The pinebook’s privacy switches (for WiFi/BT, camera, and microphone) operate at the firmware level, the operating system has no control over them

https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Pinebook_Pro#Privacy_Switches

The keyboard operates on firmware independent of the operating system. It detects if one of the F10, F11 or F12 keys is pressed in combination with the Pine key for 3 seconds. Doing so disables power to the appropriate peripheral, thereby disabling it. This has the same effect as cutting off the power to each peripheral with a physical switch. This implementation is very secure, since the firmware that determines whether a peripheral gets power is not part of the Pinebook Pro’s operating system. So the power state value for each peripheral cannot be overridden or accessed from the operating system. The power state setting for each peripheral is stored across reboots inside the keyboard’s firmware flash memory.

A couple of favorites that are different from what others already said:

• I strongly dislike autorotate on my phone so I always keep it off, however it makes perfect sense in apps like YouTube/Twitch. So I have one task that turns it on when opening one of those apps, and off again when closing them
• When I’ve got Bluetooth headphones, I can choose to have incoming texts read out to me. Very nice when walking/running outside and not needing to pull my phone out
• Similarly, I’ve got a task that will (optionally) read out the name of the song that’s playing to Bluetooth

Buzzkill is very nice. I’m in a group chat that gets huge bursts of activity (like a hundred messages) and then goes dormant for a bit, so I set buzzkill to only give me at most 1 notification every 30 minutes, and keep the rest of them silent. That way I can still keep up with it without my phone blowing up

I could be completely wrong, but I think one of the first anomaly detection games was called “I’m on observation duty” which came out in 2018, but didn’t really get popular until late 2021 (when the fourth game in the series same out), about the same time “The exit 8” released funny enough.

That game is a little different where the player flips around security cameras and reports anomalies as they come up, but I think exit 8 was the first anomaly detection games that is “looping” and you have to decide whether to go forward or back depending on if there’s an anomaly

Humans evolved finger nails to separate Lego pieces

…I can’t think of a good reason for toe nails though

I also highly recommend libby, which lets you check out ebooks and audiobooks from your library. I don’t have a kindle myself, but this help article says it’s supported “Reading Kindle Books on a Kindle ereader”

You can also add multiple library cards, so if you wanted to go crazy you can find libraries that let you sign up for a card even if you don’t have a local address and get access to both library’s collections to read on your Kindle

Oh I wish

Just waiting for the achievement reenabling mod so I can play with some of the real nice QoL tweaks

Ed, man!

He actually appears to have lost a lot of weight recently

Source from earlier this year https://starfishneuroscience.com/team

Currently on season 3 of a rewatch haha

Such an awesome show

Woah this is awesome

I would love a source for this to pull up in future discussions

Not xkcd in this case

https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/25/a-very-comprehensive-and-precise-spec/

I also highly recommend the movie, one of my all time favorites (and not because of this scene)

Reminds me of https://neal.fun/speed/

But that does position rather than rotation

Ack librefm completely slipped my mind

AFAIK they’re two separate projects for the same/similar goal. I know ListenBrainz has a recommendation system, but it might still be in it’s early days

There’s ListenBrainz, the open MusicBrainz version of last.fm

The scout’s voice actor (Nathan Vetterlein) used to be super active, but a few years ago he said he’d be going on an “indefinite break” while he focused on other goals he had in life (presumably to do more than just be the “TF2 scout guy”).

His linked in currently says he’s working as a principle game designer at Wizards of the Coast

https://youtu.be/L_k9yb0kGgU?t=149

But I agree, with the other voice actors getting together and doing all these fun projects it would be awesome to see him again

Blokada 5 has been very nice to me, no root, and doesn’t use much battery (android tells me 4% after a full day). Only downside is that it counts as a VPN connection, so if you want to connect to another VPN you have to turn it off temporarily.

Otherwise definitely Firefox with ublock origin