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  • The 'translate what's on my screen' was a thing that google assistant could do around Android 8. I found it very handy when living abroad and not really knowing the language.

    That one didn't use OCR, but could only do text in UI elements. Don't know why they killed it. Maybe some security reasons caused the API that reads another apps UI elements to be canned.

  • Knew several as I was wrapping up uni. Had lots of fun partying and doing local trips with them.

    I married one and moved to her home country for a few years. Now we live together in a third country.

  • The EU has strict climate goals to push away from fossil fuels. The current goal is to ban the sale of new combustion engine cars by 2035.

    The fuel here contains a bit more renewables, which also costs more o produce. Still, more than half of the cost of fuel is tax. They had a nice tax break for buying a new electric car for a while, but that window has passed.

  • Over in Sweden it would be hard to replicate these results. Gasoline is ~18SEK/l ($7.5 per gallon).

    My electricity production cost changes by the hour, so I can steer my cost by charging when it's costs are low. Taxes and transfer costs give me a minimum of about $0.07/kWh. A smart charger that picks when to charge based on price can probably average you a cost of $0.10/kWh over the year.

  • All rooms have their own thermostat. 19-21°C.

    I'd go colder at night, but we have a newborn who doesn't do blankets yet. Need to keep it kind of even for her sleeping bags.

  • All I see is refitting sailboats and retro video game history.

  • Daisy Ridley. You've seen her in star wars.

  • Just about to go to bed with 2h51min screen time.

    Baby won't nap unless she's in the stroller, so a lot of that is Pokémon Go while trying to get baby to go down for a nap.

  • Lead is used as a stabilizer in brass. So, commercial you'd never hit food safety standards with a brass nozzle.

    Personally, I'm not so worried. I've made some 3d-printed cookie cutters. It's heaps safer than the stainless steel cookie cutters we had as a kid that my old man had repaired with 60/40 soldering tin.

  • The climate I live in hasn't ever caused any issues with filament, so YMMV.

    I still keep them all in a big sealed plastic box with all the baggies of desiccant I've collected over the years. I give the baggies a yearly refresher in the microwave.

  • I haven't used one as a tty, but my father had a typewriter like that.

    He'd feed in forms for invoicing and software would have the typewriter fill in values in the right fields of that form.

    I've had vt220/320/520 terminals back in the day. Been itching to source one now that I have a forever home to store crap like that, but they're becoming quite rare and expensive.

  • Might've been a while since you tried. There's quite a few options now. zstd is real nice and fast.

  • Consider a Chromebook tablet instead.

    They have play store and android apps. I have an aging Lenovo duet with a USI pen which is really nice for sketching. Comes with a keyboard, because that's how you actually take notes.

  • I used to have a couple of letters from the site/service followed by an obscure dialectal word that's not found in dictionaries with a few characters replaced by numbers and symbols. Those two letters kind of work like salting to keep every hash of my password unique.

    Now I just do bitwarden.

  • I use ente auth.

    It's open source, keeps your keys encrypted in the cloud and lets you use it on all devices. Convenient to have it on my desktop and backup phone.

    Yes, it's not best practice. I feel the risk is greatest that some password hashes leak. I want to guard myself from getting locked out.

  • I have a thin stick-on slider for my laptops. It'd look clunky, but you can stick it on any tablet or phone.

  • I've seen a couple that have had like one or two trivial commits in the half year it took for them to get laid off. Idk what kind of manager did not solve whatever was going on there. I guess getting laid off is a solution, too.