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See AllThis old-school Windows terminal still does a few things better than Microsoft
In my Windows days I wouldn't use a machine without this, even if I didn't use bash commands. The command history was by itself a huge advantage over cmd
3 easy ways to supercharge your smart home using Home Assistant — without spending a dime
MikeyP Maybe run HA on a VM in Windows just to toy with it until planets align and one can dedicate an old or mini PC just for HA. I guess one can eventually migrate whatever configuration / knowledge one might have developed while toying.
We’ve been sabotaging our phone batteries for no good reason
I have always limited the charge to 80% and used a low power non-fast charger, and my 900+ cycled battery still lasts the whole day and rarely gets warm (unless I spend too much time watching videos or taking pictures)
I turned off Chrome's Ad Privacy feature after realizing what it was actually doing
"... the Internet with all the things it makes available costs money. Seeing ads is the inevitable price of admission..."
THIS.
I just wish ads were more "polite", no half screen covered with an ad or a "create a free account" nag half a second after loading. Instead, relevant, conspicuous but not annoying ads on one side.
I changed my DNS and that annoying pause before pages load finally disappeared
I am very happy with caching AdGuardHome in my router and every device DNSing to it. Maybe it stutters when I first go to someobscuredomain.com, but subsequent browsing is fast.
Eventually I will add rules to block/redirect app hardcoded DNS requests to it.
I found an Android browser that runs Chrome extensions — and I don’t get why it’s not popular
I don't know what is worse, Kiwi's stopped maintenance or Lemur and Quetta's chinese origins.
I'll stick with Brave and DuckDuckGo, and live without extensions.