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mukti

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About mukti

http://gross.sh

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    Comment #46170123

    You can kinda get a similar experience to StumbleUpon with marginalia's explore mode - https://marginalia-search.com/explore

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    Comment #45878057

    If you have the files downloaded, picard is also useful - https://picard.musicbrainz.org/

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    Comment #45570033

    I heavily use android's focus mode to keep myself from being too distracted. Originally I tried using app timers, but I found myself just constantly bumping them to the point where…

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    I subscribe to 2600 ( https://www.2600.com/ ) and Eighty ( https://www.readeighty.com/ ). I got a lifetime subscription for 2600 from my parents when I was in high school, and I su…

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    > He said Adaptive Driving Beam (ADB) or glare-free high beams — a system that automatically dims a person's headlights when other vehicles are nearby — is common in Europe and oth…

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    There were quite a few I'll never remember the name of, but there were a lot of different renditions of A Christmas Carol with unknown characters on Cartoon Network or some other k…

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    Comment #42506809

    Some of my favorite memories are the times I got video game systems. Most notibly the Sega Genesis and z scale trains I got in '94/'95/'96 (not sure the exact year, I was very youn…

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    Its not clear to me how much this will help; but based on how tags work, it seems like it should help at least somewhat. I use Privacy Badger on both Firefox on PC and Android and …

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    I imagine its mostly just familiarity if you want to tweak it in the future. There are also a lot of static site generators, and they can be an easy tool to create or modify yourse…

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    Agreed - the edge-to-edge text can seem daunting and be a bit of a pain to read, depending on your display. I used reader mode to make it a bit more managable. Also worth noting th…

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    Comment #40997328

    ListenBrainz Radio can be decent - https://listenbrainz.org/explore/lb-radio/ This is made by the MetaBrainz folks, the same people behind the MusicBrainz database (which is used b…

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    Comment #40042519

    I was considering switching over to Tuta, but haven't spent the time on it yet. Did you end up moving to another provider or hosting your own?

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    Common command line tools are often the best for analyzing and understanding HPC clusters and issues. People have often asked me for tools and web pages to figure out how to unders…

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    I've used Firefox on desktop for years, even through some of the bad times. Today, FireFox is a really great experience and works well everywhere for me, except for some very speci…

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    Yeah - not the OP but I investigated containers and they didn't do what you're asking for. I ultimately ended up installing Simple Tab Groups to get similar behavior to chrome. It …

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    To me, if you compare an interaction with friends as feeling like bribery, I question the friendship a bit. Maybe its just me, but spending money/time/whatever in any way with/for …

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    I think this is especially great for controversial topics/problems too, if it doesn't end with some long term bad result. Coffee is good, and as long as you aren't getting hooked o…

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    We racreset our iDracs monthly. Seemed stupid when I started, but I'm grateful after working with them enough. Newer versions seem to be a bit better than 11th and 12th gen iDracs;…

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    I love Rotring pens and pencils - I used a Rapid Pro mechanical pencil throughout college. Nowadays I use a Rotring 600 or 800 with Ohto ballpoint refills. The knurled grip is grea…

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    This whole situation makes me really angry; but I suppose I should be happy that enough of the ops left and formed libera ~a month ago. I think it is something about the snark in r…

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    > The argument that HTTPS is always available and not filtered is just wrong, anyone who has experience working with large corporations knows that clients use local * certificates …

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    I'm often able to mystify people by fixing something by dropping to a shell and modifying files.. even some developers. I think the one thing that this article points out is how un…

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    I agree - I feel the "post-happiness world" that they're talking about is really just people attempting to find happiness through money and possessions as defined by other people/g…