MerlinDE

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by MerlinDE 4mo ago
This move has nothing to do with usability or device capabilities or software support. The only reason for turning them off is to remove a hole in their DRM. These old devices allowed you to remove the copy protection from their books (hard
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by MerlinDE 11mo ago
There are several useful apps available for iOS that work as Safari extensions handling that kind of stuff. Banish is very useful, as well as Hush. In addition Opener allows you to chose if links shall open the respective app or just stay i
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by MerlinDE 1y ago
I have tried it and must say it just doesn’t work well enough. Too high latency, video calls are impossible and you regularly run into arbitrary issues. I ended up buying a standalone monitor again.
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by MerlinDE 5y ago
Anti child abuse measures are regularly utilized to push for measures you otherwise can‘t establish. Most of the time surveillance and censorship. Just look back 10+ years to Germany, where „Zensursula“ tried to establish DNS blocking for
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by MerlinDE 6y ago
The chair is only one part (e.g. the formidable HermanMiller Cosm only works if you have a table at the perfect height for you). The table is also super important. I‘ve recently switched to an Eliot ( https://eliotfurniture.com&#x
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by MerlinDE 8y ago
Most of the points in this article are just wrong (e.g. font size asked for and configured during initial setup; WiFi alerts are not enabled by default). Apart from that, I agree that iOS has too many hidden features and — first and foremos
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by MerlinDE 10y ago
Why not just revolutionize patent laws? Make it only applicable if the patent is used for a real product available on the market. That would make patent trolling unattractive.
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by MerlinDE 16y ago
Would be great, if you could include whole articles in the RSS feed. Making it easier to read it offline, on the go. Also a more flexible layout, better suiting devices with limited screen sizes (read mobile, aka iPod/Pad/Phone) would be gr