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I use Google Assistant a lot. I tried the Gemini Assistant on my phone and it was an exercise in frustration.

Me: (after pausing the tv) “Resume TV”

Google: (resumes playback on TV)

Gemini: “TV not recognised. Please say the device name” or even worse… “A resume is essential when you’re looking for a job in television. Your resume should blah blah…”

Me: (with phone locked) “set a timer for xxx”

Google: “setting a timer for xxx, starting now”

Gemini: “I’m unable to set timers, please unlock your phone, open xxx and (lengthy step by step instructions)”, or “setting a timer for yyy” (completely wrong time).

The caps lock thing hurts my feelings (ಥ_ʖಥ)

I was tempted by these n100 mini PCs, but worried about the no-name components. I saw many people on reddit/lemmy recommending Dell, Lenovo, HP micro form factor PCs. You can pick them up used from eBay as companies clear out “old” computers. The advantage of the known brands is ongoing firmware support.

When you use a “good vpn”, it would just show that a user with your same fingerprint visited also from yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy

Take it from someone who is a Linux noob and Googles for terminal commands every time, and whose most used keys are ctrl c, ctrl v…

1. Go to official docker documentation, copy paste the commands to install docker.
2. go to Portainer documentation, copy paste the commands to install Portainer Community Edition
3. Find a service you want to install, copy the ‘docker compose’ text. (A good first service to install is Watchtower which takes care of updating other containers)
4. go to Portainer’s browser UI, find the ‘stacks’ tab, paste, click ‘deploy’

Don’t do this on your main server. Use some old hardware or a cheap VPS to practise on.

The main skill I need is googling and asking AI. It’s that easy.

It’ll be absolutely fine to use your work device for personal stuff. Until they want to fire you and need a reason for it. A quick audit of your usage, then bye bye!

These have words but might still fit the other factors:

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen Horses - Patti Smith

“It’s terminal”

Where Boost goes, I go.

I don’t use a hearing aid (…yet), but I do find videos difficult when the audio mix has the ‘background’ music too loud relative to the voice.

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They made it crap a long time ago. The app takes forever to connect and view the camera. Really feels like abandonware, except for the ads to push you to buy more of their cameras or subscribe to their service. I’ve just cancelled my subscription. Moved to Tapo cameras, where the app connects nearly instantly… for now.

I’d say contribute some $ to free software, especially when it’s as good as uBO. However, even Gorhill doesn’t want money, but encourages contributions to filterlists.

Audiobookshelf also finds, manages, streams podcasts. After Google killed off Google Podcasts, ABS has been an even better replacement in my experience.

Try the ready made options at https://rss-bridge.org/bridge01/ , and if your sites aren’t listed, you can use the “CSS Selector Bridge” option there.

My pleasure, let us know how you get on.

Good question… Accessible to all apps so you can copy, move, sync.

They’re just files saved to some location on the phone. So it’s as easy as copying or transferring any file.

That’s probably because you’re in a country whose CSC code allows recording.

I forgot to say… Samsung only! It’s a basic recorder, records automatically, no audible notification as far as I’m aware (that might depend on the CSC code you use and legal requirements of that country). Playback is from within the recent calls list.