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Set VPN - thanks u/100PercentARealHuman
Set Airdrop Receiving - thanks u/100PercentARealHuman
Set Night Shift - thanks u/Devilmashine
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Fixes/Enhancements
New icon selection display when uaing just the Open App action, allows to select the icon of the app - thanks u/brnmbrns
Appears that the Dictionary actions now work properly again.
The following shortcut provides a visual representation(chart) of the activity of a temperature sensor for the last 48hr right on the Home Screen via a Charty app widget.
When run, performs the following actions:
Charty app is needed for this shortcut to run properly.
Before first use, user must select the preferred temperature sensor within the script.
It is recommended, after first use, to create time based automations to execute this shortcut every 1-2 hours for the chart to auto update without user interaction.
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I finally had an opportunity to do a quick write-up on using iOS Shortcuts in conjunction with Apollo to save Reddit content directly into Obsidian. The article explains all the steps, if you’re curious. I also added my workflow for image galleries which some of you might enjoy. The shortcut link is available here. If you have feedback, let me know! Enjoy!
Looks like Serial might be getting back to it’s True Crime roots…. Full season releases a week from today.
“Kim Barker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times, revisits an unsolved murder that took place while she was in high school in Laramie, Wyoming, nearly 40 years ago. She confronts the conflicting stories people have told themselves about the crime because of an unexpected development: the arrest of a former Laramie police officer accused in the murder. All eight episodes of “The Coldest Case in Laramie,” a new show from Serial Productions and The New York Times, are available on Thursday, February 23rd wherever you get your podcasts.”
So I have been watching less Joe Rogan over the years, I starting getting into him during high school and by the time the start of covid happened I was watching him non stop. Except with each passing month for the past 2 years I have become more disassociated from him as he does spread a lot of misinformation and I do find him kinda annoying and unfunny. The only reason I watch him anymore is he might have a guest on who is interesting and talking about something that intrigues me, like with the last two episodes of him I watched were with Peter Zeihan and Dave Smith. Other guests of his I have liked were David Goggins, Jocko Willink, Stavros Halkias and Mark Laita. I know most of these guys only appeared on his podcast recently but there the only guests I remember liking off the top of my head. I have listened to Jocko’s podcast occasionally but I’m kinda looking for something a bit more relaxed than his podcast, I’ve also listened to Stavros and his friends podcasts …
I’ve listened to car talk a lot! I love it, but wondering what other similar podcasts like it are out there? Goofy, fun, positive vibes
So I really enjoy comedy podcasts to just feel good and relax, but it’s always difficult to find a good new one when I run out of episodes to listen to. Can you guys recommend something? My favourites are: my dad wrote a porno, this paranormal life, dangeons & daddies, sitcom D&D, distractible
I feel like the normal “help you sleep” podcasts are quite dull (by design), but I prefer something whacky or scary that will get my imagination going as I fall asleep
The normal creepy/scary/weird podcasts, however, are either quite loud (whether it’s their voice or the sound effects) or talk about stuff that’s way too gory or morbid for me to sleep to.
I used to play Nexpo, Atrocity Guide or Barely Sociable on YouTube in bed. If anyone knows any podcasts with that kind of vibe I’d be very grateful
Anybody have any recommendations for a podcast that does easily digestible interviews with people in niche topics (could be science, tech, history, sociology, pretty much any topic)? I’ve been listening to the nyt daily, Ezra Klein show, and Rob Reid’s After On. After on is basically discontinued, and half of the daily/Ezra Klein shows are hyper-political. Nothing against that, but I’m more interested in the topics in the vein of the daily episodes: “the enemies list at Madison square garden,” “7 states, 1 river and an agonizing choice,” and todays, “the warships the navy can’t abandon.”
My friend has inoperable cancer that came on this summer. She is now in stage 4, and it has showed up in her lymph nodes. She’s young, much too young, in her 40s.
She’s wild and witty, intelligent. Loves gardening and camping.
I am sending her a care package and want to include a feel good book or a book of poems or a book full of sarcasm and a FUCK YOU, CANCER element, something to make her laugh. She cusses like a sailor.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.
Loved Salt, a fascinating history of how a (now) cheap food stable influenced the world we live in. Would love to hear your thoughts on what to read next, preferably food related 🐽
Essentially what the title says. I really want a series I can get invested in, with the quality not taking a noticeable nosedive a few books in. I also want it to be a completed series, as I tend to consume an entire series at the same time rather then leaving gaps in between each book.
Can be any genre, I am not very picky.
Edit; I see some series I have already read been suggested (which is great!) but I thought I’d put all the ones I’ve already devoured here.
