pymai | 7 years ago | on: How solid is Tim’s plan to redecentralize the web?
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pymai | 7 years ago | on: More than 9M broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued
that does my head in. I have so many videos on most of my playlists that im hardly ever able to guess what the missing video was.
pymai | 7 years ago | on: Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users
a good argument for switching to signal is that you can also use it to send sms messages, which means you don't have to switch between apps as much or at least lets you cut down on the amount of IM apps you have installed
pymai | 7 years ago | on: Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking
im using newpipe on android and adding the rss feeds to newsblur so I can watch on desktop. its actually really good since you get away from their suggestions side bar and autoplay (and the UI).
newsblur let's you organise things into subfolders too which is helpful
the other thing in going to start using is youtube-dl to download my watch later videos and then use something like emby or plex to watch them. maybe do the same with videos that I want to keep so I don't have to worry about then disappearing every second day
pymai | 7 years ago | on: Why I’m done with Chrome
I use Firefox every now and then just for reading articles so my main browser doesn't get bloated with tabs, but it runs far from fantastic on my computer for some reason.
whenever a page loads all the elements move around for a second or two before they settle in their right place. that would crack me up if I had to put up with that all day
pymai | 7 years ago | on: Why I’m done with Chrome
well there's always vivaldi or chromium if you want to slowly wein yourself off google
pymai | 7 years ago | on: Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China
there are other chromium based browsers like vivaldi and brave that might disable a lot of the google crap but i couldn't be certain of the top of my head
pymai | 7 years ago | on: A DMT trip 'feels like dying' – and scientists now agree
I have a vague recollection of someone suggesting small bits of DMT might be released while we sleep and that our dreams are like snack low key trips.
Well dreams are a fairly beneficial things to have especially if you have some epiphany or figure out the solution to a problem you're having.
The near death thing might just be your brain dumping that DMT out of your pineal gland all at once either when your body is shutting down from natural causes or when you are in some kind of traumatic accident.
pymai | 7 years ago | on: Evernote just slashed 54 jobs, or 15 percent of its workforce
maybe a lack of focus as well. just look at those apps they brought out years ago, evernote food and the other contacts app
pymai | 7 years ago | on: EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019
"spring back fall forward" isn't much help either since you can fall back as well as forward
pymai | 7 years ago | on: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise
note station is actually decent enough. there's a web clipper, desktop app, mobile apps, and its pretty much a complete clone of evernote. they even managed to add text highlights before evernote did.
the only thing stopping me from importing everything into it is that there is only 1 export option. they need to add a html option and maybe plaintext
pymai | 7 years ago | on: $600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft
> On Windows it could be in Downloads, Desktop, My Docs
they're all in you're user folder on Windows so wouldn't that be pretty much the same as the root gdrive folder and whatever subfolders you have things organised into?
pymai | 7 years ago | on: What Dropbox dropping Linux support says
I'm thinking of switching to syncthing soon, but I would probably recommend resilio to less techy types since it seems like its slightly easier to use, especially if you are paying the subscription fee where you can have all your folders added on new computers
pymai | 7 years ago | on: How Facebook, Apple and Microsoft Are Contributing to OpenStreetMap
I use both osmAnd and Maps.me from the fdroid store.
Maps.me: https://f-droid.org/app/com.github.axet.maps
osmAnd has a ton of features. maps is more basic but is better for navigation since it has a 3d option
pymai | 7 years ago | on: How Facebook, Apple and Microsoft Are Contributing to OpenStreetMap
I presumed they open sourced it already since the "Maps" app in the fdroid store is the same app just minus some ads or something
pymai | 7 years ago | on: Lenovo Launches Ultra-Thin ThinkPad P1: X1 Carbon Meets Workstation
I've been using a trackpoint for a long while now and I was 99% certain they were superior to everything else but i had been hearing a lot of good things about the surface book trackpads and that they were at the same level as apples so I decided to switch for a while.
its been about 4 months of using nothing but a trackpad and even though its really good im fairly certain I'll be sticking with trackpoints from here on out.
one thing that's really starting to bug me lately is the accidental clicks from your palm hitting the edge of the trackpad. I don't know how people manage with those new macbooks with the oversized trackpads
pymai | 7 years ago | on: Lenovo Launches Ultra-Thin ThinkPad P1: X1 Carbon Meets Workstation
I'm not sure what sensitivity I have it set at but most of the time I'm only moving the tip of my finger maybe half a millimeter at the most. you shouldn't have to press it that hard but it does take a while for most poeple to get the hang of it.
pymai | 7 years ago | on: Google tracks your movements, like it or not
is just second nature at this stage that nova launcher gets installed straight away. export/import the settings and you're all set to go
pymai | 7 years ago | on: Snap’s Drop in Active Users Could Signal a Social Media Peak
the safe network will be live in a few years so don't waste your time on r&d
pymai | 7 years ago | on: Spotify GDPR data export: user receives 250MB containing every interaction
well then sony had been lying to me for years. the last 3 phones I've owned have had waterproof headphone jacks
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there are a few other things too like only being charged to upload files once vs paying a subscription for the rest of your life, or only needing one password for all sites.