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by mbirth 1y ago
Add to that the problem of “boil off” / “pressure venting”. There are some cars that empty their hydrogen tanks on their own in about 2 weeks. Just because of this issue. There are new ways to store hydrogen, but these also need extern
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by mbirth 2y ago
I’m someone that grew up with AltaVista and thus I’m pretty good with my search terms and modifiers. And I often remember specific phrases from the websites I’m looking for. However, Google is more and more optimised for people NOT knowing
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by mbirth 2y ago
Btw: MicroPython is also available as a binary for all the usual operating systems. I’ve once made a few scripts and some .sh and .cmd files to launch them using the bundled micropython binary.
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by mbirth 2y ago
The trick with YouTube on iOS is to delete the app and use the website in Safari instead. There, you can use Wipr 2 or other ad blockers.
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by mbirth 2y ago
> I had this idea before Honey AdBlock Plus also had this idea back in 2012/2013. Here’s a (German) article about this: https://web.archive.org/web/20220817235820/https://www.mobil... Near the en
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by mbirth 2y ago
The website codeberg.org is technically similar to GitHub in that they host your code. The repo for OrganicMaps on codeberg.org is here: https://codeberg.org/organicmaps/organicmaps However, as you can see, this is onl
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by mbirth 2y ago
I’ve happily used python-dialog, a wrapper for dialog (and dialog-compatible alternatives) which provides the very basics but is extremely easy to work with. https://pythondialog.sourceforge.io/
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by mbirth 2y ago
This is great for probing scammers, though. Especially in non-English languages as they often use translation tools. And those have the same problem in recognising e.g. “ℍ” as “H”.
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by mbirth 2y ago
Uberspace.de - managed email and web hosting. You’ll get SSH and unlimited email addresses and aliases. Their mailer also supports SIEVE scripts. You decide on what you want to pay. (5€ minimum suggested)
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by mbirth 2y ago
My average time away from any USB port: <2 hours
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by mbirth 2y ago
Also, wasn’t cholesterol that thing where there’s no actual scientifically proven “good” value but the margins were decided on assumptions (and to sell medication)?
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by mbirth 2y ago
Yes. Simply sleeping on the arm where you wear your watch will make it record crazy values. The sleep quality and breathing measurements are based on movement - which doesn’t make sense when you have another person or pet with you in the be
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by mbirth 2y ago
I’ve got a charger for my Apple Watch on my desk. I charge my watch in the evening while I’m doing stuff on the computer. When it’s bedtime, the watch is at 100% - ready for sleep tracking and the next day.
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by mbirth 2y ago
The iconic Casio calculator watch was square. Dick Tracy’s watch was square. Michael Knight’s watch was square. All the smart watches were square. And try reading a longer notification on a round display. It just doesn’t make any sense.
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by mbirth 2y ago
My biggest gripe with Garmin is how they started to become a new NOKIA - at least in the smartwatch market. 10 years ago, they had a hand full of different models with clearly distinguished features. And there was one does-it-all model. Now
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by mbirth 2y ago
Let your blog get indexed by Google and other search engines. Provide RSS and maybe even ActivityPub-integration and people WILL find it.
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by mbirth 2y ago
Or the ads were there before but ignored. Similar to the number 23 thing…
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by mbirth 2y ago
Ben Heckendorn has a few YouTube videos where he revisited and improved some text adventures he wrote ages ago: Adventure Island https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9qSw3BZ5n4 Adventure Island Rebirth https://
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by mbirth 2y ago
What about keyboard shortcuts? I’ve only realised why some shortcuts were chosen after using an English language QWERTY keyboard. On a German QWERTZ keyboard, most symbols are in completely different places, require modifiers, and thus you
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by mbirth 2y ago
There’s a great video from Matt Gray about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thdwajzqRFQ
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by mbirth 2y ago
Exactly this! Why would anyone use RCS when there are still carriers out there, that take ancient SMS (usually 0.19€) and, should you send photos, even MMS prices (0.69€) for every single RCS message.
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by mbirth 2y ago
I’ve still got two MR3040. TP-Link hasn’t released any update for them in years. You can run an older version of OpenWrt on them, but there’s no real point. These things don’t even support 5GHz WiFi.
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by mbirth 2y ago
Oh god, yes, I remember we’ve got D-Info (German/“D”eutsches phone book) which had that feature. And because the phone books were copyrighted by the phone company’s publisher, the creators of that app hired cheap workers to manually re
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by mbirth 2y ago
With that many tourists using and abusing London public transport, why should only Londoners pay for the service (via taxes - the money must come from somewhere)?
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by mbirth 2y ago
Not sure whether it’s part of her talk, but this demonstration of the RDS stream she uploaded on Soundcloud is pretty cool: https://soundcloud.com/windytan-1/rds-mixdown
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by mbirth 2y ago
I’ve used this to experiment with TMC messages and trying to unscramble TMCPro. Fun times!
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by mbirth 2y ago
The point is: Apple Intelligence works on your device. Nothing is sent to some remote server. That's also why Siri appears to be dumb compared to Google's, Samsung's and other assistants that work via a huge cloud where all y
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by mbirth 2y ago
Does anyone remember wua.la? It worked similar in that you offered local disk space in exchange for cloud storage. It was later bought by LaCie and killed off shortly after.
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by mbirth 2y ago
/64 is needed for SLAAC to work and is basically the default. Anything larger (usually /56, sometimes even /48) gives the customers a chance to segment their LAN.
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by mbirth 2y ago
Now turn off the Internet connection and try talking to ChatGPT again...

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