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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • I really valued twitter for the ability of an individual person or groups of people to share their experiences of world events happening in real time. This is less about following individual people and more about being able to get meaningful analytics out of the mass of posts in order to spotlight “things” – a political movement, an earthquake, a lawyer who cant turn off zoom filters – whatever. But, it did always have a lot of noise. I usually ended up there when somebody linked to a post.




  • I need a degoogle wiki to all me through all the things I can do to degoogle and what conveniences I might loose and potential workarounds for them. E.g. I spent a few hours getting rid of chrome, but then found out that if I want to use maps from my home screen, I can’t use the search bar and I need another button on my homescreen. Also, apparently I use the images tab on Google often, and ddg doesn’t have an images filter.

    So anyway, without good replacements for my typical workflow, I end up just adding inconvenience and still falling back on the old workflows when I can’t figure out how to get what I need degoogled.










  • Thanks for asking this question. I learned some things I didn’t know I needed. I have a 6a, and I use a phone strap I found on Amazon. It’s like a rubber band that stretches vertically around the back of the phone case from the camera opening to the charging opening. I got this because when I rest it on my pinky, it hurts. But, I noticed since, that I can do more one handed because my anchor is in the middle instead of the bottom. I tried a few phone grip ideas before I landed here, and learned som things. I can’t stand pop sockets, because the phone doesn’t lay flat anymore. Also, you can prop it up in landscape, but not portrait (at least for the one I had). The rings that stick to the back are also a no-go. They hurt my finger when the weight of the phone is all resting just on the ring. The strap I landed with is removable, reusable, no adhesives, the phone lays flat still, and is comfortable to hold the weight of the phone.