Free product idea: high-speed adjustable desk for extra productivity, no more waiting 30 seconds for the new position with 12 g acceleration! 💪
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@floe smash your screen on the ceiling with the press of a button
Same person whom I helped with the XBox + new card thing had another problem: they have that Google Family Link thing on their kids' devices, and when the kids want to buy stuff from the play store, or in-game, they need approval from the parent.
So far so good, this worked fine for a good while, but in recent months, the approval stopped appearing at its usual place. They went to the parent's Google Play, notifications had nothing, and the "Budget & History" page showed past approvals, but did not show the requests.
Parents have Google accounts, tied to a GMail address, so it's not even a case of "lol, your accoun't ain't real google, fuck off".
After much trial and error, we discovered the problem: notifications were blocked for Google Play & Google Play Services on parent's phones. Once we unblocked those, the approval requests came in: both as push notifications, and when viewing "Budget & History" from the web, there too.
And I have questions1. Why do you need to enable notifications on a phone device to see approval requests in a desktop browser?
I still don't, I know the answer. ↩︎
Apropos Google Play. Apparently, you can add kids' cards to Google Wallet, and then they can pay in shops and stuff with their phone, and the parent will see the spend.
What they can't do is pay online, at all, not even with the caveat that it'd require approval.
To let kids buy stuff online, with their own cards, the way to do that is to add the card to the family payment options, then when the kid requests approval, choose their card as the payment option when approving it.
Very straightforward, very discoverable.
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- Have you tried joining the union?
cercando un libro in casa della nonna
quanto ci metterò
per primo apro un coelho
“La strada era deserta. Le persone, dentro le case, aspettavano che i soldati di Acab portassero a compimento quanto richiesto dalla loro principessa straniera: uccidere i profeti di Israele.”
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No vabbè
@CaribenxMarciaX meanwhile I barely use tiktok at all so I have NO idea what discourses be going on over there 😅
But here at this point it's basically a fucking graveyard when it comes to these topics
@so_treu bc we are not the ones that should be having that convo
and theyre not going to :points with lips:
They hide up-state like snot-nosed little cowards. He is detested, what *possible* good could he believe he is doing anyone here, it's an American farce. #Maine
@boris was just kidding of course. its always weird to see worlds collide. local first conf looked a bit corpo, though I would have liked to go since I am now friends with like half the speakers there lol but yeah take a look at https://gancio.org/instances its amazing how many of them are popping off with usage in various cities
Microsoft Gives Task Manager Another Task: Watching AI Workloads https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/08/21/0136250/microsoft-gives-task-manager-another-task-watching-ai-workloads?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Is it actually possible to ensure, through long-term planning and careful organization, that a#solareclipse is experienced as a #totaleclipse without being hindered by clouds? Yes, it is possible, specifically by organizing a voyage, such as the one aboard the #Cruiseship #LeBoréal linked below.
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Oh, das S-1 Dokument wird ein großer Spaß
Einer geht noch, bevor die Blase platzt. OpenAI kommt dann zu spät.
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@lritter i think it worked because every generation experienced the same events and history timeline ...but now that changed imho
@serapath it's only ever been US centric anyway; and that worked before the internet because then you could consider a country's culture reasonably isolated.
J'entend un journaliste dire "la france insoumise parle de Gaza pour draguer les quartiers populaire", vous vous dites "ah bon Anthony, t'écoutes CNews ?". Non ! J'écoute l'Humanité ! De Jean Jaurès ! https://youtu.be/6xrGVpx23r4?t=257
@adamas ???? Qui dit ça ? Un de leurs journalistes?
Free product idea: high-speed adjustable desk for extra productivity, no more waiting 30 seconds for the new position with 12 g acceleration! 💪
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Tinker ☀️
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Catch public transport? That’s very solarpunk of you ngl ☀️🚍
Tune in to S3 E1: Solarpunk Systems for full discussion. Find podcast platforms here: https://linktr.ee/sci_burst
Dunque, uso l'acido citrico da ben prima che diventasse di moda ma stavolta ho voluto sperimentarlo in lavastoviglie: nella vaschetta del detergente ho messo la solita pastiglia e ho aggiunto acido citrico in polvere fino a riempirla (circa 3 cucchiaini).
Risultato sbalorditivo, finalmente stoviglie senza la minima traccia di aloni né calcare! Sono molto felice.
Seguitemi per altri consigli domestici.
@phabrizio io lo uso liquido, e lo metto nell'apposito vano brillantante. Preparo una soluzione di 150g/l di acido citrico e la metto in una bottiglietta riciclata di brillantante, così è pronto anche come anticalcare dovunque serva
@craiggrannell with camera stuff, it’s generally “here’s all the tools and data to do what you need to do but you’re on your own to implement it”
@BenRiceM Yeah, I didn’t imagine there would be a great deal of help. It’ll be interesting to see how things fall. If Apple ends up going with “actually, there’s now a whole new thing to support with this one device”, I do wonder how many devs will jump in, given how hostile the company has been towards app creators of late. It’s not like the Fold will be the top-selling iPhone.
