DerfNet

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by DerfNet 9y ago
It's weird that people are blaming a search engine for providing relative links for discussion on a topic. Again, it's a search engine first and foremost, not a media outlet . It indexes media outlets. It shouldn't be
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by DerfNet 9y ago
you can swap x230/t430 to the x220/t420 keyboard, for what it's worth. sticking point to me on the X220/230 is that 1366x768 screen, but I believe the X230 can be upgraded to 1080p.
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by DerfNet 9y ago
Yeah, the best we can hope for is that keyboard being an option on the T series moving forward. I really don't want to switch to chiclets when my T420 finally stops being perfect.
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by DerfNet 9y ago
With Google Translate, you can use the service offline by downloading language packs. Now, I'd assume that if you use it offline, Google will cache your conversations and upload them the next time your device has connectivity. But wh
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by DerfNet 9y ago
I feel like this already should be commonplace. I used Google Translate back in 2014 on a trip to Japan. Really came in useful when a hotel didn't have my reservation. Since then they've added the conversational mode that effectiv
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by DerfNet 9y ago
It seems these only work in this fashion with Pixel devices. I understand they're trying to create an air of exclusivity but it really just comes off kind of greedy and dickish when in reality, any earbuds with a microphone should
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by DerfNet 9y ago
At this point, that's kind of like telling non-smokers to just not breathe smoky air when they're around other people. These things are everywhere, people carry them in their pockets, millions of households contain standalone unit
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by DerfNet 9y ago
I know it makes me sound like a crotchety old man, but I just can't justify giving my lightbulbs access to my home network when the wall switches I already have seem to work just fine.
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by DerfNet 9y ago
>The Nexus devices So you can buy used or refurbished phones from some third party retailer, great, but you cannot buy a Pixel or Chromecast or Google Home. Also, is it Google preventing Amazon from getting Prime onto their devices? I&
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by DerfNet 9y ago
People always jump up and defend IoT devices, and while they make reasonable points (you can monitor their bandwidth, you already have a smartphone, etc), I'm just not willing to provide yet another potential entry point into my pers
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by DerfNet 9y ago
All Google-branded products are blacklisted on Amazon. If you search for "Chromecast", your results will be Fire Sticks and then knockoff Chromecasts called "Anycast".
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by DerfNet 9y ago
I use a Model M and remap capslock to super/windows button. I'm so used to it I remap it on laptops as well. Have never come across an instance to actually use all caps.
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by DerfNet 9y ago
maybe you could pull down changes on a daily basis? not a complete reindex but just updates that prune dead links and add new ones. the problem is this would be completely useless for current events. but querying sites you use regularly, th
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by DerfNet 9y ago
I work for an e-commerce company. This absolutely brutalized our sales until we made significant changes to our layout. I understand that this instance is seen as a net positive for the end user, but Google should not have the power to forc
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by DerfNet 9y ago
I have acquaintances on Facebook that pose and cheese for the camera seemingly every day, and others who apparently schedule their posts as if they're marketing themselves as a lifestyle brand or something. Like, we get it, you like
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by DerfNet 9y ago
They can come to St. Louis. Everybody else left. They can have the AT&T tower downtown, it's empty.
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by DerfNet 9y ago
How about the audio book of Deep Work by Cal Newport?
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by DerfNet 9y ago
nice to see a modern thinkpad getting a positive review. my T420 isn't going to live forever.
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by DerfNet 9y ago
cool concept. I actually wrote basically the exact same thing in PHP as my final project for CS50X (nowhere near as polished as this of course). guess I can scrap plans for ever updating it :) one thing that would be nice: a built-in profan
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by DerfNet 9y ago
I like the simplicity of this. It's not exactly groundbreaking, but some things, like a simple mailing list, don't need to be improved upon.
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by DerfNet 9y ago
If we still paid for software like we did 15 years ago, we'd probably have a perfect solution by now. Instead we have a bunch of "free" options that all want to harvest our data.
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by DerfNet 9y ago
this is a great idea. How many times have you looked at reviews on recipes.com or whatever and the first 10 include a half dozen substitutions, basically making a different end product entirely? each of those reviews could instead be a fork
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by DerfNet 9y ago
>Did DBC give me an education equivalent to a computer science degree? No. >Did they teach me everything I need to know about data structures and algorithms? No. >Did they help me get my first programming job? Sort of, but not real
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by DerfNet 9y ago
I recently deleted my 10 year old Facebook account and opened a new locked down one that I use only for events. No pictures, no connections to anything else I use, no facebook app on my phone. it's unfortunate but it's basically a
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by DerfNet 9y ago
Yeah, if they're pulling $5/mo from each premium subscriber, that's... well, some pretty easy math. They could put a cap on the userbase if they wanted and still be pulling millions per month just off subscriptions, not even
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by DerfNet 9y ago
Is there any reason not to go with ProtonMail? They seem to be the big recommendation lately for encrypted email service.
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by DerfNet 9y ago
>so where is that money going to come from? presumably ownership of the image.
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by DerfNet 9y ago
I was recently doxxed on Reddit. Never posted my name, used a unique username, but after 6+ years of posting, someone triangulated the data and successfully found my full name and home address. Even though the user was banned (several times
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by DerfNet 9y ago
Sure, where it will never be seen.
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by DerfNet 9y ago
Walmart does something similar. I recently bought a generic desktop power cable from them, which when I checked online was listed at ~$5. In store, it rang up as $20. They price matched, but it's kind of ridiculous that they're pr

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