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I spend about 300 euros on a really high end usb DAC for my desktop. I honestly don’t hear the difference between the desktop output and the expensive DAC. But I do totally hear the difference between a decent and cheap pair of headphones. I do still like my DAC because it’s able to power basically all large headphones and it also powers my speakers, so I don’t see it as money wasted.

My internship supervisor. I did an internship back in 2006, I had this supervisor that was very very pro open source. He asked anyone on the team to use a Linux distro for work. I used Ubuntu for work for a long time. Slowly I started liking my personal laptop with windows less and less. So at some point (I think 2010 or 2011) I just went to Linux for my laptop as well. At first a dual boot, but I booted in Windows less and less. So on my next laptop some years later I skipped windows entirely.

I don’t miss windows at all, but I do really hate I have to work with teams. It’s the only app on my laptop I really hate on Linux.

I tried obsidian, but the Android app is pretty terrible. So in the end I still use Google keep. I would definitely like a more open Foss option, but haven’t found one that works on Linux and Android that I like.

Changing speed of your mouse pointer? I don’t really get it.

Not sure how helpful this is but in the past I used a Firefox addon called check 4 change

https://check4change.com/

You can let Firefox monitor a website in the background for change.

A con of this solution is that it only works when Firefox is running.

You could also try to maybe automate it with

https://ifttt.com/facebook

Or something like this https://visualping.io/blog/how-to-be-alerted-when-someone-posts-on-facebook/

Yeah, Opera tried but eventually just gave up and now uses Blink, Microsoft tried with Edge (Spartan) but gave up and now also uses Blink.

Blink is the render engine made for Chrome

Getting things done is a method from David Allen, he wrote a book on it. It has been around forever and lots of people really like it. I listen to his audiobook every few years. Not really to fully adopt his method, but it will always inspire me to reset my chaos and find stricture again.

The audiobook is pretty easy to find if you want to buy it or torrent it.

I really really liked this guy’s video on note taking apps

https://youtu.be/XRpHIa-2XCE?si=eUMH1T7eezu_6v-V

It slowly spirals completely off the rails, in a great way

Replacing TCP with something else isn’t going to change anything to being tracked.

IP adresses aren’t fixed (for most people), just disconnect your modem for a few hours and you’ll probably get a new one.

You are being tracked by cookies, browser fingerprints, only being able to use a website after logging in, etc.

So this might solve some problems, it’s not going to just give you privacy or make you untraceable.

Not so long ago a local news site was being DDOSed. The kid that did it thought he was so smart using a VPN. He bragged online how he could bring any website down (sending those messages from his VPN). Until he was dumb enough to keep his VPN open and open this news site in his browser, because he never logged out he was logged in automatically. So the website admin saw his (known) VPN IP and now knew his account. The account he used before from his actual IP.