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Thanks a lot, now I have Zero excuse to ditch Google photos.

$200?

Oh hell no!

I'll stick with a dumb phone for my kids, thanks.

ChrisFix's handy guide:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvKbarVtwhUv6bjLhJSya...

And the pdf checklist:

https://www.chris-fix.com/upload/How%20to%20Inspect%20a%20Us...

Fantastic Contraption. The original flash game.

http://fantasticcontraption.com/original/

I'm not into social media either. But unless you want to live like a hermit, you don't have much choice nowadays but to visit these sites from time to time.

1. I can't use anything else other than WhatsApp for messaging with families and friends. Thank God my kids' school still uses good-old email for communications.

2. Almost all the useful video tutorials/mini-documentaries/science-shorts are on Youtube and nowhere else.

3. Family and friends always send me links to videos and posts on Facebook, Twitter and Tiktok. I don't usually click when it's just some meme or for laughs but sometimes it a post that matters to me/them enough to click on it.

Calling it now: Overpriced Youtube API requests in 1, 2, 3...

The only thing engineers should focus on is, well,engineering.

I didn't know Brother made sweing machine, I though they only make printers.

In the last week, Macron/France :

- call[s] to 'cut off' social media during riots sparks backlash in France (france24.com)

- passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone, spy on people [2]

- blames Video games [3]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36615378

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36616037

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36630151

Submitted this story [1] earlier but didn't get traction.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36615378

Don't forget the call to block social media sites during riots by the Frnace's president [1]

[0]: https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230705-macron-s-call-to...

Yep, that was also the point when I started distrusting Google. I was a big Google Reader user and have some dozen geeky friends and we used to share our favourite posts (using the friends following feature).

Proton mail allows this.

A free alternative would be using the abc+websitename@domain.com trick.

Gmail allows this, but unfortunately some websites wont accept the + sign as valid character in an email field.

I hate bright LEDs. Even some car backlights are blinding, Audi is one of the worst offenders of this.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4jM0PBww4c

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F0WA17IpLM

Workout, watch a ton of old movies and TV shows, and build Legos.

The only way I see around this is if they upgrade the beta-tester status and give him full control of the images and he's the only one making the labelling and uploading of the results.

Because having a picture of you using the toilet shared online is far worse than the audio of the sound you made during that bathroom trip.

Ah! The good old VW diesel dupe solution.

Biggest culprits in energy consumptions are heating appliances. To save some bucks I usually set my thermostat 1 or 2 degrees under my ideal temperature and wear warmer clothes and I never used a dryer, I don't mind having clothes hanging on a rack on a corner of my flat.

When it's 100 times easier to pirate content than getting it legally, you know the system is a failure.

I would love a button on every content creator that says [I pirated your content and want to pay you directly].

Argh! for me it's Samsung's Bixby, I don't use it, I don't want it. But you can't install it :/

I wish they could tune down those bight LED back lights (and brakes and turn signals) I hate driving at night because of this. Audi is particularly blameable for this.

I think they should be regulated the same way as low/high front beams.

As a non-native English speaker, I first heard of this word during the Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard trial.

It's hard to trust Amazon products even when shopping for brands. Every time I search for a brand name, after filtering the recommended non-brand stuff, on the brand product page itself, a lot of reviews say the product is a knock off.

Nowadays I just go to brand.com and shop from there, it cost 5-25% extra, but at least I have some guarantee that I will not end up with a fake.

You do realize it will be displayed to children?

Found it.

Sound Off: When in Standby, press and hold − button until display indicates SOFF [1]

[1] https://www.instapots.com/disable-instant-pot-beeping/