th3dogcow

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Take a photo of the QR code with your smartphone, or display the QR code on your phone, and scan the screen with your webcam. Problem solved.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

lol wtf an inactivity fee for a virtual prepaid card is charged every month? Who hurt them?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It looks similar to what I drive. I like it. It is spacious enough for a family. It is also roomy enough for a tallish person (around 190cm) to drive comfortably. My partner uses it for their commute daily, and we use it for family outings or shopping.

I do also walk or cycle for certain things, but where I live a car is a necessity if you have a family.

They use a lot less fuel and have a much smaller footprint, which is good. But have just enough oomph to go on the expressways here.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Japan here. I’ve never seen them.

From my fridge now

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Zero here for me. You using an ad blocker?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks! I’m in Japan, but glad to know this exists!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I think this is something that is better provided by government. I think the question should be why doesn’t California have an early warning alert system similar to the likes of Japan, which will notify all cellphone and smartphone users in affected areas regardless of their brand of device?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I recommend a combination of the following Safari extensions: Stop the Madness Pro, UnTrap for YouTube, and SponsorBlock.

Total cost was about the same as one month of ad free YouTube. Works beautifully.

I can finally enjoy YouTube again after giving up jailbreaking.

Making some shortcuts retrains muscle memory. I set a dedicated tab in Safari just for YouTube so it doesn’t clutter up my regular browsing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

And where I live you pay for SMS. So blue is free, but green is not. Also helpful.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the heads up. I rarely have a need for photoshop these days, but I grabbed the iPad only version of Affinity Photo just in case as it was so cheap in my region.

I’m sure it’ll get some use. Once or twice a year I try using a combination of smartphone apps to do some editing as I can’t be bothered dusting off my old slow laptop. So this will be cool. And it still runs on older hardware. iOS 15 is still supported!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I’m a dad of two. I really enjoyed the book “The Expectant Father” by Armin A Brott. It really helped me understand how I was feeling and what my wife was feeling and what she was going through, too. You can find a PDF online I’m sure if you don’t want to buy it.

But anyway, congratulations!

Oh, and babies don’t need as many things as we imagine they do. So avoid buying everything you think you’ll need and just prepare the basics. You can buy things when you find out you need them. And don’t be afraid to buy used clothes etc. babies grow up super quickly.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Bicycles are frequently stolen here in Japan. I’ve experienced it myself.

The difference is that most bicycles are registered with the police and the police take theft seriously, so you’re likely to get it back.

Also, the majority of bicycles here have a dinky little lock attached to the frame over the rear wheel, so it is easy to lock in seconds.

Although the locks are not very strong, they decrease crimes of opportunity I would imagine. In fact the one time my bicycle was stolen it had been left unlocked.

 

I have a hardware device which allows me to stream live free to air tv over my wifi network. The manufacturer has decided to retire to product and has removed the app from the AppStore!?

So, next time I get a new phone I’ll be screwed.

I am not jailbroken, and the last time I was was a while ago.

I have a windows pc, iPhone 8, and iPad Air 2 at my disposal. Both devices have the app in question installed.

Ideally, I would be able to download the IPA and move it to a new device without having to side load it. At this point in my life I don’t really have the time and patience to jailbreak.

Do you guys have any ideas?

 

I’ve got a bug that I haven’t been able to pin down. Set the default feed to subscriptions but sometimes upon launch (after killing the app) it is set to all. I haven’t been able to figure out what is causing it as it seems random. Has anyone else noticed this?

 

It’s summer festival time. Just ate yakisoba at my local festival. It’s ¥400 but the noodles always seems thicker than what the supermarket sells. What gives?

Anyway, what are your go to festival foods?

 

Thanks for the awesome update just now. I’m sorry, I haven’t gotten around to figuring out how to use GitHub. I hope this will get seen.

When not using the system font size, some parts are rendered in an odd size compared to before.

Also, I can’t find the sort by new option anymore.

Also, long post titles are making the compact view less compact (maybe due to the font issue).

On an unrelated note, my .world account still cannot enable notifications but my other ones can. It just hangs on the spinning progress wheel. I am not sure how to go about fixing it anymore.

I really appreciate all you have done. Also, there was no reason to apologise for taking a hiatus. This should be a project of passion not a job.

I hope I have not come across as demanding. I am loving what you guys are doing.

I’ll try to learn GitHub so I can post bugs in your preferred manner.

Thank again!

 

When you open a new post which doesn’t contain any comments, you latest comment from whatever post is displayed ever so briefly before the “no comments” message is shown. I managed to screen record it but I’m not sure how to attach a video.

 

Inflation sucks!

In the last year, shredded “natural cheese” had almost doubled in price. The cheap alternatives branded as “97% cholesterol cut shred” are complete ass, and cannot even be legally called cheese.

I was used to paying ¥1,000/kg then ¥1,000/700g for shredded gouda (max value store brand), but now it is ¥1,000/600g cheddar/mozzarella mix.

I have a variety of supermarkets nearby. Also kaldi, Gyomu super, a-price etc. I just don’t want to have to keep buying 1kg bags when it is hit or miss. If you have any solid recommendations please post them here.

Im in Kyushu, but location isn’t important. Any leads are appreciated.

 

In an attempt to fix the push notifications not working, I changed the password for one account via safari. Upon opening the app again it said all of my session tokens were invalid.

Not a big deal but kind of funny since the server instances were different.

 

Let’s kick up the participation in this community with some general discussion.

So, what interesting tidbit did you come across this week?

Kind of random, but I learned that bull bars on vehicles we banned in the late 90’s for safety reasons.

 

After chaos has been restored, I “deleted” my account from Memmy (would be better to be called remove in my opinion), and the readded my account. The push notification toggle automatically is set to on (as it was before deleting), but notifications don’t come through.

So, I tried to disable push notifications in order to reenable them. However, the progress circle spins forever and it seems like it cannot be done.

 

Why YSK: Google returns reddit results very often when searching, which many of us want to avoid clicking, to avoid sending traffic to reddit.

I’ve seen many posts on how to avoid sending traffic to reddit for android users, but nothing for iOS.

Now, most of the options I’ve found are not free, but I had already bought StopTheMadness before. You can simply add a rule to redirect reddit.com to teddit.net. Then, you can still click those google results without hesitation.

It should be noted this won’t work system wide in safari web view, only in the safari app.

 

Normally at this time of the year, the convenience stores are overflowing with mint chocolate flavored products, for better or worse (looking at you, FamilyMart mint chocolate pancakes).

However, this year, I’m yet to find anything except for some scant chocolate offerings.

What’s up in your neck of the woods?

 

As you can see, the light theme still has the status bar text set to white (left), so it can only be seen if you open a menu, so that the background is dimmed (right).

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