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In New Zealand we have a Shielded Site popup at the bottom of all government websites, and many popular privately owned websites too. E.g. go to govt.nz and scroll to the bottom. T…

Making a little static site to document the AV setup at my church. Started with just an html page with buttons for shortcuts. Added a few paragraphs and then got tired of writing h…

Thank you for sharing. Not yet 30 here, but I can feel myself getting older under the stresses of life. It's an uncanny feeling. We all have different experiences and lessons. One …

What good is a replaceable battery if the device becomes obsoleted by changing communication standards first? How long before 4G and 5G are phased out? What if we could have forwar…

IGPlus worked much better for me on Instagram. https://weblxapplications.com/en/products/igplus For facebook I love Facebook Purity. Only problem is it's desktop only. https://www.…

I use timelimit.io for managing screen time. Nice granular controls and schedule based rules. I apply the 80/20 rule. 8 minutes allowed, followed by 2 minutes blocked. Then at nigh…

This works on Firefox Mobile. I use it on Android and my Desktop without any issue. I'll add also, for the odd thing that this doesn't filter, then I use uBlock Origin to filter th…

Great! The more solutions to filter unwanted content on the internet the better. Sometimes we find ourselves stuck having to use a particular platform because that's where the grou…

I'll just add this tip for those who struggle with this sort of thing. I leave the empty basket in front of the machine, which for me happens to be somewhere where I'll pass by fre…

Selfhosting via yunohost, especially loving Immich and Actual Budget. I'm not in IT but I use Linux and it has been easy enough for me to set up. Also making personalised Christmas…

Warnier Orr Diagrams. Too early for the internet and adoption into UML. Think flowcharts crossed with pseudocode but following Structured Programming principles. Very useful for mo…

As a user of QCAD I am more than happy to pay the extra for the features in the commercial version and support the developer (Not vastly different but adds a few tools that make ce…

Very addicting game. I love it. One of the things that made 2048 great was that you could spam the keyboard to play it more quickly. This game could benefit similarly with additon …