sir_brickalot

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by sir_brickalot 16d ago
The biggest problem in my view is: It's not editable by hand. There is no production data I could open in InDesign, Illustrator or Photoshop (Layers) and change things to my or my clients liking.
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by sir_brickalot 2mo ago
Your argument sounds like the nirvana fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy
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by sir_brickalot 3mo ago
I did.
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by sir_brickalot 5mo ago
I had a dead screen on a phone, so I was able to enable screenreader mode, used that to navigate to enable USB debugging and allow scrcpy screensharing. That process cost me a couple of days and a similar working phone for testing, but it w
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by sir_brickalot 6mo ago
So, no one here is a professional creative? In the print industry you can't avoid Adobe for one tool: Acrobat. You need professional PDF creation with profiles, preflight tools, editing capabilities abd form creator tools. Oh and there
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by sir_brickalot 1y ago
To your point: What I am missing with Signal: Choice to always store media locally on the phone. What I miss with most messenger apps: Archiving old stuff and offload it to a remote device. Right now Signal is 8GB in size and doesn't s
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by sir_brickalot 1y ago
Counter: Backups for TOTP are easy and you can use multiple devices/services for a single TOTP login.
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by sir_brickalot 3y ago
I just had a strong use case: a broken screen. A combination of Google Assistant, Talkback, USB-C-to-USB-A-Adapter and Keyboard, a Bluetooth keyboard, scrcpy, Anydesk and a new Pixel phone for practicing helped get some data off the device
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by sir_brickalot 3y ago
I would need the opposite: The volume on my Airpod 2 are waaaaay to low on my Samsung phone. No problem with the Airpods on an Ipad or with my Bose QC II on my mobile. Bluetooth is such a pain.
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by sir_brickalot 3y ago
If AI or LLMs or similar would be everywhere... how much more renewable energy do we have to produce, for very little to no gain in so many cases? Madness!
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by sir_brickalot 3y ago
I love OrganicMaps but lacks in certain situations. When I want to be able to zoom into any and all of my bookmarks, I have to keep the map data of all countries I've ever been visiting. Thats tens and tens of GB of data on a mobile ph
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by sir_brickalot 3y ago
Isn't this already the reality in the mobile space? I own a rooted Samsung device and have to jump through 100 hoops to be able to use my banking app or Netflix or some rando game (which I don't actually play). SafetyNet broken, h
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by sir_brickalot 3y ago
One option is for sysadmins and IT shops serving SMBs to preinstall Firefox on workstations. That way users get used to the browser and might use it privately as well. Bonus: Preinstall uBlock Origin. Thats what we do, anyways.
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by sir_brickalot 3y ago
> so I'm hoping to find a Photosync system that will only upload when on my home wifi and charging. Any suggestions there? Syncthing
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by sir_brickalot 3y ago
I would like to test that but when clicking different links I get mixed results. The URLs get modified alright but a lot of referrer info seems to not get removed. I guess its just Google collecting one more metric.
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by sir_brickalot 3y ago
Question: When I click in my Gmail android app on a link from a received E-Mail, the opened Firefox browser opens a google domain for a second and only after that the domain from the link opens... any idea what that is? Tracking?
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by sir_brickalot 4y ago
I'm big into archiving. It's almost autistic how perfect I want my media to be named and tagged and bpm'ed and with fitting cover art and so on Foobar with the that wealth of addons helped a lot: - Buttons to search for imag
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by sir_brickalot 4y ago
Ha, I even moderated a german IrfanView forum back in the day until I switched to Faststone Viewer. Almost forgot.
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by sir_brickalot 4y ago
I tried to use Wine on MacOS for 4 beloved Windows programs I still cant live without 10 years after I moved away from M$: - Foobar2000 (unfortiunatly very CPU heavy with audio problems, some incompatibilities) - Subtitle Edit - Advanced Re
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by sir_brickalot 4y ago
It is a little more problematic than that: The Gematik GmbH is in part managed (owned?) by the German ministry of health [0] and some health organizations like the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Agencies. That says something abou
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by sir_brickalot 4y ago
Using it on MacOS for years (not for system) and fairly recently for ZFS on root on Ubuntu. I love it but two problem I ran into on Ubuntu: 1. Docker failed bcs of the custom implementation in Ubuntu (Don't remeber the specifics). 2. I
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by sir_brickalot 4y ago
Stupid question: How to mitigate loss of phone, lets say on holidays?
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Ask HN: How much would it cost if one had to pay for every service?
1 points by sir_brickalot 4y ago|0 comments
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by sir_brickalot 4y ago
Yea I have a 2009 Macbook laying around just for screen share to my work hackintosh. VNC Linux/Windows > MacOS is so incredibly painful and unusable: Multimonitor: No. Correct scaling: No. Copypaste: No. Thats only some of the bigge
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by sir_brickalot 4y ago
an underappreciated feature in Keepass are URL overrides so you can autorun RDP sessions, SSH sessions, SFTP sessions in other apps with filled in credentials. If Bitwarden had this feature, I'd probably switch.
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by sir_brickalot 5y ago
Are you saying I could for example start an RDP session with autofilled credentials? I just LOVE the Keepass feature CTRL+U with 'URL overrides' to open rdp, ssh, vpn or ftp sessions. https://keepass.info/help&#x2
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by sir_brickalot 5y ago
Was anyone able to run Foobar2000, the best music player/manager of all time, on Mac? I always had audio glitches on Macos <10.15 and didn't manage to get it running with Macos >10.15 due to x64. The native Mac version is by
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by sir_brickalot 5y ago
My take: Firefox on Android is one reason for their problem. I tried the new version a year ago and restored my TB backup bcs it was so bad. I thought I'd try it again yesterday but man it sucks so bad! No search in history, no bookmar
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by sir_brickalot 5y ago
It's not a bad contract for that someone though. It's a bad contract for that someones friends.
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by sir_brickalot 6y ago
There is one Spotify feature I started enjoying lately: Seamless playback between all connected players (including Chromecast) and every instance works as a remote for the other players. Just great!! Any FOSS service with this set of fea

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