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Microsoft Parental Controls also Dark Patterns you Into using Edge

I set up Microsoft’s parental controls on someone’s account a while back and I manage it for her. Last night, she was panicking because she couldn’t access the internet. At first, I assumed it was due to time limits I might have set and forgotten about. But no,it turns out Microsoft simply decided to block Chrome, with no notification, no email, nothing. Just a silent update that made me scramble...

Framework Announcement

I don’t usually spam out blog posts when the news hits about things, but I am making an exception here as I found this super exciting. Framework, for those of you who don’t know, is the computer company that makes repairable and truly upgradeable products.Framework announced three new products. One of them is just an update to the Framework 13 mainboard which is cool in the sense that...

Tools that just work: an Ode to my 13 year old kindle

A few different things all came together to write this post today.My Kindle’s battery died. The Kindle hubbub (though not relevant). A failure to find a self-hosted Instapaper alternative. And Juan’s article—Tools That Just Work. A bit of context, my everyday workflow for reading, as mentioned in my RSS article, is as follows: “My setup for reading is FreshRSS instance on my...

A Spotify Alternative – Though you will no longer be part of the Navy.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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