leesalminen

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by leesalminen 3y ago
I, too, have been running my phone on DND as of late and it’s been pretty great. My wife disagrees :). I’m pretty sure iOS focus modes would allow me to configure notifications from my wife to come through while silencing the others but I’l
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by leesalminen 3y ago
AFAIK, an app can’t influence notifications from other apps. At least on iOS. Less sure about Android. This is something that has to come from the OS level.
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by leesalminen 3y ago
That would be the point where I take a hammer to the phone.
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by leesalminen 3y ago
Telegram is not E2EE by default. Red flag. When E2EE is enabled they rolled their own crypto. Another red flag. Telegram is owned by Russian nationals living in United Arab Emirates. Another red flag. Don’t recommend Telegram.
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by leesalminen 3y ago
A 10ksf studio doesn’t sound very affordable, though. How many residential tenants can afford that kind of space? Is there really a big market for that?
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by leesalminen 3y ago
Gotta love when you’re eating at a restaurant in Chile and when it’s time to pay they ask if you want it billed on your card in 6 monthly installments. Even as an American, it always makes me laugh a bit at the absurdity of doing that for y
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by leesalminen 3y ago
I, too, like dark mode. But, I've found several instances that required the site to make modifications to support dark mode. Most recent example was a QR code rendered as <svg> with a transparent background. The parent container
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by leesalminen 3y ago
An interesting take. I’m not a Samsung user, but these days I get enough bug reports about issues specific to Samsung browser that I had to buy a device just to reproduce the random weird stuff that happens. The latest one had to do with Sa
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by leesalminen 3y ago
I’ve been running pihole with my own resolver for >5 years and don’t have this issue. I run into it much more frequently when behind CGNAT.
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by leesalminen 3y ago
The vast majority of businesses in Costa Rica are required by law to accept cards, Amex included.
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by leesalminen 3y ago
Yes, of course there can be QCI stuff happening. We don't go to big events where you'd typically run into de-prioritization, but of course, YMMV.
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by leesalminen 3y ago
($9 x 2 lines) + ($2 x 1GB) = $20 + $sales_tax = ~$21 To be clear, the minimum increment one can purchase is 1 GB. We're in a bit of a weird situation where we aren't in the US the majority of the time, so most months we don'
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by leesalminen 3y ago
We switched to US Mobile prepaid data pools a few months ago. $9/line + $2/GB per month. I found some code online [0] that runs every hour and purchases an additional GB if my remaining amount falls below a threshold. It’s been wo
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by leesalminen 3y ago
I remember a few years ago when the address autocomplete API went from free to thousands of dollars. That was a surprise bill I won’t be forgetting anytime soon.
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by leesalminen 3y ago
I feel like Aurora might be a bad example for anti-lock-in. Perhaps vanilla RDS Postgres would be a better one? Aurora does add bells and whistles on top of vanilla Postgres that you’d be hard-pressed to find from other DBaaS vendors. Sure,
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by leesalminen 3y ago
Same here. In my formative years I was led to believe you had to use a “real” RDBMS for everything- MySQL or Postgres. Anything else was just a toy not suitable for use in the real world. I succumbed to the SQLite hype train in 2020 when ev
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by leesalminen 3y ago
Wow, as someone from the US I always thought the $1 notes were far superior to the equivalent coins in other countries. I dislike having coins in my pocket, but already have a note or 2. Adding a couple more adds negligent space.
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by leesalminen 3y ago
> that the owner saturated everything with water prior to evacuating. Used to live in rural Colorado and have had our house threatened by wildfires multiple times. We did the same thing and set up large volume pivot sprinklers that forme
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by leesalminen 3y ago
No, I don’t think it’s blackmail in this particular situation. Though that definitely does exist here in other spots. This is just an old guy who tries to quell the riff-raff of the youth of the neighborhood. He’s really sweet actually. And
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by leesalminen 3y ago
Where I currently live, tin roofs are the norm. And yes, it can be extremely loud in the rainy reason. My wife & I quite like it actually, like a white noise generator. Also, I can easily get out of phone/video calls I don’t want t
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by leesalminen 3y ago
There’s a popular swimming around here that’s near a rough neighborhood. One elderly gentleman from that neighborhood guards the cars at the swimming hole. He even got himself a shirt that says “security”. You pay $2 and he makes sure nobod
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by leesalminen 3y ago
Are you saying these passports can’t be used for travel? If they weren’t, then why would anyone bother going to get one?
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by leesalminen 3y ago
> Anyway, and sadly, the sanctions affect "regular" people like me the most. The ruling elite? Not at all. This confirms my secondhand knowledge of financial sanctions. It seems to universally be this way and makes me wonder wh
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by leesalminen 3y ago
Depends on if you’re paying cash or not. If you’re using credit to buy the car, expect to show ID.
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by leesalminen 3y ago
They could do that because Kazakhstan doesn’t make them much, if any, money. This amounted to cheap good will marketing. If this were the EU or US, and Google risked losing access to that market, they would comply. Way too much money on the
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by leesalminen 3y ago
Isn't VOA (and BBC for that matter) government owned & funded? That's enough right there for me to doubt their "reliably factual" reporting. It's hardly a political opinion- the owners of these services expect t
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by leesalminen 3y ago
At least they’re honest about it :). Normally they’d let you badger an agent to escalate the issue to nowhere.
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by leesalminen 3y ago
But why do they care so much about this? Is it only for DRM on media playback?
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by leesalminen 3y ago
Costa Rica. Pura vida!
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by leesalminen 3y ago
Yes, at least for me it is. My pre-paid plan (~$14/mo) gets me 4GB data but only 50 SMS. I also get 3GB of free WhatsApp data. There is no prepaid plan with unlimited SMS.

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