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Kagi allows you to set the priority of domains, as well as some other tuning. Though it is in beta at the moment, and the plan to charge for use eventually.

My domain registrar provides free, simple mail hosting with a domain - maybe yours does too?

I've used https://openaudible.org/ to download my Audible library before, if you want a fairly simple GUI.

"Freezing" and "freezer cold" aren't the same temperature - I'd generally consider "freezing" to be about 0°C, where a freezer should be at most -18°C in order to stop food from sp…

If you're using an iPhone (dunno if Android has a similar feature), you can enable "silence unknown callers" in the phone settings. Then anyone not in your contacts or suggested co…

You can generate URLs that pre-fill Google Forms, they're just ugly and have the all the pre-fill in the URL as query parameters

Have you seen devices like https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cosmo-communicator#/ (and their previous version https://planetcom.squarespace.com/device )? I keep being slightly tem…

I've locked down developer workstations before, to prevent things like "connect a USB stick and take a copy of data/code". We did allow running your own VM, where you could be root…

I found that it didn't work on WiFi networks that block client-to-client connections, if that gives you any pointers.

The main thing I notice break when I enable things like "no cross origin cookies" is history on the AWS console. Stuff like "roles you've switched to" and "services you've used rec…

I'd expect it depends on the source - a retailer like Amazon or a local supermarket could well send a daily offer that's interesting/useful. A more niche store might struggle to se…

Mine has a "hold button for 5 seconds" type override - don't know if that's universal though.

The figure of 8m for Top Gear must be UK only - I've seem 350m viewers claimed for some series/episodes.

If it helps, molly-guard [0] aims to prevent this kind of "oops". Back in the days of running co-located kit, we had that on the host boxes for the "oops, that was the host rather …

$2.50/gal would be a massive price cut in most of Europe. A quick glance suggests that petrol is around 1.359 €/L in Germany at the moment.

I do see that site will happily sell me software, with a variety of payment methods, to a huge list of countries. Some TV/film/(to a lesser extent) music is not available at all to…

Lower upload vs. download speed is an inherent technical limitation of the technologies (generally) used for domestic Internet connections - xDSL/Cable. From the ISPs perspective, …

I've never really understood the desire to use the button on the display to turn off monitors - does allowing the monitors to be switched off by the OS not solve basically the same…

I've not tested it, but it should expand just like anything else. The effect would broadly be that running "rm *" in the directory would recurse into subfolders without warning.