Please support the artists you like by donating to them directly Following up on my wildly successful post about Netflix/Stremio. This is my current music stack and how you get rid of paid music streaming services. Please support the artists you like by donating to them directly Exporting your music First thing I did was download all my songs from my current streaming service that was Tidal at...
Why is visual voicemail not the standard on Android in 2024?
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
How to run MacOS in a VM On windows
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...
Help get Automatic Ad SKipping in Pocketcast
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.
This is day 24 of #100DaysToOffload
Backup Network Storage using Backblaze Personal
Please note this is against TOS I do not take responsibility if you get banned.Backblaze Personal, as most of you know, is my recommended cloud backup platform. It’s cheap and has unlimited storage. The thing is you cannot use it on storage that isn’t direct connected to the machine. In order to bypass this limitation and backup your NAS you can use the Dokan library which spoofs your...
Apple’s Key Innovations Buried Beneath the Noise of a Camera Button
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.
Rss: not using it is just stupid
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...
Enshittification- A post brought to you by complaints of another Beeper user
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...
Why We Turn off Bitlocker or A Friends Computer Repair Escapades
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...
May Roundup – Adobe AI, Android Find My and LTSC Oh my
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...