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Comment · 2 months ago
Let's not compare Delhi or Mumbai in monsoon season. Get the readings from Delhi in summer or winter and then see the pollution yourself.
Comment · 5 months ago
I did comparison of Fastmail, Protonmail and Mailfence. Finally, I decided to go ahead with Mailfence due to their end-to-end encryption and stronger privacy focus. I am very happy with Mailfence so far.
Comment · 6 months ago
I used to have 34 penfriends when I was in high school. I got all these pen pals from organisation called "International Youth Service (IYS)" based in Turku, Finland. Eventually I lost touch with my penfriends when I moved due to education, jobs etc.

My very first penfriend was Betty Marie Jensen from a small place called Nibe, Denmark. I tried to find her on the internet, sent a letter to her old address. No luck. All I know is her name, old address and birthdate. I have her photos, but I don't want to publish them on the internet for her privacy. Is there any government agency besides postal service who can forward my letter to her?

Recently, I tried to revive this hobby. Unfortunately, IYS is closed now. I found a few good penpals on GlobalPenfriends.com Also tried several other websites like Interpals, Penpal World etc. but they are full of scammers.

Comment · 8 months ago
uBlock origin does not accept donations. I would have loved to donate to them, but they don't.
Comment · 1 year ago
Other thing I have started doing is to stop doing any upgrade for things that are already working locally. Example: no more upgrades for HP printer software.
Comment · 1 year ago
I tend to agree with the sentiment. The only reason I subscribed to ProjectionLab was to appreciate the hard work of Kyle. Otherwise, "New Retirement" (now called Boldin) serves my purpose. It provides similar features and it provides automatic updates too.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is really fun. My score was 4307 (top 12%) with average 5.8 years off.
Comment · 2 years ago
This reminded me the commercial "I am not a lawyer, but I did stay at Holiday Inn last night".
Comment · 2 years ago
You may win the judgement in small claims court, but how will you collect? That is another dilemma.
Comment · 2 years ago
I have a basic question somewhat related to this topic. When I am using Mullvad VPN, many websites block access. (E.g. Lowe's or Michaels.com etc). They force me to disable VPN and I don't like it.

My question is how do they detect that I am using a VPN and is there any workaround to access their site when I continue using VPN?

Comment · 3 years ago
Thank you for the wonderful tip. I am going to order these coins to handover to kids for Halloween. I am sure that they will love this unusual gift.
Comment · 3 years ago
Thank you for your reply. I tried several options and finally found a setting.

I changed the setting for widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override from 1 to 50 and it increased size.

The initial value of 1 was confusing me because I kept thinking it is Boolean 1.

Posting a solution here in case someone else finds it useful.

Comment · 3 years ago
Honest question: Can you tell me how to increase the scrollbar size of Firefox browser on a Pop!_OS operating system?
Comment · 3 years ago
3% of 1 million is $30,000 not $60,000. Similarly, 3% of 100,000 is $3000 and not $6000.

But I agree with your overall sentiment that the real estate market is a cartel.

Comment · 3 years ago
Cartel is the correct word. As an individual consumer, I wanted access to MLS data and was willing to pay a monthly access fee. But they wouldn't provide such access and want you to use the cartel member, real estate agent.

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