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by nelblu 1y ago
A little tangential question, but what is up with the "Distilled" logo on their blog site? I don't think I ever noticed this earlier, and I can't seem to find anything on their blog explaining it.
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by nelblu 1y ago
Interesting you say "seeing ads", because lately when I am volunteering with legally blind population as their "tech-mate", I can't explain them why technology isn't doing what they want it to do. It's a m
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by nelblu 1y ago
This should really be mainstream car manufacturing. I can't wait for the day when we have choice of cheap cars, with DiY upgrades and no fucking tracking mechanisms built in and something that works without a phone. I wish them all the
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by nelblu 1y ago
This is a life fact, I realized this early on. I grew up in part of India which is close to the famous Ajanta caves. There are several local artists there, who literally carve a stone into an absolutely beautiful images of Buddha. A lot of
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by nelblu 1y ago
Space between stars is amazingly empty. It's almost unlikely that we would bump into another star (or black hole). For instance, if the whole Milky way were the size of the US (east to west), our sun would be smaller than 1/20th t
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by nelblu 1y ago
> Same companies were telling is how well it worked and they had the numbers to back it up. I took a new job in 2022, at that time everyone was still working from home. My boss, who was a VP at that time, said isn't this amazing? We
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by nelblu 1y ago
Every time I read a chapter from LOTR and then hike with my dog, I imagine myself being Frodo and my dog being Samwise, and I find myself talking to the dog, sometimes yelling at him - hey don't go there, there might be Orcs there or m
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by nelblu 1y ago
> It has 4 GB of memory, and reviewers say that its specs are pretty outdated. In my imaginary world, I wish someone stood up to this type of insanity. This would be a good time to force Apple / Google to revive old devices and allo
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by nelblu 1y ago
Good riddance, and hopefully they won't be missed. Here in Canada these consultants are just leeches who suck up all the tax dollars which could actually be used for something useful.
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by nelblu 1y ago
https://archive.is/uvzCD
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by nelblu 2y ago
Also Canada : https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/how-righ...
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by nelblu 2y ago
One of my favourite memories of Windows 95 was - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc . It felt absolutely futuristic watching a video from a CD at that time.
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by nelblu 2y ago
I am so glad there is another open data for nutrition. My favourite one so far is https://www.nutritionvalue.org/ which is awesome. As a fitness enthusiast/gym rat I really appreaciate having a pure facts only nutritio
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by nelblu 2y ago
I know everyone talks about protonmail for email, but I never found them customisable - I mean it doesn't even work on third party apps. Personally I would strongly recommend mailbox.org. I have been a happy user since over 3 years now
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by nelblu 2y ago
> it's just going to be hilarious when they inevitably fail. I won't be surprised if the "failure" is then twisted as the "success". I see tech projects basking in their success when in reality they just mak
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by nelblu 2y ago
Also CSV can be queried : https://til.simonwillison.net/sqlite/one-line-csv-operations
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by nelblu 2y ago
I am genuinely worried that when I am old there won't be anything that I could buy that would not be an enshittified device... until them I am going to keep hoarding what I can that would outlast my life.
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by nelblu 2y ago
THIS. Nobody gives a fuck if half the Americans don't support their dear leader, it's all the same to the rest of us.
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by nelblu 2y ago
I need it to track my heart rate. I am actually also looking forward to something that can track my blood-pressure, but I am not sure whether the technology is there yet. A device that can do offline tracking would be ideal, ability to sync
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by nelblu 2y ago
Thanks. Sorry if it was vague. Basically my first preference would be to not have any need to connect to a mobile phone (so no android or apple). And if that is not possible it is preferable to connect via de-googled Android. I guess I need
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by nelblu 2y ago
A newbie to smartwatches question : How are RePebbleOS watches when it comes to privacy? Do they offer complete offline, manual data download/sync experience or do they require some type of Google or Apple crapware to work? I am mainly
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by nelblu 2y ago
The Dotcom bubble was much before I graduated, so it didn't impact me directly. Years later, around 2015, I was serving meals at a homeless shelter and I met a guy (client at the shelter) who asked me what I do for a living, and after
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by nelblu 2y ago
My strategy is to buy cheapest TV on the market (which is usually an ad loaded Crapware like hisense) and then never ever connect it to the internet but use HDMI to plug into a dedicated computer. Basically all I need in a TV apart from the
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by nelblu 2y ago
I wouldn't say the momentum has stopped. Anecdote alert: I travel to India at least once in a year and I have to take the train each time (sleeper class) and I can definitely attest that things have significantly improved since I was a
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by nelblu 2y ago
I'm going to strongly recommend they consider defunding NASA's APOD /s
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by nelblu 2y ago
haha i was wondering the same. I hate my nail biting habit and there are few days where i can go without it and then it comes back and stays.
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by nelblu 2y ago
The picture of that pool reminded me of this Columbo episode (S4 Exercise in Fatality) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRoVLfuADqw&t=220s
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by nelblu 2y ago
archived it for anyone else who might be seeing ads : https://archive.is/MSGaS
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by nelblu 2y ago
"SMS support" is not something that most of the people in the world (barring North Americans I guess) cared about. So there were "normal people" using it before and there are "normal people" using it now. I pri
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by nelblu 2y ago
I am with you. That said, I feel like looking at a photo when I was very young say around 4 or 5 does seem to invoke memories about the house I grew up in. I wonder if the brain is just making up the memory or the photo is actually helping

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