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An Important Hypothetical - What Android Apps Do You Install?? (sh.itjust.works)

You’re twelve years old on Thanksgiving at six thirty in the morning. You’ll be leaving for Grandma’s in about a half hour, and she’s lives a three hour drive away, going in one direction. You have nothing to prepare yourself on this journey, other than a tablet running Android Eleven. Beware, the speaker is broken and...

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ReadEra and a bunch of pirated ebooks from libgen. Basically the top 10 of the 3 genres I like most.

Bonus is that books are a few 100kb at most, so even with a poor internet speed I can download them in seconds, no problem.

What do I need to trouble shoot second hand desktop computer? And how?

I traded my cousin some really expensive RAM that I happened accross for his old desktop, that he put his graphics card into that he swapped from his newer computer. If I plug the desktop into the wall and try to turn it on nothing happens. If I open it up I can see that the where the wire from the power supply plugs into the...

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That power connector is not supposed to hang loose in the air. Check the handbook for the mainboard to find out where it’s supposed to connect to.

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Big fan of Copenhagen! I love how walkable everything is, and temperatures are usually just fine. The bike infrastructure is stellar as well.

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I lived in Berlin for almost 4 years and it lost all of the appeal during that time.

It’s hip and cool to visit, but if you actually live there and have to take the subway to work at 7 when all the drunk clubbers are just getting home, reeking of weed, booze, vomit, and piss, it’s not so fun anymore. Plus it’s really really dirty in most somewhat central locations.

Stockholm on the other hand is awesome, fully agree. Might as well throw Oslo and Helsinki into the mix. And Reykjavik for good measure. I really love the Nordics.

Pro tip: Riga is like a cheap cousin of Stockholm. Just as nice at a quarter of the price.

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Paywalled, anyone got an archived copy?

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That Windows store never worked for me. I tried to buy something out of perceived convenience once, and tried to install some freeware once or twice (7zip and something else), and it never worked. On a genuine, activated Windows, that is. Never bothered to try again.

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Stick your credit card under the phone cover and you have tap to pay.

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Above 25 or 30 USD (don’t remember exactly) my bank requires me to enter the pin, that’s just as good.

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Other sources are talking about a hard landing rather than a crash. Apparently they were already on the descent and wind forced one helicopter down in a wooded area not too far off the landing zone. Still doesn’t sound pretty, but at least more survivable than an outright crash.

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I’ve been with wise for a solid decade, never experienced any issues.

My main bank is DKB in Germany since 2004 and I’ve since moved countries 8 times without problems, but I think they don’t allow non-residents to open the account in the first place. Might have changed though, they are solid.

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Was iTunes popular outside of the US? Everyone I know hated they intrusive software and DRM that prevented you from playing the songs elsewhere. Don’t think I know a single person who actually purchased music there.

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Just leaving this comment here to find your add-on again when I’m on my desktop, sounds great!

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Did they switch off old.reddit.com in the end? That was the only useful front-end on desktop.

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Ok at least something. Not going back, but that was always the last potential nail in the coffin.

Obscure screw added so appliance cannot be disassembled (lemmy.world)

Basic blender went bad (motor ran but spindle wasn’t rotating). I wanted to disassemble to see if it could be repaired. Three of the four screws were Phillips head. I had to cut the casing open in order to discover why I couldn’t unscrew the fourth. It was a slotted spanner.

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So you use the dremel to cut a groove into your screwdriver instead.

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I’ve always hoped somebody would create basically a clone of Reddit, but without the politics and without being overly-policed. Where people aren’t pushed away for respectfully voicing their opinion. Is Lemmy the answer?

If you block sufficient leftist/marxist instances and communities, you might not notice that this is essentially a socialist fanboy wannabe utopia.

I’d suggest to browse Lemmy by new, block a lot, refresh a couple times, and then eventually arrive at a curated, sanitized feed.

But Lemmy is far from unpolitical, merely a different color.

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I don’t see a need for that in your field.

Posting scripts that work for your personal setup is actually something I would consider a security risk as it’s giving details about your concrete infrastructure and configurations away.

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How am I supposed to read those savings targets?

Generally I like metrics to see how I compare, but those US-only ones are pretty useless.

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Ah ok, gotcha. I’ve set my own milestones based on a relative savings rate in such a way that x% monthly savings equate to y years of earlier retirement. Never thought of doing it in terms of multiples of annual income since those include my savings rates, and my actual cost of living are significantly below my income.

Why does Sync not display some comments?

I’ve posted something today and somehow Sync gives me notifications in my inbox for replies to that post, but when I open the post, it can’t find any. I can interact with them just fine in the inbox and in the browser. But in Sync on the post, the number of replies is shown to be 4, while the comment section states that no...

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Comments are cached until you reload, to reduce the traffic. Open the comments view of the post and pull down to refresh, then you should be able to see them all.

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Sounds like mail.yandex.com should work for you. It’s the Russian copycat of gmail, basically. But they allow anonymous signup with a “don’t have” option for phone numbers, and they have next to no trackers on the website. That ones they have are easily blocked.

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All of those are for the yandex browser, which is a dedicated app.

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I gave up on the way of kings twice, 400+ pages in and nothing happens. I get that it’s a massive saga that requires a ton of world building etc., but all of his other books are much easier to lean into.

At this point I’m not sure I’ll try again.

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