Pipes was ahead of its time. Built a scraper and aggregator back in 2008-2010, fetching content from over 2000 sources, pumping all of it into a Drupal website. The amount of regex transformations and other things I had in that pipeline - is in hindsight - more complex, larger scale, and more convoluted that any other nifi or airflow pipelines I built later in my career. And all of it was free. What was possible was limited only by one's creativity!
Nice app. Using moto edge 60 pro. The app navigation gets hidden under the phone navigation icons. I'd like to pay. Except without user login, I am unable to figure out if the purchase can be linkedin to my 2-3 devices (each of which may use a different Google account)
Thanks! A couple of other people in this thread have mentioned that bug too and I'll get it fixed ASAP.
There's no login required since the app uses Google Play Billing on Android and App Store billing on iOS. That also means purchases are tied to the Google account used to buy the app, so unfortunately they can't be shared across different accounts.
I hate the annoyance of apps forcing you to create an account before you even try them and that's exactly why I kept it simple and login-free. But yeah, the trade-off is stuff like what you pointed out. To balance that, I made it a one-time low-cost purchase instead of a subscription. Hope that makes it fair.
> That also means purchases are tied to the Google account used to buy the app, so unfortunately they can't be shared across different accounts.
I don't have hand-to-hand experience with Google Play, but quite a few of those billing platforms offer "discount codes." So to help the GP commenter, I would imagine they could email you from their purchasing Google account and ask for 100% off codes for their other Google account addresses
I don't know how to help the sibling comment, short of you just straight-up making them a custom .apk without Play Billing. FWIW, it's actually absolutely painless to host your own f-droid repository <https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver#what-is-f-droid-serve...>. It's marked AGPL but despite its name one doesn't need to run that package to host a repo, just $($HOMEBREW_PREFIX/bin/fdroid update --verbose --create-metadata -W error) and then $(rsync -Pav --delete ./repo/ your-awesome-host:/repo/)
It's so painless you could even do that per user, as in lucb1e-fdroid.example.com or lucb1e-a6d7c104-e9b1-4ddc-ad5a-470e51bb5069.example.com
> There's no login required since the app uses Google Play Billing
...so it requires logging in with a Google account. That means I won't be able to buy the app on my phone
A one-time purchase for an offline privacy-friendly app is 100% fair and the price point and free tier seem great to me (someone upthread said it's like 4.7€ if you want more than 7 puzzles per day iirc), but please just add an option to send you money directly via e.g. IBAN. It's one of the few privacy-friendly options and you also get to keep all of the money
Most other options cut people out: paypal doesn't work half the time ("sorry, something went wrong" when the algorithm hates you today), stripe has issues when your bank and residence country don't match, credit card requires a good credit score, etc. It's all data- and algorithm-based, whereas banks are legally obliged to give you a functional account because it underpins so much of society nowadays. I'd be happy to pay for the app even without using it as a way to add my 'two cents' and hopefully make this more worth your time
I will definitely look into supporting alternative payment methods, someone else also has a de-googled phone and asked for the same in this thread too. I wonder if any of the alternative payment methods has a sdk that I can integrate directly or I will have to go the old school way of using software keys.
almost certainly implies it's not a technical hurdle that they're facing. Plus, purchasing would require giving Google payment details, which would necessarily include billing address, and now it's tied to your phone. I could very easily imagine that giving a lot of folks a lot of heartburn
Huh? Try it, since like ten years it requires validating the account with a phone number, which in many countries requires going through government verification. That alone takes a while to set up if you want a new account that isn't linked to other things already. It's not a quick as generating a new password in your password manager and coming up with a non-taken username anymore
You also can't log into this app specifically, it will tie all apps on your device to this one account. Nobody should be doing this, it's like logging into the Chrome browser and tying all pages that have any sort of google service on it (embedded map, youtube, analytics, ads) to the phone number and thus identity you signed up with
Got permanent tinnitus due to damage to auditory nerve from an accident back in 2010.
Coping was hard. Distracting yourself with various things so you dont think about it was key.
Things to try -
1) Keeping yourself distracted or occupied and trying to not be conscious about it for 50% of the day to start with, gradually improving to 90% of the day
2) White noise apps for sleep
3) Carry ear plugs at all times. Plug them in if watching a movie in a theatre or attending to an Indian wedding. Prevents worsening of the situation.
To those out there: you're not alone. The journey is different for everyone, and what helps one person might not help another — but with patience and experimentation, many find ways to manage and live fully despite it.
Looks like there is no way i can use it without giving up on screen real estate. I'd love to have it pinned in the browser toolbar and I click it when I need it. But it wouldn't allow itself to be hidden and needs to have a floating circle taking up page real-estate.
After pinning the extension, click on it and deselect the "enabled" option (the line with the purple X). This will kill the floating orb UI but you can still click on the extension in the toolbar to use it.
A friend and I had started a project similar to this some 6-7 years ago. We wanted to make all the generated data consistent so if, for example, you need data about German person it would return real city name, real (or at least plausible) street name, postal number, phone numbers both mobile and fixed with the proper country and operators code, email address using national domain, personal name was chosen out of plausible names for each country etc. etc. In the end it was so much work that we abandoned it :(
I have a similar project that generates random SQL rows, and yes, getting everything consistent is a huge pain. Mine generates city/country pairs that match, and has a limited set of countries that it will also generate matching phone numbers for. It ignores area/operator code differences.
Email addresses, it uses first.last@$RANDOM.com, no country-specific.
The other struggle I have is that to properly test a DB, you need millions of rows, not thousands. Mine does quite well up through a few million, but then starts struggling. I need to overhaul the generator functions to use threading. I hadn’t initially because I assumed the CPU would be too busy to context switch, but then I tried a smaller example and found I was wrong - massive speed up.
Yeah.. name, username, and 2 email addresses being different to one another is also irritating.. probably it's taxing for the brain if say testing with the user "brian.duncan" shows an exception in the UI, and then when scrolling through the logs one has to remember his email is "donna.tella@versace.it"...
I used to run a small relatively unknown service back in the day when internet on mobile was still unaffordable in India.
People could sms to a number that I had procured with any keyword. The service send the user a list of 5 top results' domain names from Google results for that keyword. User would respond with a number (1-5). The service would send the 20 characters of the first h1 tag on the page, and first 140 characters of the first body tag on the page. (tyring it's best to not send any markup but just the text). Last 20 characters would be an ad.
It was buggy but it had decent traction initially. I didn't get any advertisers so for the most part of it the ad text was something like 'advertise here - with short link to contact from'
Reminds me of those days where every kb accessible on mobile was so valuable.
Not sure if it's the case elsewhere as well, but at least in India, email address on amazon orders are accessible to sellers if you made a purchase from a seller. I have had sellers reach out to me right after buying something from amazon, offering an incentive for a review.
Further, customer support agents can pull up your details as well. At least when there is an active ticket. I was reached out by one of the support executives confronting me from his personal mobile number after I left poor feedback for a chat interaction.
Amazon has little or no respect for data privacy especially in regions where there are no strict regulations that can cause them monetary loss through fines.
Since you mention it's in UK, I am surprised this is the case.
