hammerron @hammerron@mastodon.technology

The one greatest compromise I made this year was to buy a "fitness" watch to track heartrate and my exercises. It has been 6 months of using it and it's already failing to do its fucking job properly.

There was a time when you bought something at a premium price, in this case a $200 watch, and had something that lasted a lifetime.

I am more than sick of the obsolescence that people shill. It's time I returned to my grandfather's 50 year old watch and track the old way. Those never break.

New here? Remember that Twitter is optimized to make you into passive consumers, by en(r/g)aging you with content that you don't choose yourself.

Here, that doesn't happen. But it also means you're responsible to find people to follow.

It will take some work.

If you're willing to put that in, you'll find a wide variety of friendly people that will be happy to have meaningful conversions and laugh and cry together with you.

Start by searching and looking at who other people follow.

BREAKING: ICANN has voted to REJECT the sale of the .ORG registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital. This is a major victory for the millions of nonprofits, civil society organizations, and individuals who make .ORG their home online. #SaveDotOrg https://www.icann.org/news/blog/icann-board-withholds-consent-for-a-change-of-control-of-the-public-interest-registry-pir https://t.co/sFLcwZqU1B

This is a piece that a friend of mine wrote. Just want to push some more traffic towards his employer.

https://advrider.com/manic-5-to-churchill-falls-part-3/

Proper soldering

I found out only yesterday that #Jitsi has dropped #GoogleAnalytics from their public instance https://meet.jit.si/ , which is a great improvement for #privacy ! (They still do analytics, as documented here: https://jitsi.org/security/ , which is a good read for any Jitsi user.)

I find your lack of faith... Disturbing.

DRM is bad news for all consumers. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/defective-by-design-a-resistance-to-restrictions

It's beginning to look a lot like Yule!

I used to be a "Googly" person. I had Gmail when most people asked "Is that like email or something", and I was heavy into Google Plus when it was peaking.

Two things turned me off, aside from the now obvious reasons. When they started providing those creepy auto-response buttons on your emails; felt like they were reading right along with me.

Second, with location turned off on my Android phone, I get asked to rate my trip to "business x" when I wasn't even there, but was nearby.

@claudiom scroll down to #5 of https://opensource.com/article/19/10/signs-linux-user and see if you recognize any of the screenshots

The author clearly has excellent taste. (Also wasn't sure if you wanted credit and/or how to list you, so let me know)

We all have some of these tiny instruction sheets that came with some device, like a digital photo frame or a poor man's watch. 3 yrs from now when I change the battery, I won't remember which of the 2 buttons to hold down for 5 sec and press the other 3 times to change the settings.

I scan all those little sheets to PDF and keep them in a Manuals folder in my Documents. Zoomed, easier to read, and most important, I know where they are.

#paperless #digital