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mrg2k8
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Comment #42769853
I've encountered this in Cape Verde and ended buying a local SIM off the street for a fraction of the price.
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Comment #40550344
Prompt for ChatGPT to fill the form required by FB to opt out: given and knowing I am a privacy aware person, give me a few phrases to fill the following: - Please tell us how this…
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Comment #39660550
For location history I use https://gpslogger.app . It's open-source, can be found on F-Droid and has many settings.
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Comment #39564845
I started practicing last summer and went on a few via ferratas in Switzerland and Italy. The hardest one was in the Dolomites and required climbing knowledge and upper body streng…
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Comment #38888775
Nice UI, but I got used to googling "14:00 Germany time in Los Angeles", for example.
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Comment #36000070
Nobody mentioned the SmartTube Android TV app, which you can configure to skip sponsored content on top of ads.
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Comment #34066042
I can relate, as I started my career at 16, setting up a small ISP from scratch without any prior knowledge of computer networking and doing the work remotely, part-time since rece…
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Comment #33861814
There are plenty of land borders that employ x-ray scanning, some of which I've been through are: entering Turkey from Bulgaria, entering Turkmenistan from Iran, entering Uzbekista…
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Comment #33424821
I've extensively used Osmand off-line during my overlanding trips, from Cape Town to Europe across west Africa and from Czechia to Mongolia. Why reinvent the wheel?
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Comment #32887995
Last week, during a meeting, I found myself scribbling some notes in cursive some 20 years later since having last used it, the only way we have been thought to write in school in …
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Comment #32835922
"Starting in version 90, Chrome’s address bar will use https:// by default, improving privacy and even loading speed for users visiting websites that support HTTPS. Chrome users wh…
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Comment #32798721
This is quite common in countries that have regulated exchange rates. From some I've visited, Angola and Iran even had websites with the black market rate, while in Turkmenistan I …
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Comment #32324654
Opera does this by default.
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Comment #31962876
May be possible using driftctl and some API calls.
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Comment #31553517
You can get 25 Gbps in Switzerland :)
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Comment #31421921
On this, Opera (for Android, at least) has introduced a "Dark Web Pages" mode that forces all white websites to dark colors. It does wonders!
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Comment #30277324
I used tc, CAKE and ifb for a small ISP router-on-a-stick implementation (around 2000 end-users) and it did wonders with the limited bandwidth I had to work with (around 3Gbps). Mo…
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Comment #29359356
I don't know whether it has been a while since you last used the SBB Mobile app, but it also offers the same functionality: start the trip by dragging a slider, stop it at the dest…
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Comment #29104681
Another day older and deeper in debt
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Comment #29094708
I went on a 84 or 87 hours (with a 3 hour layover in the middle) train trip which in 2018 was around 114 EUR, from Irkutsk to Moscow and it was not such a nice experience. I found …
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Comment #28918753
This reminds me of an impromptu interview I saw with a teenage kid driving trucks in Africa in order to support his family. Found the link: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_f…
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Comment #28537742
5 x AWS certified here (could be 7x tomorrow because I'm missing two entry level certs), with a background in operations instead of development. The AWS certifications have definit…
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Comment #28535775
Extract data from the 10 sensors available on the Texas Instruments CC2650STK SensorTag and then optimize power usage on its firmware. If you want more of a challenge, rewrite the …
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Comment #26098949
In Europe there's azair.eu.