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by mbirth 6y ago
How many different full-featured Matrix clients do you know? And what about lean ones that don’t come in a huge Electron package? Also, Gajim has support for MAM and can sync everything locally. I believe Monal has it, too.
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by mbirth 6y ago
XMPP is anything but dead yet. There were a lot of XEPs added and updated in recent years and it turned into a modern protocol being able to provide all features you could expect from a modern messaging service. It's just that you need
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by mbirth 6y ago
Even if you can sue them into oblivion, there will be a different company under a different name doing the same. It's just too lucrative.
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by mbirth 6y ago
Listening all the time would drain your phone's battery in no time. Transferring those recordings to wherever they're transcribed would definitely show up on your data usage. Transcribing them on your phone before transmitting the
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by mbirth 6y ago
I've been using floccus ( https://floccus.org ) for quite some time. It's a browser extension available for Chrome and FF that syncs bookmarks to a WebDAV server. I had the occasional sync conflict where I needed to re-i
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by mbirth 6y ago
What also helps a lot is blocking like 10-20 top karma users because most of them earn their karma by reposting other's posts. [1] is where you can find an up to date list of those users. [2] is one of the few LPTs about this. Howeve
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by mbirth 6y ago
IIRC SpaceSniffer can handle NTFS junctions properly whereas WinDirStat didn't understand them.
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by mbirth 6y ago
> Google kills products that make customers and engineers happy and doesn't spend enough effort to make them better. Small correction here: The non-paying users are not their customers. So it’s understandable that they kill all prod
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by mbirth 6y ago
I'm using a vivosmart 4 to monitor my sleep. I mostly care about my SpO2 data to detect sleep apnoe. But also my avg. heart rate is a great indicator whether I'm fine or if there's a health issue or extreme stress at work.
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by mbirth 6y ago
After going with Android Wear and seeing how they made everything worse with WearOS, I switched to a Garmin Fenix 2 years ago. It's the best thing if you're sporting an Android phone. 3rd party apps are mostly weather apps and app
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by mbirth 6y ago
> Spending non trivial time on lowering memory consumption from 40 to 28 MB in case of normal end user desktop applicaton is not reasonable in the sense that very few users will care or even notice. This hides a big problem of today’s so
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by mbirth 6y ago
There was an episode of The Modern Rogue on YouTube where they demonstrated sending pictures over cheap UHF radios using “Slow Scan Television” which Robot36 is a part of. https://youtu.be/tVi9zEJkJ9g
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by mbirth 6y ago
AFAIK almost everywhere there's a law that makes it illegal to pay below minimum wage. And if they don't like it, they're free to find a better paid job for an unskilled worker elsewhere.
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by mbirth 6y ago
What if I don't need that expertise because I know exactly what wine I want? That's the same stupid reason why we have a dog tax in Germany. Some centuries ago some king - just on impulse - decided "if people can feed a dog t
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by mbirth 6y ago
We had this with Netbooks - remember those? You could choose between a barely running Windows XP or a well running Linux back then. People mostly bought the Windows version because that's what they knew and where the illegal copy of so
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by mbirth 6y ago
And I loved it. So much more convenient than standard JavaScript.
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by mbirth 6y ago
Yes, it works with counting calories. But there are a lot of edge cases where the caloric value doesn’t represent the amount of energy your body can take out of the food. Also basically all values printed on the boxes are very vague as nobo
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by mbirth 6y ago
That poor suffering waiter is free to choose any other job where he/she gets paid more. Like any other worker hating his/her job. And if lots waiters quit their jobs, the wages will rise very quickly.
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by mbirth 6y ago
But what to do about all those waiters/waitresses that previously made money like some senior engineer and now get paid only minimum wage?
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by mbirth 6y ago
Also I've heard in some places, the amount to share is calculated from the overall tips. So if you had a bad evening and made less than your colleagues, you're actually paying part of the share out of your own pocket. But still, t
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by mbirth 6y ago
What's even more absurd: Consider ordering a bottle of wine for $30 vs. a bottle of wine for $300. The waiter has to do the exact same thing but suddenly you are expected to tip $60 instead of $6 if you were satisfied with the experien
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by mbirth 6y ago
Thing is, it's not even the restaurant owners that are blocking a change to "all incl." prices - it's the waiters, too. Waiting is one of the very few jobs where an untrained person can earn lots of money just by doing
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by mbirth 6y ago
From reading many threads about this kind of thing: tips in the US rised in recent years. In many places if you only tip 10% you're being asked what was wrong with your food (don't dare to only tip 5%!). 15% is considered mediocre
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by mbirth 6y ago
"desktop client" is a bit of a stretch for this 100+ MB "website in a headless browser" Electron app.
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by mbirth 6y ago
I'd rather see them coming up with a better matching metric of nutritional/energetic value to humans than burning food and measuring how long it burns.
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by mbirth 6y ago
And if you have a motorbike, there’s kurviger.de that tries to find a nice route with lots of bends. https://kurviger.de/
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by mbirth 6y ago
I use [Free42]( https://thomasokken.com/free42/ ) on all my platforms. Launches in an instant and has RPN.
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by mbirth 6y ago
The integration in iOS is a bit different. With e.g. Apollo installed, you need to "Share" the Reddit page from Safari with the "Open in Apollo" target and it'll open in Apollo.
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by mbirth 6y ago
XMPP has made huge improvements in the last few years. Ejabberd supports most XEPs you could wish for. Gajim on Desktop, Conversations on Android and Monal on iOS make use of those new features.
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by mbirth 6y ago
For $200 you can upgrade to 16GB during the order process.

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