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Total hodge podge but mostly standard end-user tech gripes and howtos with a splash of education https://bbbhltz.codeberg.page/blog/

agreed If the number of articles in my RSS feed that I need to mark as read isn't an indicator of wasted CO2, it is an indicator of how boring my day will be.

Some are just being hired by competition, some are even being hired overseas [1]. Key word being "some," obviously. [1]: https://neuters.de/technology/they-fire-we-hire-germany-sei…

Not the biggest distrohopper on the planet, but I have been using GNU/Linux since around 2006 so I will throw my hat in the ring with some comments and answers I have seen to simil…

Is this a "Curse of Knowledge" kind of feeling? Like, when you are talking to someone you begin by thinking they will understand, but then realise they do not. Or is it really just…

> they have to be put on watch to check their health condition so they will be separated from their parents side. This is the North American way, I guess? So the question should be…

Yep. (NOTE: Nope.) First you ask Reddit, then ChatGPT, then HN. Then you bikeshed the answers until someone points out some language quirk that passed unnoticed and reveals the ans…

If anyone is wondering, there are a number of choices out there for DAPs and portable music devices. https://www.head-fi.org/threads/hi-res-portable-daps-compari... I have a Shanli…

> I want my private messages to never be seen or recovered by anyone That might be hard, you know, because of screenshots. I am not at all a pro on this, but if you look at the tra…

Not an answer, but https://xkcd.com/936/ (and https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/936:_Password_Str... )

Koyaanisqatsi: haven't seen someone mention that in forever

'The Century of Self' is great. All of Adam Curtis' documentaries are awesome. I also watched that Matt Walsh thing. A little vomit-inducing, but a great example of manipulative do…

I saw this yesterday on /r/AskReddit and bookmarked it too. I am wondering if there is a Parisian hipster version.

I don't live that far from Giverny. I went here once, with my mother, and it happened to be garden replanting day. Everyone was shocked. There were busloads of tourists from far aw…

Time flies. I remember using dwb, as mentioned, and uzbl... and then I remember getting fed up with them because of lack of updates and bookmarking qutebrowser for later which turn…

Absolutely agree with you.

They are not super loud about their work. If you swing by their forum or read the about page, you see they are a small-ish team. They are constantly tweaking things and proposing d…

The fine print says it all, and it is restrictive. But, as someone who has lived in France for about 16 years, I have certainly met people that meet the requirements. Do they want …

Kagi is nice. Mojeek is getting better, they have opened up Focus [1][2] which allows for some tweaking. Searx or Searxng? [1] https://www.mojeek.com/focus/ [2] https://blog.mojeek…

I have watched a small number of videos about this topic. All of the videos make it seem like this is something easy to do: * create account * find victim * make claim * earn money…

I think I've used at least one of your guides before... maybe the one for having mastodon toots? Not sure, would have to double check. Good starter guide!

+1 awful name choice

I go Mojeek, then DDG. I kept forgetting about Kagi. I have a login for that. Yep.com has a different model, I haven't read into it far enough to decide if they actually do as they…

I am a professor too. It has taken me about 15 years to realise that my job is not plagiarism hunting. My institution has almost no ability to enforce plagiarism rules. Many of my …