Notices by Corbin Davenport (corbin@toot.community), page 2

Happy Ubuntu release day! Really wish Canonical would cut it out with the Snap packages.

https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-24-04-noble-numbat

Barnes & Noble gave me a discount on the Nook GlowLight 4e, because my incredibly old Nook is losing online services, so I got one. Maybe I’ll review it on @thespacebar? 🤔

Internet service providers in the US don't have an answer to 5G home internet, so they're locking people into exclusive agreements through deals with apartment buildings. I’m now affected by one of these deals, and they should be illegal. (please boost for visibility!)

https://www.spacebar.news/5g-home-internet-cable-competition/

Did everyone forget you can hold phones to your ear to talk? Why is holding the phone a few inches away on speaker mode now the default behavior?

bUt tHe aPP sToRe iS thE oNLy wAY to kEep uSers sAfe https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/08/fake-lastpass-app-in-apple-app-store/

Spotlight on Mac is so great, especially with the ability to search for text inside documents (even text in Excel worksheets and other stuff). It’s one of those things macOS figured out years ago and Windows still hasn’t matched.

I wrote about everything wrong with Opera Browser and Opera GX, and why you should never use anything made by current-day Opera. (please boost for visibility!)

https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-opera-browser/

I've been meaning to write this for a long time: if you don't know if you need a VPN, you don't need a VPN. It’s not a magical fix for your online security and privacy.

https://www.spacebar.news/you-dont-need-a-vpn/ #tech #privacy

it’s me and @wander1236 in The Zuckerverse ™

“There are only two demographics that are willing to pay for good software: corporations and video gamers. We’ve somehow blundered our way into a world where everyone else expects software to be free.” 👏 https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/12/25/is-software-getting-worse/

@bagder Rockbox was great on my first-gen iPod Nano, didn't have to open iTunes as often and it added video playback :)

Lemmy seems to have the same problem as Reddit where no one actually *clicks* the link.

The latest @thespacebar article is sitting at 780 points on one of the big technology communities, but most of the people commenting definitely didn’t read it first, and the clickthrough rate seems to be pretty low (hard to accurately measure with fedi media).

My 5G connection has been pretty spotty lately, fingers crossed the booster will help.

me: hey internet radio is kind of neat, i wonder what interesting foreign music is on these stations in other countries, let’s see

random berlin radio station: hier ist Sweet Home Alabama

Remember kids, the most carbon-neutral tech product is the one you already own.

New feature for https://LinkCleaner.app: it can now clean links copied from Google search results. ⚡️

why does the current Cyberduck icon look like it will kill me in my sleep

Big announcement! I’m launching a newsletter/blog focused on deep-dives and retrospectives about technology at https://www.spacebar.news. It would mean a lot if you checked it out.

📬 Subscribe via email: https://www.spacebar.news/subscribe

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Second article from me for @thespacebar: why you should NOT use Brave Browser. I've been meaning to write this for a long time but never got around to it. https://www.spacebar.news/p/stop-using-brave-browser

First article from me for @thespacebar: a detailed look at VisiCalc, the first mainstream spreadsheet program and perhaps the first example of a "killer app". https://www.spacebar.news/p/visicalc-the-first-killer-app