Scottn1

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by Scottn1 9y ago
I have to say I am pretty PO'd regarding this. A month ago I JUST finally bought a nice new i3-7100 PC to replace my 10yo Core2Duo for Christmas. Office tasks, web games for kid, work, etc. I have measurably noticed the decrease in spe
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by Scottn1 9y ago
I am very similar. Love to thinker sometimes so early this year downloading and installing many of the top and some obscure distro's. Just sort of felt like going doing an a No-Windows 30 days. Antergos (arch made easy) was one of the
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by Scottn1 9y ago
No, you are not. I too liked the K750 feel a lot, but ultimately returned it after reading some reviews the rechargeable batteries in it stop taking a charge (some relatively quickly for such an expensive keyboard). I also typed slower on i
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by Scottn1 9y ago
Because the metric used to categorize is too simpleton (BMI) and unfairly counts more muscular frames into same categories. Muscle weighs more than fat. When this guy goes to get a physical, he will go into database as "overweight&quot
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by Scottn1 9y ago
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-an...
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by Scottn1 9y ago
Thanks for this. It is timely for me as we just bought a another home and I am wrestling daily to sell our current one when new one is ready, or rent it out. We are half way into a 30yr mortgage on it and I have grand visions of renting it
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by Scottn1 10y ago
I know of a guy who found out his wife was seeking divorce weeks in advance because he started noticing divorce lawyer ads in his browsing! He eventually asked her if everything was ok and she came out with it. Crazy.
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by Scottn1 10y ago
Hmm, Contact lens wearer for 30 years now. For 28 of those years I was a RGP lens wearer. They provided much sharper vision for sports, were very cost effective (initial investment was high but lasted 3-5 years with proper care), and daily
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by Scottn1 10y ago
Been with my wife 26 years. One kid. We are High school sweethearts. Just had "date night" again last night where we had dinner/wine and watched the magical movie La La Land after. Just about a perfect night. I chose that des
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by Scottn1 10y ago
How timely as I have just spent the downtime days of December catching up on current state of Linux (and BSD). I was a big visitor of Distrowatch and pretty much tested the big 5 as well as a few fringe ones that sounded interesting and wer
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by Scottn1 10y ago
I have been a ebay user since 1999. Have accumulated 200 feedbacks and currently at 100% positive. But I have entertained closing my account a few times in past two years and have started to cut back drastically on ebay as both a buyer and
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by Scottn1 10y ago
Things make sense now... I had a client of mine call me late in the day claiming her back PC can't get internet (wired connection) despite the security PC right next to it is fine. Had her do the basic steps; reboot, check wires, try s
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by Scottn1 10y ago
I can answer this because I too wish I could have had my son sooner. I was scared to death of having kids for all through my 20's and early 30's. I now realize I was just selfish and didn't want the "burden" for lac
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by Scottn1 10y ago
Same here. Pre-teen kid fascinated by this new tech. Looking back I have no idea how my mom/dad afforded it. In fact, my mom went behind my dad's back to buy it for me as he said they could not afford it. I remember the exact loca
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by Scottn1 10y ago
It is amazing to me how we even learned anything advanced back then. It was almost like we were so "dumb" compared to today's kids. The library and the bookstore at the mall (WaldenBooks) was my main staple as a young pre-tee
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by Scottn1 10y ago
+1 My Lumia 735 does all the modern basics very well and everything I need in a phone. But the App store is like a ghost town so very little to distract you. It has some popular apps, but even then they not updated or poorly done to same on
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by Scottn1 10y ago
All I know is turning the brightness control on my iPad all the way down to far left with lights out and in bed then just browsing boring stuff like news, Car and Driver, etc and it works like a sleeping pill for me. In about 15-20m of this
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by Scottn1 10y ago
I can relate to Dell shady tactics and deceit. I too was a big fan of Dell products and recommended them plenty over the many years. Black Friday 2015 I got wind of Dell having a great deal on Xbox "bundle". I waited all day for t
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by Scottn1 10y ago
Wow, that was a downer to read and I'm sorry you feel that way. I feel much different. In fact, some of my best memories and seemingly happiest times were my pre-teen through post teen years through the 80's and early 90's. W
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by Scottn1 10y ago
>> Edit: You're comical to the point of absurdity. I agree. Claims of being an IT pro for 20 years and then reading that typical Windows 10 FUD website as well as the laughably wrong statements in the comments here is the actual
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by Scottn1 10y ago
Another is The Bat!. I've personally been using this email client for PC for 10 years now. https://www.ritlabs.com/en/ It has extremely powerful filtering, multiple inboxes for all my accounts (I prefer to deal wi
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by Scottn1 11y ago
I used Opera as my daily browser for years, up to the 12.x release. It was my little "browser that could" vs the big guys. Chrome was gaining huge ground but I kept with Opera as sort of the underdog and knowing the Presto engine
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by Scottn1 11y ago
+1 I'm in my early 40's and have been a NO for as long as I can remember. To at least 5th-6th grade, and my mom (she too is a NO to some extent) tells me even before then I was up later than rest of house. Reading books/mags,
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by Scottn1 11y ago
This test is flawed as kazinator alluded to. It is just try to find the lowest quality one and pick one of the remaining two as choice. So even with that, chance plays too much of a factor. A true test needs to be double-blind and I would w
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by Scottn1 11y ago
I guess I forgot this part from elementary school, but craziest for me (42) was Saturn has only been around the sun once since I was born. And earth has added 3.4b people.
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by Scottn1 12y ago
OMG brings back memories and makes me sad at same time it failed to gain ground. I was a BIG BeOS fan. In fact I'd probably be able to dig up from my storage the actual purchased BeOS package and the "The BeOS Bible" book I b
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by Scottn1 12y ago
Blackberry Z10.
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by Scottn1 12y ago
"To explain the Fermi paradox needs a big killer, like an innocent looking physics experiment that sterilizes a solar system." As I've mentioned elsewhere: Gamma Ray Bursts
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by Scottn1 12y ago
It is not really the same because any of your examples would not supposedly coincide with a 1500 BC civ. So none of it would be observable. You would only be talking about stuff in the way distant future that did not exist at the time and o
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by Scottn1 12y ago
I've read two books on this and my current favored solution to the Paradox is Supernovae and/or Gamma Ray Bursts. Particularly GRB as they have to ability to sterilize whole galaxies. There is a possibility even Earth has already

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