- Go to your VM instance page
- Connect to the VM via SSH
- Use the following commands and answer Y when prompted
- sudo apt update
- sudo apt install snapd
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Let’s say you have a podcast you like listening to and you want to listen to it off of your Garmin watch (and not your phone). Here’s how you can set that up!
Connect to public AdGuard DNS server (adguard-dns.io)
Set up your network settings to use AdGuard DNS and they’ll block any ad server requests for you. A good option if you don’t want to block ads across your entire network with something like a PiHole. Downside is that you’re sending all your traffic to a DNS server that you don’t control.
DNS addresses
Default servers
AdGuard DNS will block ads and trackers.
94.140.14.14
94.140.15.15
Non-filtering servers
AdGuard DNS will not block ads, trackers, or any other DNS requests.
94.140.14.140
94.140.14.141
Family protection servers
AdGuard DNS will block ads, trackers, adult content, and enable Safe Search and Safe Mode, where possible.
94.140.14.15
94.140.15.16
Examples of blocked ads
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I was frustrated at my Sony XM4 headphones cutting out and playing a sidetone instead every time you start talking during a meeting. Since I was using it on my Mac I couldn’t turn off the Speak to Chat functionality through the app settings. Here’s the fix I found!
SOLUTION:
To turn off this annoying feature, hold two fingers down flat on your right earbud until you hear a “Speak to Chat deactivated” message. You might need to try a few different finger placements (just holding for a few seconds should do)
Credit to hiiamhere1 for this solution (Wh-1000XM4 CUTS OUT WHEN TALKING? : sony (reddit.com))!
Someone reached out to me recently (through a career coach of mine from years ago!) about my journey into PM and asked some great questions about how I got to where I am and how they might consider approaching a career in Product Management. Below are their questions and my answers.
From your perspective, you’ve had several interesting roles with an expansive field of work, I’d love to learn:
Little Island
Xian Famous Foods
Hamilton History Walk
The High Line
Central Park
The New York Public Library
Russ & Daughter’s Cafe
Take the ferry to Stanton Island (for free) and see the Statue of Liberty
The Strand book store
Bike along the west side of Manhattan
COTE Korean Steakhouse is incredible
Bike along the Brooklyn Bridge
Visit Hunter’s Point
Milk Bar for Dessert
9/11 Memorial Museum
Prospect Park
SF recommended neighborhoods:
A Tier
B Tier
Neighbourhoods I don’t recommend
If you’re like me and trying to set up a scraping project and leveraging Selenium you may have run into the path requirement that I found to be puzzling. Luckily chromedriver-py solves that for you. However, upon install, I found that it wasn’t accepting the version of Chrome that I had installed (apparently the latest release only supports the beta version of Chrome).
My error message:
selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 103
Current browser version is 102.0.5005.115 with binary path /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome
After installing Chrome’s beta version and being unsuccessful there I figured out that earlier versions of chromedriver-py support earlier versions of the browser.
I was able to install a specific version of chromedriver-py via pip using this command (which is also helpfully included on the version pages on pypi.org):
python -m pip install chromedriver-py==102.0.5005.61
https://pypi.org/project/chromedriver-py/102.0.5005.61/
Remember to uninstall the version that isn’t working for you first.
Happy scraping!
I’ve been in the Bay Area for a while now (7 years) and put together a list for friends visiting to give them some inspiration on what to do when they visit. Hope its helpful to you!
Have you ever deleted a post online or made a profile private and wanted it to be removed from search results? If that content is no longer available to the public, it should eventually be removed from search results but, if you want to expedite it, you can actually submit a request directly to Google to have it be removed from search results by using this tool (https://search.google.com/search-console/remove-outdated-content).
This tool only applies if the content is no longer publicly available so make sure to have it taken before submitting a request.
If you want to learn more about the tool you can read about it here (https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7041154).
I’ve had quite a few folks reach out for guidance on navigating their journey as a PM. Since it’s a newer field and a lot of it has to do with softer skills it can be a bit hard to know where to start to build on your skills and become a more effective PM. Here are some resources I’ve found to be helpful in developing my own skills. If you’ve got any you’ve found useful or would like to share please leave a comment, :).
The best resource I’ve found on Books for PMs is from Ken Norton. You can view it directly here: https://www.kennorton.com/essays/books-for-product-managers.html
These were the ones I found to be most useful:
There are a few different options for PM-related courses out there but I think the runaway favourite in terms of value and actual practical application is Reforge. Their courses are built around key concepts like Retention and Engagement, Advanced Growth Strategy, and Product Strategy. I highly recommend taking one of these courses if you have the time & resources to do so. It’s generally a 6-8 week commitment at 6-10 hours per week of time.
Newsletters can be a low friction way for you to continuously get helpful content for you to consume on a periodic basis. Open to more suggestions if folks have them.