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Re:The Quest for a Dumber Phone on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @03:49PM (#34418817)
I did the same thing this New Years. Blocked email, safari, all non-important applications. Kept things like: message, fb messenger, fitbit, camera, etc.

If I really need to know the answer to something, I will ask Siri. And most things I just add to my to-do list for looking up the information later.

It's been great!

Re:Chinese Paddlefish Declared Extinct on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @09:44AM (#21991851)
"Things became difficult for them when the Gezhouba Dam was built in 1981—it split the paddlefish population in two and prevented those fish trapped below it from spawning"
Re:Focals by North on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @01:42PM (#18285570)
They chose models with dark hair because the huge and thick arms would be less visible.
This could fix potholes too. Having the cars avoid that section of road automatically.
Re:Tindallgrams on Saturday August 04, 2018 @04:01PM (#17688237)
Would love to hear someone's experience with using or preparing this kind of memory.
Re:Peace for Triple Piano on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @09:50PM (#16489285)
Watch the "making of" video! So much hard work!
Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) on Monday February 12, 2018 @12:48PM (#16360356)
I believe they Firefox has opened up to answering ipfs URLs in the near future.
Re:In Defense of Amy Wax’s Defense of Bourgeois Values on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @04:27PM (#15186864)
Here is a follow-up article written by one of the 33 members of the University of Pennsylvania Law School faculty to sign a letter criticizing Amy Wax:

Don’t Care if Amy Wax Is Politically Incorrect; I Do Care that She’s Empirically Incorrect

https://heterodoxacademy.org/2017/09/03/i-dont-care-if-amy-w...

Re:Netboot Linux over the internet on Saturday July 29, 2017 @08:57PM (#14883829)
This is great! Especially for utility disks like gparted.

No longer needing to make 30 different bootable CDs or bootable USBs is nice.

Re:GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @09:57AM (#11065664)
That page pretty much just links to the same cluttered page.
Re:Can You Buy A License to Speed? on Friday April 11, 2014 @03:09PM (#7574822)