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Tech journo, newsletter publisher, yacht rock appreciator, fast food enthusiast. Tell me about your cool indie games and DOOM mods!

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Three ways to make Google more tolerable:

  • @ernie's UDM14 trick
  • An ad blocker
  • Sign out and compartmentalize your Google account

Step-by-step instructions here: https://advisorator.com/members/three-steps-to-fix-google-search/

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@Aaron @ernie I find it easy in some ways and tricky in others, especially if you value cross-platform instead of just locking yourself in with Apple instead.

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@Aaron @ernie For sure, it's just hard to get 1:1 replacements and there are trade-offs in many cases. I'm paying Kagi and Proton for services I used to get free or cheap from Google (and still have one foot in my Gmail account). Have not found a great alternative to Google Photos. And I'm not giving up my foldable phone.

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As long as we're disenshittifying Google, a reminder that ad blockers work wonders. Pictured: uBlock Origin disabled vs. enabled.

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My father-in-law had a never-opened, 48-year-old GE radio in his garage. No pairing, no logins, no setup. It just works.

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This is gonna take a while…

Slowly working on getting my music into Plex to ultimately create my own hybrid Apple Music / self-hosted music library. I’ll likely never stop using Apple Music simply for the power of discovering new stuff.

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@Aaron FWIW, although Tidal sucks as a standalone app, it is pretty great as an integration with Plexamp. Your library still takes precedence in the UI but you'll see Tidal content when searching for stuff not in your library, or on artist pages where they have additional albums you don't.

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@Aaron Wonder if you can do iTunes > Last.fm, then connect Last.fm to Plex.

Yeah, I kind of lucked into a free Tidal subscription for a few years (cheap promo subscription via Best Buy, which never actually ended after I cancelled) but they finally caught wise a few months ago. Hardly ever used Tidal's app but it was a great supplement for my Plex library.

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@Aaron Oh nice. So, can you get it to associate your playlists etc with the songs in your actual library?

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it's beautiful

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I bought udm14.com. Check out what I put there.

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@ernie lol this is brilliant

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Tip: If you want a suck-free Google experience, set this parameter as your default search engine.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14

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@ernie @jhpot Brilliant! Meanwhile I'm still waiting for the web toggle to roll out to me. (Using this shortcut fails in the meantime.)

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@ernie @jhpot Indeed it does! Maybe I should mess around with Firefox containers so I can search while signed out.

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Oh man did this random comment resonate with me. There is so much low-hanging fruit to make OSes more useful and productive, but it's all thankless work that will neither move stock prices nor get PMs promoted, so we get AI gimmickry instead.

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Like, the only-way to get system-wide text undo on Android is by switching to a Japanese keyboard - https://9to5google.com/2023/12/22/gboard-undo-key/

Unclear if that's getting fixed. But at least your keyboard will be able to spew out boilerplate text in your group chats!

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You know what's cool about Mastodon? When someone posts a link, it's just ... the link. Like the real actual URL and not some inscrutable shortened junk that mainly exists to track you and/or throttle competing social networks

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2024 iPad decision flowchart

Originally seen here - https://advisorator.com/members/2024/05/14/5-14-2024-the-ipad-decision-flowchart-2024-2/

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There's also an Apple Pencil version

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For those who are tut-tutting iOS emulation as piracy, here's a homebrew Tetris-like ROM you can download for free https://mhughson.itch.io/from-below

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So this seems like it'll be the first real test of whether Apple will allow emulator apps with BYO ROM files. No copyrighted imagery, not blatantly ripping off another dev, picking up press coverage. If this stands I suspect the floodgates will open - https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/16/bimmy-nes-emulator-is-the-latest-game-emulation-app-for-iphone-ipad-and-mac/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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Or not. "I’m so sorry everyone. I removed the app out of fear. No one reached out to me pressuring me to remove it. But I’d rather not have the risk"

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/nes-emulator-for-iphone-and-ipad-now-available-on-app-store-removed.2424326/page-2?post=33074585#post-33074585

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Okay, here's the real test. It's Delta from @rileytestut actually in the App Store! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/delta-game-emulator/id1048524688

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Microsoft PowerToys is about to get larded up with some AI BS, isn't it?

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PowerToys is the only indisputably great thing Microsoft has added to Windows in recent memory, so of course I look forward to it being imminently ruined somehow

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Whoa, immich is really good.

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@ernie I've been wanting to try this. But would it kill any of these self-hosted photo solutions to offer a fully-contained install instead of just being like "lol good luck with Docker"

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@ernie I've messed with some Docker stuff before. But anything command line becomes a lot harder to recommend to other people.

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