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Here's what it looks like to configure an app's notification channel:
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For Medium and Low importance, notifications appear under a "Silent notifications" header on the dropdown:
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And although the channel menu has an on/off switch for badges, there is a totally separate menu for choosing whether badges are numbers or just dots, because this option applies system-wide:
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Similarly, if you want to disable status bar icons entirely, that's listed somewhere else:
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And finally, there is another option that only applies to incoming phone calls that gives you ringing and vibration together.
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So, if you want to modify all of the available options related to notifications, you'll have to make a Vernian journey through the operating system and hope you get it done in less than eighty days:
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My phone happens to be an LG, and their firmware has some bonus options that only apply to the lock screen, which is located in, you guessed it, a separate menu:
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## What a mess!
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**Orthogonality** means you can change one thing without changing anything else. The badge switch is on or off, and doesn't affect any other behaviors. It gets an orthogonal seal of approval and a handshake from the governor of Orthogon. The Importance menu has certain behaviors implying others, and makes some combinations of behaviors impossible. It gets a disappointed frown.
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To me, it is clear that the UI should make much, much heavier use of checkboxes / toggle switches:
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According to Google Trends, the term [cancel culture](https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=US&q=cancel%20culture) started to appear in late 2019 and had its big heyday in mid-2020, so in internet years I'm rather late. I think the concept of cancel culture is plain stupid: a bunch of people who have willingly centralized themselves under a privately-owned social media site whose primary / only source of revenue is advertisements act surprised and indignant when they're kicked out because they're harming the company's image.
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For the past couple of months, every time I've seen an article about cancel culture or someone getting "cancelled", I've gotten a spur of inspiration to write something about it, but I've always decided against it because my conclusion is just so trivial. Stupid games. Stupid prizes. That's about it. Maybe someday people will learn to stop investing their lives into social media giants. Right after they learn that fire is hot.
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If, by chance, your web host does decide to stop hosting your pages, all you have to do is pick a different one and restore from a backup, because of course you're making regular backups of the things you care about and not just expecting the internet to keep everything for you forever. With the standardization of web protocols, every web host is functionally the same! It's totally commoditized, dudes!
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For the videographically inclined among you, I'm sure you're thinking "But how would I ever host my videos without Youtube? I can't afford to do it myself!". Congratulations on discovering that hosting and distributing video is stinking expensive! People don't seem to have any trouble understanding that mansions are expensive, and that getting kicked out of one doesn't automatically grant you access to another. Sorry you got comfortable.
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It's okay to have a Twitter account, and a Youtube account, and a reddit account. Some may even say it's okay to have a Facebook account! But if you don't have a contingency plan for when you lose that account, for a good reason or bad, you're simply not prepared!
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Thank you richleland for pre-building this Monokai style.
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To be clear, I only do this for the initial download of the historical posts. After that, when new episodes are released, I just right-click & save file.
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One thing you can try is searching the [Wayback machine](https://web.archive.org/) for the RSS url. If you're lucky, it will have been scraped in the past often enough so as to contain the entire history, though perhaps in piecemeal. You could download the snapshots, combine them into a single xml file, serve it out of a [webserver](https://github.com/voussoir/else/tree/master/SimpleServer), and temporarily point your RSS client at localhost so it ingests all those historical posts before pointing it back at the real url. Convoluted, perhaps, but I'd rather do this than inject the posts into the db myself. Then, you can pull the enclosures out of QuiteRSS's database (or from the xml file you just made).
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But, in the worst case scenario, you'll find that Wayback doesn't have archives of the feed you want. At this point I write a web scraper in Python to find all the episode dates and links, or I just hit the CTRL+C, CTRL+V gym for twenty minutes, copying each link from the website manually. You may also try [Xenu's Link Sleuth](http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html) or [HTTrack](https://www.httrack.com/) to see if they can find all of the MP3 urls automatically. I figure it's an effort I'll only have to do once as long as RSS keeps getting new posts after that.
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MP3Tag is great for batch renaming. In your MP3Tag actions, create a `Format value` action with the parameters Field=`_FILENAME`, Format string=`%album% - %year%`.
