CarlJW

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by CarlJW 2mo ago
In New Zealand we have a Shielded Site popup at the bottom of all government websites, and many popular privately owned websites too. E.g. go to govt.nz and scroll to the bottom. There's a little icon of a computer that opens a popup e
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by CarlJW 2mo ago
Making a little static site to document the AV setup at my church. Started with just an html page with buttons for shortcuts. Added a few paragraphs and then got tired of writing html. Not many simple wysiwyg desktop html editors surprising
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by CarlJW 3mo ago
Thank you for sharing. Not yet 30 here, but I can feel myself getting older under the stresses of life. It's an uncanny feeling. We all have different experiences and lessons. One of my most freeing realisations came after a bad breaku
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by CarlJW 5mo ago
What good is a replaceable battery if the device becomes obsoleted by changing communication standards first? How long before 4G and 5G are phased out? What if we could have forward compatibility in our mobile network protocols?
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by CarlJW 7mo ago
IGPlus worked much better for me on Instagram. https://weblxapplications.com/en/products/igplus For facebook I love Facebook Purity. Only problem is it's desktop only. https://www.fbpurity.com&#x2
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by CarlJW 7mo ago
I use timelimit.io for managing screen time. Nice granular controls and schedule based rules. I apply the 80/20 rule. 8 minutes allowed, followed by 2 minutes blocked. Then at night I reverse it. 2 minutes allowed, 8 minutes blocked. J
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by CarlJW 7mo ago
This works on Firefox Mobile. I use it on Android and my Desktop without any issue. I'll add also, for the odd thing that this doesn't filter, then I use uBlock Origin to filter that particular element.
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by CarlJW 7mo ago
Great! The more solutions to filter unwanted content on the internet the better. Sometimes we find ourselves stuck having to use a particular platform because that's where the group chat is. I've had great success with Firefox and
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by CarlJW 7mo ago
I'll just add this tip for those who struggle with this sort of thing. I leave the empty basket in front of the machine, which for me happens to be somewhere where I'll pass by frequently until I need to take it out. That keeps it
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by CarlJW 10mo ago
Selfhosting via yunohost, especially loving Immich and Actual Budget. I'm not in IT but I use Linux and it has been easy enough for me to set up. Also making personalised Christmas t-shirts in Inkscape. I love what you can do with open
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by CarlJW 11mo ago
Warnier Orr Diagrams. Too early for the internet and adoption into UML. Think flowcharts crossed with pseudocode but following Structured Programming principles. Very useful for mocking up, designing and testing code logic before you write
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by CarlJW 2y ago
As a user of QCAD I am more than happy to pay the extra for the features in the commercial version and support the developer (Not vastly different but adds a few tools that make certain constructions easier). I used it free for a while and
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by CarlJW 2y ago
Very addicting game. I love it. One of the things that made 2048 great was that you could spam the keyboard to play it more quickly. This game could benefit similarly with additon of keyboard controls via numpad. So you would enter coords a