Category: tech related
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Which Social Media To Invest Time Into?
Reading Time: 2 minutesNot a single day goes by that I don’t think that now is the right time to give up on social media networks like Twitter, Threads, Jaiku, Google, BlueSky and Mastodon. Too Many People When social networks were small they were on a human scale. You could be on a forum with…
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The Growing Desire to Dump Social Media
Reading Time: 2 minutesI really miss the age of social networks. In the age of social networks our sphere of influence was limited to our friends, and our friends of friends. The result is that social media was a friendly conversation rather than a popularity contest. Over the last two days I have been looking…
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The Fairphone 4 and Hiking
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I spent three hours on a train and hiked for a few hours. I also spent two hours in a museum. During this time I was using the fairphone 4 to listen to an audiobook and streamed media. At the end of the day I think I was at about sixty…
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A Fairphone 4 With A Terabyte of Storage
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you wanted an iPhone with a terabyte of storage it would cost you 1549 CHF for the iPhone 16 Pro. With the Fairphone 4 128 GB model you would pay 329 CHF for the phone and 101 to 109 CHF for a 1TB card. That’s about 440 CHF and you’d have…
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A Dormant YouTube Habit
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor months now I have had Pihole running, and other ad blocking solutions working. I said, at the time that I don’t feel bad about using ad blockers because they’re so invasive, especially with YouTube, among other platforms. I also find that when I play games on Android ad blockers work.…
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Ankle Fitness Trackers
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe automatic reflex is to wear a fitness tracker on the wrist so that it may measure heart rate but also so that we may look at the data that it is capturing without using an app. The issue with this habit is that we need to stop wearing a classic watch,…
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Fairphone 4 Impressions
Reading Time: 2 minutesTwo days ago I got a Fairphone 4 because the battery on my iPhone SE is still not lasting for a long time and because it’s laggy when I open certain apps. For both of these reasons I was tempted to wait until 2025 for the new iPhone SE to come out.…
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Why I chose to Deactivate Threads
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis morning I woke up to people insulting me for not being an Apple fan boy on Threads. Before that I was trolled for several other reasons and the consequence is that I have now deactivated my Threads account. For me the web is a place where, if you agree, or if…
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Web Browsers and Operating Systems
Reading Time: 2 minutesPeople like to speak about whether they use MacOS, Windows or Linux and I think that for a long time this was a great question because what we did on computers required programs and apps that could run on that system. In 2024, however, I believe that the OS barely matters anymore.…