johnbrodie

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by johnbrodie 1y ago
The DOT standard isn't good, but the US doesn't disallow helmets that meet other standards. You can buy Bell and Alpinestars MIPS helmets in the US today, no gray market needed: https://www.revzilla.com/mips-motorc
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by johnbrodie 2y ago
Hasn't become more friendly from what I've seen. The project seems largely centered around K8s, and isn't really investing in fixing anything on the "compose" side. I did the same thing as you when Docker first star
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by johnbrodie 2y ago
This seems to run completely contrary to Mazda's own Connected Services Privacy Policy, which states that by default (ie if you aren't paying the subscription for connected services, or never enrolled in it), they don't share
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by johnbrodie 5y ago
I can't recall the exact settings to push via ADB, but the Internet Connectivity Check is "easy" to fix. Create a server that's always up that responds with a 301 (or whatever the check expects), and push the address to
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by johnbrodie 5y ago
LineageOS + microG here, on a motoX4. It's been the phone I use every day for about a year. My wife has the exact same setup, and generally gets along fine with it. FDroid has _most_ of the stuff we want. Some apps just aren't ava
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by johnbrodie 5y ago
More and more functionality is being shoved into Google Play Services. I have a deGoogled phone running Lineage, but even with that, no Google Play Services, and some custom settings (like changing the captive portal URLs), there's sti
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by johnbrodie 5y ago
I got my Pinephone last week, and have been fairly surprised that it's reasonably usable. I viewed the purchase more as a donation and a signal that there is a market, but I've been using it more and my Android phone less as the d
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by johnbrodie 5y ago
Not entirely correct, here's an interesting YouTube channel by an ex-F1 aero engineer: https://www.youtube.com/user/Kyleengineers You're correct insomuch as he's not sharing CFD settings, and is bound by
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by johnbrodie 5y ago
eh, I ran the command, alt-tabbed to something more interesting, and checked later in the day to see that it was done. Never had an issue running it, and only ever needed to when I was doing the initial data migration.
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by johnbrodie 5y ago
Ah, during our migration we did try to move thousands of files from a "Dropbox" folder to a "NextCloud" folder, and indeed the Windows client was not happy. Since it was a one-time thing, the solution was to move the fil
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by johnbrodie 5y ago
I had the same thought as the title of the article go through my head, but we ended up with a simpler setup as I wanted something I don't have to constantly mess with: * Put together an overbuilt NAS box running ZFS On Linux * Simple d
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by johnbrodie 5y ago
We've been using Nextcloud in my home for the better part of a year now, almost completely problem free. I even have auto-updates via watchtower. We have 136 GB of data on it (just checked now). Not sure where that lies compared to you
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by johnbrodie 5y ago
You can buy an American-made Purism phone, which may or may not fit your definition. It's not cheap, though.
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by johnbrodie 5y ago
Ended up with some used Cisco equipment aimed at the small business segment. Similar-ish price to new Ubiquiti gear, and I've spent essentially 0 time maintaining the stuff beyond initial setup. Still don't have APs set up though,
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by johnbrodie 5y ago
I almost did the same thing, but it was clear a year ago that they were moving towards "cloud based" services, something I didn't want to participate in. Looks like it was a good decision, in retrospect.
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by johnbrodie 6y ago
Doing something is better than doing nothing, you're leaking less data overall even if you install all the same apps. In general though, yes, with a deGoogled phone you have to watch out for what apps you're installing and try to
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by johnbrodie 6y ago
I recently de-Googled both my phone and my wife's. Although we try to use FOSS apps as much as possible, there's still a handful of apps we've downloaded via Aurora, all have worked fine. Obviously YMMV but I don't think
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by johnbrodie 6y ago
This has been _specifically_ called out in Shopify's recent emails to partners. If the private apps are essentially all the same, it's considered abusing private apps and they may come down on you at some point. Private apps, in S
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by johnbrodie 6y ago
I live in Phoenix and had the same worry when moving here. I'm in the suburbs, and have a fairly long commute with my current job (well, we're still WFH, but it _was_ fairly long). Maybe I can shed some light on one way of living
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by johnbrodie 6y ago
For what it's worth, location services work fine in MicroG, at least for any app I've tried. MicroG presents the same API as the "real" Google version, and lets the user choose which backends to use for things like netwo
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by johnbrodie 6y ago
Tesla is pushing the same anti-right-to-repair angle and also seems to get (mostly) admiration by the "tech community" at large. As seems to always be the case, it's a lot easier to be critical when the company/group&#x2
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by johnbrodie 6y ago
Posted this in another thread, but TDA and other blocked buying on margin , not buying with your own money. Completely different IMO. Source: Their own statements and buying GME this morning on TDA without issue.
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by johnbrodie 6y ago
Schwab, TDA, and others restricted trading on margin . A company saying "we won't loan you money to speculate on this volatile stock" is way different than saying "we won't let you trade this stock with your money&
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by johnbrodie 6y ago
Most pumps around here will mute the sound by pressing the right button, second from the top, beside the screen. Some pumps require a different button to mute so I just spam all the buttons around the screen if at a new station. They are in
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by johnbrodie 6y ago
I've made the same switch and had the same thought. In response I just unsubscribed aggressively from most everything. Much cleaner mailbox now, and I really never took any action on almost any promotional/update style email anywa
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by johnbrodie 6y ago
My wife and I just did this. I've been using a custom domain for years, so it was just a matter of changing MX records to Fastmail. My wife only used her @gmail address, so it was a bit more involved. Essentially: - Set up new email at
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by johnbrodie 6y ago
I did the same thing over the past few weeks, along with some other self-hosted apps to get rid of as many SaaS dependencies as possible, DropBox being one of them. Fairly easy to install, but someone would need to write the "glue&quot
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by johnbrodie 6y ago
A car has tons of parts that, sure are "governed by physics", but in effect just randomly fail. I can theoretically understand that my there's a clunk in the frontend of my car because I've exceeded the MTTF of a suspens
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by johnbrodie 6y ago
I have yet to encounter a link/email about "JAM Stack", including meetup invites, that isn't trying to sell me something. That there seems to be so many people hopping on this train confuses me.
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by johnbrodie 6y ago
I recently installed a mini-split in my garage, Mr. Cool DIY 24k. The lines come precharged, as long as you don't need to alter the length, you can completely DIY it. Most people just coil up the extra line behind the unit if needed, t

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