impudentmortal

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[–] impudentmortal@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is all anecdotal but I signed up for the icogni family plan since my parents are boomers who are seriously tech illiterate. After signing up, it seems like I've gotten more scam texts and calls, at least initially. I even got a scam letter twice from the same scam. So I would just save your money.

It's possible that they are doing what they advertise and getting your name off databases but maybe the act of requesting that makes those companies send out your info to another data broker.

[–] impudentmortal@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Wasn't aware you could mod a Kindle. What does doing this do?

[–] impudentmortal@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Does anyone know if using Calibre will be affected by this change?

[–] impudentmortal@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

You forgot the "then". Should be "If I was a man, then I'd be the man"

[–] impudentmortal@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's Johnny Tight-Lips. He ain't saying nothin

[–] impudentmortal@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Back in the day, I let my younger brother and cousins play GTA Vice City in my room. They never played the story but would enter cheats and compete to see who could get the most stars and survive the longest. They were 5-7 years old haha. In retrospect, not a good move on my end but I was only about 15.

[–] impudentmortal@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I think this was the problem. Downloaded it off the play store and tried to update it from Github. Totally forgot haha. I guess I'll wait until the update goes live on the play store

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by impudentmortal@lemmy.world to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world
 

Tried updating the voyager app on Android but I get this error message. Going from 2.24.0 to 2.24.1

Any help is appreciated!

[–] impudentmortal@lemmy.world 31 points 3 weeks ago

Unless you play competitive online team games. Then your stress and anxiety go up even higher.

[–] impudentmortal@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I swap between my speakers, headphones and IEMs. Good way to keep your ears from feeling too hot (from headphones) or fatigued (from IEMs). For most listening I use speakers but if there are other people around, I'll use my headphones since they're more comfortable and sound better than my IEMs.

[–] impudentmortal@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

But I want a peanut

[–] impudentmortal@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I think part of the problem is that people see the same grammatical mistakes repeatedly and think it's normal; especially since it seems most of the written content people consume is written by the average person and not edited (TikTok, YouTube, Instagram etc). So they honestly don't know what's proper or not.

For example, I've seen multiple YouTube shorts in which people pluralized words by adding " 's" to them. Someone I met recently thought the same too.

Not sure if there's a solution since grammar and spelling aren't things people care about. Can't force people to have better written content if their viewers don't care or know any better.

 

From The Main Duties of the Vice President

[–] impudentmortal@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

One gift I've been giving out that's pretty popular is an automatic foam soap dispenser. It's a nice little quality of life improvement and since you add water to the soap to make it foamy, soap lasts a lot longer too.

There are a bunch on Amazon. I would find one that you like the look of and make sure it charges with USB C.

 

Source: A Scummy Gap Student With a Hard Life Calls Upon a Lady of the Night (Ch 33)

 

Wanted to give my cousin (11) a handheld since he's never had a game console.

He saw my stepsister's PSP and was interested in it but she wanted to keep it.

Would like the system to be as simple as possible since he's not very tech savvy but also be able to play some PSP games since that's what piqued his interest.

Budget under $100 just in case he doesn't like retro games

 

I've got a lot of devices that need to plug into an outlet at my desk. Right now, I have 2 surge protectors completely full.

I wanted to get a smart surge protector to auto turn off/on devices I don't want left on all the time (ex: speakers, monitor, DAC/AMP, printer). But the smart surge protectors have fewer outlets than my current one.

My question is, how do you manage your outlets when you have a lot of devices that need to be plugged in? I don't want to have 3 surge protectors plugged into the wall. I'm already drawing a lot of power in my home office with my mini fridge also plugged in (on the opposite side of the room).

I've also heard of something called UPS. Would that be better than plugging it into a surge protector?

For those curios, the devices I have are:

  • Two monitors
  • Speakers
  • DAC/AMP
  • Router
  • Modem
  • Printer
  • Ethernet Switch
  • PiHole
  • Solar panel monitor
  • NAS
  • Landline phone
  • Backup external hard drive
 

I'm looking to replace my old Netgear Nighthawk with a new router. Currently my house does have some dead zones which we make up for using a powerline. But the powerline isn't always stable and we have to switch wifi networks depending on where we are in the house.

My question is, is it better to get a mesh network or a standard router with either range extenders (ex: TP-Link OneMesh) or mesh features (ex: Asus AiMesh)? I couldn't really find any article that listed the differences between mesh routers and standard routers with extendable features. They only compare mesh routers with standard routers.

More info:

Preferably, I would like to go with the standard router for the higher speeds and extra ports but I'm afraid that won't solve our dead zone issues. Also, buying two or three standard routers is way more expensive than a mesh network with multiple satellites.

Speed and signal strength are important for me since both I and my brother WFH and do online gaming. Unfortunately, the home office (where the router is) and bedrooms (where we game and where my brother works) are on opposite sides of the house. Another note is that when the garage opens, my brother loses signal in his room for some reason. I haven't experienced that despite being closer to the garage than him

 

I wanted to get my mom YouTube Premium for her birthday but don't want to pay the ridiculous annual price for my country (especially since she mostly just watches YouTube shorts). She uses an iPhone so trying to get adblocker would be too much of a hassle, especially if it stops working. She won't be able to figure out how to fix it.

I've tried using account sellers in the past but the last one I used had some issues and now I can't add my mom's YouTube account to a different family account for another year.

I am able to use a VPN to buy premium for cheaper from a different country but they require a credit card for that country. Is it possible to get a virtual debit/credit card for different countries?

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