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by abrowne 6y ago
To choose one of your examples, when I want to paste, my fingers know C{md/trl}-v, so C-y is not familiar. But it's not just copy and paste, I want keys for things like find, find again and replace to work about the same in all th
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by abrowne 6y ago
How did you typically launch apps? Through the file manager kind of like classic Mac OS?
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by abrowne 6y ago
I've thought about it, but it seems overkill for what I'd really use, and I have Mac/Gnome keybindings burned into my fingers, so Emacs feels really alien. (I know about CUA-mode and other options, but it feels like fighting
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by abrowne 6y ago
I don't think or note about anything important or complicated enough to need a tool like this, but I love this approach for those who want it. Notes are really just text to edit, so why not use a text editor for notes, especially if it
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by abrowne 6y ago
I bought one of these (Nokia 1) earlier this year and love it! It was available in the US from Amazon, but I think it's been discontinued, replaced by the much larger Nokia 1 Plus.
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by abrowne 6y ago
Chromium is also still X-only, which also includes Electron apps.
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by abrowne 6y ago
Adobe "will stop distributing and updating Flash Player after December 31, 2020" https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html So for a browser version that will be released this fall as a
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by abrowne 6y ago
If Apple lets other browsers using the engine have access to this feature.
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by abrowne 6y ago
Probably Chrome extension manifest version 3. See, eg https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338
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by abrowne 6y ago
I have six apps on my Android homescreen: browser, mail, sms, clock, notes and maps. That's all I always use every week. I definitely need my TOTP app, Duo for work, the calculator and of course camera and phone apps, but I don't
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by abrowne 6y ago
Probably? The jurisdiction of the court extends to nearly all European states, with the exception of Belarus, the Vatican City, and the predominantly Central Asian Kazakhstan. But, In 2015, Russia adopted a law allowing it to overrule ju
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by abrowne 6y ago
I use it with fd to convert audio files in parallel, such as FLAC to MP3 or Opus (or ALAC to FLAC when someone let me … sample a few albums). Found the tip on the Arch wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Convert_
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by abrowne 6y ago
Maybe little flasks of dex, apropos of today's covid treatment news.
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by abrowne 6y ago
The subhead: A new book by Michael Gordin shows how 16 months in Prague formed a young Albert Einstein—and the shape of science, politics, and intellectual history to come.
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by abrowne 6y ago
I often like to know how long a page is when I'm not scrolling too.
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by abrowne 6y ago
I don't think they will remove it soon, since it was just added¹ after a lot of complaints about the default behavior². Now how does this new flag interact? Has anyone enabled both to see? 1: https://bugs.chromium.org/p
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by abrowne 6y ago
Is a CPU with both ARM and AMD-sourced x86-64 cores possible?
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by abrowne 6y ago
Agreed. I only have experience with Intel graphics, but all the recent machines I've installed Ubuntu on have just been install and it works. If you pick a distro that doesn't include non-free drivers/firmware, you might have
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by abrowne 6y ago
I imagine you're right, but G5 owners might predict differently. They only got one more major release (10.5) once Apple switched to Intel, although there was a longer release cadence than there is now.
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by abrowne 6y ago
I guess I installed Alacritty right away on this new computer, so I have just found and tested the GNOME Terminal option. You just open Preferences from the hamburger menu, choose Shortcuts on the left, and find "Copy Ctrl+Shift+C&qu
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by abrowne 6y ago
I was nearly Mac exclusive for years before switching to Linux. Similarly to the author I mostly use a browser, VS Code and a few small utilities, although mine are mostly simple Qt GUI apps. My thumbs are well trained to use the keys to th
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by abrowne 6y ago
I'd say a similar thing about my HP EliteBook x360 830 G6 as a 13-inch running Ubuntu 20.04. I love having a matte screen (that's still a touchscreen if I ever want it) and both USB-C and USB-A ports! HP even lets you custom order
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by abrowne 6y ago
And on the other side, in the US I still expect calls and voicemails like was suggested, but the two bike repair shops I frequent and my dentist have switched to texting, while my medical provider emails.
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by abrowne 6y ago
The world's largest unreinforced concrete dome, and almost 1900 years old.
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by abrowne 6y ago
Clearly meant "Precision Touchpad" …
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by abrowne 6y ago
Well, at least since the Cretaceous :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_history_of_plants... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee#Evolution
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by abrowne 6y ago
It went out not too long after Red Hat became part of IBM. But now that that is the case, IBM's dividends, through whatever turns the world and economy take, may be more important to them than the small subset of their Linux offering t
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by abrowne 6y ago
I agree that's a very large part of it. I have booted Ubuntu on innumerable PCs and Macs while working in repairs, and touchpads vary hugely even when running the same software. The recentish "Precious Touchpad" standard Micr
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by abrowne 6y ago
Red Hat is part of IBM now. Another post on the homepage right now is "IBM to cut thousands of jobs as coronavirus plays out" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23268191 Not saying that these IBM jobs are from t
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by abrowne 6y ago
UK style, and this article is from the Guardian , is to capitalize only the first letter of acronyms that are pronounced like words, "Nasa" and "Nato" being frequent examples. When each letter is pronounced (AKA an init

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