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How Smart Owners Are Pulling Trackers From Toyota, Ford, and GM (The Complete Removal Guide)
These keep coming as YouTube videos. Has anyone compiled this information into an easy-to-search website with text and relevant pictures?
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How Smart Owners Are Pulling Trackers From Toyota, Ford, and GM (The Complete Removal Guide)
These keep coming as YouTube videos. Has anyone compiled this information into an easy-to-search website with text and relevant pictures?
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Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools
0% surprised. These should be banned (in schools but also in general).
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Don't buy normal trousers belts, instead buy elastic belts which can last literally for life
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I love my ratchet belts.
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Why You Should Self-Host Everything
If you're not paying for a service, you're likely being monetized by watching ads or providing personal data to companies that don't necessarily have your best interests at heart.
This is a bit out of date. Nowadays, you pay for the service and are monetized by watching ads and providing personal data to companies that definitely don't have your best interests at heart.
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“Landlords provide housing like scalpers provide concert tickets.”
https://lifehacker.com/why-everyone-hates-landlords-now-1849100799
That said, I do think there need to be ways to rent housing rather than buy it, since many people need that flexibility. Looks like the answer to that might be community land trusts?
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Reddit plagued with 1-star App Store reviews over API debacle as users search for 0-star button
Even before the protest, just over half of reviews were 1 star? Jesus.
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What is something that sounds 100% false but is actually 100% true?
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A broken clock is right twice a day, but a running clock is probably never right.
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Why does the pharmacist add these little ticks/checkmarks with a pen on my medication box?
They're comparing to the actual medication to make sure they're giving you the right thing.
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Should I withdraw/stop putting into my 401k?
You should regularly invest in broad-market index funds and not pay attention to the news (as far as your investing goes).
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What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into?
I bought myself a raspberry pi for my birthday a few years ago.
I now have thousands of dollars in hardware sitting in a server rack in my office. Whoops.
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Why do right-wingers say that minorities must create their own stories if they are going to complain in the same way?
The trouble is, you're looking for internal consistency to their arguments. You need to look at the theme of the arguments: namely, they don't like the "black people exist in the USA" part.
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I'm ditching htop for btop, look how cool it is
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50/50 on if it starts listing processes or launches a new game of Zelda.
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What is the weirdest thing you were under an NDA for?
I couldn't say.
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How many people actually want fully on-site IT jobs?
I've been remote for over a decade; not going to stop now.
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The Government Can Spy on You Using Your Wireless Headphones
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Dark patterns are everywhere
(I don't know what the problem with a water bowl is, but I digress)
(cats are more likely to drink moving water than still water since moving water is less likely to have bad things growing in it)
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Lastpass Family - Privacy alternative
Check out BitWarden. You can use a Collection to share passwords with each other. Free, though I think the TOTP functionality is in the Premium subscription ($10/yr).
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Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Week 1
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I'd love to know what it is about subreddits going private that caused issues.
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How do I alleviate bitterness due to lack of intimacy?
Therapy. Also focusing on your hobbies and filling your life with joys that don't focus on a datemate. But definitely therapy.
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Is eating potato chips better than nothing in terms of pure nutrition and wholesomeness?
Yes, if that's all you can eat, definitely get the calories.