A Series Of Unforunate Events (& All The Wrong Questions)
Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children (really liked this one! But after the third book it really looses its quality for me)
The School For Good And Evil (again, really enjoyed this series but I think the first three books are really better than whatever the rest of the series has got going on)
Harry Potter (read pretty long time ago but I found it…okay? I would really need to reread it to get fresher thoughts)
Flowers In The Attic (one …
I checked my bookshelf looking for a read and I realized that I only have 5 (out of 85+) books written by female authors. And they’re all by the same writer, Ursula K. Le Guin…
I’m kinda upset by this because I pride myself (in a small sense lol) with how diverse my reading is. I read classics, fantasy, romance, contemporary, science fiction, short stories, etc., and yet the vast majority of my books are written by male authors…I don’t know how I achieved this, but I hope it isn’t some internal personal bias that I haven’t realized.
Anyways, I’m basically looking for the best books by women authors. Like I previously said, I read whatever is most interesting so genre doesn’t really matter. My only stipulation is that the books are written well, and I particularly love beautiful and tragic stories and/or stories with deep writing that makes you think.
So, any recommendations?
I want to read a great book or series that isn’t given enough credit because of a movie or tv adaptation that didn’t live up to the original. Something in the fantasy or sci-fi genres would be preferable but any genre will do. As a reference I really enjoy The Magicians series and the Witcher series as well as mystery or detective novels. Thanks in advance.
Any genre, type, length, it doesn’t matter to me. It just has to be a book or a series of books that you enjoyed so much you would recommend them to anyone who’d ask.
I want to broaden the range of books I’ve read and would really appreciate some good recommendations. Thanks in advance!
Recommend to me a game no one ever asks for, but they’d love. Like…I never get to recommend Chrono Trigger here because nobody is asking for old-ass JRPGs, but it’s probably my favorite game of all time and I’m begging you to try it. What’s your equivalent?
Edit: ironically, the next post I clicked after making this had Chrono Trigger as the top recommendation
I have been playing more Rpgs lately but I always wanted to roleplay as myslef but most of the time games do not let me be a backstaber, coward and a liar all the time so if there are any rpgs that would make me avoid conflicts by just appealing to the enemy and even joining them for sake of self preservation I would love to hear it.
Best example of what I want is if I was going into a big fight to save someone who was kidnaped but I got an option to let the kidnaper go and I get some piss poor loot.
I don’t mind it being 3rd,1st person or top down or anything really.
Not knocking those RPGs that do this but sometimes I’m playing these games and I just feel like everyone’s little bitch!
Now I’m not talking about feeling ‘underpowered’, I’m more looking for quest design that doesn’t involve everyone and their mothers sending my out in little fetch quests the moment they meet me.
I want to be in a world where characters I meet don’t size me up in 3 seconds and decide that I’m going to be their own private lackey for the foreseeable future.
“Oh, hi stranger, you’re not from a round here are you, well… go murder these bunch of bandits that stole my golden doodad; fuck off to the next town and save them this invasion of foul beasts; and bring my 25 chickens!”
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Western RPGs, please.
My pop’s never been interested on games as a whole but a few days ago were we speaking and he told me to show him a “game where you have to think” and that’s not “filled with colors and explosion noises”.
I think something like a puzzle game he might enjoy, he plays little puzzle games o his phone from time to time. However it shouldn’t be anything too cartonish because he’ll think it’s for kids and lose interest, he’s pretty old school.
Any ideas?
Edit: ok so the post is pretty popular so I’ll try to be a little more specific, since the original post is a little vague I’m sorry about that.
I don’t think he’d like games like portal cause his sense of humor is really dry and all the fatty jokes would tire him.
Also don’t see him playing civ, city skylines, Factorio, slay the spire or any games that don’t have a definite story with a beginning and an end and middle plot points in between. …
I’m going to mention open world examples, but the game doesn’t have to be open world.
E.g. in Morrowind you can go straight to final boss and possibly win by drinking bunch of sujamma.
In Satellite Reign you can invest more in mind control and stealth skills/characters and let the enemies fight each other.
In Black Skylands you can clear high level islands by kiting the enemy to the edge islands and bombard them with your ship.
Confession - I haven’t played a lot of the games you’re “supposed” to play. Most of the stuff I was into up until a couple of years ago was Ubisoft and movie tie-in games.
I’ve been loving getting into RPGs and interesting open world games - some of my favourites are Fallout New Vegas (the game that finally broke the RPG barrier for me), Fallout 1 & 2, Red Dead Redemption 2 and No Man’s Sky are probably the ones I’ve enjoyed the most. Outside of those, Portal 2 and the Doom reboot are some other favs.
Hardware wise, all I’ve got is a Macbook and a PS4 (and a mostly busted Xbox 360), so stuff on those is ideal.
Thanks for reading!