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Phones should have FM radio again
  • Alkaline batteries are the crappy ones that leak. Get the more expensive lithium batteries, or go full on rechargeable ones, and you can leave them in without worrying about your device getting ruined.

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    Best external SSD for high-uptime use?
  • Somewhat related, I'm so annoyed that my USB 3.0 SATA adapter doesn't pass S.M.A.R.T. data. Didn't even think to check for such a deficiency. Just another thing to watch out for when buying these adapters.

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    Families upended by school shootings share trauma in push for gun law changes, but get mixed results
  • If you stigmatize psychological care by making it a black mark that shows up on your record, people will just avoid getting the help they need and society will be worse off for it.

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    What do blind people see?
  • Here's a neat trick to imagine what it could feel like. Close both of your eyes. You see darkness, right? Now close one eye and leave the other one open. You don't really "see" anything out of that closed eye at all. There's no darkness. There's just nothing there.

    I saw that some blind people actually have difficulties falling asleep. Because they cant see the sun, their circadian rhythm and they're sleep/wake signals are all out of sync.

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    How to seed properly and safely? [India]
  • Apparently all that data is included in the ActivityPub protocol. On Kbin, every post has an Activity button that shows every user (even those on other instances) that upvoted/downvoted/saved that post. So if a Lemmy post happens to federate to Kbin, all that info can be seen publicly by anyone.

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    How do email scammers spoof my email?
  • Look up the instructions for your mail provider to set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records in your DNS so email services know which emails sent from your domain are actually legit. Without those records telling email servers what's valid and how to handle what's not, it's basically the Spiderman pointing at Spiderman meme.

    https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/317/2237/how-do-i-add-txtspfdkimdmarc-records-for-my-domain/

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    Can’t boot Clonezilla on Surface Go 1
  • If you haven't already tried a USB 2.0 flash drive, give that a go. I find they are less finicky to boot from than some 3.0 drives.

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    Creating decoy Lemmy accounts for plausible deniability
  • Oh that's interesting. I guess when your instance creates a local copy of the post, it would also add the corresponding community to the list to match.

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    Creating decoy Lemmy accounts for plausible deniability
  • If you are the only user on an instance, your subscriptions are the only ones federating over into the server's All feed. For example, even if you haven't posted in all of these communities, is this not essentially your personal list of subscriptions?

    https://lemmy.saik0.com/communities?listingType=All

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    Why are random characters missing in my Debian virtualbox
  • They couldn't read your comment, unfortunately. All they saw on their screen was:

    P_______e_n i_ ___ _ _s

    Edit: damnit lemmy removes extra spaces

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    Ubuntu's Mozillateam PPA now forcing users over to snap install for Firefox.
  • Linux Mint specifically excludes the snap store due to the many criticisms people have already mentioned here. Doc refers to version 20, but I believe it's still the same in the current version. Not sure about other ubuntu-based distros though.

    https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/snap.html

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    Best way to remotely access TrueNAS/Nextcloud remotely?
  • Yea, I didn't like that they are going to drop support in the next version or whatever. Not sure if it's their intended replacement, but Wireguard is installed by default in TrueNAS Bluefin. I recently switched to that, and I find the performance is way better than OpenVPN.

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