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Your argument sounds like the nirvana fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy

I did.

I had a dead screen on a phone, so I was able to enable screenreader mode, used that to navigate to enable USB debugging and allow scrcpy screensharing. That process cost me a coup…

So, no one here is a professional creative? In the print industry you can't avoid Adobe for one tool: Acrobat. You need professional PDF creation with profiles, preflight tools, ed…

To your point: What I am missing with Signal: Choice to always store media locally on the phone. What I miss with most messenger apps: Archiving old stuff and offload it to a remot…

Counter: Backups for TOTP are easy and you can use multiple devices/services for a single TOTP login.

I just had a strong use case: a broken screen. A combination of Google Assistant, Talkback, USB-C-to-USB-A-Adapter and Keyboard, a Bluetooth keyboard, scrcpy, Anydesk and a new Pix…

I would need the opposite: The volume on my Airpod 2 are waaaaay to low on my Samsung phone. No problem with the Airpods on an Ipad or with my Bose QC II on my mobile. Bluetooth is…

If AI or LLMs or similar would be everywhere... how much more renewable energy do we have to produce, for very little to no gain in so many cases? Madness!

I love OrganicMaps but lacks in certain situations. When I want to be able to zoom into any and all of my bookmarks, I have to keep the map data of all countries I've ever been vis…

Isn't this already the reality in the mobile space? I own a rooted Samsung device and have to jump through 100 hoops to be able to use my banking app or Netflix or some rando game …

One option is for sysadmins and IT shops serving SMBs to preinstall Firefox on workstations. That way users get used to the browser and might use it privately as well. Bonus: Prein…

> so I'm hoping to find a Photosync system that will only upload when on my home wifi and charging. Any suggestions there? Syncthing

I would like to test that but when clicking different links I get mixed results. The URLs get modified alright but a lot of referrer info seems to not get removed. I guess its just…

Question: When I click in my Gmail android app on a link from a received E-Mail, the opened Firefox browser opens a google domain for a second and only after that the domain from t…

I'm big into archiving. It's almost autistic how perfect I want my media to be named and tagged and bpm'ed and with fitting cover art and so on Foobar with the that wealth of addon…

Ha, I even moderated a german IrfanView forum back in the day until I switched to Faststone Viewer. Almost forgot.

I tried to use Wine on MacOS for 4 beloved Windows programs I still cant live without 10 years after I moved away from M$: - Foobar2000 (unfortiunatly very CPU heavy with audio pro…

It is a little more problematic than that: The Gematik GmbH is in part managed (owned?) by the German ministry of health [0] and some health organizations like the Association of S…

Using it on MacOS for years (not for system) and fairly recently for ZFS on root on Ubuntu. I love it but two problem I ran into on Ubuntu: 1. Docker failed bcs of the custom imple…

Stupid question: How to mitigate loss of phone, lets say on holidays?

I wonder how the online world would look like if it were probibited to monetize user data. How much would one have to pay for a rich online life with Faceboook, Twitter, Google Mai…

Yea I have a 2009 Macbook laying around just for screen share to my work hackintosh. VNC Linux/Windows > MacOS is so incredibly painful and unusable: Multimonitor: No. Correct scal…

an underappreciated feature in Keepass are URL overrides so you can autorun RDP sessions, SSH sessions, SFTP sessions in other apps with filled in credentials. If Bitwarden had thi…

Are you saying I could for example start an RDP session with autofilled credentials? I just LOVE the Keepass feature CTRL+U with 'URL overrides' to open rdp, ssh, vpn or ftp sessio…