akilou

joined 1 year ago
[–] akilou 4 points 1 week ago

Because p is print. Also it's super convenient right next to c

[–] akilou 3 points 1 week ago

Neither. Looks like it's underbaked. I hope you were just removing the lid and put it back in for a bit

[–] akilou 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well I suspect the custom stuff that I'm going to design will be utilitarian in nature rather than artistic- replacement parts, organizational stuff, a little attachment to something, etc. So I'll want precise measuring tools. If I print something more artistic, I'll probably rely on models that already exist, like DnD minis or something.

[–] akilou 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Like when new people join, they know they're in the right place

[–] akilou 4 points 1 week ago

I got the 30 day free trial of Plasticity and I'm a few days into it. I don't know if I'll be able to learn enough in 30 days to accurately assess if I'll ultimately get my $150 worth out of it but so far some YouTube tutorials are promising.

[–] akilou 4 points 1 week ago (5 children)

On the other hand though it is nice to have a common name. Like I'm in a group with the other parents of kids at my kid's daycare. Sometimes you want the name to be common, sometimes you want it to be individual.

[–] akilou 8 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Honestly it's kind of annoying. I want to name the chat after their relationship to me. Coming up with something that we all have in common with each other is a lot harder

[–] akilou 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah I've been thinking about this. The group chat with my inlaws is called "PIL" for parents in law. I'll have to come up with something else. But there are so many iterations of family groups chats. Parents in law, parents, siblings, siblings in law, and every combo thereof

[–] akilou 2 points 1 week ago

Why wouldn't they, it's the obvious choice. Should have been using it the whole time.

[–] akilou 23 points 1 week ago (5 children)

But there is no "spam-core" aesthetic

[–] akilou 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ok so which of these definitions describes Israel?

[–] akilou 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"Would" if what?

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Thoughts on folders (self.protonprivacy)
submitted 5 months ago by akilou to c/[email protected]
 

There's a button to "sort" folders in the settings which sorts the currently existing folders alphabetically. Then when you create a new folder it gets put at the bottom. Can we just have them sort alphabetically automatically?

Also when you click sort, it only sorts the top-level folders. The subfolders don't get sorted at all.

This is the kind of rough-around-the-edges stuff that Proton really needs to sort out before adding more and more services.

 

That the labels for the apps get truncated so you can only read "Proton" plus the first letter of the app. I'm only able to distinguish based on the icons which isn't great because Pass and Drive are similar colors, and Pass and VPN, and Drive and Calendar are similar shapes.

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Send Tab not working (self.firefox)
submitted 6 months ago by akilou to c/[email protected]
 

I'm signed into Firefox on 4 devices. I can send tabs between all of them except from my work computer to my phone (other direction works). I can see the tabs open on my computer from my phone and tap to open it on my phone, but if I "send tab" from computer to phone, it never arrives.

I tried signing out on my phone and back in. Didn't work.

What else can I do to troubleshoot?

 

My wife is in the market for a new phone. Her highest priority is that it's small. She has it narrowed down to a Galaxy S23 or a Zenphone 10. The Samsung is the safe bet, especially since she's upgrading from an S10e. And even so, we can just got to T-mobile and play with one. The Zenphone is a bit riskier as it's unfamiliar. But it's small and gets great reviews. All of the options under "where to buy" have you buy it through, say, Target or Walmart, but it's online only. So she wouldn't be able to play with it until after unboxing and setting it up.

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Proton Pass Windows App (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by akilou to c/[email protected]
 

Everyone's been complaining about having access to passwords offline. While you could always do that with the Android app (and I assume iOS), you can now do it in Windows.

Direct link to install file from the screenshot email

Proton has been killing it lately. I feel like the speed at which they're rolling out new features and products has really picked up over the last year or so.

 

First off, I'd normally ask this question on a datahoarding forum, but this one is way more active than those and I'm sure there's considerable overlap.

So I have a Synology DS218+ that I got in 2020. So it's a 6 year old model by now but only 4 into its service. There's absolutely no reason to believe it'll start failing anytime soon, and it's completely reliable. I'm just succession planning.

I'm looking forward to my next NAS, wondering if I should get the new version of the same model again (whenever that is) or expand to a 4 bay.

The drives are 14 TB shucked easy stores, for what it's worth, and not even half full.

What are your thoughts?

 

I used to have both, because the beta didn't have necessary features like archive but did have threaded convos. Now "both" of my Proton Mail apps are the same app but I have 2 icons. They both open the same thing.

 

I'm happy to adopt a new podcast app if it has sponsorblock natively or through a plug-in. Otherwise let me know if there's some other way to make it work. I don't see why it wouldn't work as all of the segments tagged for skipping are crowdsourced which would also work for Podcasts.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by akilou to c/[email protected]
 

I think I might cancel. I'm not watching ads and I'm not going to pay the extra $3/mo to opt out. I don't know if I'd end up paying more than the subscription cost in shipping though....

 

Every year or so I try one or more privacy focused keyboards. I always end up right back on SwiftKey after a couple of weeks because most of the keyboards I try have the same problem: the predictions suck.

Ok, I get that surveillance is good for predictions. Put another way, predictions are tough without collecting everything everyone types. Is there a best-of-both-worlds keyboard out there? I'd be patient enough to give it some time to learn how I type and get better.

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