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This is reminding me of an ascii art game called Candy Box. It begins very minimal like this, but unfolds into a wonderfully imaginative RPG game.

https://candybox2.github.io/candybox/

That is a good idea. Years back, I had a very old phone that I used as an alarm clock and media player. It would have been nice to not worry about charging. I did disable the mobile and wifi radios, which saved a tons of battery.

On Android, I use a terminal script called Advanced Charging Controller (ACC) to automate keeping the battery under 80% and some other battery saving tweaks. It allows you to charge to any value (like 80%), then stop charging until it discharges to another set value, which triggers it to start charging again. That was you can keep it between something like 70% and 80% while you leave it charging over night. It also has settings to keep the batter under a specified temperature and trigger cool-down intervals if it gets to a particular temperature. It can use a job scheduler to switch between different profiles for different days, or events. There are also some frontend apps, which let the user control the script with a more friendly GUI ("AccA" or "ACC Settings").

Link to the script: https://github.com/VR-25/acc This does require root permissions, though.

If you want to play it on macOS, you can install it through Homebrew:

    brew install open-adventure

    advent

I tried this a few times as a little kid to see if it would work. If I sent it from my home, it didn't work and I got it returned with red pen notes on it explaining how to send it properly. I am sure it looked like a little kids writing, so they gave me the benefit of the doubt. Next I mailed it from the post office and that actually worked, as long as it was being sent locally.

It was when I was a kid in the 80s and 90s. Yeah they were on old planes that were just still in use.

I used to do this on airplanes and in hotels. I had more success in hotels, because there was less chance the other person was using it at the time and less chance of getting kicked off.

There was another little hack that I used as a little kid. Remember when airlines would sell or rent special headphones to watch inflight movies? The port was just two holes beside each other and the plug was two tubes. Before a flight, I would stop by one of the fast food places in the terminal and grab a handful of straws (preferably ones with a bendy joint). When I was on the plane I would connect the straws by fitting them into each other to create a long straw. Put one end into the port on and the other into your ear and you got free movies with audio!

Some messaging apps have options to not automatically download/preview images that are sent, so that might be a good step to take. I know that Google Messages has this feature.

Look at the periodic table and find elements that add up to what you need. In the game lowercase letters will not count as an elemnet unless paired with an uppercase, so either 1 capital letter or One capital and one lowercase letter as the atomic symbols.

From a user point of view that would do just fine. Maybe server owners might not want to be associated with those instances for potential legal issues.

Some servers admins have also defederated from certain instances because they were receiving increased trolling/spam from certain instances and it was too much work to moderate with the current number of mods they had.

Each server (AKA "Instance") is kind of like an email provider, or like a bunch of individual Reddit websites. On Lemmy a "Community" is their version of a subreddit. Each server/instance hosts its own communities, but if you have an account on one server, you can still subscribe, read and post on off-server communities.

Each server is a piece of the federation. Some Instances do not federate with all other instances though. I'm not sure if there are any instances that access every other instance.

I'm not sure about lemmy, but I know that on other fediverse projects like Mastodon there were some servers that were completely unmoderated, filled with terrible content and were defederated by most other instances. Most decent people don't want to see that stuff on their feed.

I have done this a few times and it turned out delicious! This method basically poaches the fish, which preserves some of the good fats on the fish. I usually put some salt, pepper, lemon slices and a sprig of some herb (thyme or rosemary) in the foil with it. Sometimes I would use some other seasoning or a bit of garlic.

I learned this method from the Surreal Gourmet (as mentioned in the article) as a teenager and gave it a try soon after. It came in handy when I went off to college, because it didn't stink up the apartment and bother the roommates.

If you try it, be sure to use a full, normal cycle. Energy saving and other modes might not get up to the right temperature.

I was browsing music on Spotify and kept seeing this "Escape Room" genre label on what seemed to be very divergent artists. I noticed that particular bands connected to genres such as industrial, hip hop, noise, pop, indie, lofi, jazz, IDM, psychedelic and punk were all being tagged "Escape Room". I found this all very curious, so I consulted google and found this article.

