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greenice··on What causes migraines? Study of 'brain blackout' offers clues
Same experience (sleep helped as a kid but now not anymore).

A neurologist prescribed me Metagelan.

greenice··on Personal Knowledge Management Is Bullshit
When sharing/saving links to Obsidian, can it automatically add the title of the linked page (and date)?

It just saves the URL for me.

greenice··on Overkill objects for everyday life
Commenting on the „overcomplicated UI“ designs:

It takes quite some research to find single-purpose devices, that are tailored for a specific use case - and are not overburdened with often unused features. There‘s not enough metadata out there on ecommerce sites to filter for that.

Take the microwave example: I‘m happy with the Samsung MWF300G microwave which does just one thing (heating stuff) really well in a very straightforward way:

One haptic dial for duration. One for Watt. And a simple display for time.

Just use the duration dial to set the time. That‘s it. You‘re done by turning your hand just once.

It starts automatically. No start button needed. No program selection. No stop button - just dial it back to zero if needed.

greenice··on Returning the “killed” RSS of Reuters from the dead
Would I be able to build a niche topic focused site (e.g. video gaming news) based on the NewsCatcher API?
greenice··on WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of the web
Does WorldBrain Memex save any data about the sites I bookmark?

I‘ve been using Onenote for the past 10 years to bookmark or save websites.

It had worked OK to share from mobile but my Onenote notebook is now approaching 10 GB in size.

And I have a pretty bad experience with syncing as it doesn‘t reliably sync in the background if I don‘t regularly open the app on mobile (especially on iOS).

greenice··on Popular iPhone and iPad Apps Snooping on the Pasteboard
What are the security implications for password managers here - not copy/pasting any passwords?
greenice··on LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity
How would you regain access to the passwords in the local vault if the phone breaks or gets stolen and prevent them from being lost?

I chose not to use a local vault because I fear those scenarios more than the cloud sync via 1Password being compromised.

greenice··on The Nokia N9 Alarm Clock (2014)
> And of course, you can turn the phone off at night and it still turns itself on in the morning for the alarm.

I have missed this feature ever since smartphones became popular.

How come this isn't a standard feature of each smartphone by now? Are there any technical limitations?

greenice··on Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?
I miss snoozing emails right from notifications on Android a lot. With Gmail I need to open the app to snooze more than two hours.

Inbox: drag&drop a screenshot, then make it an attachment. Gmail: save it as an image in a folder, then select the attachments and browse to the file.