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While it doesn't fit TFA's premise of 100 on one thing, Patreon is used as a donation platform by many groups, for example i know of several online radio platforms using it (when a…

Depends on the hardware - I run 2x Dell E6330 server-laptops and their BIOS has an option to change the charging configuration to "primarily always on AC" - some Latitudes are desi…

A little late to the article, if anyone is still reading comments I recommend cmus, a console music player with extensive key bindings and library support. https://cmus.github.io/

https://freedns.afraid.org has been running forever and a day, has thousands (?) of domain names donated for use, two APIs (v1 and v2), and the free tier is subsidized by paying pr…

I really like my Anker Bluetooth speaker, it's an old one that just keeps on working, lasted longer than Android phones. Listening to it now, every morning - the Anker love is real…

In the USA, the cheapest option I've found is Tello (T-Mobile MVNO) - $5-6/mo for the absolute basic tier, real SIM with a real (non VOIP) number. Accepts number port-in after init…

I wonder if this is related, specifically the origin and use of the term in the 1890s - it somewhat connects as to why yellow paper was used for advertising, perhaps? https://en.wi…

Everyone has different UI feature desires so ill put that aside for this comment; flexibility is my key reason for Signal losing favor. What the Matrix solution gives me: - chat fr…

The GP commented about using curated sources. One can disable all those (google, bing, etc.) and choose to only enable results from reddit, wikipedia and so forth in searX, which d…

You may be interested in searX - it refers to data sources as Engines; you have the ability to run your own instance (or use a public shared one) and only enable engines you want r…

There exists a (niche?) area of cryptocoins which are rewards for producing CPU / GPU intensive work - one example is GridCoin but many others are put there once you start searchin…

I don't see a specific period of time mentioned in the article which was the death blow for myself and a lot of colleagues; at one point in time instead of restricting it to amount…

A significant amount of systems tooling has migrated from perl to python in modern Linux, RHEL relies heavily on it when you start looking under the covers. The basic python interp…

https://www.scaleway.com/en/stardust-instances/ I am not a fan of the lottery approach and being told you're lucky to do business with them.

It used to be that way. Then they started "forgetting" everyone's setting to turn it off (go back to the original reverse time based feed), then they took the option away. After pu…

I learned of Mojeek via searX use, it has found corners of the Internet which the big 3 have ignored with the same search queries; I find it very useful to balance out all the popu…

> unless you go to a herculean effort to bundle your own Qt build Zoom ships their own copy of Qt in the Linux packages as an example, lives in /opt/zoom next to their code.

Suggestion: lift yourself up without tearing others down. Remove the comments at the end about Matrix leaving a sour taste in your mouth and being buggy: the reasons on this link a…