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by mbirth 3mo ago
Also ask any serious Garmin watch user about their charging/data contacts. They start to rot away after 1-2 years of being exposed to sweat.
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by mbirth 3mo ago
Twitter has it, too.
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by mbirth 3mo ago
Magic Earth is 10+ years old by now. Only recently they've introduced a (very reasonable, I think) Premium subscription to cover their costs. I guess the live traffic data is bound to some licenses so they can't just "upstrea
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by mbirth 3mo ago
iOS has Every Door[1] and there’s also MapComplete[2] which works as a PWA. [1]: https://every-door.app [2]: https://mapcomplete.org
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by mbirth 3mo ago
There’s Magic Earth which uses OSM map data but also integrates live traffic information. Not sure whether it works in India, though. https://www.magicearth.com/
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by mbirth 3mo ago
> The intent of DST is to normalize variations in the time of sunrise between summer and winter. The intent of DST was to conserve energy by moving daylight into the evening hours. However, it turned out that people need light in the mor
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by mbirth 4mo ago
Back during my Palm Pilot days I’ve discovered the FITALY layout - optimised for pen input and one-finger typing. But it should work similarly efficient for swiping as the goal was to minimise travel between letters (in the English language
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by mbirth 4mo ago
URL parameters? They worked back in the old days, so I don’t see why they wouldn’t work here.
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by mbirth 4mo ago
You should try Windows 7, then. Boots in no time at all, feels EXTREMELY snappy, and nowadays, there are UEFI loaders and a thing called VxKex-NEXT which adds the few new API calls Windows 10 introduced and thus makes W7 run many W10-only a
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by mbirth 4mo ago
Most of the people that want to rejoin the EU never realised that Brexit happened at the same time as COVID and they believe that all the bad things that happened since were due to Brexit and Brexit only. All the while ignoring that most EU
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by mbirth 4mo ago
Running ComfyUI and some ImageGenAI and realising how you can use it to generate anything from any aspect of pr0n and various fetishes to making up fake news about basically anything. And real enough to convince the masses.
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by mbirth 5mo ago
Wait, it even needs an extension for Safari? I'm using Strongbox (uses a KeePass-compatible database) which integrates into Apple's AutoFill API and appears automatically in all input fields - just like Keychain. No extension need
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by mbirth 5mo ago
It was better when it was still a native app and not this Electron nonsense.
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by mbirth 5mo ago
> You're absolutely right! I'm here to help. Tell me more about <problem>. Or, for the more grey haired among us: Hello, my name is Dr. Sbaitso. I am here to help you. […] So, tell me about your problems.
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by mbirth 5mo ago
There’s also VxKex-NEXT[0] which adds the very few API calls W10 introduced to a Windows 7 to make it mostly compatible with W10 apps. [0]: https://github.com/YuZhouRen86/VxKex-NEXT
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by mbirth 5mo ago
What’s even better is that thing with memberships here in the UK. While the single admission price for these “touristy” sites might appear quite steep, usually for not much more (and sometimes even without paying extra) you can become a “me
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by mbirth 5mo ago
I’ve actually switched from Just Eat to slightly more expensive Deliveroo because the latter one makes it extremely easy (at least in the UK) to report wrong deliveries and you get your money back in a matter of minutes. Also make sure to d
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by mbirth 5mo ago
I'm using MakePass for ages now. Got it when it was still a single purchase and got grandfathered into their new license model. It allows you to use almost all features of the PassKit API. Very happy with it - let's see how the na
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by mbirth 5mo ago
This! I’m using Strongbox on macOS and iOS and it’s just sooo good. It integrates with Apple’s AutoFill API and feels native - just like Apple’s Passwords app. But all the entries are in a KeePass database which I can sync via SyncThing, iC
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by mbirth 6mo ago
A buddy found Cusdis - a self-hostable Disqus alternative: https://cusdis.com . But this only does comments, no pingbacks - and via a separate product that you need to integrate using JavaScript. And running this opens you up to
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by mbirth 6mo ago
Or boil a larger quantity and fill it into a thermos. Perfectly fine for instant coffee throughout the day. (And without the coffee stains in the thermos.)
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by mbirth 6mo ago
Yep, all the instant coffee jars I’ve seen have a note to use hot but NOT boiling water. And I’ve noticed that using too hot water can even spoil the taste a bit. I usually turn off the kettle when the noise starts noticeably changing. This
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by mbirth 6mo ago
Or the yggdrasil daemon from Red Hat: https://github.com/RedHatInsights/yggdrasil
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by mbirth 6mo ago
You could technically just transmit data via RDS, too. Change a letter here and there and nobody would know whether that’s a decoding error or actual ciphertext. (Would need some kind of checksum or so, of course.) @windytan did a fascinati
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by mbirth 7mo ago
> As of now, my only way to verify it is by literally ordering a credit card from my UK bank when I'm pretty happy with my debit cards already. This is not true. On the screen where it wants you to scan a credit card, tap “Enter det
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by mbirth 7mo ago
macOS 26, of course.
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by mbirth 7mo ago
Native clipboard history was introduced in iOS 26’s new Spotlight. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchl40d5b86b/...
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by mbirth 7mo ago
“They only want your firstborn. You can make more kids."
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by mbirth 7mo ago
DiRe DOS :)
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by mbirth 7mo ago
Check out News Explorer. Works on iOS, too, and syncs everything via iCloud.

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