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Tippon

@ Tippon @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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  • Are you doing something to fuck over "the powerful"? If so, what?

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  • To add to this, Street Complete and Every Door are great for getting started. They ask straightforward questions like what's the house number of this building, or does this bus stop have seating. If you can't answer a question you don't have to, you can just go back and answer a different question instead :)

  • Do you volunteer?

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  • I volunteer at a small music festival. We're trying to help keep the village alive at a time when more and more facilities are closing. I run the website and social media, and take photos over the weekend.

    Taking the photos is probably the most fun, as you get to be part of the festival and watch everyone enjoy the event you set up, as well as watching some of the acts. It's exhausting though, as you don't stop for the better part of three days.

    This year I had a lot to do with booking the acts and liaising with the acts and the venues. That was really interesting, but it nearly killed me. I've got a chronic illness that tires me out, but I thought this would be ok as it's mostly emailing and messaging. I had no idea how many random things have to be organised and rearranged in the run up, or how much can go wrong on the day!

    I'm sticking to photos next year!

  • Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder

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  • I have got a mental picture of a Linux super nerd trying to browse through a text only browser on their oven's display now though 😁

  • Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder

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  • What? Nobody's using their browser on an appliance (except for a handful of masochists with Samsung fridges). I said to most people their browser is on an appliance, as in they treat computers, phones, and laptops like appliances, in that they're mysterious boxes that do a particular job.

    Hardly anyone is trying to hack their appliances, and the majority of people just lump their computing devices into the same category - it does what it was designed for and nothing else

  • Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder

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  • Don't forget that most people don't know that blocking ads is possible. To most people, their browser is on an appliance, like a washing machine or fridge. They know how to do the basics, but that's about it.

  • What you listening to this week?

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  • I usually listen to punk and rock, but today I'm having a boiler replaced, and the gas engineer introduced me to Gold Radio, a UK based station. They've been playing classics from the 50s to the 80s, so I've heard loads of old songs that I haven't heard for years.

    Right now one of my favourites is playing though, Mister Blue Sky by ELO. Possibly one of the best songs of all time :D

  • Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support.

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  • It depends on what you're doing. I've got Mint on my laptop and main PC, and the experience is different on both. On the laptop I tend to play Minecraft and do some basic tasks like taking notes and browsing the web. There's nothing in Mint that really affects that, so it doesn't hold me back at all.

    On the PC though, I've got all of my important software, and some of it has had to be installed manually because the Mint repos are outdated. It's nothing that's particularly difficult to fix, but I know my way around computers. For your average user, it would be too much.

  • DRAM shortage fuels fake GPU scams as China-based fraudsters exploit the supply crisis — RTX 4080 GPU sold at cut price was actually an RTX 3060 mobile chip with fake VRAM

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  • Is it just me or is Tom's Hardware getting really shit lately? This is the third article I've seen where one person has been ripped off and their story is 'The state of the industry! Scams everywhere! 😱'

    One of the others was someone who bought memory that had been swapped for metal weights, and Tom's Hardware tried to claim that it was a new industry scam because of the price increases, and not a one off

  • Wildlife cam setups?

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  • Most of the cameras like this that I've seen have an app that lets you transfer the photos too. The issue is that you need to connect to the camera with Bluetooth, which then turns on the camera's wifi for the full connection. The apps do this automatically.

    I've been wondering if there's a way to run the app from a computer, and connect to the camera through that, but I don't know how you'd get it to wake the camera to allow the wifi connection.

  • What did you stupidly believe as a child?

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  • There was a TV show in the UK called Crimestoppers, where they would show reenactments of crimes to try to find witnesses. I used to wonder why they didn't just arrest the criminals while they were filming.

  • Do any of you actually know someone who legitimately believes there's an actual "War on Christmas?"

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  • I like your style 😁

  • Do any of you actually know someone who legitimately believes there's an actual "War on Christmas?"

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  • At least two people in my friends list have posted the 'It's not Happy Holidays, it's Merry Christmas' meme on Facebook. Unsurprisingly, they're both white guys in their 60s with bald / shaved heads. Both decent guys who help their friends and community, but are sliding more and more into this bullshit.

    It's fucking depressing

  • What are your standards concerning house chores?

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  • There's only one cleaning supply, that's why their family complains

  • What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?

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  • I hate it when the numbers affect each other too, so if you roll back on the minutes, the hour changes too. It's awful.

  • Ulefone Armor 27T Pro - And why I'm not using after 3 months

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  • Ah, that's a shame. Thanks for letting me know :)

  • Ulefone Armor 27T Pro - And why I'm not using after 3 months

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  • Maybe a daft question, but have you tried a factory reset? I've got a Xiaomi Mi 10t Lite 5g that's having a lot of the same sort of problems, but a reboot tends to fix them temporarily. I'm hoping that once I get my new phone at Christmas, I can completely wipe this one, including the cache, and see if that helps.

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  • I will certainly do my best 😊

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  • Thanks to some fantastic help from @irmadlad@lemmy.world and the other awesome commenters on my help request, I got some of my self hosted services running externally, and was able to backup my phone photos while I was away :)

  • Don't forget to send your Christmas Cards

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  • Ah, so he's a daddy