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by ajot 5y ago
I get this, but I prefer this tradeoff instead of the browser unloading something I wanted to keep loaded. When I start Firefox, most tabs (4 or 5 nowadays) won't load, but be there as placeholders for things I need/want to solve
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by ajot 5y ago
So, if I want to disable this, I should set a big number to the browser.low_commit_space_threshold_mb pref in about:config, right? I just don't get why this would be useful. When I start Firefox, inactive tabs aren't loaded until
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by ajot 5y ago
I had the same question some months ago, as it helps me to focus and read long articles. You have to do some fiddling but it's doable. https://askubuntu.com/questions/953509/how-can-i-change-the-...
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by ajot 5y ago
KOReader has a built-in RSS/Atom reader. https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/News-downloader
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by ajot 5y ago
Regarding hydro, you can go micro to power a house or some small comunity. There are lot's of books on microhydropower, but get a look at this fantastic post at ludens.cl http://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/turb
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by ajot 5y ago
I came here to add Purrington's blog. But I would also add that you should look at older versions in the Wayback Machine, it used to have a little more depth and images depicting things (e.g., a paper chromatography test of different i
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RF reverse engineering has become trivial, thanks to the SDR movement (2018)(nihal-pasham.medium.com)
2 points by ajot 5y ago|0 comments
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by ajot 5y ago
This resonates a lot with the classic Richard Feynman's letter about "which problems to solve" http://genius.cat-v.org/richard-feynman/writtings/letters/pr...
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by ajot 5y ago
Personally, I use the non-free netinst CD. When I get to tasksel I only check "Standard system utilites". After rebooting (into a system without even X) I install, wifi and GPU drivers, microcode, "kde-plasma-desktop" an
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by ajot 5y ago
Do you have any other keyboard + pointing device design in mind? I've read sibling comments about trackpoint and numpad, but what about a 7-row keyboard and/or a smaller trackpad with real buttons for clicking? Is this possible? D
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by ajot 5y ago
After reading "The Fremen Mirage Collection" [0], I can't read that adage/meme without feeling snarky. While I believe that, in an individual scale, harsh times can help develop toughness and resilience, most times it se
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by ajot 5y ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/1ggg4u/please_drink_...
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by ajot 5y ago
> I have seen plenty of people calling for laws regulating mystery boxes for example on this very forum, and you could have the exact same parental responsibility argument there too. Although I totally get your point, I think there'
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by ajot 5y ago
I use Kill the newsletter for that purpose, as my RSS reader is client-side https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ https://github.com/leafac/kill-the-newsletter
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by ajot 5y ago
I liked Cedric Chin's related/citing post (and series about tacit learning) found here: https://commoncog.com/blog/youtube-learn-tacit-knowledge/
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by ajot 5y ago
> They seem to have the same problem as Wikimedia where as they got more money, they spent an increasingly large fraction of it on bullshit outside the scope of their original purpose Maybe it's time to ditch the traditional donatio
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by ajot 5y ago
Is there any other part in a cellphone that requires 36 V to operate? It seems quite high for being stuffed into a portable electronics device.
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by ajot 5y ago
If you have Kodi on Android, you can have "links" (I don't remember the name in Kodi, sorry) for the Spotify, Youtube, Netflix, etc Android apps within Kodi.
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by ajot 5y ago
This is an old article, so maybe some software isn't the best option nowadays, but you can get the idea of postprocessing: http://natecraun.net/articles/linux-guide-to-book-scanning.h...
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by ajot 5y ago
https://commoncog.com/blog/ (by Cedric Chin)
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by ajot 5y ago
There is (was?) MaruOS, an Android ROM with a Debian LXC container. https://maruos.com/ https://github.com/maruos/maruos
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by ajot 5y ago
It's weird, I saw it on the frontpage, came back to comment something and couldn't find it anymore. Had to search through Algolia.
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by ajot 6y ago
Readable addresses means you can go to some site for the first time and be sure it's the address you wanted. It's not a SHA256 checksum, but it's human-doable in some seconds.
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by ajot 6y ago
Not OC, but I guess that if you're using Bluetooth, you depend on whatever DAC they've put onto the speaker, which may or may not be good enough for your taste.
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Exploring the Technology Connections Set(youtube.com)
1 points by ajot 6y ago|0 comments
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by ajot 6y ago
It goes full circle: in Argentina we have a common expression for someone who is acting bossy, telling them they ate a lot of "mandarinas". Languages are wonderful.
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by ajot 6y ago
Not as a substitute, but my Galician grandmother always add some carbonated water to the pancake (think more like crêpes) batter, it helps a bit with retaining some bubbles but mostly make them more tender.
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by ajot 6y ago
Didn't Mozilla migrate their IRC chat to Matrix recently?
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by ajot 6y ago
Oh, sorry, I didn't explore that button! I thought it was a LineageOS release filter (16, 17, etc). I really like and appreciate your site!
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by ajot 6y ago
Excuse me for hijacking your comment, but I would add filter by year of release. Older phones are very rare to find in mint conditions.

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