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bandwidthcrisis

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  • What Happened To Duracell PowerCheck?

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  • Well the pros and cons of the multimeter are addresses in the video! He uses a meter on a dead battery and it still shows a deceptively reasonable voltage when not under load. The built-in tester draws more current.

  • What Happened To Duracell PowerCheck?

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  • They are mentioned in the video.

  • Microsoft officially recommends a new PC and OneDrive to update to Windows 11

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  • My god. It really does!

    Oh no! I left notepad.exe open. That cursor was flashing on and off for hours! I'm sorry everyone!

  • Microsoft officially recommends a new PC and OneDrive to update to Windows 11

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  • I once ran the windows Troubleshooter to get an old scanner working, and the final page told me to but a new scanner!

    I plugged it in to a mini PC I use as a backup server and the scanner worked fine with Linux.

    And another recommendation issue: I noticed that my Windows laptop has a "reduce your carbon footprint" settings section that tells me to reduce power settings, screen brightness etc. but it's completely lacking a "stop giving me AI search results in Bing" section.

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  • I got bad news about who owns Venmo.

  • Google is testing verified checkmarks in search

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  • I don't even mean browsing! Just trying to install something.

    I search for "NordVPN" (because all the cool YouTubers use it!) and the first result is "Norton 360" with an install button.

    It's a "sponsored result" and it's easy to install the wrong thing if you're used to it actually finding the thing you just typed in.

    If I put Firefox. I get duckduckgo. Okay, maybe not so bad and pretty obvious. But I've had these things for apps that almost look like the legitimate one.

  • Google is testing verified checkmarks in search

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  • Now if they could just stop putting ad results above the app you search for in the Play store.

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    Review of a tester extracting the functionality of USB-C cables

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  • So is this review based on a prototype?

  • To Americans: How far apart is everything in the US?

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  • I moved from a UK city to a town on the edge of Dallas.

    There was a crossroads with a strip mall. grocery store, dentist, food places etc, about 15 minutes away, but it was often too hot to walk. Anywhere beyond that was too far to walk.

    Everything was so spaced out there. All the shops were surrounded by big parking lots. It was hard to even perceive that I was on a street with shops, at first, because everything was so far away from the road.

    Now I live in a quiet street in suburb of LA. There's a main street about 10 minutes away. So within 20 minutes walk I can visit restaurants, grocery stores, etc. Even a British supplies store to get real chocolate. Bus stops, library, doctors, dentist, opthalmologist, and a hospital, too.

    But if I want a big department store, I'm driving 15 to 30 minutes.

    The broader LA area doesn't really have a center, just clusters of shops and malls at bigger crossroads. It seems endless. I could drive 50 miles to Newport Beach for vacation and never be outside a city.

  • Proving that you're a Trekkie

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  • Lower Decks answer:

    "Cerritos, Burbank, Anaheim , Fresno , Sherman Oaks, Riverside, Culver City.... Riverside, Santa Monica... Just tell me when to stop."

  • Best phone sync

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  • I'm trying the fork now, thanks. So far, it's behaving. Thanks for the pointer to the logs, I'll take a look if it happens again.

  • Best phone sync

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  • Thanks. I'm giving that a try!

  • Best phone sync

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  • Good to know. If I can get it working reliably, it will be worth sticking with. Someone suggested it might just not be auto-starting on reboots. I'm trying the fork of the UI on f-droid to see if it helps.

  • Best phone sync

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  • I have the phones connected, but the app just decides to disconnect and stay that way until I check it. I'll give that fork a try, thanks!

  • Best phone sync

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  • I could live with a few minutes, but it's showig as offline for days. Maybe it is failing after a reboot. At least that would be a known situation to watch for.

  • Best phone sync

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  • The only setting I see is "allow background usage", which is on (I'm using it on a Pixel 7 and 8).

  • Best phone sync

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  • Well, it's not versioning I need (I have an rsync backup that makes incremental copies). I need a 2-way sync that happens when files changes and doesn't randomly stop working: I want to edit a note on my phone - it copies to the server. Edit on the server, it updates to the phone. Without having to manually run any separate syncs first. I only mention sync conflicts because right now, syncthing hadn't updated with my phone for over 2 days, plenty of time for me to update a note elsewhere and then edit the same note on the phone.

    Resilio does it, but it looks like it's draining the battery. Syncthing doesn't drain the battery much, but that's because it has become inactive on two different phones for long periods of time repeatedly.

    Cloud provider apps usually work instantly with little drain, they must trigger from OS notifications, but the apps that sync to local servers just don't seem to work that way!

    Git is a great solution just for versioning. After I messed up a big note file I had, I set up emacs to hook git into the save function. I just created a repo in that directory, then backed up the whole directory including .git, so the versioning was there with the backup. No need to even use a separate repo, git just gave me a version history for the local files.

  • Best phone sync

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  • Thanks, but I really need a seamless automatic sync. I think that's a manually-triggered file send?

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  • Do you use it on a phone too? I did find it tricky to set up (more options than I really need, and the phone app settings don't really work unless you select "Web UI", which is really strange), but I didn't mind the setup if I could then leave it alone and it works. Ideally I want to set this up on other family phones, so I can update notes and they appear everywhere.