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Trivago fined $45M for misleading customers on hotel pricing claims(abc.net.au)
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by jen729w 5y ago
I empathise. You can get a quick win just by using a Focus mode. Just make sure that it hides notifications on the home screen, and I’ve set it to dim the home screen so that it’s visually different. The habit of walking past your phone – w
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Only if the entity on the other end understands this though, right? Which they probably don’t. Otherwise everyone @example.com is the same person.
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by jen729w 5y ago
My optician told me this last year. Less strain on the eyes.
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by jen729w 5y ago
Paletro works wonders in this space. It’s like Alfred, but inside your application. (So I use my Alfred shortcut, with a Shift modifier.) What’s great is the discoverability this affords. And because it shows the native shortcut right there
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by jen729w 5y ago
Appreciate the option to do it without 3rd party tools, but if you do want more power in this space I find Magnet indispensable. I have shortcuts for left/right-third and two-thirds, as well as left/right half, which I must use do
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by jen729w 5y ago
I think hotels these days would just be glad to have some life. Maybe you’ll buy a drink. Maybe you’ll entice others in.
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by jen729w 5y ago
You might enjoy The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raw_Shark_Texts
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It’s always been a requirement, it’s not new since Covid. But we were all just in the office all the time before. What’s new is that people realise there’s another way, and they want it.
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I’m a bit of a neat freak. My partner jokes that I fold the re-useable shopping bags from the supermarket. (But they take less space that way!)
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A data point from my world, which is in Canberra (our capital) government world where security says that if you’re doing admin work - basically you’re using your elevated privilege account - you must be in the office. 8 of the 9 people in
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by jen729w 5y ago
This is how I work! I write my tasks on slips of paper and stab them on to the spike when done. https://share.icloud.com/photos/0f3i7xv2QbOeofiM4atMtSCzA
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”Hey Siri, show the time-traveller something cool!” … “It works sometimes, I swear.”
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It occurred to me yesterday that at some point someone will inevitably advocate for the banning of deep fake pornography in their country by creating a porno starring the politicians of their lower house. I reckon it’d be illegal within the
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by jen729w 5y ago
Just use a blocker everywhere if you prefer not to accept cookies? 1Blocker on Safari did the job for me here.
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Not necessarily a ‘productivity hack’ in that it neither relates to productivity nor is a hack, but in our latest side project my partner and I have a need to share textual data about the various episodes/lessons that we’re creating. O
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by jen729w 5y ago
I believe they are referring to Apple’s encouragement to sign up to/in to iCloud within the Settings app on iOS, suggesting that this is an ‘ad’ on a par with the Microsoft ad shown in the OP.
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by jen729w 5y ago
Copying my mate’s work (hi, mjoc101) at uni taught me to type. Too many headaches looking at his printout, my screen, my keyboard, forced me to use whatever tool was available on the uni *nix systems. One of the best things I ever did for m
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> EDIT: You notice I picked a TKL (10 key less) unless your an accountant or mathematician num pads are highly overrated and take up valuable desk real estate. And if you're right-handed they move the mouse further away, which is te
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by jen729w 5y ago
Suggestion: when you do get a job, become a contractor if possible. I’m talking from an Australian/British perspective so YMMV but I’ve been a contractor my entire life mostly because I don’t want to get involved in all the company bul
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by jen729w 5y ago
This stood out for me. Does anyone know what it means? I’ve seen electronic roulette wheels, as in on a computer screen, but that can’t be what this means. And if a tiny ball is bouncing around on a real wheel, which is surely what ‘roulett
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by jen729w 5y ago
I picked up a beautiful old NAD 4300 the other year. That dial is just extraordinary, they don’t make ‘em like that any more. https://mikesdx.com/nad4300.html
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by jen729w 5y ago
Can we use this as a place to tell stories about how travel was better ‘back in the day’? Here’s mine. Back in the late 90s/early 00s I worked for the British Council. I travelled the world with a pack of Windows NT 4.0 CDs upgrading t
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I would have had no problem pointing the wrong thing out if she hadn't 'got it' herself, but I knew she would. The thing to avoid here is being the know-it-all who tells everyone how things should be done when, given just a s
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by jen729w 5y ago
Just gonna throw Migadu in here as a mail host. Everyone loves Fastmail, which is cool - I'm an ex-happy-user - but Migadu's point of difference is their pricing. Whereas Fastmail charges by the user/month (or did when I was
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by jen729w 5y ago
It depends on the context. Just yesterday I was doing a data centre audit with a colleague, who is many years my junior, and I am her manager, and she has hardly been in a data centre. She’s also amazing by the way. So when I see her doin
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The other difference being that neverssl.com does a bit more as it immediately redirects you to a unique subdomain, ensuring that any caching that your browser is trying is subverted. Sure, it might go away one day. Until it does , it’s th
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Ah, gotcha. Still, with our 12-15 at ~97% you’d have to think that we’re a good city to watch. Nowhere else in the world is this vaccinated. If Omicron takes hold here, we’re all buggered. Thankfully, so far it doesn’t seem to be.
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Ahem from the ACT where our 16+ double-dose rate is “>99%”. [0] I’ll give you the technicality that you said “state” but still, we’re doing pretty good here in the territory! I had my booster yesterday morning. I’m 45. [0]: https:&#x2
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by jen729w 5y ago
I’ll just chip in as someone who has never ever wanted kids, who met a lovely girl who was so thankful to also meet someone who has never ever wanted kids. So just because you’re ‘able’ doesn’t mean that you should. Just wanted to put this

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