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vaishaksuresh

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    Comment #43645870

    I don't have the requirement of owning my data and I've solved this in a simpler way. 1. Create a shared family calendar 2. For things that need to block work calendar, invite my w…

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    Comment #31852392

    Do you mind sharing what treadmill you use?

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    Comment #27507096

    Published in 2012. lol! good times!

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    Comment #21208561

    I've opened 200+ panes across 3 monitors, broadcast to all of them to update a configuration and saved. That saved me a lot of time, either building automation or ssh-ing to all of…

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    Comment #20310534

    I know a lot of people use One Note, might be worth considering. My use-case is not that heavy right now, so just it is just notes for me at the moment.

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    Comment #20307303

    I took all my grad school notes and audio recordings in Evernote. I even paid for additional storage. Then they decided to abandon loyal customers and charge subscription for just …

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    Comment #19618777

    Everything, including apps. Although, recently YouTube has been bad for me. Earlier i would almost never see ads on YouTube. I just pay Hulu more, so I've not tested that.

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    Comment #19618662

    Look into PiHole. That is what I have, some ads still get through, but for the most part, ads are blocked across the network.

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    Comment #19533587

    Works only for US citizens and Permanent Residents.

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    Comment #19120254

    I am a paying customer for multiple streaming service. I pay more for ad-free experience on Hulu. My problem is not with Ads, my problem is with Tracking, which is not the same. Th…

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    Comment #19117778

    Ads and Tracking are two different things. Just because you don't see ads related to the tracked data in spotify does not mean that information is not used by the third party elsew…

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    Comment #19056288

    Agreed, we regularly do 500+ MB/s bytes out on 12 broker cluster and we've tested more than twice that. We've seen brokers handle close to 5GB/s before performance degraded.

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    Comment #19056226

    As it stands today, AWS' managed kafka is very limited. Single region and no TLS is a non-starter for a lot of places.

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    Comment #17425519

    Have some perspective man! in the bigger scheme of things, one user does not matter to Apple. Buy what works for you.

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    Comment #17259280

    It isn't pointless whitespace. There is an iframe there that isn't probably loading Code: https://imgur.com/vKskTnz Iframe Contents: https://imgur.com/x0WqzmI

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    Comment #17257103

    The type that offers no facts and gives anecdotal evidence to support the opinion?

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    Comment #17208355

    Works for everything that goes through your router if you set your router's DNS to be the piHole's IP.

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    Comment #17197679

    In my home network, I run https://pi-hole.net on a Raspberry Pi that is plugged into a USB port in the wall where it can't be seen. Almost all generic ads are blocked and those tha…

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    Comment #17138713

    Yay personal attacks! There is a difference between being an asshole and being an asshole on tv/radio/twitter. The only way LBJ was same as Trump would be, if LBJ went on TV everyd…

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    Comment #17137736

    He is many things, but honest isn't one of them.

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    Comment #17136644

    To be fair, no president was this rude. at least, not in public.

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    Comment #15925016

    Computer malware was not a concern many years ago, do you also tell people to not take precautions against them?

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    Comment #15883362

    I'm conflicted about Alexa. I keep it muted most of the time. It is also plugged into a smart outlet that switches it off every night and wakes it up every morning. I still can't s…

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    Comment #15757958

    I get what you're saying and that is my point.