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mackrevinack
3y ago
spotify's homescreen does my head in as well. im paying them but they still shove ads in my face. ive been meaning to try spicetify for a while now, it let's you customise the desktop ui so you can probably hide the homescreen com
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maybe a sweet spot would be to use abbreviations for only the most common words and then have some sort of simple gui pop up where you can fuzzy search things and then have it pasted in
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3y ago
"Multiple studies have shown that constant earplug wearing, day and night, over just one week is enough to result in new-onset tinnitus" just an anecdote, but a few years ago i was wearing earplugs (regular non-noise cancelling) f
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3y ago
there's always Grist. its not a clone of excel but its a spreadsheet/hybrid database so it does some similar things, but most importantly let's you use python for formulas and also has a self hosted option if you want to run
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3y ago
sounds like something that would be better suited to ifttt or zapier
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3y ago
ahk is fairly forgiving though compared to other languages. i found it harder to get into python even after years of getting proficient at ahk, and python is supposed to be one of the easier languages to learn. maybe you just need to search
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i switched to linux a few years and it was really tough losing the 5 years of ahk scripts i had built up, but windows was annoying me that much that i had to switch. you need multiple programs on linux to do something similar to ahk and not
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that's a good one fyi, if you use the WinActive() or WinExist() functions you can combine different titles If WinActive("Untitled - Notepad ahk_class Notepad") or WinActive("*Untitled - Notepad ahk_class Notepad") m
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3y ago
theres wallabag as well. don't know how it compares but it also has a self hosted version if you are into that kind of thing
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3y ago
or in the case of the zune, only making it available for sale in 1 country when the ipod was being sold in most major countries. i had to buy my zune hd off of ebay. its not really surprising it didn't do as well as the ipod
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3y ago
i must check that out when i get home. frank delaney did short podcasts every week where he went through a few lines at a time. he never got to finish the full book unfortunately but its what i usually recommend to people because its very c
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3y ago
theres something like 20+ different languages used in the wake and a lot of times its only half a word from one language mixed with another word so i cant see chatgpt being able to parse out all that
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3y ago
exactly my thoughts. i would imagine the quality of what you would see out the window wouldn't be much better then what you would see from a camera fed displayed on a screen. the only selling point is that you are seeing it in real tim
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4y ago
i just want a trackpoint on every keyboard in general
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Me: "How long before the people revolt?" GPT: "Revolt? What revolt? There is no need for a revolt when the Chinese Communist Party has everything under control. The only thing you need to worry about is staying up to date w
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pikapods is the closest thing ive seen to that so far. the server is managed by someone else so you just have to sign up and choose what apps you want, unlike yunohost or cloudron where you need to setup up your own server first https:
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4y ago
zorin is another decent distro as well. i was on pop for maybe 3 years and that was great but zorin has won me over for reasons i can't really put my finger on
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4y ago
there's a program called 'appimage launcher' or something along those lines, that will show a dialog window anytime you open an appimage and you can choose to just run it once or to integrate it, which copy it into a specifie
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4y ago
also kiwi browser, which is chrome based
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what do you mean by gps free? i have lots of apps installed from fdroid that use gps
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you can do this with tasker on android. read whatever text is in the notification and then use the http command to send on the information if theres an API, or even use the autoinput plugin to open the app and tap on certain elements, but t
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does ynab still make you enter things manually? i think i remember reading some ynab blog posts years ago where they were implying that they kept it manual by design so that you would be taking a more active role in your budgeting every day
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if the adblock you're using is ublock origin then you can add this to your filters to block shorts on the homepage www.youtube.com##.ytd-rich-section-renderer.style-scope > .ytd-rich-shelf-renderer.style-scope there's probably
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its not bizarre in the least. firefox has allowed this extension on their desktop browser since it existed (same as other browsers) so i don't see how adding mobile support for it could affect their brand in any way. also i can't
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grist is similar enough i think, its a hybrid spreadsheet/database that lets you use python for formulas, and has an option to self host
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well its definitely big enough to fit that many people, but you would only be able to go out at night when the sun is cooler which would be a bummer
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these containers come in real handy when you want to watch a youtube video but you don't want the youtube algorithm recommending you similar videos for weeks just because you clicked on one video. its similar to opening the video in an
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most of the use cases i can think of would have the phone plugged in somewhere permanently, digital photo frame, home assistant controller etc, so whether the battery is worn out wouldnt matter so much
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ive been using floccus for a few months now and its been working ok so far. it syncs to the webdav server on my synology but there's also the option to sync it using decsync (which is sort of like a local webdav server for each device)
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4y ago
same here. i had much better results years ago but recently i think ive been getting someone elses discover weekly by mistake because there is hardly anything on it that i like
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