[-] funkycarrot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago

Best comment I've read for a long time

[-] funkycarrot@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago

Alternatives include PhoneTrack for Nextcloud (setup complicated but pretty much set it and forget it) or TICE (very easy setup, but only meant for temporary sharing).

[-] funkycarrot@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 4 months ago

Yeah I tried swipe typing on FUTO keyboard too and was very disappointed, went back to the absolutely stellar Heliboard. It's definitely as good as Apple's swipe typing, especially after a few weeks of use.

To be fair the FUTO keyboard is still in Alpha and they plan to improve this specifically. I'll keep an eye on it as it matures.

[-] funkycarrot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 months ago

You have just convinced me to put "visit a 7-11" on my Japan bucket list*. I need to know what it feels like to print sheet music there.

*I may not ever get to go to Japan, but we can all dream

[-] funkycarrot@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Doesn't appear to.

But looks like even GNOME Web supports extensions now. So no reason that something like uBlock origin couldn't be implemented right?

[-] funkycarrot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

Thanks for taking the time to answer! I did read the Flexlauncher docs which also recommend the Chromium command, I was hoping there'd be something like that for Firefox because it's just a matter of time before ad blockers become handicapped in Chromium. But guess that's the only solution then.

[-] funkycarrot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

First had Kodi on a RPI, but I got fed up with Kodi, partly because there are too many moving parts and partly because there's no great way to watch YouTube.

Then found Flexlauncher, which has already been suggested by someone else. Slapped Debian on the RPI and then realized that getting smooth HD YouTube video playback is impossible outside of Kodi, because of hardware (?) limitations.

At this point I decided that enough is enough and just got out the old laptop in the household no one uses anymore, same Debian + Flexlauncher combo with Stremio and Freetube. Set Debian to do auto login and start Flexlauncher automatically. Works great, but controlling with Keyboard only (and using the laptop trackpad when nothing works) gets a bit annoying. Looks like an airmouse is the way to go.

[-] funkycarrot@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 8 months ago

ok I actually fell for this–

[-] funkycarrot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[-] funkycarrot@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago

And there's a reason for that:

"[Amazon makes] every merchant that sells through their platform sign a "most favored nation" guarantee that they will not charge less for their products anywhere else – which means that the price is the same everywhere.

And that's the heart of the California antitrust case against Amazon: Amazon's market dominance makes it impossible to survive without offering your products on Amazon; to succeed there, you must turn over 35-45% of your gross to Amazon. That leads to higher prices on Amazon, and, thanks to the most favored nation deal, it pushes those same higher prices to every other retailer."

So basically the price on their website is what the company would charge you if they would want to be a sustainable business (or they're trying to recoup their losses from selling on Amazon).

Source

[-] funkycarrot@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 1 year ago

All my homies buy the off-brand Kitkats that, despite the significantly lower price, use Fairtrade cocoa.

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