This article and similar threads keeps popping up in my feed, so I'm going to keep spreading this tip around. (I'm using Android.)
I use tasker to automatically lockdown my phone based on accelerometer and Bluetooth. A sharp tap to my phone or being disconnected from Bluetooth is enough to lockdown my phone and disable all biometric access. I dialed in the sensitivity so that it doesn't take much, just a tap on my pocket, being set down a little too aggressively, pulled from my car and thrown to the ground is all it takes. I set it to notify me with a quick vibrate when it does this for a little added confidence that it is behaving as expected.
For a little added effort I can have tasker snap a photo that gets backed up to the cloud any time there is a failed unlock attempt, just be prepared for some unflattering photos of yourself looking like an aging male boomer posting selfies to the facebook.
This is it. Modern planners use GIS and data analytics to place new stores. In my region Publix and Starbucks are a common thing and usually going for similar demographics, so it's not unusual to often see them in the same shopping plaza. Similarly dollar stores, Walmarts, and Dunkin' Donuts always seem to find a place in the same neighborhoods too (in my experience). Those Dollar & Dunkin' neighborhoods almost never have a decent grocery either.
No, still easier. They are still part of the year, so you can just count them, and the logic is still easier than the mess we currently have. If you really feel the need to you can call new years day the zeroth day in the zeroth month, the day of the week is Holiday, and periodically the zeroth month has one extra Holiday.
In this scheme, new years day and leap days are not any day of the week or part of any month. They exist outside of the regular calendar as obvious and explicit resets to the remainder problem.
I was about to make a similar comment about a North face rain jacket I'm happy with. I think the common thread is attention to certain details that cheaper brands might not bother wasting money on. Also fit. I've found that a good fit is more important to a rain jacket with a hood (especially the fit of the hood and shoulders) than anything else.
I enthusiastically disagree. Lower Decks needs to boldly go and jump the shark more than traveling back in time to save a whale or talking to an old microwave that became a god.
Oh yeah, it was a recommendation. Having just picked up a stack of old SciFi pulp (Clifford Simak paperbacks this time), I'm gonna guess that our tastes align enough that you might like it. It is weird though and the character switching is a bit more intense. Not just the perspective changes, the whole writing style drastically changes and even the syntax changes to suit each character.
Seeing as how I need to eat to live, I hardly consider groceries a "short-term" purchase. By that logic all my fucking bills are short term purchases. They make it sound like eating to survive is a fucking luxury.
This is pretty much the way it's always been, new generation exposes new problems. The really existential horror is when we all give up and stop trying to make the world better than it was left to us.
Jack of all trades, master of none. Forcing a router reboot to get the home Internet working again has become a thing of the past since I set up a unifi router and APs.
I'd had router/WiFi combos before running either dd-wrt, open-wrt, or tomato. None of them were stable. But I suspect that was because the hardware just couldn't keep up, not because the open source software was faulty.
I agree, I just factor the cost of my time into the balance of the cost of a fix vs. a replacement. Cleaning doesn't really count in my opinion, that's something any device will require. For a $35 thing that lasts a decade and is made of plastic that will have eroded or fatigued significantly over that time anyway, the cost/benefit doesn't really work it favor of repair, unless like you I enjoy the repair. For most people, the economics of the repair make even less sense.
I got used to windows overwriting the MBR and could generally work around that. But the last time I tried windows/Linux dual boot, it was windows that got caught in a recovery loop after a windows update. Linux was fine. I was impressed at how thoroughly Windows had killed itself on a basic unmolested install. At that point I decided I was done with windows on bare metal unless it was the only thing running. Windows goes in the virtual sandbox or plays by itself.
I suppose you're asking rhetorically, but I'm gonna blunder though this rant anyway. I applaud your frugality and self reliance though.
Avoiding the hassle of disassembling delicate plastics parts, reassembling a potentially complicated and finicky device, and soldering (and resoldering) a small switch on a small PCB or wire correctly and safely is worth at least $34 to 99% of the market. Hell, I'm confident I could do it (badly) and have (admittedly the cheapest version of) the necessary tools, but finding the correct replacement switch still isn't worth the hassle (to me) if mine were to break.
Love my M570, btw. I abuse it on a daily basis with excessive clicks, but so far the worst I've had to do was clean some lint out of it. If it were a $70 device instead of a $35 device, I might feel differently. But at that, price point I'd probably expect better and replace it with a different brand.
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I would eat the raw onion because it's tasty.