jrnichols

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by jrnichols 2y ago
3 ceiling fans by "Carro USA." Supposed to be compatible with smart assistants, turns out there are Siri Shortcuts and that's it. The backend is Tuya, but "Smart Life" which isn't compatible with any of the Hom
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by jrnichols 2y ago
I agree. Also believe that Unison was the perfect NNTP client and I miss it still.
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by jrnichols 2y ago
I look forward to the day when Google's dominance in everything is also unwound. It's shocking (and concerning) how much of the internet they've essentially controlled. From video to search to email, advertising, Android, and
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by jrnichols 2y ago
I love that too. It's clear, easy to reads, and loads near instantly. I miss how the web used to be more that way.
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by jrnichols 2y ago
We have a bunch of those here in our area still from a train accident in 1973. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Roseville_Yard_Disaster It's believed that many of them are still buried and likely under homes &am
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by jrnichols 2y ago
...only to run into a page that drops a nasty overlay on your browser window because you have Adblock enabled.
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by jrnichols 2y ago
With news like this, now I understand why conspiracy theorists and vaccine skeptics feel the way they do. The whole hysteria surrounding the covid-19 vaccine fueled that fire way more than I ever thought it would.
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by jrnichols 3y ago
agreed. "Sign in with Apple" has been fantastic.
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by jrnichols 3y ago
I was thinking of signing up for Mozilla Monitor but seeing them already downsizing it is a huge concern.
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by jrnichols 3y ago
it seems like they gave a bunch of satellite bandwidth to the stupid Howard Stern channels and cut back on the music ones. at least some of them.
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by jrnichols 3y ago
I'm a happy Apple Arcade user and it's been great for games that I used to love. Temple Run is an example. I bought it, loved it, but each update had more and more advertisements showing up in the game. A game I paid for. Now I h
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by jrnichols 3y ago
My life would not be better if I stopped visiting HN. my life would be better if I stopped visiting reddit, though. it's become way too much of a hive mind and anything contrary to the prevalent groupthink gets you buried or even suspe
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by jrnichols 3y ago
Khan Academy worked for me and has a bunch of other fun classes too.
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by jrnichols 3y ago
am I the only one that has not seen porn bots or had replies from them on Twitter? I see this mentioned as a huge problem, but are users in general actually seeing this?
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by jrnichols 3y ago
I hope it never dies either. We are paying subscribers of both Apple Music and SoundCloud here and use both of them just about daily, and we have Bay Area DJ friends on there as well. I wouldn't be upset if Apple acquired them as well.
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by jrnichols 3y ago
Yes. I have not seen anything that would indicate otherwise. The current ones aren't affected. From 9to5mac: "This won’t impact existing owners of an Apple Watch with pulse oximetry features." Also "Update: Apple says Se
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by jrnichols 3y ago
I'm sure they could do that, but when users start getting scammed and losing data, they are not going to remember that they clicked through and allowed the app to install. Neither is the tech media, who will no doubt make a huge deal o
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by jrnichols 3y ago
dual challenge ISDN was a reason I was trying to move into a Roseville Telephone (Northern California) area. at the time, it was awesome. web pages were like flipping pages in a book. the latency was nice and low for the time. until cable &
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by jrnichols 3y ago
depending on where you are, at least a CPR class and Stop The Bleed. :)
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by jrnichols 3y ago
That is the thing about RCS.. it seems like a whole lot more of it is proprietary Google product than many people realize. I would not be surprised if there was another patent stew going on with Google's RCS extensions.
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by jrnichols 3y ago
Happy Birthday, Postfix! I am also curious if there is a succession plan in the event that anything should happen to Wietse Venema.
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by jrnichols 3y ago
Experiencing tinnitus after years of working around saws, aircraft, and being in a band has been one of the reasons the past 4 years especially have been miserable. The proliferation of face masks suddenly made communicating with people ext
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by jrnichols 3y ago
Maybe. I got one, wife got one. we merged accounts as soon as it was available. It's our #1 used card by far. I've been 100% satisfied with the Apple Card & Savings.
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by jrnichols 3y ago
I'm not thrilled at seeing Google grow in the registry space as I think that they already have too much influence over the internet as it is, but at least they didn't take another file extension as a TLD.
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by jrnichols 3y ago
there seems to be a growing market for a low orbit Roomba.
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by jrnichols 3y ago
I am, because I like some Chrome plugins but I choose to avoid actual Google products whenever I can. I'm also on a Mac, and Microsoft (from what I've seen) hasn't been overly pushy with it.
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by jrnichols 3y ago
That's ok, there's also a closed down meth lab for sale in San Jose for the low price of $1,550,000. And the price has gone UP recently too. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/668-Potomac-Ct-San-Jose-C... ? Ou
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by jrnichols 3y ago
microsoft had the potential with Kinect to tie it into xbox live or something + Skype. In my opinion, they had an epic opportunity to have a great video call solution and they blew it.
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by jrnichols 3y ago
have you run into websites that stop working because of this?
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by jrnichols 3y ago
One of the things that worries me about this because we have other local pharmacy choices, but that Rite-Aid bought up a California favorite called Thrifty's and still sells their amazing ice cream. If Rite-Aid goes away, no big loss,

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