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AdamGibbins

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About AdamGibbins

I automate systems. London, UK.

https://www.adamgibbins.com

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    You can, Homekit call it "Adaptive Lighting". It's not as flexible though, you just turn it on and Apple does what it wants - there's no variables you can fiddle with if you don't …

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    I don't use Android anymore but when I did I found the GitJournal app worked well to sync with git, then you could open the files with Obsidian. That predates plugins being native …

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    You honestly don't need one in the UK, filing small claims via the governments site is very easy. They'll auto send a demand letter for you etc. https://www.gov.uk/make-court-claim…

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    You can subscribe to youTube channel pages via RSS. I do this when I don't want to miss a channels videos.

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    My Arq backup lifetime license is 7 years to the date tomorrow, still getting all updates.

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    Edit: Removed initial comment, confused my iOS faults. Keychain its current configuration is risky, given its coupled to your iPhone password which many people frequently enter in …

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    I disabled that as it has some very confusing and undesired behaviour. For example if you're listening to Spotify on your Mac, then get a call on your iPhone you hit pause on your …

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    I use Paypal a fair bit to pay via Amex in the UK, where the underlying store doesn't take Amex but does Paypal. No complaints there.

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    Check LoseIt or Litesum, much more polished app than MFP. Lots in the US seem to rate Cronometer but in the UK its database is terrible.

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    Good to know thanks, I'm in London so might give them a go sometime.

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    Where do you find places with specific lenses? Basically nowhere in the UK seems to call out their lense quality from what I've seen - perhaps I'm just looking in the wrong places.…

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    Drew (sourcehut guy) wrote the original from the look of it, but that's now unmaintained and this is a fork: https://git.sr.ht/~rjarry/aerc

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    That's a poor characterisation, I'm not convinced any developer can say with 100% certainty they've never missed anything in the release notes of their dependencies or had any unex…

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    They're great, been paying them since Google Reader shutdown. Can't fault, great service.

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    You can with NewsBlur: https://blog.newsblur.com/2016/07/01/newsletters-in-your-new...

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    That's being fixed in theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_West_Rail

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    Legally speaking yes, practically speaking however it was in St Petersburg. Their Prague office was tiny in comparison aiui, I wonder if they've since relocated.

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    Increased energy prices absolutely impacts current hardware, especially given older hardware tends to be more energy intensive.

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    > Hardware costs are always dropping, there's no reason for this other than greed. They're not though, there's a load of world happenings currently resulting in chipset shortages a…