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Comment on living with less — signing off of major social media by whbeebe

whbeebe — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:41:41 +0000

Thank you for the tip. I’ll check into it.

Comment on living with less — signing off of major social media by hallmerle

hallmerle — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 22:29:37 +0000

I, just yesterday while looking for something else, ran across how to prevent Youtube from making suggestions. Here’s a good Reddit post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nosurf/comments/c26jt9/advice_turn_off_youtube_recommendations_to_stop/

I was actually looking for how to do it on Instagram, which has a similar setting, though I haven’t been back on to see how well it works.

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Comment on animal day journal #8 by whbeebe

whbeebe — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 00:53:26 +0000

Thank you!

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Comment on animal day journal #8 by hallmerle

hallmerle — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 00:37:21 +0000

Kudos for continuing to post with positive intent! The world needs all of that we can muster up these days. Always enjoy your writing and photos. Thank you!

Merle

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Comment on what is wrong with apple? by wjlonien

wjlonien — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 03:55:23 +0000

Can’t say much about Apple devices, because I only had an iPhone SE from my last employer for a very short time (before they decided to clean up Europe and let us all go).

But not too long ago, some contributor of the KDE Connect app decided to fix some code, and – tadaaa – both my Pixel 6a (running GrapheneOS) and 3a (now running LineageOS after the sad demise of DivestOS) lost connections to my main “work” machine running Debian 12 and Arch, with GSConnect for the Gnome desktop. It’s fixed by now, by waiting until the developer updated their update (and a bug report already existed).

I also loved the Pixel 4a due to its form factor, and the fact that it still had that 3.5mm headset connector, but had to let mine go because of the “growing” battery (due to mistreatment from my side, with being almost always plugged into a power source). The 6a is a nice replacement with its 6.1″ display which is far bigger than the 4a but still acceptable. Of course it lacks the headphone jack.

What I loved about that iPhone SE was its size as well, and that the sensors were working better than on the Android devices (the compass app for instance didn’t get distracted from the electric floor heating). Did never like Apple’s software tho, even getting some music from the Linux computer to it (or vice versa) was a real pain, and not possible without using the Apple cloud…

Too bad that DivestOS gad to die last December; that was really the only life saver for older Android devices, almost as good and secure as GrapheneOS (I don’t use any cloud service on mine at all, even my calendar is running on a local Pi5 after I copied it from Google).

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Comment on what is wrong with apple? by Balders

Balders — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 19:40:04 +0000

Fully agree. My wife recently purchased a 16 and since then she’s been unable to share pretty much anything with me especially anything on the fitness app. I think the 16 is as buggy as hell and needs a serious update…

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Comment on attempting to restore an old raspberry pi by attempting to restore an old raspberry pi, second attempt – Arcane Science Lab

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 19:11:03 +0000

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Comment on ubuntu 24.04.2 is running on my raspberry pi 5 by Arc (charchar)

Arc (charchar) — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 03:04:51 +0000

Very Cool, I was thinking of buying a Raspberry PI 5 in the near future for my own project. As I just bought a 3d printer (Creality Ender V3 SE) I am enjoying the linux content keep it up :)

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Comment on animal day journal #3 by wjlonien

wjlonien — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 10:06:36 +0000

Oh, forgot – I always wanted a Pen-F. But since I’m retired and have much less money than before, I also have to do with my E-M10 Mk2 (and some of the same lenses that you also have)…

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Comment on animal day journal #3 by wjlonien

wjlonien — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 10:05:17 +0000

Beautiful photos Bill – showing that what you have is all you need :)

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Comment on coke greenwashing by Marc Beebe

Marc Beebe — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 01:52:01 +0000

Ah ten cent soda in bottles! Now it’s … HOW MUCH? (CDN prices are even more obscene.) No longer sweetened with cane sugar either because corn syrup is cheaper. Something else younger people won’t know is that when plastic bottles first appeared they were a sale flop; the plastic used leeched into the drink and you could taste it – awful!
Yes kiddies when we say some things used to be better back in the old days, we aren’t talking through a rose-coloured haze.

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