I can’t switch from Celsius to Fahrenheit, the switch just reverts. I do think it looks beautiful and has weather stats that I use when I bike but other apps don’t always have (air quality, UV) .

My city floated the idea of pothole decals a decade or two ago. It never happened, but it would have been bad. Lots of rear endings predicted.

When the UI crashes, it sometimes throws up a dialog with “copy URL to crash log”. I just cut and pasted from there.

I have seen many run it as an ATM transaction rounded to the nearest dollar and refund the change in cash. I saw this in two states.

Having said that. I love cash only businesses. Visa and the other CC companies have way too much power. We should all go back to cash tomorrow, but we won’t.

I ran a business, not weed related, that was cash only for the better part of 5 years. When I started taking cards I made sure cash and bitcoin were also options. The only downside was going to the bank every week to grab stacks of small bills for change. The upside was never having to deal with credit cards and every payment settling instantly when the cash changed hands. Under $100, cash is king.

Both interesting articles. Thank you for sharing.

I will check the next time I go to the store. I haven’t actually had the WiFi menu up because I just toggled from the quick tile.

Yes, I forgot to mention in the post, but turning WiFi works, only if I also turn off “detect high quality networks” and “turn WiFi back on when high quality network is detected” or whatever those options are.

Hmmm, that’s a theory. I’ll see what I can do to find all the APs and figure out if the WiFi chip in my phone has a known limit. I don’t think I have enough old routers to crash it myself. :-D

Do you feel the same way about Mastadon? Twitter was the “look at me” social media. I feel like you just shout things into the void and people give you points for agreeing with you. Its impossible to carry on a real conversation on Twitter (a proper threaded message board like Lemmy excels at this). It seems tied in with the cult of personality whereas we need to shift to a culture of ideas.

I’m probably just a stupid millennial who doesn’t get it, but Lemmy seems like the only really good fediverse structure.

Good luck to the creator. Pixelfed works well for me, despite being a bit empty, both on my instance and globally. The bones are there though and I personally prefer the way it works over Mastadon’s Twitterish format. I wish I could use Mastadon more because that’s where the mist fediverse users seem to be, but even decades later, Twitter style interfaces do not make sense to me. I’m a smart, nerdy, millennial, who grew up with computers. I can make sense of the IRS’s 1040 form without using turbo tax, but for some reason I can’t make sense of this horrible illogical interface that millions of people love.

In regards to the tiktok tok style app, I think it’ll have a good chance of success simply because it is TikTok’s less assholey cousin and even though many people will trade privacy for functionality, tiktok is about due to become a lame, cringe app for old folks.

I was able to quickly set up and use whisper (base) using Speech Note without issue and it saved me over 80% of what I would have had to manually do. Thank you for the recommendation.

Love the sketch and the picture. Us Germans call them “wimmelbilder” and they tend to be super colorful, high detail, picyures for kids (and adults) to stare at and find more and more stuff. The R site had a community dedicated to them that was pretty cool. Would love to see one here.

In my opinion, one of the strengths of your design is the contrast of old and new. The skatepark makes me think of Burnside in Portland

Hell yeah, walking the walk AND talking the talk! Good on ya.

Daily computing is mostly FOSS programs and my laptop is sold with Linux preinstalled (though I bought the higher spec Windows version and installed Linux myself. Cloud is FOSS, self-hosted in the public cloud (until I get fiber). Phone is rooted Android w/ FOSS apps wherever they meet my needs. I’m about 50% through degoogling and de-Microsofting. Ereader is KOReader (FOSS) running on old Kindle brand hardware. Keyboard is Ergodox Ez which I think the firmware is FOSS. Smarthome is still Smartthings which is not FOSS.

I’m going to give myself a C- 70% FOSS

This guy has mad FOSS cred. I bet even his socks are made of free range organic open source wool released under a Creative Commons attribution share-alike licence.

Seriously though, that sounds like an amazing setup. I always wanted to mess with gadget bridge some more. I have a number of old MiBand devices lying around as well as a Bip. The third party apps for that thing had more features than almost every fitness tracker I’ve had potentially even including my Garmin watch. What tools do you use to analyze/review/visualize the gadget bridge data?

Urbanists.video is what I’m binging now. As a child, I wanted to be a transportation engineer and as an adult I’m a frequent cyclist, so I find this stuff interesting. Plus, most of it is in English when many peertube instances are not.

Recently I found some peertube instances that had good quality content that was interesting to me and had more of a chance to test drive it than I have in the past. Very nice!

My Logitec MX Master devices can be configured on Linux via Piper. Logitech Options (the official software) is for Windows and I’ve never messed with it, even on my Windows devices. The two MX Master devices I have work plug and play and having 2 Bluetooth connections and a dongle channel lets me easily switch between my computers without swapping mice. Apparently with the official software, I could drag the mouse from one computer’s desktop to another, but I’m happy to mash the little button on the bottom to tab between devices if it saves me having to interact with another hardware manufacturer’s half advertisement/half utility app.

Still using a 5 year old laptop with no degradation in performance and expecting at least another 5. All I had to do was uninstall some malware that was eating up all the system resources and popping up a bunch of ads. It was called Windows. :-D

Good point. If I know it’ll meet my needs, I’m sometimes inclined to buy tech that’s a few years old, especially if the newer version just adds cloud, AI, or something else I don’t want/need. In many cases it’s still marketed the same so I think end of support dates should be clearly marked on the product itself so the consumer can make an informed choice. Intentionally bricking a device should be treated as littering and the company should be responsible for disposal fees.

Linux is a different story because of the volunteer presence. If anything Linux should get subsidies for keeping e-waste out of landfills after the manufacturer has long abandoned the product.

My laptop is about 5 years old now and still runs as fast as the day I bought it, if not faster. I replaced the battery twice, but this thing could go another 5-10 years if I don’t drop it or spill something on it.

Also, the worst hemmeroids ever and a special CEO diet consisting of nothing but exlax and habanero peppers.