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Amazon One(one.amazon.com)
4 points by coffeedrinker 5y ago|2 comments
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by coffeedrinker 8y ago
People who have grown to know and love ad blocking will move en masse to Firefox. That would be a good thing. The attempt to force users into a system they don't want when there are other options available results in a loss of users.
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by coffeedrinker 8y ago
They should modify it so after launch it is based on active users. That will keep good things growing.
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by coffeedrinker 8y ago
It's just a thought, not a business plan :)
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by coffeedrinker 8y ago
Because if I'm Safeway and I can get elderly people to come to my business (for shopping, prescriptions, etc.) they won't be shopping somewhere else. The business gains/retains the clientele by providing the driving service.
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by coffeedrinker 8y ago
I expect the funding model for self driving taxis will be like validated parking. You ride free (or reduced) if you spend $x at whatever business, shopping mall, etc.
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by coffeedrinker 8y ago
Use the ublock origin extension to remove the parts of Reddit that are annoying. Use the picker to select the problem overlays and create a rule and they will be gone. You have to do this a few times since some seem to be page sensitive.
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by coffeedrinker 8y ago
I have the Essential Phone and love it. Here are some notes on building and installing Lineage OS on the Essential PH-1: https://headthirst.com/building-and-installing-lineageos.htm... And some notes about setting up a phon
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by coffeedrinker 8y ago
I hear this argument a lot but I disagree. While some advertisements can alert you to a product that will be helpful, many have the psychological intent of producing dissatisfaction and are an attempt to compel you to purchase something you
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Phone maker settles charges it let partner collect customers’ text messages(arstechnica.com)
3 points by coffeedrinker 8y ago|0 comments
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by coffeedrinker 9y ago
I use LibreOffice and these appear as grey characters (at least some of the characters do). I've wondered what the grey characters were in the past and now I know. Copy and paste the examples into LibreOffice and you will immediately
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by coffeedrinker 9y ago
Almost everyone I know willingly puts themselves under corporate surveillance (credit card?, cell phone?, license plates on car?, web browser?, cable tv?, netflix?, shopper rewards and discounts?). If you were in my house Amazon wouldn&#x27
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by coffeedrinker 9y ago
I'm more concerned about people I know taking pictures of me and posting it all over Facebook and the rest of the internet. That is far more invasive than this Amazon device. I have no say in that. As with most privacy things, there
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by coffeedrinker 9y ago
I use mine almost exclusively for playing music. I just bought a second one and found they can sync play (which makes for a nice whole house audio solution for cheap). They also function as in house intercom. I have no concerns over priva
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by coffeedrinker 11y ago
Anker.
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by coffeedrinker 11y ago
I use Chrome and a plugin called Font Changer that lets one override fonts on pages. I don't need to have it turned on for all sites but it can be done. Mostly I just have everything set to Arial (I don't like reading any serif
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by coffeedrinker 11y ago
But rudeness in wait staff is a self-fulfilling prophecy. They treat you poorly so how can they expect a generous tip?
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by coffeedrinker 11y ago
If extensions like this became ubiquitous, I wonder what Google's response would be? Would they refuse to run their apps on iOS like they do on Windows Phone, or would they still have a sufficient revenue stream to not see this as an
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Apple brings ad-blocker extensions to Safari on iPhones(bbc.com)
2 points by coffeedrinker 11y ago|1 comments
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by coffeedrinker 11y ago
I tried AdBlockPlus last year on my android tablet. It had a bug that didn't close video streams. If you started watching something and closed the app or started another stream, the old stream(s) get coming as well. That burned thro
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by coffeedrinker 11y ago
PayPal has some serious issues with regards to what you say, but I used it last summer to transfer money from USA to Europe for my daughter and the fee was a fraction of what the bank wanted. Banks can be pretty scummy in their own way.
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Amazon ‘Unlocked’ Will Give Away Paid Apps for Free(techcrunch.com)
1 points by coffeedrinker 12y ago|0 comments
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by coffeedrinker 12y ago
Ten folders puts me at the limit just on my family LAN with each user having their own folder and me having a couple so I can have a smaller set for syncing to laptop and a larger one for desktops. I just installed SyncThing... P.S. I just
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Influx of records requests may force police to drop body cams(komonews.com)
2 points by coffeedrinker 12y ago|0 comments
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by coffeedrinker 12y ago
I've been using btsync for a long time. I have seen high cpu or net utilization, but it was because of a changed name on one of the computers that were syncing. The other instance was still trying to connect to the device using the o
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by coffeedrinker 12y ago
Safari private browsing is broken too. Just private browse, quit safari, reopen safari and then check in the preferences on the privacy tab and see the cookies, etc.
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by coffeedrinker 12y ago
My 14 year old daughter runs chromeOS and xubuntu on her Chromebook and she takes it to school and she has never had a problem with it being wiped. She is, however, aware that files stored on that machine internally could be lost and she t
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by coffeedrinker 12y ago
To see how this relates to computer security, download the pdf linked in the article. After it exposes the methods of exploitation, it gives examples of internet computer scams. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM
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by coffeedrinker 12y ago
I agree, but until Google gets the fix in you can have no way of knowing what it will look like because it all depends on the hardware and how it has been scaled. I only came across this because my daughter's new laptop with an HD scre
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by coffeedrinker 12y ago
Turn of the DPI scaling in Windows. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2900023 Google around for the actual steps.

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