JoshMnem

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by JoshMnem 9y ago
"...imports from Tumblr to WordPress rose from the typical rate of 400-600 per hour to over 72,000...Posterous users fled the service when it was purchased by Twitter, and Instagram users were up in arms over its acquisition by Faceboo
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Linux works great. It provides freedom in more ways than just the UI. It's interesting that the main attraction of a company that advertises "think different" is to force everyone to use the exact same setup. I've never
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I don't, partially for that reason.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
That's a terrible restriction for people who have many virtual desktops. I've used 10 in two rows for years (or 9 in xmonad) so that's my mental model of where everything is located.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
A problem with Apple is that you can't change it if something doesn't work for you. If I don't like GNOME or Unity, I can easily switch to xmonad, i3, awesome, openbox, fluxbox, xfce, lxde, kde, or many other options.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Tiling WMs like i3 or xmonad are great. Xmonad can run under GNOME, making it easier to set up. https://wiki.haskell.org/Xmonad/Using_xmonad_in_Gnome
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Some people don't use Facebook. I wouldn't join Facebook to join a group or event, and I know other people who feel the same way.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I don't know if it's only that. I stopped using Tumblr when Yahoo bought it, and actively deleted or abandoned my Tumblr sites when Verizon bought it.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Yeah, the excuse for taking away freedoms usually is "security". Walled gardens are one of the problems. They should be rendered useless. It's a company that caused many people to suffer through Internet Explorer for 20 yea
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I've lived through the experience of using non-MS products since the early 2000s, and all of those things are related. It has been one of their core strategies and still is, though the techniques are shifting.
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> This seems like a thing that platform owners are doing more and more (iOS has a similar clause, and ChromeOS, well, uses Chrome). Shame on all of them. If it continues, the next generation will not know what it's like to have tech
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> I just hope that MS doesn't add in too many platform-specific pieces that would encourage vendor lock-in. That's Microsoft's main strategy though. Example: Users can't even install Firefox or Chrome on Windows 10 S.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
See also: "new research into the effects of Modafinil has shown that healthy students could find their performance impaired by the drug." https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-11-smart-drugs-wont-peop...
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For anyone that thought that Microsoft was changing its ways, that should be a big warning: > Even worse, the new Windows 10 S operating system prohibits the installation of any apps which do not come from the Windows Store, so it is imp
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I don't think that fully native-looking UI is a very important thing. Not all of the software has a fully native UI on my computer, and it doesn't matter at all.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Linux users might be interested in this Emacs/Vim alternative: https://vimvalley.com/replacing-scrivener-with-emacs-and-vim...
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I recently got a small paper notebook that I carry around now. I'm moving all of my digital notes to Org Mode[1], so I'll have the history there too (git). [1] http://orgmode.org/
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I'm in the process of cutting back (deleting apps, etc.) and will get a non-smartphone to replace my current phone soon. I plan to write some custom scripts to send me text messages when someone @-mentions me on Slack -- or they can se
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I listen to Udemy courses and YouTube videos at 1.5x to 2x speed, depending on the speed of the talking. You can improve the listening comprehension with practice.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Many sites that do that eventually roll back the blocking. I just close the tab when I get blocked or find another way to read the content. Someone needs to write a browser extension to block the adonis ad-blocker-blocker. You can find it i
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Be careful: > After comparing genetic information swabbed from the noses of smokers, vapers, and non-users of both, researchers found that smoking suppresses the activity of 53 genes involved in the immune system. Vaping also suppressed
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Blog posts start conversations.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Umatrix is great.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Try umatrix.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Pentadactyl was the greatest browser extension ever created. I hope that something similar will appear in the future.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Try umatrix.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I thought it was going to be an older Thinkpad. Matte screen, great keyboard, three-button touchpad, runs Linux, and you could drop it on concrete while running with barely a scratch. (I haven't dropped one recently to test the newer m
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
> Don't believe everything you read on the Internet when you can just try the product I read about it on their own website: https://www.brave.com/about-ad-replacement/ "Brave’s goal is to speed up the web,
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Firefox containers[1] are new, but you could always do this with Firefox profiles. If you're on Linux or Mac, open a terminal and type: firefox -ProfileManager -no-remote & (I alias it to `ff`.) Create different profiles[2
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From what I've read, Brave doesn't block ads -- it replaces them with other ads. I don't think that it's a good idea. Firefox for Android also allows browser extensions, which gives some control of the software back to t

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