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Jul 9

“If you’re tempted to down a soda, water, glass of wine, coffee, or other liquid while typing away at your keyboard, you may end up paying the ultimate price—liquid spilled into your computer from an accidental knock, a few drips or a dropped cup. If this happens, don’t panic. Instead, follow these simple instructions as quickly as you can to try to salvage your computer.” How to Save a Laptop from Liquid Damage: 14 Tips - wikiHow (via theaboveground)

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Jul 7

anestivega:

The App you should download today - Police Tape

Citizens can hold police accountable in the palms of their hands with “Police Tape,” a smartphone application from the ACLU of New Jersey that allows people to securely and discreetly record and store interactions with police, as well as provide legal information about citizens’ rights when interacting with the police. Thanks to the generosity of app developer OpenWatch, the ACLU-NJ is providing Police Tape to the public free of charge.

Download Police Tape here. Reblog & share!

Anesti Vega’s note: This app isn’t super special apart from your normal photo/video app on your phone, but the key thing that it does is store the photos and videos in a special folder than cannot be accessed or deleted anywhere in the phone if police are to ‘confiscate’ your phone… aka destroying evidence.

(via rematiration)

Jun 30

toujoursgai replied to your post: concerns about book fetishisation aside, I am…

I’m really feeling these book posts even though I’m guilty of 1. reblogging a lot of book spams on this site and 2. buying a lot of books (but like you, i buy new releases because I have fines in all my libraries). I think the whole ebooks aren’t tangible things you can touch!!1one! debate is partly to do with a feeling of distress that the corporeal respect you might get from displaying your knowledge gets wiped out. A folder of files on your ereader just doesn’t satisfy that same fetish

totally! I have also seen a lot of people complaining that you can’t judge what other people are reading if they’re using an e-reader. mostly dudes complaining that they will never know if that wispy indie chick on the train is reading Murakami and might never meet their ~true love~

but there was also this big brouhaha in the mX (free commuter newspaper) the other day about how any middle-aged woman you see with an e-reader could be reading 50 shades of grey and you wouldn’t even know

the whole thing is so interesting because it’s reminiscent of the early modern panic around women reading novels, you know the one — because they’re private, unlike oral culture, so they could be reading any old thing.

there's our catastrophe

work is its own cure. you have to like it better than being loved. ⚑ ♀

work is its own cure. you have to like it better than being loved.

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