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Is there an open-source/not corporate-owned alternative for Google Docs?
https://www.collaboraoffice.com/nextcloud/ sounds like what you're looking for. I've not tried it myself as I actually like the Google docs/sheets etc offering.
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Is there an open-source/not corporate-owned alternative for Google Docs?
https://www.collaboraoffice.com/nextcloud/ sounds like what you're looking for. I've not tried it myself as I actually like the Google docs/sheets etc offering.
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where do you guys register and manage www domains?
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Go Daddy. The name alone is just plain creepy.
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Confusion over new Dartford Crossing payment system
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https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/still-pay-m25s-dartford-crossing-17268853
"Tolling was supposed to pay for the Dartford Bridge and then end, which would have been in 2003. However, it became a nice little earner which raises around £70 million a year."
Bastards.
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Do you use the swipe to type feature on your phone?
Reassuring to see the love for Swype in here. I'm still using Swype on Android. I've tried many other keyboards, gboard comes closest but still lacks some of the quality of life little features from Swype.
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Fifty-seven swimmers fall sick and get diarrhoea at world triathlon championship in Sunderland
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A declining nation, still putting on a brave face of over-confidence about its place in the world, citing long-past glories (but don't you dare get all woke saying that the empire was built on enslaving people to plunder their own resources.)
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Extremely safe indoor pool.
⚡ that light fitting over the pool! ⚡
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Docker + Nextcloud = why is it so difficult?
As others have commented, Nextcloud provide an all-in-one docker set up. I managed to follow the instructions and get it working.
However, in the end, I wanted this to replace my Dropbox subscription, and my files and reliable access to them are important to me. Given that, and my relatively low skill level, I didn't want to futz with troubleshooting failed updates and server issues, so I just went with a Hetzner storage share, which is their managed nextcloud subscription: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share
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What are the best RSS feeds on the Internet?
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I imagine that there are far fewer people who use RSS now than there were 10 years ago. The rise of social media and shorter attention spans may have something to do with that. Personally, I'm in the RSS cult, using Tiny Tiny RSS.
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What are the best search engines/Q&A sites?
Perplexity.ai has largely replaced Google and Bing for me. It searches the Internet (including reddit), asks for clarification if necessary, then summarises it all with sources cited. The free tier currently gives 5x gpt4 copilot searches per rolling 4 hours. Like most ai chat, it's less of a search engine, and more an 'answer' engine.
As for q and a, reddit, though you'll have to filter the funny / misleading comments out. Quora is just weird, I don't like the vibe there.
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Why Android camera app uses JPEG format?
My Samsung has the option to save as HEIF. When I want to share that photo, my phone shares the HEIF file which isn't commonly supported.
An iPhone also saves as HEIF - however, it automatically converts to jpeg when you share. Much smarter, more seamless.
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Is it unethical to troll arrogant people?
We had just one arsehole, now we have two arseholes.
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Fifty-seven swimmers fall sick and get diarrhoea at world triathlon championship in Sunderland
A good read about British water companies dumping raw sewage into rivers:
Summary:
The article "Sewage sleuths: the men who revealed the slow, dirty death of Welsh and English rivers" discusses the pollution of rivers in England and Wales due to sewage and agricultural waste. Water companies have been accused of releasing billions of litres of raw sewage into rivers, including the Thames. In response to these allegations, the Environment Agency (EA) and Ofwat announced an investigation into water companies in England and Wales on November 18, 2021 . However, the article also highlights that most of the pollution in rivers like the Wye comes from agriculture rather than sewage works, and there is no quick fix for this problem. Regulators have retreated from checking whether farmers are following the rules around pollution, just as they did for water companies, leading to similar consequences . The article emphasizes the lack of government action and enforcement of environmental protection laws, which has allowed river pollution to continue. It also raises concerns about the potential impacts of this pollution on public health, wildlife, and the environment .
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Voyager 1.1.0 update breaks images in Fennec/Firefox for Android
Same here. Broken in Firefox android, works fine in Chrome android. I'd like to stick with Firefox though, because Chrome. (Whatever the outcome, thank you Voyager dev 😍)
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Take a first look at Google’s new At a Glance widget for non-Pixel phones
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Screenshots from Stormy Daniels' phone.
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What app is so useful, you can’t believe it’s free?
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I love weawow! Agreed about making a regular donation to the Weawow dev... or it'll face the curse of other top, rated free apps - the developer has tons of users, dealing with all their support requests, and can't make a living from it, then rightly sells up to some sh!tty company who then turns the app to shite. Yes, that's the story of the legendary Quickpic app.
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What's your favorite email client?
"Id like an email client with folders or categories."
I tried a few other email clients to see if I could ditch the gmail one (years ago, admittedly), and where those clients fell short for me was they didn't support labels, only folders. Multiple labels can apply to one email, but an email can only belong in one folder.
Does anyone know if things have changed, whether third party clients now support gmail labels?
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What is your go-to Linux distro and why?
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Isn't that the point of full disk encryption, to make sure you're authorised to boot? That at least is the behaviour on a Mac if you enable full disk encryption. Or do you mean every time you wake it from sleep?
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Is Rooting still as essential as it used to be?
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Hold up... So are you saying that I could use Shizuku / Swiftbackup, and it would do backup and restore of app data, just like when I used to have root and Titanium Backup?! That would be a game changer, I never fully trusted Google backups or Samsung Smart Switch to do the full job.
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Do you use the swipe to type feature on your phone?
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Keyboard69 (the android version of nintype) was wild. I loved the visuals, but the learning curve put me off sadly. I wish the dev had stuck to it, it really was the keyboard of the future, way ahead of its time.
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Mobile Tab Issues
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Yep, same problem here, my swipes aren't perfectly straight because, well, I've got a thumb joint. Fisher-Price grid view takes up too much space. Mozilla need to account for the overall direction of the swipe.