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by sincarne 4y ago
My family and I were on a “star safari” last night, and our guides gave us a Google Maps location for a parking lot on a volcano. Google struggled, as did Here. Organic Maps? No problem! So thank you; you’ve set me up with my new offline ma
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by sincarne 4y ago
Apple very publicly refused to unlock the phones of the San Berbardino shooters, and consistently refuses to back door their phones for law enforcement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_d...
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by sincarne 4y ago
I’ve started taking saunas every day as part of my gym routine. It’s been a nice side effect that for at least 15 minutes a weekday I am not reading, watching, or listening to anything. I believe it’s a big part of why I’ve felt more refres
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by sincarne 4y ago
Food delivery service gift cards has become my go to in these situations. It has been really well received. It can be tough to cook for other people’s families with kids.
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by sincarne 4y ago
> conservatives views will not be instantly banned by twitter I see assertions like this a lot. Please show me the person who has been banned from Twitter for advocating for lower taxes or social benefit cuts. Or even, if you want to str
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by sincarne 4y ago
Just tried a wee bit of Kittens Game. It’s like A Dark Room, but with kittens! There’s my time gone.
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by sincarne 4y ago
It’s not free, but I think the best, and easiest, way to get started is with Amiga Forever. If you can hang on a bit, they often have big Black Friday license sales. https://www.amigaforever.com/
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by sincarne 4y ago
You could replace it with something more vanilla. I used to maintain a list of common share URLs, but this project is more more useful: https://github.com/bradvin/social-share-urls
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by sincarne 4y ago
And yet as a Canadian (from Ontario), I find it shocking to go to the States and see all the flags and Jesus billboards.
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by sincarne 4y ago
“as Mac OS Monterey was recently released so all the features may not work currently” This kind of response makes me very angry. Apple release betas of their OS a good four months in advance of full release. It is unacceptable for big vendo
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by sincarne 4y ago
I bought this for my daughter. She and I have both really enjoyed going through it. I think it’s immensely helpful for kids with perfectionist tendencies to start off with these easy-win drawing books.
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by sincarne 5y ago
Two things stand out for me: A really good daypack. I was using book bags for family days out, but they were uncomfortable and impractical. When the National Trust reopened their outdoor spaces during the pandemic, I sunk £80 into an Osprey
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by sincarne 5y ago
The book is a personal reflection, but it’s also a distillation of “logotherapy,” which is both a philosophy and a therapeutic technique. If the book resonates with you, then looking into a more formal application of logotherapy would be a
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by sincarne 5y ago
My Withings Steel HR. It is just enough smart watch for me. Fitness tracking is good, sleep tracking is okay, app works better than the FitBit app, and has better Apple Health integration. Battery lasts weeks. And I think it looks pretty ni
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by sincarne 5y ago
Oh, it doesn’t surprise me at all. I once worked well into the night trying to debug a web site for a client, only to find the issue was he’d installed NoScript “to try it out”.
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by sincarne 5y ago
Vernor Vinge should be much better known. True Names, while a bit dated and silly-seeming now, was still quite prophetic.
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by sincarne 5y ago
This morning when I awoke, my wife had propped up her ebook reader on the nightstand next to me. It looked nice. I thought: how cool would it be to have a little e-ink display to which I could beam a few key pieces of information? Beautiful
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by sincarne 5y ago
I did it. I was a front-end developer at an agency. I took Monday off to be with my daughter before she started school. Later on I cut my hours even further and took on the bulk of the housework, childcare, cooking, shopping, etc. I’m fortu
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by sincarne 6y ago
Well said regarding “cause.” Depression often has a trigger, but that is separate from a cause. The trigger-and a pandemic is a great one-is just the thing that exacerbates an existing, possibly dormant, condition.
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by sincarne 6y ago
Well, add the nmap web site to the list of sites I can only see through a VPN while on Tesco Mobile.
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by sincarne 6y ago
But 100% for those made redundant is just fine.
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by sincarne 6y ago
It’s not exactly what you’re asking for, but my solution has been a decade-old eeePC 701 netbook with FreeDOS. The writing is done in pico. To get files off, I need to reboot with a USB key attached. It’d be a dream if wordgrinder was porte
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by sincarne 7y ago
Spoken as someone who's never been subjected the Daily Mail!
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by sincarne 7y ago
I have a very old netbook running FreeDOS. I have installed nothing but nano on it, and I use it as a distraction-free writing device. I also have a black MacBook running Xubuntu, and it works great. Got a new, non-matching battery for it f
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by sincarne 7y ago
I just bough a £20 Switch controller that had a card in it telling me to email them for a £20 gift certificate if I left them a positive review. Obviously this works; it’s the best rated off-brand controller.
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by sincarne 7y ago
I do something similar. Mine is olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and a tsp of really strong mustard. I put mine in a small Tupperware in the fridge, that way I can shake it up easily to mix, and I just add to it as I get low.
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by sincarne 7y ago
Is the template something you could share? I'd be interested in seeing it, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. In the paste I've created text expansions for journaling forms I've wanted to use, then just dump them in
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by sincarne 7y ago
It's just a different way of calculating property taxes. Most countries use the theoretical resale value of your property.
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by sincarne 7y ago
I don’t believe the headline is misleading. I think it does a bad job of conveying the author’s intention. I read it as “who cares how brilliant they are when they are such huge jerks.” I felt they were trying to say “stop putting the empha
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by sincarne 7y ago
Digiday are a trade pub for the online advertising and “sponsored content” industry. You bet they want you to be upset about ad blocking.

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