That verb is quite cumbersome to use, I propose the following;

• “A quick ducking”
• “I ducked it”
• “Go duck it!”
• “You should duck him”
• “never duck that”
• “You should often duck yourself to learn what it will be like when other people duck you.”

The problem with that plan is it requires actual punishment for a large corporation and that is bad for campaign funds.

Not too sure about the middle part, but the end was pointing out that baby pictures of little Sally playing in the tub are not okay to share or take in the first place.

Its a common enough situation where Ma is going through the baby album with your bride-to-be or a total stranger (mother-in-law) and there’s a bunch of photos of under-dressed children that would definetny make the wrong crowd happy to have.

You should probably get a louder smoke decetor if you can barely hear it upstairs.

I’m going to go with the DIY approach;

For the water sensor, I’d look into the possibility of linking the basement alarm to a speaker upstairs. I’ve no idea what kind of alarm you’re looking at or what the electronics are like. Theoreticaly, you can jump off the audio signal just before it reaches the speaker. Send the audio signal through an amp (located close* to the alarm, preferably where it won’t get wet) and connect it to a speaker upstairs.

I would never try to mess with a smoke detector I rely on, but a water sensor…buy two and have fun.

*the amp is to overcome voltage drop in the new cable, I doubt that the sensor electronics will be capable of driving a seperate speaker with at least 30 ft of cable between it.

I’m going to copy paste a reply I left somewhere else. This was for iOS AI, I’m unsure what the implemention for macOS is. If they are scanning everything then I do not support it.

From what I saw,

MS Recall is a 24/7 AI monitor system that captures everything you look at and saves it for later. They didn’t even do the bare minimum for protecting the data, it was just dumped in an unencytped folder where anyone get wholesale access to the data. All trust has been lost.

Apple is using AI as a tool to improve specific tasks/features that a user invokes. Things like assistant queries and the new calculator. They have said some promising things in regards to privacy, specificly with the use of ChatGPT - any inquiry sent to ChatGPT will ask the user permission first and obscure their IP. This shows they care enough to try, they have not lost our trust - but we remain skeptical.

If apple tries the same thing by scanning everything wholesale, then that’s getting over shadowed by the promises made by the implentaion on the much more popular iOS.

Anybody else come here curious about actual 12ft ladder alternatives and why they wouldn’t work on sites anymore?

The point is you know its an official app and not some scam or independently ran group posing as an official government app

Who cares if they outsourced the development? The point is they have an app, and the badge tells you its legit (assuming we can trust the badge and its not trivial to trick google into giving any app the badge).

• you walk into another room, but can’t remember why you’re there.
• You go downstairs to grab something, do 5 other unrelated things, go back upstairs and immediately remember why you went down in the first place.

Me: when you’re ready let’s do the thing we’d agreed we wanted to do around now.

Them: okay. (drops everything)

Me: okay…I knew you’re in the middle of something, I can wait 5 minutes.

Them: ugg, no, its fine let’s just go now.

(Later with someone else)

Them: Ugg, I always feel rushed to do things with [me].

Other: you know he’ll will wait for you right, its not a big deal.

Them: I know, but I feel bad. I dont like wasting his time…(he doesn’t have a lot of it left).

Still on Nova too. Haven’t had any issues. It’s internet access is blocked.

Maybe they are pretentious and applying to a pretentious inistute of prestige. Any resume without an é is immediately burnt in a fancy fireplace and the applicant is shunned from the pretentious society forever. Its possible, right?

Netgaurd does not require root.

It can run as a VPN, to funel and block unwanted WiFi or data usage from apps. Lots of settings and options per app to block WiFi and/or data. You can also set it so an app will allowed only if the screen is on (good for weather, lemmy or email updates)

As for gmail, it sounds like that would be setting within gmail, however I just briefly looked and did not see it. Personally I switched to K-9 email, it works great for me. I wonder if gmail follows the system data saver or something stupid (If you happen to have that on)?

Heliboard (keyboard) just released on F-Droid. (Its the continuation of Openboard which is no longer maintained.)

Netgaurd - blocks apps from acessing WiFi or cell. Great for crippling spyware and getting misc apps with background updates to be WiFi only.

I use K-9 Mail for email. Eventually its going to be taken over by Thunderbird to become their long over due mobile client.

I’ve been checking F-droid first for miscilanous utilities I need, such as a .txt editor or PDF viewer.

Any store that gives you access to the actual downloads is the way to go.

iTunes is suprisngly good about this - on a PC. Wherever the library folder is, you can just copy the files to your phone’s music folder (You might have to convert them from m4a to mp3 first). (You can also export ituens playlists to transfer them)

bandcamp, and amazon are good alts to itunes. (Not prime music, search for a song or album and buy the mp3 version just as if your buying anything else).

I use Spytify, so I “download” my songs real time in the background. If anything it makes me more intentional about what I do grab. Grabbing the entire discography of an artists may take a day, so a little pre-veting is necessary. you find out why some of the big names only have 1 or 2 hits out of a hundred, but you also find some great songs that didn’t make it.

I’ll usually aquire a few albums at a time. I’ll give each song a quick pass (jumping to random parts) to determine the following

1. is the song awful and/or nothing like what the artist normally does = Delete.
2. is there dead space (a really long start/end of silence) or random talking/noises = trim
3. is it the volume stupidly loud/quiet compared to other songs = fix*
4. stupid rap section in the middle for no reason (thank god that trend is basically gone) = cut
5. what playlists does it belong in?

*I use MP3Gain for bulk volume adjustment, it does pretty good and is non-destructive, though not every player respects the adjustment (a tag in metadata or something)

I don’t catch everything doing this, mostly because I spend a few seconds on each song, but it does filter out a lot.

Sometimes it takes a few listens to decide “I dont like this song” - delete.

I’m not a completionist (or try not to be) for albums/artists. If I don’t like the song, its gone. If there’s one part of a whole that I don’t like, its chopped out.

Spytify

It records Spotify music real time, at the highest available bit rate (as long as you set it). Uses Spotify API to pull track metadata and album art. Its smart enough to not records ads and auto deletes tracks under 30 seconds (I think you can change the time)

It’s slower than YouTube DL, but having all the metadata sorted out for you is a big plus.

Its probably about 98% error free, sometimes a second of a song ending gets put on the next track. A quick cut/paste in Audacity and it’s fixed.

It works best if you have a separate audio device, otherwise other computer sound gets recorded too. I’m not going to do a full tutorial (unless someone asks), but basically you set the audio for Spotify on audio device #2, and continue as normal on audio device #1. It has a loopback feature too, so if you want to listen/record the same time you can.

“Even if they are not linked, services can still share data” Isn’t that the whole point!?

Come up with your own ideas EA.

What kind of mechanical keyboard?

Sure, my razor one is kinda crappy, but I’ve used a very nice one at a friend who did the build your own thing.