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by kiwijamo 3y ago
Agreed, Fastmail is pretty good at spam filtering. My Gmail account is pretty much full of spam nowdays which seems to suggest Gmail's spam filtering isn't that great.
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by kiwijamo 3y ago
Interestingly in my country many full service banks have dropped foriegn currency services. They did that during the panademic but never returned back to offering that again. I suspect they make so much money from Visa/Mastercard commi
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by kiwijamo 3y ago
Have you tried DuckDuckGo? I find it fantastic -- it does both general queries and local country queries well. Anytime I go back to Google (e.g. when I'm setting up a new computer) I am surprised that anyone still uses Google -- the re
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by kiwijamo 3y ago
I have a Raspberry Pi 4 and I've found it to struggle with basic stuff that is fast and easily done on low end x86 machines. But you're right about the community. When I had trouble with playing videos (massive tearing and frequen
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by kiwijamo 3y ago
Same here, my passport includes my middle name but I always book my air tickets without my middle name. Have had no issues in about 15+ countries with this approach.
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by kiwijamo 3y ago
I've found LTE to be both faster and more reliable where I'm attached to a tower that provides LTE and UMTS in the same band (e.g. the 2degrees network in New Zealand uses the 900 MHz band for both UMTS and LTE at many of their si
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by kiwijamo 3y ago
When I use my phone for navigation it doesn't lock itself. I've observed this behaviour on iOS and Android.
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by kiwijamo 3y ago
I like having a newsletter. Goes into my email inbox after signing up my email addtess. Doesn't need a separate app. Doesn't rely on a corporate who might kill my preferred RSS reader. Etc. I liked RSS in its heyday and used Googl
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by kiwijamo 3y ago
Unfortunately it does bother me. It's so bad I must turn off or at least cover red LEDs before I can sleep. E.g. TVs. Thankfully for our bedroom TV we recently switched to a Sony TV recently which doesn't seem to have a standby LE
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by kiwijamo 3y ago
The majority of my steam collection is games that will not run on the steam deck or Linux. Out of 15 I have, only three works on. YMMV but doesn't look like 'all' these windows games unfortunately. May be more of an issue wit
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by kiwijamo 3y ago
Kids (almost) never use Drive. They access everything though apps like Doc, Sheets, etc. Source: was until recently a classroom teacher for 7-10 year olds.
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by kiwijamo 3y ago
Yep I can confirm that certainty doesn't seem to work in a reliable way in Firefox on Android. I could only get it to work by tapping the button several times. Either it's not responding quickly enough, or the input field only wor
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by kiwijamo 3y ago
Just like in the good old days of IE.
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by kiwijamo 3y ago
I am regular and long time user of Fastmail in Firefox and I'm surprised at your report of issues in Firefox. Can you describe the steps to reproduce the issues you found?
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by kiwijamo 3y ago
And thankfully the solution is almost always the same even after many years.
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by kiwijamo 3y ago
I find it interesting that Arch is considered a gaming-focus Linux distro. Is that really the case? From my experience, I've see Arch as a general-purpose bleeding-edge distro.
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by kiwijamo 3y ago
I swear Debian only keeps two versions ie current and the previous. Is keeping four a Ubuntu thing?
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by kiwijamo 3y ago
And worse, it differs when roaming. I am aware there are networks where if you are their customer VoLTE works but if you are roaming onto their network it does not work at all. With the exact same device.
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by kiwijamo 3y ago
Yep and I can further confirm it works in 115.4.0esr as well which is the current version in Debian stable.
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by kiwijamo 3y ago
Can confirm passkeys work with Firefox in Linux. And this is using Firefox ESR on Debian stable too.
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by kiwijamo 3y ago
Previews are an app feature, not in the RCS protocol itself. I see message previews for SMS/MMS messages on Apple/Android devices despite the SMS/MMS protocol having no concept of previews. Most likely true for RCS as well.
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by kiwijamo 3y ago
The converse is that many people including me have experienced issues with X11. I've been using X11 on BSD/Linux for 25 years and it's been a poor experience involving researching how to get a specific GPU to work correctly e
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by kiwijamo 3y ago
To be fair it's probably been fine for years -- what they've proposed is how it's been done in many distros already. They're more or less upstreaming the changes many distros have already done when they switched to Wayla
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by kiwijamo 3y ago
To offer the opposite viewpoint, I swear I've been reading for decades that X11 would fix old issues. My last experience of X11 (less than a decade ago) had me using vi to edit a configuration file to add a line of text to enable some
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by kiwijamo 3y ago
If you're using the Firefox from the Ubuntu repository I presume it'll be tested by Ubuntu to ensure it works correctly.
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by kiwijamo 3y ago
My expectation is that if any software comes across an unexpected situation, the software should crash rather than try and bluff its way through something it's not designed to handle -- risking data corruption or data loss which is w
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by kiwijamo 3y ago
Can confirm video acceleration works fine on Wayland. For some years you had to turn on some knobs in Firefox but I believe recent versions simply turn it on by default as long as you have a supported GPU. I have a fairly common Intel GPU a
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by kiwijamo 3y ago
Same as for Debian in my observation. Firefox uses Wayland by default out of the box for clean installs. But there may be still be legacy Debian installations which have carried over the use of X11 through upgrades etc.
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by kiwijamo 3y ago
What streaming service falls back to lower bitrates and stays there? YouTube and Netflix are both usually very aggressive at switching back up to the higher bitrates as soon as it detects the connection has recovered to higher speeds.
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by kiwijamo 3y ago
I had the same experience going switching between CRT and LCD e.g. I disliked playing games on the PlayStation on our CRT TV (using crappy analog RGB input) but loved playing games on my GameBoy Pocket with its crisp LCD screen. Even when L

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