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Several years ago I was looking for something to use as a family chat server. Many of my friends/coworkers were using Slack/etc., but since my immediate family members didn't alrea…

I think it makes sense to write like this if you're intended audience is already used to consuming "thin" desire media.

I had an n800 in college (it wasn't a phone, it was an "internet tablet"). _Loved_ that thing.

is anyone using the preview releases in neovim yet?

Agree with you about fingerprinting (also a bummer). I guess the difference here though is that I must be actively engaging with a website in order for it to be tracking me, but an…

Native phone apps give me the creeps. I assume the developer's are able to track me in various ways even without my giving permissions. Is that an unfounded fear on my part? Can an…

I also use backtick for my tmux leader key. It doesn't create issues for me in the terminal (but you need to tap it twice when you want a literal backtick). This became natural for…

hmm, this didn't recognize me in a private window in either firefox or brave.

What's the best way to get started with Blender these days? I'm mostly interested in making art and possibly even 3d printing some stuff (do these skills overlap at all?).

I'm really happy with the quality of WiFi in my house with the eero (works much better than the smattering of hard-wired access points I used to use ... not sure if that's better s…

I do this in my instant pot (35 minutes at high pressure). I don't salt until I'm using it in a recipe.

> After all I think Android also has a Chrome-only implementation for PWAs, exactly like Windows, that runs PWAs on Edge. This is not true for Android. I am using PWA's with Brave …

I've been running sqlite in production since 2014 (no litestream). It's mostly great. I love how easy it is to backup the database, mirror prod into my local environment for develo…

Backing up sqlite databases is straightforward. `.backup` is a command that you use in sqlite for this purpose. Since you already have a volume for the database, you can backup to …

Oh wow, this is amazing. I had been unable to _swap_ esc and caps lock on the mac until now.

Lame April Fool's joke. It sure would be nice if Snaps would go away though.

After using one of these at my public library, I picked one of these up at Costco (they sell the ET-2850). I love the idea of the concept of the ink-tank printer and I'm happy w/ t…

Thanks Dino team, I am a big fan of this XMPP client.

Similar experience (Google charged me for a phone that was never delivered). I was debating doing a chargeback, but the fear of losing my stupid google account was causing me to pa…

I thought I remembered that too. According to this article ( https://www.newfangled.com/how-gmail-image-caching-is-affect... ) they don't fetch the image until you open it (so only…

To be clear, I didn't opt-in to using them. They were just there. But yes, the point of my post was that they were indeed useful (and I still don't like them).

I get why people do this. I used to use Freshbooks for my billing. They include tracking pixels in their emails, so I could see if a client had opened their invoice or not. If a cl…

You don't need to use a delivery service. It's true you need to set up SPF/DKIM/DMARC for many peers to accept mail from you, but then you can deliver the mail yourself directly.

I love antennapod. My only complaint is it doesn't work well in android's "driving" mode (seems to list all episodes instead of my queue)

My MBP fell off my chair (maybe 18"?) onto a wooden floor and the screen shattered. Not sure what it cost my employer to replace that, but I am extremly unimpressed w/ the durabili…