lazycouchpotato

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by lazycouchpotato 3y ago
??? Are you sure you've responded to the correct comment? Or did you misunderstand my comment? No where did I say I want an "all encompassing authoritarian provider" or to "narrow the periphery and extinguish the creativ
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by lazycouchpotato 3y ago
I have to sympathize with their post a bit. There's no reason for it to be "a little bit of work". Google is not some indie company. As much as I enjoy tinkering and having control over my device, sometimes I want things to j
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by lazycouchpotato 3y ago
They don't need to force anyone to do anything. They can just shoulder surf you entering your PIN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUYODQB_2wQ
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Microsoft’s new disc-less Xbox Series X design with a new controller(theverge.com)
2 points by lazycouchpotato 3y ago|0 comments
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by lazycouchpotato 3y ago
Nice. Going to stick with Paint.net though due to its plugin support. I was a bit hesitant about the changes to MS Paint and Notepad in Windows 11, but I've warmed up to them.. ..except for 1 gripe. The text menu overlaps the top of th
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by lazycouchpotato 3y ago
Did you get the number from GV, or port into GV from a standard carrier? If the former, then you're the first one I've come across who's able to do so. Facebook/Google/Twitter/Microsoft etc. all block VOIP numb
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by lazycouchpotato 3y ago
Most services can detect and block VOIP numbers like Google Voice.
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by lazycouchpotato 3y ago
Merchants can apparently do a "force post". Privacy.com's help page [1] says: > Broadly speaking, merchants only resort to force posts when they are faced with the potential for serious loss as a result of fraud. For insta
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by lazycouchpotato 3y ago
The changes to foliage and general terrain I like. The updates to roads and streets? Not so much. There is way too much emphasis on streets, distracting you from seeing the labeled places. The streets and highways shouldn't be a city&#
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by lazycouchpotato 3y ago
The cynic in me can't see this in any way other than some kind of malicious compliance from Apple - the monkey's paw clutching in the background. It's been 20 years since Casey Neistat's "iPod's Dirty Secret&qu
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by lazycouchpotato 3y ago
Sony has also created LDAC for Bluetooth. It supports up to 990 kbps at 32 bits/96 kHz. While the encoder is open source, the decoder is proprietary. [1] Latency also appears to be high. [2] Bluetooth has its annoyances and I would lik
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by lazycouchpotato 3y ago
There is a way around it, for now. https://www.windowscentral.com/how-set-windows-11-without-mi...
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by lazycouchpotato 3y ago
> Some companies have accused Amazon of selling copycats under its own brands. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbxWGjQ2szQ Here's a fun video for those looking for a ripoff by Amazon.
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by lazycouchpotato 3y ago
It would probably be a lot of work for not a lot of people. You can use Firefox extensions on iOS via Orion Browser. [1] https://apps.apple.com/app/orion-browser-by-kagi/id148449820... [2] https://brows
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by lazycouchpotato 3y ago
I was previously in an apartment that had its own internet setup, using my Xbox to watch what was basically more ads than video. I don't think there's a way to set up a PiHole on their connection (maybe there is, but at the time a
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by lazycouchpotato 3y ago
It's just annoying a) not having control over how I want to consume my content, b) the fact that I spent all this time cleaning up my Google account history just for them to potentially throw water on my efforts, and c) I'm paying
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by lazycouchpotato 3y ago
> if you have YouTube watch history off and have no significant prior watch history I don't know what they consider to be "significant prior watch history". I have mine paused for nearly 4 years, and have spent a lot of ti
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by lazycouchpotato 3y ago
He's also the composer of the soundtrack for the game Firewatch, if someone is looking for another relaxing thing by him to listen to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7wtrkp5Mx4&list=OLAK5uy_mVP...
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New York Times Election Day Crossword (2009)(crosswordunclued.com)
301 points by lazycouchpotato 3y ago|44 comments
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by lazycouchpotato 3y ago
They do, but you're probably not doing to come across that when clicking on a URL ending with .zip that downloads a zip file, as shown in the example.
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by lazycouchpotato 3y ago
Minecraft for Android has two storage locations in-game: Application (default, not accessible to users) and External (accessible to users by connecting their phone to a computer). I cannot backup my worlds without either using a third-party
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by lazycouchpotato 3y ago
Motorola has Ready For https://www.motorola.com/we/ready-for
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by lazycouchpotato 3y ago
> An elegant solution to this problem would likely involve some product tweaks to incentivize users to tell reddit more about themselves, and a refocus on ad sales. How much more information do they need? They already take all that info
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by lazycouchpotato 3y ago
I don't think there are many claiming that the API needs to remain free - it just needs to not be so prohibitively expensive for the developers. Pretty much all third-party apps are run by individuals who are passionate about wanting t
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by lazycouchpotato 3y ago
I believe it's $0.12 per month, not per year. https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_ca...
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by lazycouchpotato 3y ago
> I think the reality is upvoting/downvoting/reporting works perfectly fine in nearly every subreddit. Would you be able to provide examples of where you believe this to be the case?
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by lazycouchpotato 3y ago
It's currently invite-only. I have a few left, but I'm not sure how to send you one privately.
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by lazycouchpotato 3y ago
Deimos, former Reddit admin and creator of tildes.net currently thinks they're related: https://tildes.net/~tech/163e/reddit_appears_to_be_down_duri... EDIT: Reddit themselves confirmed that the outage was re
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by lazycouchpotato 3y ago
It's certainly improved over the past few years to a point where they're comparable to Macbooks. Windows Precision drivers and large glass trackpads are slowly becoming common in mid to high tier Windows laptops.
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by lazycouchpotato 3y ago
I use Sync Pro on Android and Apollo on iPad. I'm expected to pay twice? This is so stupid.

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