The genre is one generated organicaly from spotify-users' listening habits. The spotify reccomendation algorithm grouped these artists together, despite being quite different on the surface. The article discusses the everynoise.com site, which is a very interesting and useful tool that maps all genres on Spotify. I've used this tool in the past. I looked up "Escape Room" on everynoise and found that many bands that I listen to are in it, mostly along the outside edges of the cloud, but a few toward the core.

I never noticed many similarities between some of these bands, so I found it very interesting that spotify was able to lump them all together and find commonality between them.

I think Tusky is the most polished android client.

As a long-time Pushbullet user, I would like to thank the developer for their efforts in creating it and in keeping the app available to us!

I love this feature on my pixel, but I always have to turn it off when I'm expecting important calls from places like medical offices and such.

Yeah there really isn't much that victims can do at this point until the carriers are held more accountable. Hopefully this will help.

Thank you for the clarification. Yeah, most of the down that I get stems to originate from other countries. Hopefully they can crack down on those.

In my experience, it seems like most spam calls that I receive are using a spoofed number over VOIP. Reporting the number as spam, basically reports the number they are spoofing, rather than the people making the call. Is that correct? Will this new action have any effect on these spoofed VOIP calls? It seems like there is no way for people receiving these calls to report these callers without having the carriers recording the source IP addresses of these calls. I don't know all of the inner-workings of the phone network, so maybe I am making incorrect assumptions.

The last time I checked (year ago), the MacOS version is much less configurable. I don't think you can really change the interface with config files like you can with the Windows builds. This might have changed though.

Also, people who are eating too many pre-made/processed/frozen foods might not be eating enough fresh, organic fruits and vegetables, which are a great source of helpful bacteria and the prebiotic fibers that keep them alive.

Enthusiasm does go a long way and I agree that he could be successful with "cleaner" content. Personally, I applaud his authenticity and just like that he is being himself. Just as there are people who might be turned off by curse words and dirty jokes, there are others who might come for the jokes and stay for the science.

I've been watching his content for a while now and I love him. He is a breath of fresh air in a field that is sometimes a bit dry. He is hilarious, knowledgeable and brings so much life and character to us in his content. If a little colorful language and wit can get more people interested in nature we will all benefit. We have to share this planet and the more we learn and love it, we will hopefull take better care of it.

I am not a botanist, but I always loved plants. When I was 5 years old I had guerilla gardens growing all over the neighborhood (mainly beans and flowers) and my grandparents taught me how to forage for plants and fungus. Eventually, I began memorizing plant taxonomies on my own. As a more self-taught plant person, I identify a bit more with Santore, than I do with others.

This has been happening to me for a long time. I have an alias set up in my terminal that will send a ping to speedtest.net every few seconds to make my ISP think that I am doing a speedtest. I will start it if I am noticing throttling. It seems to work some of the time, but not if the network is extremely overloaded.

Something like this: alias pingspeed="ping -i 4 speedtest.net"

I just use this feature and it works for most of the extensions that I want to use: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...

Oh, thanks for letting me know. I have been using that little trick since they had first released that feature for unsupported addons and there were very few available then. That is good to know it is available in the supported list.

I don't know what your mobile OS is, but Dark Reader works just fine for me on Firefox Nightly for Android. Mozilla is still in the process of adding all of the web extension APIs to mobile Firefox, so you need to go through a few steps to set it up, detailed here: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...

There are some plugins that allow you to customize your library. The "Inline" plugin is very helpful with specifying custom template fields. This allows you to base your file organization on other things. That should allow you to create folders for session-dates and things like that.

https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/inline.html

There is also a plugin that allows you to add keyword tags to files. I haven't used this one though, so I can' t really say if it will be useful to you: https://github.com/igordertigor/beets-usertag

The beets documentation lists many other useful plugins here: https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/

It looks like the user disable the automatic permissions rest on an app-by-app basis. If you navigate to the permissions page for a single app, there is a toggle at the bottom to disable this.

With the old reddit design, you can create your own Multireddits. If you switch to old reddit (click username dropdown > "Visit Old Reddit"), and hover over the "Join" button on a subreddit, you should get a menu to check and add that sub to a multireddit (or create a new one). Some subs with custom CSS break this functionality, but this is a way to curate and categorize your subs. So you can read posts from all of you favorite programming-related subs together in one multi and all your favorite cooking ones in another, etc. Once you have them set up you can use them in the new redesign, but to manage them you need to go back to Old Reddit.