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I don't like filling up my desktop or start menu with shortcuts, so I wrote [PGUI](https://github.com/voussoir/cmd/blob/master/PGUI.pyw) which acts as a launcher for any .lnk files located inside my PGUI folder. Each of these shortcuts actually point to the `__latest\program.exe` path. As a bonus, my PGUI folder is one of the few folders to enjoy the honor of being on my PATH, which means I can just start them from the command line or Win+R -- that's all possible without a gui launcher of course, but it's a great symbiosis.
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I'm not satisfied with the new tab page on Android Chrome. So, I put together an html file that I can use as my own homepage. Here's a comparison:
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Alternatively, I was able to bypass the scoped storage system altogether with this [ADB](https://developer.android.com/studio/command-line/adb) command: `adb shell sm set-isolated-storage off` which **rebooted the phone immediately** and may have other consequences. I am not sure how it fares on Android 11.
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Recently, I have been trying to use Android Firefox more, since it has extension support and thus uBlock. Astonishingly, Mozilla has [removed the ability to set a homepage](https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/i5nom6/how_to_edit_homepage_on_android/), which I believe occurred as part of the [2020-08-25 update](https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/08/25/introducing-a-new-firefox-for-android-experience/). And [their new tab page](https://voussoir-net.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/writing/mobile_homepage_html/firefox_ntp.png) has an even bigger thing that I won't ever ever ever click on. I'm not sure what's going on over there.
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Recently, I have been trying to use Android Firefox more, since it has extension support and thus uBlock. Astonishingly, Mozilla has [removed the ability to set a homepage](https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/i5nom6/how_to_edit_homepage_on_android/), which I believe occurred as part of the [2020-08-25 update](https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/08/25/introducing-a-new-firefox-for-android-experience/). And [their new tab page](firefox_ntp.png) has an even bigger thing that I won't ever ever ever click on. I'm not sure what's going on over there.
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**Minecraft otherwise**: My first real programming experience beyond .bat files was in Java, which I had to learn in order to make mods for Minecraft. I made my own ores, tools, plants, and trees. About 30% of the items I made had some semblance of legitimate purpose, the rest were because I had come up with some pixel art that I liked and wanted to make an item for it. If you want to see some python projects that spawned out of my Minecraft interest, see [VoxelSphereGenerator](https://github.com/voussoir/else/tree/master/VoxelSphereGenerator) and [Minecraft3DVector](https://github.com/voussoir/else/tree/master/Minecraft3DVector).
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**TF2**: I have 1700 hours in TF2. Some hundreds of those are from idling to get refined metal back when it was 2.33 per key. Out of the active play hours, I'd say at least 90%+ were spent on cp\_orange\_x3 or variant maps. There was a server with a 100% crits mod that I played on regularly, and when I made my own orange map cp\_orange\_Skyward they were kind enough to host it and I became a moderator on the server. Here are some screenshots of Skyward ([one](https://voussoir-net.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/writing/motivations_for_writing/tf2_skyward1.jpg), [two](https://voussoir-net.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/writing/motivations_for_writing/tf2_skyward2.jpg), [three](https://voussoir-net.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/writing/motivations_for_writing/tf2_skyward3.jpg), [four](https://voussoir-net.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/writing/motivations_for_writing/tf2_skyward4.jpg)) and I will see about cleaning up the messy vmf and uploading that.
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**TF2**: I have 1700 hours in TF2. Some hundreds of those are from idling to get refined metal back when it was 2.33 per key. Out of the active play hours, I'd say at least 90%+ were spent on cp\_orange\_x3 or variant maps. There was a server with a 100% crits mod that I played on regularly, and when I made my own orange map cp\_orange\_Skyward they were kind enough to host it and I became a moderator on the server. Here are some screenshots of Skyward ([one](tf2_skyward1.jpg), [two](tf2_skyward2.jpg), [three](tf2_skyward3.jpg), [four](tf2_skyward4.jpg)) and I will see about cleaning up the messy vmf and uploading that.
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Making texture replacement skins for TF2 is pretty easy, but for a bigger challenge I tried Blender to make a hat. I only got so far ([one](https://voussoir-net.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/writing/motivations_for_writing/tf2_hat1.jpg), [two](https://voussoir-net.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/writing/motivations_for_writing/tf2_hat2.jpg)) before giving up, but at least I can say I've used Blender.
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Making texture replacement skins for TF2 is pretty easy, but for a bigger challenge I tried Blender to make a hat. I only got so far ([one](tf2_hat1.jpg), [two](tf2_hat2.jpg)) before giving up, but at least I can say I've used Blender.
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