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vinw

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    Comment #27371082

    Is this actually an XY Problem? What you really want to do is wire up some ethernet and get a 5 GHz access point in each room.

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    Comment #27353908

    You can use desktop iCloud to get a local copy. From there I use Syncthing to a directory on my server that does incremental backups.

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    Comment #27289342

    > houses have never decreased in value historically Never?

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    Comment #27267837

    > 8 hours a decade, for over half a decade now For a grand total of 4 hours?

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    Comment #27194936

    Possibly stating the obvious, but make sure all your access points are on different wifi channels. Also I know Unifi have a minimum RSSI setting that kicks off clients to a better …

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    Comment #27181493

    What is a "nation state"? edit: Wikipedia says there are around 20 nation states. I don't know why you're picking those out specifically though.

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    Comment #27159975

    Thanks, looks like I've already starred this project on github, but I can't remember why I'm not using it... I think maybe the auth token expires every few weeks and you need some …

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    Comment #27152631

    I'm just trying it out and it seems not, iOS doesn't expose the photos folder to the app. My workaround for this has been to install iCloud on a Windows machine which then download…

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    Comment #27143943

    I guess you mean https://github.com/dfinity/ic

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    Comment #27077691

    Protonmail have a free plan, whereas Fastmail only has a 30 day trial. But at the $5/month level Fastmail appear to be much better value (30GB vs 5GB storage, support multiple cust…

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    Comment #26967022

    At least once a year

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    Comment #26728735

    > it's probably cheaper to buy a new 4 TB hard drive every month The reason for blurays might be that he's following rule 2 of the 3-2-1 Backup Strategy. 3 backups, 2 different typ…

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    Comment #26554781

    Probably this https://www.engadget.com/android-gmail-stop-running-webview-...

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    Comment #26469933

    I started using that since seeing it here and it's great. Also just tried this Surgeon's shoelace bow [0] and it seems good for walking boots, will be testing it out! [0]: https://…

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    Comment #26185146

    For anyone on Android, I never missed any task when I was using COL Reminder [0] which has repeat reminders until you mark something done. Now I'm using iOS the closest I've found …

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    Comment #26125192

    USB-C (Type C) is just the connector type which you can work around with adapters. I guess you're looking for USB-3, but I don't think it should matter if the KVM ports are Type A …

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    Comment #25755474

    Sounds a little bit like Google Wave.

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    Comment #25574144

    It's probably because of the low volume. They've only sold 30 so far, and the R&D costs need to be recovered.

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    Comment #25431178

    Good luck measuring spaghetti in cups. 125g is 4.4oz

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    Comment #25134530

    Have a look at some of the other articles on that site, it is some people's idea of Christian values.

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    Comment #24525753

    Take a look at snapcast if you want to fix your out-of-syncness https://github.com/badaix/snapcast

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    Comment #24181666

    I’ve got esp32s running a simple API over wifi to control a strip of addressable LEDs, with scheduling and some other functionality. Had some interesting problems to solve along th…

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    Comment #24163052

    Probably same applications that require more than 10mbps in non-rural places.

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    Comment #24142184

    They let the Servo team go?! Does that mean Gecko isn't going to see any significant new development?