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by jdofaz 7y ago
>I love the early 2000's Apple aesthetic. I'm not sure if it was actually really good, or I just associate it with a happy time in my life. I feel similar about the platinum theme that started on MacOS 8
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by jdofaz 7y ago
It comes down to your taste, I thought aqua and the lickable interface was ugly then, and now.
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I don't know if that is still true https://slate.com/business/2014/12/supreme-court-rules-again...
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If my memory is correct that was the first directv/ussb system. I think I remember reading they were using something like a pre-finalized version of mpeg2.
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by jdofaz 7y ago
anyone find a rss/atom feed on thefarside.com?
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Looks alive to me https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/releases , F-Droid has the most recent pre-release from last week.
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by jdofaz 7y ago
I remember when caller id was introduced, there was a rush to call the phone company to have your outgoing caller id blocked by default because after the initial rollout there was a fee to enable the block. Then after some time they added a
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by jdofaz 7y ago
This was amusing, I don't know why it blocks desktop but Firefox dev tools responsive design mode was enough to fool it into working on my pc. Also amusing was the wfmynews2 using the youtube redirect to link to the site, wtf, lol.
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by jdofaz 7y ago
On the bright side, for me, this is a product I never used. Not even once.
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by jdofaz 7y ago
Would be fancier if it was a mailto link with the subject already populated
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by jdofaz 7y ago
I bought a fitbit (the $200 one) to replace my microsoft band when it broke. The heart rate monitor was so bad I returned it to the store in less than 24 hours.
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by jdofaz 7y ago
I Love Lucy had fans over generations thanks to reruns. I've mentioned the show a few times in conversations with people in their early 20s and usually they have never heard of it.
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by jdofaz 7y ago
Vista started enforcing the file system conventions people were supposed to follow all along. Things like, don't write config files to the root of C: or dump temp files in C:\Windows The prompts went away because the apps were fixed. T
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by jdofaz 7y ago
Sesame Street is an HBO show now with reruns on PBS.
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Why are the Facebook apps not blocked by the blacklist?
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Was it a land line? I've noticed people who still have them tend to ignore them because they get so many spam calls.
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by jdofaz 7y ago
For me they have tripled the price since I first subscribed and the bugs aren't getting fixed. I'm tired of the fill problems on iOS and Firefox and the price increases compound my irritation.
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by jdofaz 7y ago
This brought back memories of the easy to accidentally detach transceivers for old Macintosh computers and LaserWriter printers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Attachment_Unit_Interfac...
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by jdofaz 7y ago
https://nip.io is another option
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by jdofaz 7y ago
I think 9 added read support
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by jdofaz 7y ago
Speaking of RSS feed links, shame on Apple for hijacking feed links on iOS. They open Apple News but just generate a dialog that says "This content is not available on Apple News"
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by jdofaz 7y ago
SMS doesn't support pictures at all. MMS is layered on top, where a hidden sms is received telling the phone to fetch the media via http. That is why you can receive text messages without data, but not pictures. I don't know the
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by jdofaz 7y ago
I suggest trying https://wire.com with your friend, way less fuss than Signal.
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by jdofaz 7y ago
Some cars have a lot of capacity, so in some cases that is like saying who wants a car with only half a tank of gas?
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by jdofaz 7y ago
On the upside BBC viewers don't have to fast forward through pledge drives like on PBS. This topic reminds me of when The Simpsons had Betty White and PBS pledge enforcement chase down Homer for not paying his pledge.
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by jdofaz 7y ago
I like https://wire.com/
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by jdofaz 7y ago
How do you know iOS sends all location lookups to Apple?
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by jdofaz 7y ago
How do you stop Google Play services from sending your location to google without disabling Location Services?
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by jdofaz 7y ago
I wouldn't pre-order something like this because I don't yet know if it will be reliable. I see the value in what they are offering but it isn't battle tested yet. I don't want to relive the early smartphone days where t
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by jdofaz 7y ago
I saw quite a few 120MB Super Disk drives back in the day, I don’t know if I once saw a Super Disk. They were all used as 1.44MB floppy drives for the early iMacs.

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