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Cake day: October 9th, 2023

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  • It depends what region your in.

    City: depends where you live, i.e. how close to “downtown” you are. A lot of stuff is walking distance, but not everything. You could walk to school and get some basic food or a pharmacy. Probably need a car/bus for work or larger grocery trips.

    Suberbs/town, you might be able to walk to convince store or to school/library, everything else is going to be a car or about a 30min walk. That being said, sometimes you’re “deep” in the suberb and the nearest convince store is a 20-40 min walk.

    Rual/farm: you need a a car to visit your neighbors. Nearest grocrey is a 30 min drive away.








  • Thanks for the info. I adjusted that section a bit, probably should more effort into the edit. Will read up on it some more in near future.

    My point about the simplicity of using the “stock*” messesing app is still relevant for non-tech people. Grandpa doesn’t want 6 different messesging apps. The easy phone number/pre-installed/near-universal/moslty cross-platform nature of them is a huge advanatge. Only downside, it has a pricy subscription called “the phone bill”.

    *i say stock in this case to pretty much include any app that uses your phone number and accepts sms/mms from another phone. For most people, thatll be the stock message app their phone comes with.



  • If your on desktop, here’s some unsolicited advice. If you’re on mobile, good luck…I’ve got nothing.

    LPT: use unlock origin’s element picker to block any unwanted sections of youtube mixed into your feed.

    “Premium” gone, “Shorts” gone, “Trending” gone, “Pay to watch” gone, “News” gone, “Survay” gone

    LPT2: set a YouTube bookmark to go straight to your subscription page. This way you see the new videos you are most likely to care about first. No need to “hit the bell” and rely on notifications. When I’m caught up there, I’ll head over to home feed to see if there’s anything intresting.

    LPT3: get the extention “Enhancer for YouTube”. There’s a ton of settings to basically set your playback defaults the way you like. I change the toolbar setting to " showin video playback bar" and auto expand" to get the various buttons to show up like the default ones. (The names of those setting is by memory).

    Unhook” is also good one for clearing out junk.

    Lastly “DeArrow”, from the maker of SponsorBlock. This one crowd sources new video titles with the goal of replacing clickbait for an actual description of the video.


  • The nice thing about SMS is its on everyone’s phone by default.

    No apps to download and no accounts to make. Adding someone is a simple 9 digit number.

    imessage bridged the gap between bacsic SMS and feature-rich messages. With them both being in one app and handled automatically, it is very convenient to use. While the extra features are limited to apple phones, you can use imessage to universally message any other phone.

    Google made a their own thing, RCS, to compete with imessage. They made it an open RCS is a standard and worked that works with carriers to make it so any phone could use it. it took Apple 7 years since release to add support.

    Finally, you can text pretty much anyone with a smart phone a message with the “extra features” without hassle.