Since my latest special interest has been compilers, previous obsessions about digital logic design snowballed into a curiosity about mobile tinkering :-)
I think when I tormented myself with Arch and went through half the system binaries it helped me develop a tolerance to computing torture
Haven’t used Google Scholar since I was in school, but glad it still works!
Any tips for managing bookmarks with an improved method from… “Autistic heap (corpus) of websites haphazardly chucked into similarly named directories”?
Low-key I wish I knew how to extend the functionality of Firefox or how to write plugins.
Great suggestions for Wiby and Marginalia! I will check those out. What was that service called that lets you download Wikipedia in its entirety? I was thinking of saving a local copy for information archiving purposes.
Occasionally I’ll throw my query into Google instead of DDG. If it’s an item on EBay, I used to be able to find it through DDG, but now I most turn to site-specific searching.
Annoying, but I guess infinite convenience of a tool that we expect to work has to grind to a halt to allow for more value to be siphoned by the corporation.
Oh wow so I’m much more autistic than I thought… Had heard of both terms simultaneously out of context, so just assumed they meant literal eye contact.
Any tips?
Ah, the vicious cycle again, oh boy 🥲