Tweaked some stuff yesterday and loading speeds seem to be improved significantly . Removed these plugins Gwolle Guestbook – No usage so was removed Insert pages -cant remember what this was for Simple Guesbook – was installed for testing forgot to removed Site kit by google – Wasn’t doing anything for me Ultimate Category Excluder – Rambles are included on the main feed now so not needed Youtube embed -Using stock Gutenberg embeds Smart 404- Rank math has this built in so just us
Is there some technical reason that this isn’t built in a feature to android? Why is it either a cell providers POC app (usually with a addon to your bill) or just not there? Actually drives me mad. And if you know of an app or service that I have missed please let me know TIA. This is day 29 of #100DaysToOffload
Following the rest of the blogosphere thanks to Robb Knight . I have also stolen Kev’s title please don’t sue me. I have a huge list of Techreccs as well with way more stuff than whats here. Please go check it out as I have spent an enormous amount of time putting it together. 📨 Mail Client – Mailbird on Windows and Mailspring on Linux 📮 Mail Server – Gmail and Infomaniak 📝 Notes – Obsidian and field notebooks ✅ To-Do – Obsidian and field notebooks 🟦 Photo Management – Bit all over th
Have a bajillion things I want to write about but cant ever seem to do it when I sit down at the pc. Welp.
Workspace in Power Toys PowerToys Workspaces utility for Windows | Microsoft Learn Winaero Tweaker to remove drive letters Winaero Tweaker Listary Listary – Free File Search Tool & App Launcher Text Blaze Text Blaze: Snippets and Templates for Chrome AI summary on Android Sum Up AI Notification Summary – Apps on Google Play This is day 27 of #100DaysToOffload
Fediverse integration and a guestbook page are now up. Hope to deal with some /slashpages later in the week. This is day 26 of #100DaysToOffload
Hello peeps
Preamble (feel free to skip) So, Lightroom has a bug that if you export smart previews from a Mac and then try to use said smart previews in Windows, they only show in the Develop panel one-by-one and not in the filmstrip. The workaround is to first open up said catalog on a Mac, then re-send it to Windows. Why that is, IDK, and my clients are not savvy enough to deal with this, nor do they have time to figure it out. I was playing around with a 2015 MBP with OCLP for the past fe
Pocketcasts now lets you choose chapter to play or skip. Lets get any chapter with the word sponsor automatically skipped. Please upvote the feature request. https://forums.pocketcasts.com/forums/topic/automatic-keyword-based-chapter-selection-sponsorskip/#post-6128 This is day 24 of #100DaysToOffload
Apple’s keynote like the past few years was boring as all heck. But two key innovations that aren’t sexy were announced and nobody is talking about it due to a (camera) button. Lowering the barrier of entry to hearing aids Airpods Pro 2 now are FDA approved as a hearing aid. So many people need hearing aids and won’t get them. I have three people in mind when I am writing this article. Mid-range hearing loss is what most people in the 20-50 age range have. Typically the easie
I was speaking with one of my best friends who is quite technical currently taking Comp-SCI and while I was showing him my FreshRSS instance on my Rasberry Pi, he noted that nobody else uses RSS besides me. Well let’s get started with why you are stupid for not using an RSS reader. You probably are already using it First off, most people are probably using RSS without realizing it as podcasts use RSS. So what the actual hell is RSS? To quote an article from rss.com: “RSS
I have recently been overwhelming myself with how many things I want to talk about, and trying to formulate a good method on how to break up said subjects. Some things that have come up are: * An In depth look at Lightroom performance issues persistent in 2024 * Carrd the best kept website building secret * Macbooks the laptop to beat * The promise of ARM/ actual Windows laptops not portable desktops with a UPS * Small communities * RSS not showing off the personality of the SMO
If your paying for Calendly as a single user just stop. Use Cal.com it has all the paid feature free for one user and is semi-opensource. This is day 19 of #100DaysToOffload
Haven’t slept well in weeks. My thoughts are complete chaos right now so here goes. General News I’ve been super frustrated with the overall news in terms of the Supreme Court ruling but have ultimately decided to skip writing anything on it. Having to furiously mute hashtags on Mastodon and block posts on Reddit has been absolutely mind-numbing. The YouTuber news cycle about Snapdragon laptops has been absolutely miserable, and I am so done with standard PC reviewers.
I was having a conversation with my previous boss/good friend. He’s an old school extremely capable computer technician but too busy to keep up with most of the current internet drama. Anyways here is the conversation that sparked this post. Redacted, [5/13/2024 10:35 PM] In the end beeper is rubbish Redacted, [5/13/2024 10:36 PM] No wonder they dropped the $10 per month Redacted, [5/13/2024 10:36 PM] No edit. No swipe. Words cut off etc. pupontech, [5/13/2024 10:36 PM] works fine f
A follow up to the previous post. A friend messaged me on WhatsApp. Express VPN wouldn’t open or install the latest update. First hurdle: multiple remote login attempts using both RustDesk and AnyDesk, but both were blocked by his college wifi network—great security, I guess. Finally, I managed to use his phone’s hotspot to remote in. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling several times, including with Revo Uninstaller. No luck. I even checked if there was a known bug with the latest ve
Last week I did close to 18 hrs of free work for multiple people. Two weeks ago I did 20 hrs of free web design , it was for a good friend . I wasn’t upset about it until I realized based on trying to be in touch with them that I was putting significantly more effort into there project then they were. This week I got asked a question to help someone save $300 four times in a row and even my wife got called that I didn’t answer the second they needed it. I cant say everyone was malicious but
After deleting all my mainstream tech news blogs from my RSS reader, mainly due to being tired of seeing the same content repeatedly, I’ve been exploring the indie web more. Lately, I’ve been contemplating how to implement slash pages, considering that I already have similar features on Techreccs. I’m unsure whether I should redesign the website layout to meet the slash standards or simply stick with what I currently have. This is day 14 of #100DaysToOffload
Been a while since I posted, so let’s get up to speed. Docker Desktop Issues I ran into an issue where Docker Desktop on Windows doesn’t remove host file changes on uninstall, so that’s fun. If you run into localhost issues, that’s why. This was reported on GitHub in 2019 and still hasn’t been fixed. Win 11 LTSC Windows 11 LTSC, i.e., the non-bloated way an OS should be, is out. I’m busy setting up my image in a VM, which I will then transfer onto my main machine once
WhatsApp has got to be the single most infuriating piece of software I interact with on a daily basis. Why the fuck would I want a auto reply sent to someone I just messaged. Must be a hard computer science problem to have a if statement in your code to not send an auto replay to someone message in the last specific time period. No I cant leave because of the network effect but thanks. I swear to god I don’t know how this became a popular platform its a steaming pile of shit. Thi