move our piano away from the outside wall next to a window because the temperature and moisture fluctuations were causing it to go out of tune. We're in an old house and there isn't a piano-sized
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The Wire: Way Down in the Hole is a podcast that talks about each episode of The Wire. The hosts are Jemele Hill and Van Lathan. Some of the background they give is that the cast and crew didn't think there would be a Season 2, that D
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by jdeibele 6y ago
There's a one-time purchase of bigger/more disks. Figure 1GB (50 20MB pictures) per customer. Just add another 2TB, then 4TB, now 8TB or bigger drive. That's about $250 or $300 each time. Double that for a sync'd dri
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by jdeibele 6y ago
If a developer chooses to remove their product from the App Store, what is Apple supposed to do about it? There doesn't seem to be a difference between this and a developer removing a product from their own website and declaring it EOL
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I'm trying to centralize on Apple Health as one place for my info. Fitbit doesn't play well with Apple Health, presumably because they saw the Apple Watch as a competitor. I tried various apps that would "fix" syncing
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by jdeibele 6y ago
Sign out of the first ID, sign into the second ID, install the program you want, sign out. I (and many people) used to buy all apps under one ID and would have to do this. Apple and the software publishers have moved to "Family Shari
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Bought mine on Amazon for $400 six years ago. It stopped showing a picture but I get a white flicker at the base of the screen every few seconds. I could (and probably should) investigate fixing it but it was easier to buy a 2160p Philips
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I've been saying for a long time that the US should increase the tax on gas steadily every year. Even a nickel a year would be OK but more would be better. People would be able to plan on the price increasing every year and make sound

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