I’ll start out by saying that there are many good and charitable people in the Philippines. Some of the best people I’ve known live there. But there is a LOT of poverty and that breeds some of the worst things in society. Having spent a few years in western part of Luzon island, there are enough bad people around that it’s not hard to imagine a Filipino finding themselves in a situation where they are locally surrounded by very horrible things–murder, trafficking, etc. In the bigger cities, everyone knows that part of town where you don’t go after dark.

Exile with a smile!™

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GeoWizard

It’s from The Labyrinth

Inoreader

Same model here. Love it!

From the Home page, swipe in from the left side of the screen. Tap the podcast you want to skip the intro of. Tap the gear, then “Auto skip”. It needs to be set for each individual podcast

• Puzzles: 40 single player logic games
• Vector pinball
• Gurgle
• Lexica
• RetroArch

Aves Libre is a great gallery app, and Amaze is a good file manager

It’s common business practice for the first big companies in a new market/industry to create “barriers to entry”. The calls for regulation are exactly that. They don’t care about safety–just money.

“More useful than Cortana” is the lowest of bars.

I don’t know what I would do without RSS. I started with Google Reader back in 06 or so. Then went to Feedly, now Inoreader. Between that and podcasts, I have about 200 RSS subscriptions divided into categories: world news, local news, sports, science, entertainment, philosophy, etc. I don’t read every article of course, but I do have highlighted keywords to make sure I don’t miss important stuff when scanning.

Yes.

Hamas, which controls the strip, told residents to stay put, and vowed to fight to the last drop of blood. By Friday afternoon there was no sign of any mass exodus as Israel prepared its onslaught.

For anyone curious, here’s a link to all the different downloadable versions of wikipedia: https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages

The English “all maxi” version is just over 100 GB, updated Aug 2023

Great list! I’d add:

SciShow

Steve Mould

SixtySymbols

Periodic Videos

Cody’s Lab

Real Engineering

yep, thanks!

• Firefox: best web browser out there
• Bitwarden: password manager
• ShareX: screenshot utility. Greenshot is also good, but I prefer ShareX
• WinDirStat: disk usage utility
• KDE Connect: connect Android phone to PC
• Image Glass: image viewer
• OBS: video & audio capture
• Blender: 3D modeling, animation, video editing
• Handbrake: video conversion
• VLC: video/audio playback
• Audacity: audio editing
• SpeedCrunch: calculator
• Notepad++: text editor
• Spyder (via Anaconda): Python IDE

Yes, countries like Germany are turning to coal as a direct result of nuclear-phobia.

The US, with all its green initiatives and solar/wind incentives, is pumping more oil than Saudi Arabia. The US has been the top oil producer on whole the planet for the last 5-6 years. The problem is getting worse.

Inoreader