mackrevinack

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by mackrevinack 8y ago
im nowhere near elderly and have been using bluetooth in my car and with headphones for years and I still run into trouble a lot of the time. its just not ready yet
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by mackrevinack 8y ago
ill be sticking with the xz1 compact 4life! (or at least until someone makes something the same size, waterproof, with a headphone jack, camera button, notch-less and a fingerprint scanner on the side. so not very likely the way things are
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by mackrevinack 8y ago
two of the main things people use to enter a lucid dreaming state (becoming aware that you're dreaming while you are asleep) are switching a light bulb on and off and the other is to read some text. both are fairly new things to our br
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by mackrevinack 8y ago
Stay away from PIA. One of their employees was caught red handed spreading false information about other VPNs a few months back. The guy's google profile picture was in one of the screenshots. It was half covered by another window but
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by mackrevinack 8y ago
probably, but the problem is that the people at amazon signed up to do X and now they are being asked to do Y. if they had joined a company specifically to do Y then it wouldn't be an issue
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by mackrevinack 8y ago
maybe get rid of adblock and use ublock instead. its open source and anytime I hear adblock being mentioned its usually something bad check out https://www.privacytools.io as well or the subreddit for more discussions on that ty
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by mackrevinack 8y ago
if the SafeNetwork ever gets released we could easily have things like that. with monetisation being built in it will be fairly frictionless for poeple to pay or for an app or service to take a micropayment any time you use it. so if gettin
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by mackrevinack 8y ago
the log of shame. that's a good idea. im going to try this today thanks
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by mackrevinack 8y ago
i personally think it would be best to get away from having to have a verb that matches the search engine name. there are quite a few search options out there these days so telling someone they should specifically search with X when their f
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by mackrevinack 8y ago
i have a feeling we will be seeing a lot more incidents like the cambridge thing with facebook that will motivate people to switch to something that they are more in control of. another thing that will help more is that solid will be runnin
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by mackrevinack 8y ago
searx or startpage are search engines that show google results so you could try them as a fall back before you finally try google. !searx and !sp are the bangs you can put anywhere in the DuckDuckGo query for maps, im really liking maps.me
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by mackrevinack 8y ago
something that doesnt get enough love is just using something like libreOffice on whatever desktop platform you are on, and then using resilio (or syncthing which is open source) to sync your documents between computers.
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by mackrevinack 8y ago
Personally, i would have waited until the SafeNetwork was up and running for a few years before writing off the whole idea, but what do i know.
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by mackrevinack 8y ago
well there is always mapillary which only requires a single smartphone camera at the least. some people go the extra mile and mount a camera pointing each direction, others use 360 cameras. you can also upload dash cam video and it will ext
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by mackrevinack 8y ago
ive been moving away from google the last few months as well and i was surprised how good osmAnd is considering its open source. i think the bookmarking in osmAnd should do what you need. it also has a wikipedia and wikivoyage layer which y
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by mackrevinack 8y ago
its a bit vague. they are not using it as a base map any more, but they might still be scraping certain details off of it. they would be stupid not to since osm is more up to date in some areas than even google.
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by mackrevinack 8y ago
i would have a hard time switching back as well. a lot of the features could be added with extensions but i like having it all baked into the browser. search shortcuts is probably my favourite feature (putting "r" in front of a se
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by mackrevinack 8y ago
It's dark days we are living in when the National Monuments Service can just go around wrecking viewers whenever they feel like it
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by mackrevinack 9y ago
if its only keeping in touch with your family then i would say that facebook isnt really that essential since there are countless other services/apps that you could use for that purpose. but if you also want to passively keep up to da
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by mackrevinack 9y ago
ah yea, replace "spotify" with streaming services. i just mentioned spotify because its what im using at the moment
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by mackrevinack 9y ago
ha yea the fungi really dont get enough credit. they did a lot to make the planet habitable back in the day before much else existed on land and then much later on you have mushrooms entering the early human's diet causing all sorts of
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by mackrevinack 9y ago
their "discover weekly" playlist is great but im not sure how well they work for new users. ive been using spotify for around 8 years so by the time they released discover weekly they probably had a good profile on me and it defin
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by mackrevinack 9y ago
man i really really dont miss any of that. the only good thing that came from it was that i got better at typing (this was before there was software that would download the track names from the internet and you would have to manually type i
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by mackrevinack 9y ago
last year i went through all my playlists on spotify and counted maybe 30 greyed out tracks that were removed at some point in the last 8 years that ive been using it. not cool up to that point i was generally happy enough paying for stream