Fun fact: Steve Huffman (Reddit CEO) is an investor of Nothing Phone

https://us.nothing.tech/pages/about

I don't think you even need consent-o-matic. uBlock Origin can block the cookie popups (it's just not enabled by default)

Just a side note - Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is one of the primary investors of Nothing Phone https://us.nothing.tech/pages/about

The feature I absolutely love on Opera mobile is it will dynamicly wrap text and adjust the page layout to a single column when you zoom in/out. So for pages with small text, you can zoom in to see enlarged text and just scroll down to read - where on all other browsers you have to scroll horizontally back and forth to read the enlarged text.

Opera has been doing this brilliantly for at least 10 years, and I have yet to see this on any other mobile browsers I've tried.

The best part is it works with Android as well. Whenever I turn my computer on, all my photos on my phone sync to my computer to a folder that gets regularly backed up (using Vorta which is an excellent and easy to use open source backup program for Windows, Linux, and Mac)

Octoprint (web interface for 3d printers) is one of my favorite open source projects

https://octoprint.org/support-octoprint/

In the 1970's Exxon not only knew about climate change due to the burning of their fossil fuels, they accurately predicted global warming projections. And studies by their internal scientists continued to predict and verify global warming in a bunch of reports between 1977 and 2003. Yet they still continued to lobby against renewable energy and admitted that they still aggressively fought climate change science.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/12/business/exxon-climate-models-global-warming/index.html

Arrested Development

I found an old TV on Craigslist for $10 for my Genesis.

OctoPrint for 3D printing

My HOA:

When turning off my Samsung TV, every once in a while it decides to turn itself back on about 5 minutes later. This has been going on for several years now.

It doesn't happen every time, and seems to happen randomly as I can't replicate the conditions in which it happens. It didn't happen when I bought the TV, so I suspect it started after Samsung pushed a firmware update. It's a bug others are experiencing with the same model TV and I've tried every fix people suggested online, factory reset the TV, and updated the firmware. My conclusion is that it's a bug that Samsung needs to fix, but I'm confident they won't given the TV is about 5 years old now.

Here's a really nice script to debloat a new Windows install. I bought a new Windows 11 laptop and this made it super easy:

https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat

Material Files is by far the best file browser.

https://github.com/zhanghai/MaterialFiles

I bought a brand new Lenovo Yoga laptop, and when connecting to my TV via HDMI, the TV occasionally goes black for a second or 2 then comes back. It doesn't happen at all when streaming video full screen, only when doing something simple like browsing the Internet. Happens with Windows and Linux, although it's more frequent on Linux.

Vorta is a great program for backing up files. Works on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

A cast iron pan that I inherited from my grandmother is around 100 years old.

Electronic hobbyist pages for Arduino and Expressif microcontrollers for project help and showcasing protects people are working on:

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Running this command was the only thing required for me to get access to the com ports. After that, everything worked perfectly.

sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER

(note that $USER is part of the command - do not replace that with your actual username)

How do I get started with Mastodon? Are there multiple instances to choose from like Lemmy, or do you just sign up on mastodon.social?

Also, it looks like you can access Lemmy communities from there - so how is it different than just using Lemmy?