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unnervingduck

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    Comment #47625956

    I was looking into Posteo a while back but was turned off by the recycling of addresses. After leaving the service it's available to anyone after a fixed time.

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    Comment #46150515

    The experience varies by country, here in Finland I haven't had a single banking app complain about an unlocked bootloader or a custom OS.

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    Comment #41274922

    How can you do that? I've wanted to enable reader mode by default on Firefox but AFAIK it's not possible yet, so I just forget it's existence.

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    Comment #40731701

    MQA going away is probably a good thing, I never saw the appeal. Proprietary, requires licensing fees, why would you use it over the free and lossless FLAC?

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    Comment #40563225

    I've settled with this one because it's really fast and preloads images, which makes looking through thousands of time-lapse photos a doable task, just holding the arrow key.I'd li…

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    Comment #40397303

    I use Obsidian myself, which simply stores text in Markdown files. It essentially shares all the pros of plain text: it'll be readable in the future, I'm not stuck with a single pl…

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    Comment #40364391

    What a coincidence, earlier this week I thought about changing the tires on my MTB to better suit my riding style, and I wondered if there are sites with extensive tire reviews.

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    Ask HN: Custom email domains for personal email?

    I've been considering getting a custom domain for my email so I wouldn't be tied to a single email provider, how have you set it up? The registrar and the TLD have to be something …

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    Comment #39841225

    Agree, I feel like there must be a better way to achieve what Flatpak does. I love it because it's the only major app platform on Linux that offers some form of sandboxing, but the…

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    Comment #39814647

    Most of the time the built-in emoji search works for me. Discord, Telegram etc. can show emojis by just putting the keyword between colons, iirc KDE, Gnome, Windows all have an emo…

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    Comment #39559268

    It's nice to see that they changed their stance on MicroG and signature spoofing, IMO they were a bit too hesitant against it. It's implemented in a safe way fortunately, so that o…

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    Comment #39394850

    I've noticed the same and it's really frustrating, it just straight up redirects to the login page sometimes. I guess I'll have to accept the fact that it's closing down, visitors …

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    Comment #39274831

    This seems to be old news but they probably did staged rollouts as I only noticed it today. It's nothing surprising to see everyone copy the Tiktok format, but it takes some audaci…

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    Comment #39190085

    Just found about this handy extension and thought you all might appreciate it. Never thought I needed it but recently I've seen so many bs channels in my search results, when searc…