rdschouw

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by rdschouw 22d ago
Ex-European here. It is very common to overdraft your bank account in Europe. The overdraft interest fees are very similar to the credit cards here in the US. It is basically the same service but with a different execution.
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by rdschouw 3mo ago
Also let us not forget the rootkit malware Sony BMG distributed on their audio CDs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...
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by rdschouw 4mo ago
Why not disconnect your smart TV from the internet and use [insert favorite streaming box]? I use Apple TVs on all my smart TVs and none of them have ever been connected to the internet. No ads with consistent interface across TV brands.
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by rdschouw 7mo ago
Standard Notes is in the same position as Simplenote was 10 years ago. Automattic acquired Simplenote but never really did anything with it. Standard Notes was acquired by Proton last year and development has slowed to bug fixes only. I wou
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by rdschouw 7mo ago
The clients are open source but the server is not.
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by rdschouw 7mo ago
Do you have MacOS by any chance? MacOS does not support S.M.A.R.T over USB.
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by rdschouw 11mo ago
I got 28 online right now according to my Eero. 3 people, with smartphones and laptops. Several game consoles, a few Apple TVs and music streaming devices, Ring camera, Zwave Hub, printer, washing machine, garage opener, Ring doorbell and a
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by rdschouw 2y ago
You can turn them off. I used to live in NJ and they sent these types of alerts all the time. AMBER alerts in the middle of the night, "Flash Flood" alerts after two drops of rain. It made no sense and I turned them all of off. I
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by rdschouw 3y ago
How do you mean? Here in Illinois they are free. It was also free in New Jersey.
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by rdschouw 3y ago
I had a robin nest in my backyard close to my French doors. Every day one of them would pass by the doors, see their reflection and then attack it. Apparently they like to keep out competitors when they're nesting. They would at it for
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by rdschouw 3y ago
Power consumption is a consideration though depending on your use case and setup. A Pi 4 draws about 3W on light load and these G3 Minis take 10-12W. Of course if you deck out a Pi 4 with a SSD and a fan, it'll come much closer to the
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by rdschouw 3y ago
Yea or Google's prompt to choose a web browser on their IOS apps when I click a link in their Gmail app for instance.
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by rdschouw 3y ago
3 devices? I usually have 4 devices. I bring my Iphone 13 Mini, iPad Mini, Macbook 12-inch and Steamdeck (and before the Switch). The iPad is for content consumption. I can watch 8 hours of TV on it without breaking a sweat about battery li
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by rdschouw 3y ago
Here in the US Mid West suburbia it is a problem as well. Same applies to insane subwoofers. What's up with that? I always say to my wife that I can't wait until all cars and bikes are electric. In a decade or so this problem will
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by rdschouw 3y ago
I am using a Surface Go 2 with Arch / Wayland / Gnome. I use the Linux surface kernel and all of the hardware works except the IR camera and webcam. Overall, it is a good experience. I love using it as a notebook with the pen and
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by rdschouw 3y ago
Based on my own old Twitter circle, I see that: A. Attention-seekers have gone to Threads or stayed on Twitter B. People who are into niche interests and not part of group A are very active on Mastodon. Mastodon to me very much feels like e
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by rdschouw 3y ago
Yea it's pretty awful. They also by default select a faster shipping method which costs $6.99 (most of the time per item, sometimes multiple shipping charges for the same order). Every checkout I have to go through: 1. no, I do not wan
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by rdschouw 3y ago
You mean this? https://lemmy.world/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/All/sor...
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by rdschouw 3y ago
Any chance you have a docker-compose.yml you can add to your repository? ;-) Great concept! Congrats on your launch!
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by rdschouw 4y ago
Good actually. It still has 2 days life time but I tend to charge it daily for 15m to keep it running forever. When I am wearing my Pebble Time Steel, I make sure that it has 50% charge before switching it off. This tends to keep the batter
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by rdschouw 4y ago
I use my Pebble Time Round or Pebble Time Steel daily on IOS using the official Pebble app. Every major IOS release I think this is the time my Pebble app stops working but it is still going strong on IOS16. Safe for another year. :)
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by rdschouw 4y ago
An Apple TV 4K with Infuse app does all of this without problems and supports many kinds of storage backends.
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by rdschouw 4y ago
I just gone through this process myself. You can add another 2FA method later and THEN delete your phone number. That's what I did.
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by rdschouw 5y ago
Huh? Crypto is great as a transfer of value network and store of value among other things. You can still use a bankequivalent like Coinbase.
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by rdschouw 5y ago
Yikes! Just checked and I have emails going back to 2000 (imported, account is from 2007) in my Gmail. It is a workspace account though.
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by rdschouw 5y ago
Yea it is odd that not all Google accounts are the same. My favorite is that I cannot migrate my Nest account to a Google account because it does not support Google Workspaces accounts. I use it with my own domain and it is my private Googl
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by rdschouw 5y ago
As Dutch born but moved to US 10 years ago, this article sums up everything I don't like about The Netherlands. He speaks about all the positive notes but there are plenty of downsides to it as well. The biggest one is that if you don&
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by rdschouw 5y ago
No he means that Bitwarden's extension does not remember state. When you go back and forth between the form and opening the extension window, you always start at the default page. It does not remember you had an item open before. This
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by rdschouw 5y ago
The same happens when you use Linux as your desktop OS together with an ad-blocker. I guess it trips off some anti-bot rules. My favorite is Google's captcha where they let visitors solve their machine learning classification problem b
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by rdschouw 5y ago
I have ripped close to 1,000 Blu-Ray and DVD discs with MakeMKV and never encountered audio sync issues. It’s not a thing anymore. There was a time I used handbrake to reduce the file sizes by encoding to x265 and that never resulted in any

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