It’s customary to look for rechargeable batteries for price or for environment or otherwise. My go-to guide on the matter thus far: rechargeable battery is like LED light bulbs of AAs, high upfront but cheaper in the long run. AA or AAA batteries go into remotes are less an issue — they tend to last a lot longer than common household appliances. Perhaps children’s toys, mouse and keyboard, if they are not USB based yet, are few household items that can take real advantage of rechargeable batteries.
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How to Find Destination Tracking for ECMS in Korea
I don’t buy as much as I used to from Amazon, partly because the platform is now also plagued with generic items that are also available on Chinese platforms. Why pay for pacific crossing twice, only to be charged double or more for the same product? But there are still products that can only be bought from Amazon, — as to why they didn’t move to different storefront, I have no clue — but the platform’s international shipping capabilities are also deteriorating with less than ideal shipping service.
App to Fix Globe Bookmark Favicon on Firefox
Firefox is giving me different varieties of issues lately. Partly, because I think most apps are now geared toward Chrome and Safari — the most popular on all platforms or the most popular on single platform browsers. But that’s an excuse for Firefox not working with websites and web UIs, not the Firefox’s own bookmarks failing to grab favicon from added URL. The usual fix I could find after some Googling suggested re-adding or editing the URl to force Firefox to update the icon, but only to no avail.
How to Stop YouTube AI-Translation on Mobile
In my previous post, I’ve hinted there is something in the works for the mobile environment. I wasn’t sure how well it would work. For some contexts, YouTube has a mobile webpage, not a responsive UI like you see on The Mad Tea Party. You can easily catch that by the subdomain, m.youtube., when it automatically redirects mobile users. Now, an argument can be made — I believe this is where Google stands — the best mobile UX for YouTube is on YouTube app. But that’s not always an option, especially when it comes to stopping AI translation.
How Safe is Memorable Password?
Number one rule of any password is: the weakest link is human. xkcd often puts out great educational comic strips on the subject. One I am thinking of, as no doubt you could have seen in the generator post, is the legendary “correct horse battery staple”, only that he did rigged the game to prove his point. Tr0ub4dor&3 is a bad password, because it is essentially troubadour in Leet. But it’s only 11 characters long, fit for most sadistic password policies out there. correcthorsebatterystaple is one long password with 25 characters. You cannot use this in any of the websites…
How to Generate Memorable Password
I have made several Python password generators. One consistent goal of my generators is its password usability; memorized or not, a user should be able to type it without the worry of user errors. The key here is “type”, because, I’ve learnt the hard way that some password policies out in the wild are purely sadistic. I won’t name names, but one website I use frequently doesn’t allow copy-pasting, no extensions, and virtual keyboards only, on both mobile and desktop environment. Memorizing a password by muscle memory is simply not possible; whoever came up with that idea must have thought…
App to Stop YouTube AI-Translation via User script
I had covered this issue before using a dedicated add-on on browsers. While it worked, there were two problems, at least in my opinion: a. it’s a separate app just for one website, b. it’s not available on iOS. Granted, I was not able to find a universal user script that works on both platforms, but tweaking it takes little to no effort as most of the script can be edited by the user.
App to Run Userscripts on iOS Safari
What I like about Firefox and its community-driven open source nature really coincides with a lot of what I like about Python. There are always like-minded people trying to solve a problem that is often too niche for other browsers. Having said all the that, Safari, as a browser platform, lacks that community attention yet. I often found myself trying to find which “slop” is the real extension I am looking for.
Slay the Spire 2 (Early Access) Spiel
Slay the Spire, the first game, opened its own genre. I think I’ve seen more StS-like games that tried to deliver the flavor, but ultimately had its shortcomings. Many reviews I’ve read since almost always mentioned how they (the reviewers) returned home, to the original Slay the Spire. Some went so far to say, at the given price point of (the game they were discussing), why not buy the Slay the Spire at discount?
How to Add Volume Control to iOS Lock Screen
There are few options I always find odd that it’s tucked away in Accessibility on iOS. This is one of those odd occasions. On current version of iOS, if the device was playing media, it displays media control on the lock screen. Even better with the AOD, as the control is always visible. If the media control is visible, then why not the volume control?
App to Manage Documents DB
Back in 2000s, when I got my hands on Intel Mac for the first time, there were two things that immediately caught my attention: Spotlight, the functioning search tool on OS, and DevonThink, the highly regarded documents management software beloved by many Mac users. Some even called DevonThink to be the savior of Macintosh lineage — otherwise there would be no space left for OS X.
What Happened to Neckband Headphones?
Recently, I use my AirPods Pro more frequently than I would have worn my Max. AirPods Max gets a bad rap for its weight, but it’s not the weight that counts. It’s the distribution of those weights; how breathable the materials and overall design is; the clamping force from the form factor (e.g. U-shaped around the head), and so on. I won’t pretend to know about the science behind the ergonomics. There are testers and reviewers who write more in-depth literature on the subject than I do.
How to Change Password-less sudo on Raspberry Pi
I am leaving this post as a future reference. Though I’ve tested it myself, since I am in the process of retiring Pi docker machines, I won’t be updating it in the near future. One of the user-friendly touch added to Raspberry Pi OS from Debian is its sudo privilege — it doesn’t ask for password. I can’t imagine how the meeting must have happened, but I suspect it might have to do with XP-likeness in permission controls.
How to Make mDNS Discoverable on Tailscale
One thing I’ve learned the hard way while I was tinkering with VPN long ago — don’t use bonjour or .local addresses over VPN. Most of the times .local addresses do not resolve over VPN, and trying to make it happen is often not worth the effort. In my case, with some Pis and NAS, I had made sure they would manually pick an IP addresses that would be out of DHCP range. It’s a story for another time, but there are home routers with broken DHCP.
How AI Hallucination Affects You
The hallucination in AI, or LLM hallucination, is real. I have read some op-eds and online discussions whether or not hallucinations affect real world use cases — average users making mundane queries. I was on the side of “garbage in, garbage out” camp; hallucination is an expected side effect of the algorithm, and it is up to the user to double check the answers. Now I am wondering if it merits double checking at all.