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Tippon

@ Tippon @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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  • Hamster IT

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  • My laptop's wireless mouse has used the same AAA battery for months, and it gets used regularly. It's not daily, but it's at least a few times a week for an hour, and usually a lot more.

    My wired mouse on my PC gets used about the same amount, but the cable occasionally catches under the corner of the keyboard. It's not helped by the fact that I move the keyboard around depending on what I'm doing. That's also the reason I'm considering a wireless keyboard as well though.

  • If you could "skill trade", what would you trade?

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  • I did something similar with Inkscape a few years ago. I needed a quick logo for something, but wanted to be able to resize it easily. I knocked up something basic, then played with it when I had some free time. I'm still not particularly good, but I can do the basics :)

  • What is your least favourite thing about the fediverse or lemmy?

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  • The seemingly constant multiple posting and duplicates. There are people on here who find a link and post it individually to multiple communities without comment and without cross posting. Three or four times is bad enough, but I blocked someone a while back who posted the same link to about 15 separate communities one after the other. Other people then posted the exact same link to some of the same communities.

    People who post links without any sort of comment too. Lemmy is a link aggregator and discussion forum, but most people ignore the second part. It's especially annoying when it's got a vague title and links to a shitty site with a paywall so that you can't even find out what it's about.

  • Are there any screen protectors that dont reflect?

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  • I don't know why some dipshit has downvoted you, but I've got a matte screen protector for my tablet. It doesn't completely stop light from reflecting, but it doesn't reflect enough detail for you to see your face.

    I hope you get help with the dysmorphia and feel better about yourself soon 👍

  • What band/artist have you seen live more than once, would gladly go see again, and what keeps you coming back?

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  • No worries, hope you enjoy them 🙂

  • TIL that the worst driver in New York City likes to drive around in Brooklyn. He received 259 speeding tickets and paid over $60,000 in fines.

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  • The camera isn't always facing the front of the vehicle, and even when it is, glare on the windscreen can obscure the driver.

    Your first point absolutely stands though

  • What band/artist have you seen live more than once, would gladly go see again, and what keeps you coming back?

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  • If you haven't already, look up Mikey and his Uke 👍

    Mikey is a guitarist in a band, and during Covid he started doing solo shows on YouTube, covering rock songs on the ukulele. He started getting other punk band members joining in, and they did full covers of songs, sometimes getting members of the original band to play too.

    Their cover of Jaded / The Crowd by Operation Ivy is one of my favourite songs, and introduced me to Bad Cop / Bad Cop 🤘😁

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    TIL owning a dog was associated with a 24% lower risk of dying from all causes over the course of 10 years

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  • What if your dog clears old growth forestry to raise a herd of cows? 🤔

  • Worst day of my life

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  • It must have been another reason, or he would have been named Jeigh-Den 🤷🏼‍♂️

  • What is something about how people view or use technology that needs to die?

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  • That's part of my point. For most people, giving Google their data means things like their travel info. The majority of people don't understand that tracking data is different, or what it means. When you tell them not to give their data to big corporations, they think you mean any data, and don't know that they can get data that you might not want shared

  • What is something about how people view or use technology that needs to die?

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  • The thing is though, that most people don't know why that's a problem, and privacy advocates seem to think that 'you've got a door on your bathroom' is a gotcha.

    If someone is giving Google their home address and work address, and planning the route to get traffic data, they're not going to be concerned when Google Maps suggests their work address as a destination through the week. Same for their shopping data. 'Of course Amazon knows what I like, I do my shopping there!'

    We need better ways to explain it to people who don't understand it, and who are not interested in it or the tech behind it. We have a big problem on Lemmy where we tend to assume that everyone understands the same issues as us, just not as well.

  • What is something about how people view or use technology that needs to die?

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  • Or, for my pet hate with FOSS, the instructions assume that you understand the underlying technology.

    'Hey, we've made this fantastic new program for Linux newbs, it's so easy that even your grandma can use it! To install it, clone the repo and pipe the results of awk through sed using grep. You can add flags in the usual way!'

  • What can I do with my old-but-functional android smartphone?

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  • Media player with apps like media monkey

    Just be aware that Media Monkey has issues. It regularly swaps my track numbers for the play count, and has consistently lowered the volume of my tracks.

    I used the volume leveling function, and found out that it was decreasing the volume of all the tracks it had access to. Luckily the originals on the computer were unaffected

  • What can I do with my old-but-functional android smartphone?

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  • I do this by running a MagicMirror server on my media server, and Fully Kiosk browser on the phone / tablet. It's pretty handy in the kitchen, as we're all in there in the morning :)

  • Can you change your body temperature at will?

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  • It's a nice little party trick too. When iphones could first detect heart rates, some of my friends were talking about it, so I said that I could slow my heart rate down. None of them believed me, so I got them to measure it. Once it was done I asked them if they wanted it to be faster or slower. They still didn't believe me, so I did both.

    It's one of those silly little things that isn't really useful, but can shut your friends up for a bit :p

  • In your opinion, what is the best brand of cell phones in terms of quality and price today?

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  • I know what you mean, there was something that changed. I can't remember exactly what happened either though. I just know that I can uninstall a lot of the apps that I couldn't before :)

  • In your opinion, what is the best brand of cell phones in terms of quality and price today?

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  • I had something similar when I first set up the phone, but I disabled it along with most of the other junk. Apart from immediately after an update, I haven't seen it again. Even then it was easy to disable.

    I had an automatically installed games folder after the update too, and that was a bit trickier to remove, but it was just a case of finding it in the settings. I'm stuck with Facebook because of a music festival I'm involved with, but long pressing it and dragging it to the top of the homescreen gives me the option uninstall it. I don't know if it's an actual uninstall or just disabling it, but it looks legit

  • In your opinion, what is the best brand of cell phones in terms of quality and price today?

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  • I've just switched to a Motorola from a Xiaomi, and I'm in the UK. The Xiaomi wouldn't let me uninstall quite a few apps. The Motorola is giving me the option at least

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    Ingenuity

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  • The passing helicopter's pilot :

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  • Would you rather have hundreds of millions of dollars and be acutely aware of all the bad things going on, or a meager yet sustainable life and completely ignorant of everything.

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  • Define donate or give away.

    I've mentioned before that I help run a small music festival, and that it's to help my local area. Raising money for that is a lot of work and takes a lot of energy. Pumping some money in would massively help the festival, which would help me. Would that count as donating, or would it be selfish because it helps me?

    On a similar note, my area is quite poor. If I set up a factory with offices and other facilities that employed the low and unskilled workers at decent living wages, and included child care and employee training and education, would it still count as giving the money away if I made a profit, even if a small one?

    I would be a bit selfish though, I'd build a house and some outbuildings on a large plot of land and soundproof everything completely. I function better at night, but still want to fix up my motorbike and do some woodworking, and I don't want to wake the neighbours.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Need some help with remote access please.

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    Best way to use Onedrive?

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Belter Louder!

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    If you could have every answer to your history based questions, would you take them?

  • Star Trek @lemmy.world
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    What is Calypso? (Discovery spoilers)