helpImTrappedOnline

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[–] helpImTrappedOnline 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (9 children)

Why do you use private tabs if you keep them open? That defeats the whole purpose.

Private tabs do not grant privacy on the open web I.e your data is still sent to Google

Private tabs tab give you local privacy - only local data history is not stored, downloads not logged, etc.

Edit: and the answer is!!! private mode could be used in place of a profile for different website sign ins. Creative.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I like Typefinity. (I have only used it on iPad, don't own an iPhone)

A no nonsense ios keyboard with a number row!

Privacy wise, they claim to not collect anything. It's not FOSS and also not free. One time $5. 100% worth it.

There's not too much visual customization, but a few themes that include dark, light and few colorful themes. For keyboard settings, there's everything you'd expect from a keyboard - not too much, but enough to disable things you might not want like click sounds and adjust autocorrect.

For the part you asked about; Playing around with swipe, it doesn't seem to work with curse words.

Honestly, thats probably a good thing. Its better for you and these keybaords' PR to lean on the side of caution (It could also be requirement from Apple - idk) You wouldn't want it to mistake "the duck sits on the birch log" for "the fuck shits on the bitch log".

Manually typing out bad words has no issues with autocorrection set to max. I normally leave it on "suggestions only" and just use the autofill suggestions as I type big words. Overall the swipe works, I don't normally use it, but I was able to "swipe" a few simple sentences. I can't give you a definitivite answer to "is it good", I type everything like a caveman.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, the first time was for the joke. Second time must have been umm autocorrect.

I am defiantly not making things up to excuse my poor spelling...what can I say? I made a double oops 0ops.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

I know...college is a joke for a lot of careers.

I made up this situation pointing out the opposing stereotypes of books and authors.

Reads lots of books = smart person who has lots of potential in life.

Writes lots of books = bum who can barley pay rent.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (9 children)

Parents: you need to read lots of book in your free time to get smart and go to collage.

~~~ Many years later ~~~

Me: I would like to attend university next year. I will pursue an education in literature to achieve my goal of becoming a published author.

Parents: you will not! There is no success as an author, I will not support you going to to school for such a waste.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline 19 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Music streaming has proven this for years now, all the major brands have massive collections that make its super easy to pay and listen to just about anything.

Early Netflix proved this when everything was readily available for an affordable pricre.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline 6 points 4 months ago

Sony controllers will not work, it must be a bootleg controller that only works on Windows and requires sketchy drivers.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline 12 points 4 months ago

In modern times he'd get fired for looking away from the eye tracking software.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline 34 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This sounds like a great spot for scammers to flood for maximum visabilty. It'll be too much effort to moderate, so creators will just disable them (if they can) or this will be shut down in about (checks YouTube's history of dealling with scammers) 3.5 years.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Would a compromise be to simply archive them but not make them freely availible until they enter public domain.

For more current book; if they are out of print then they can be made availbe for limited loan, like any other digital library. If a digital copy is avalible for purchase from the original publisher/author, than its not fair game. Unless they come to an agreement, perhaps add supported for freely accessing a book otherwise available for purchase.

If they got rid of the download option, it would make it much more difficult to just use a DRM stripping tool (a friend told me about these terrible pirating tools, I certently don't know how to use then). A lot of digital libraies have a dedicated app that you can only view content from. Utilize whatever anti-screen capture systems banks and Netflix use to protect from simply taking screen shots. Make is easier to access the books legitimatly than it is to pirate them.

Lastly, don't just make everything freely availible next time there's a world crisis.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

All the time, although nothing this complicated.

Find X in this formula... okay, I'll just put in the 4 choices and see which one works.

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