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soheb

@soheb@pkutalk.com

Software Developer with #PKU. I made PKU Calculator, and PKU Talk. From the #UK.

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soheb, to random
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Check out PKU Talk videos page.

Full of PKU stuff and... garden animals??

https://videos.pkutalk.com/videos/trending?s=1

soheb, to random
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I'm now making use of my PKU Talk video channel, starting with...

....

A fox eating cat food in my garden (it's a 10 second video clip, super easy to upload)

https://videos.pkutalk.com/videos/watch/671e3eb7-e981-4d7f-b665-1c37f391e2be

soheb, (edited ) to random
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Just watching the election debate on BBC One, and there is a warmth in my heart when The Green Party got a wide round of applause 😌

Now it's time for Have I Got News For You 😃

soheb, to random
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Just found this app for tracking live trains in the UK!

Check out Ontime, the live train tracking app here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zarg.ontime

soheb, to linux
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Just flashing KDE Neon onto a USB stick, and I'm planning to give it a live USB spin to see that (hopefully) nothing breaks 🤞

soheb,
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So I've been using KDE Neon for a bit and honestly I absolutely love it!

It has a ton of sane defaults (finally, the first OS that disables that awful "natural direction" scrolling nonsense!!) and even with the stuff that needed tweaking (like desktop scaling) it was able to handle my weird scaling of 115% - GNOME would freak out over such bizarre scaling!

100% love this OS!

soheb, to random
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So I increased my exchanges from 6 to 7 exchanges, and my levels was... 400umol/L!! Woop woop!

https://pkutalk.com/@soheb/112540412123779295

soheb, to microsoft
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I'm finally caught up on the Microsoft Recall feature coming to Windows 11, and my very first question is who even wants this?

Who has sat there and went "oh yeah, I forgot what I was doing 5 mins ago on my pc and I absolutely cannot spend a few mins thinking about it or pressing the back button to remember" ???

#microsoft #windows #recall #microsoftrecall

soheb,
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@pcublogue apparently it's enabled by default, you have to disable it afterwards

soheb, to random
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Garage key update: turns out someone found the keys outside, then took it home with them, then posted it back to the hotel!!!

The keys are being posted back to me, even though I've had the locks replaced!

ClairTheGinger, to random
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A 7/10 on the blood spot today.

soheb,
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@ClairTheGinger and here is me wishing I can get my bloods to stay in the circle ⭕

ClairTheGinger, to random
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Back onto exercising, I want my body, stamina and bloody knees back 😂😭

soheb,
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@ClairTheGinger I absolutely miss my twenties when it comes to fitness and stamina. 30s me struggles to get up two flights of stairs

soheb, to UKpolitics
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"Tories target pensioners"

I'm sorry, this is news? I just thought this was business as usual!??!?

soheb, to android
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Since I bought an Android phone, I bought myself an Android watch. A TicWatch Enduro.

I got it on Saturday lunchtime, and it's now Tuesday morning with 16% battery life (with the ability to go all the way down to 5%).

As someone who used an Apple Watch for about 2/3 years, I'm absolutely blown away at this thing!

soheb,
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Also, my Android phone (OnePlus Nord 3 5G CE LTE - rolls right off the tongue!!) lasts for multiple days.

I forgot that I don't need to keep devices on charge every single day like I did with Apple devices.

Also, +1 for USB C charging (no need to pay £1k for the privilege)

soheb,
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@Tattooed_Mummy Do they support heart rate monitoring, exercises, Google pay support, and look like a circular watch?

https://www.mobvoi.com/us/pages/ticwatchpro5enduro this is what I got in the end

I know the £20 do health tracking very easily, but some don't look like a ""proper"" watch. Very few do Google Payments (or at least that was the case 3 years ago!)

soheb,
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@Tattooed_Mummy oooh! In that case, I may look at getting one for my dad as he's been interested in cheap smartwatches...

soheb,
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@pcublogue @Tattooed_Mummy as long as they keep putting design over function every single time, the battery issues will never be addressed imho.

Tattooed_Mummy, to random
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Good morning. So glad that beige party isn't a cult. Slightly worried linux might be. 😉

soheb,
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@Tattooed_Mummy Linux folks are group of "intensely" passionate people, but the truth is that Linux is a good OS and has come quite far in recent years in terms of ease of use.

No stress if Linux isn't for you - this is coming from someone who shuffles between macOS/Macbooks and Thinkpad with Zorin OS Linux.

Just do what works for you, basically!

soheb,
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@Tattooed_Mummy LibreOffice isn't bad at all! It's only when you open LibreOffice files made in Microsoft Word in LibreOffice - after EU made the OpenOffice word doc a standard, Microsoft did everything they could to effectively mangle the format to make their docx format usable.

Either save in docx or ensure you use OpenDocument files only in open source equivalents and not Microsoft (gotta love capitalism)

Tattooed_Mummy, to random
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toot from the linux :linux: laptop.and now time for bed

soheb,
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@Tattooed_Mummy 🐧 🐧 🐧 🐧 🐧

soheb, (edited ) to random
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Just finished reading The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides.

Absolutely brilliant - a quick read and a thoroughly engaging book. I don't think I've managed to read a fiction book so quickly!!

soheb, to random
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Just finished reading The Reckoning by Jane Casey.

It's a good book with great pacing. The story is ok, not too thrilling, and some of the characters are a bit stereotypical and 2D, which is a shame.

Still, I enjoyed the book and it's the first time in a while I struggled to stop reading a book!

soheb, to random
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I'm trying to get a bit more veggies into my diet, and the best con I've come up with is stuffing cheese and garlic stuffed olives into mushrooms. Works quite well.

pcublogue, to privacy
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Question: I am using apps to save links and articles. Does anyone know which one would be more respectful of users’ privacy/confidentiality between Feedly and Pocket?
Or does anyone have another recommendation?

soheb,
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@pcublogue I'm not sure if that's used for advertising. It sounds if it is given that Mozilla owns Pocket and they are pretty much a beacon for privacy concerns.

It makes sense for them to collect that on the usual - you have a pocket account, you save links, you search. It makes sense that they store that details. Whether they give it to advertisers is another thing entirely.

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