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by sjw987 1y ago
That's odd, and to reassure you I would say that I personally would rather see somebody with a physical camera. That way I know I can avoid the area they're photographing if I don't want to be shot or just be aware I'm g
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by sjw987 1y ago
Not at all. Many people who want to work cannot find work and many (maybe most) people haven't found work they enjoy but do want to work. Those who are working the bare minimum in many cases are holding back efficiency where somebody m
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by sjw987 1y ago
For now, if you buy from Kobo store, you can use Adobe Digital Editions to extract the epub in a format ready for Calibre. Many websites sell epubs, with or without protection. The DRM is never usually that hard to break with Calibre. If yo
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by sjw987 1y ago
Dropping in popularity, but not relevance. Reading is still a completely different thing from a book, a stream of consciousness between a writer and a reader, than it is reading in almost any other format. The way we read online from websit
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by sjw987 1y ago
I feel so glad I retrospectively moved all of my ebooks away from Amazon at the beginning of the year. It was weird to hear just days after I exported it all that Amazon had announced they would no longer allow downloading for USB transfer.
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by sjw987 1y ago
Interesting article. Personally, I can't begin to theorise what the best way forward is. A Universal Basic Income system always sounds great, but where the funding comes from and what effect it's implementation would have, what ef
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by sjw987 1y ago
I'm curious as to why this would have a heating element and why that would be the default. I thought that a cool/cold bed was better for getting to sleep, since the body lowers its own temperature at night as part of it's nat
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by sjw987 1y ago
I've found thermal cooling with a bit of a dab of cold water on my body (sleeping above duvet), with a fan blowing on it for a few minutes is enough to get me to sleep.
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by sjw987 1y ago
I guessed before I got to the article this would be eightsleep, the smart mattress being shilled by half of the podcast / influencer community, alongside LMNT drink and Athletic Greens powder. All overpriced tat that is surplus to requ
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by sjw987 1y ago
I'll admit, despite hating the idea of most "smart" tech, I do still have the lights. The ability to change the colour (mostly warmness) through the day and turn on individual lights is pretty neat. I've been using an en
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by sjw987 1y ago
Most smart appliances are ticking timebombs, and most serve no real purpose. I get that sometimes they can be neat, and I myself went through a phase myself of building a "smart apartment". All I learned is the smart speaker assis
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by sjw987 1y ago
Pretty sure most of the quotes regarding the connection of porn and tech come from people who just watched that episode of Silicon Valley. A lot of it was clearly exaggerated for dramatic effect for a comedy TV show, and people run with it
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by sjw987 1y ago
The phone size is too limiting for a lot of work, and since most work involves writing in some form, it's a pain in the ass. A lot of the things you listed are utilities, which I'd agree the phone is great for. If any of the thing
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by sjw987 1y ago
15 pages on a virtual keyboard? So that would have been, what, 100 pages on a computer? I agree with the parent comment. Smartphones (and tablets) are useless for anything productive. They are entirely consumption machines. If somebody is a
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by sjw987 1y ago
"Sorry, I don't have [app/website name]. Could you send a screenshot?" The only other response is to fill your phone with 128 GB of every different social media app that exists.
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by sjw987 1y ago
I feel like these articles come up all the time now. The advice is always the same (it's not rocket science), but people are either slowly defeated by their addiction, or they just don't really follow the advice in the first place
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by sjw987 1y ago
Task management apps are crutches. If any part of their role is to inspire change in somebody, it's not going to happen. All that you do is make people reliant on them, and everything disappears when the app is no longer around. They&#
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by sjw987 1y ago
Gotta get them hooked early. You really shouldn't need apps at any age to keep you on track with tasks.
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by sjw987 1y ago
They're not just THE emergency services. They're YOUR emergency services. Nicer ambulances, faster response times, and better looking drivers. The bizarre things that our brains choose to remember. It must be that catchy jingle.
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by sjw987 1y ago
Or, if like I experienced yesterday, the most popular train ticket app stutters during peak rush hour and you cannot display the ticket you have actually bought to the conductor and exit gates at the destination. :)
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by sjw987 1y ago
Not everybody wants to carry a smartphone around all the time. If the ID becomes about more than proving right to work, and becomes a daily carry, it's not hard to see the appeal of a government down the line tapping into an always on-
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by sjw987 1y ago
The issue isn't so much an identification system, or a digital identification system. It's just that we're waiting to see if there's going to be a non-smartphone implementation of this, and we're waiting to find out
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by sjw987 1y ago
To each their own. I can see the purpose of a unified platform for Garmin, Suunto, Coros and Polar, because it's unlikely the brands will ever include one another in their own respective apps. I just hate social media-isms like Kudos,
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by sjw987 1y ago
Interestingly a Strava higher up posted their point of view on a Strava Reddit, which was met with a lot of ridicule from Strava users there. They claim that your sports data is yours, and have issue with Garmin requiring their logo or a sn
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by sjw987 1y ago
I really hate Strava. Strava (and anything that replaces it in the same function) exists as a pointless social media layer on top of what Garmin/Suunto/Polar provide. There is really no reason to use it, and I've seen so many
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by sjw987 1y ago
That was Google Takeout! Although in retrospect I did find larger ZIP size options after doing the original export. But it filled Google Drive with 700GB of folders, so I just stuck with downloading the 2GB ones.
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by sjw987 1y ago
It took about a week for me to completely de-Google from scratch. Drive was easy enough to download everything off, but the real pain in the arse was Google Photos. I had something like 250 individual 2GB zip files and the supplementary met
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by sjw987 1y ago
I just sort of wanted to learn how to build (rudimentary) versions of the same apps I've always used made by other companies/people, and like the idea of the data being as clean as possible. I'm a bit of a data purist, so I s
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I just developed a webapp for it. I only used Docs for personal reasons, so my own version is basically just a really stripped down rich text editor. A lot of things I just save to .txt files. It saves (both locally and to self-hosting) to
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by sjw987 1y ago
About a year ago I switched my news reading habits. Now I just read the news on a Sunday (unless I'm doing something much more exciting). For the remainder of the week I don't read the news at all. It's the way my grandad use

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