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by arthurfm 7y ago
02/02/2020 is the most palindromic date ever. https://youtu.be/4fE_sXZjxng Not only that, but it's a strobogrammatic number when viewed on a 7-segment display.
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by arthurfm 7y ago
Great website, although I have one minor nitpick. When searching for flights to or from London it's not clear which airport is which out of LTN, LGW and STN. Screenshot: https://i.vgy.me/J1F0j1.png Would it be possible
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by arthurfm 7y ago
Related video from YouTuber Tom Scott on the design of the UK plug. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEfP1OKKz_Q
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by arthurfm 7y ago
https://outline.com/Pxqsdw
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by arthurfm 7y ago
> This means the ThinkPad X131e had under 3 years of support if you bought it brand new like many school districts did in 2015. The ThinkPad X131e Chromebook was originally released in February 2013 [1] and has received five years of Chr
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by arthurfm 7y ago
> You even need to tap on the network you want to connect to when that information is already in the qr code. On my OnePlus 6T the scan QR code button [1] is next to 'Add network' so you don't have to select the Wi-Fi netw
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by arthurfm 7y ago
I believe it's only Android 10 onwards that has the QR Code scanning feature [1][2][3] since it was added by Google in order to support the new Wi-Fi Easy Connect standard [4] (the replacement for WPS). [1] https://9to5googl
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by arthurfm 7y ago
There's a Chrome extension called Unpinterested! [1] that automatically adds this to all Google Image search queries. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unpinterested/gefa...
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Half-Life: Alyx(half-life.com)
586 points by arthurfm 7y ago|437 comments
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by arthurfm 7y ago
The developer of Nano Adblocker (which is a fork of uBlock Origin) may continue working on a manifest v3 compatible adblocking extension for Chromium-based browsers. https://github.com/NanoAdblocker/NanoCore/issues
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by arthurfm 7y ago
> My biggest triggers are people who eat crunchy food with open mouths; people who slurp their drinks; people who are oblivious to their environment and sing loudly in open offices. For me it's people who talk while eating and who r
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by arthurfm 7y ago
Tranquil PC make an USFF PC [1][2] with the same AMD Ryzen V1605B CPU as the Sequoia v6. It's a little bit more expensive, but has four DisplayPort 1.2 outputs and is completely fanless. [1] https://www.quietpc.com/tran
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by arthurfm 7y ago
For a 4 digit unlock code, the device would enter them sequentially starting from 0000 and ending at 9999 [1]. Because there is a delay of 6 seconds between each attempt (on iOS 7.xx) it would take just over 16 and a half hours to try all c
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by arthurfm 7y ago
Yes.
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by arthurfm 7y ago
Article for those of us in Europe. https://outline.com/CaUjCw
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by arthurfm 7y ago
> Because every sale on the storefront that charges more is less margin? There's a simple solution to that. Just charge more for the game on Steam et al . For example. Untitled Goose Game is £15.99 on the Epic Game Store, so ch
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by arthurfm 7y ago
My last car (a W177 Mercedes A Class) had an option to disable the acoustic locking verification sound in the infotainment system. I turned it off straight away. The beep is unnecessary since the lights also flash when locking/unlockin
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by arthurfm 7y ago
Do you know of a good Linux live DVD/USB for securely erasing SSDs (both SATA and NVMe)? Parted Magic includes a nice app for doing this [1]. Although it is just a front end for hdparm, nvme-cli [2], nwipe etc. I haven't found an
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by arthurfm 7y ago
With VMware Fusion, if you install their VMware Tools (after disabling SIP [1]), macOS is much more usable in a VM. [1] https://notebook.yasithab.com/macos/disable-sip-in-macos-vm-...
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by arthurfm 7y ago
The blog post below contains a useful flowchart showing how to open a non-Mac App Store app on Catalina. https://eclecticlight.co/2019/10/04/will-gatekeeper-let-me-r... A follow-up post mentions that standard
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by arthurfm 7y ago
Was the movie you streamed Cinavia [1] copy-protected? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia
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by arthurfm 7y ago
> They have not removed it, it just is not visible by default if you are connected to the internet. That's not entirely true. When you get to the 'Let's connect you to a network' screen just click the 'I don&#x27
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by arthurfm 7y ago
The Guardian article mentions that hotels have to wait up to 3 months to be paid by the holiday company. I can see why the Tunisian hotel did what they did, but you are correct that their business relationship is with Thomas Cook, not the h
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by arthurfm 7y ago
Apple publishes that IP range (CIDR address block) in several KB articles on its own website for system administrators to configure firewalls/web filters. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210060 https:/&#x2
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by arthurfm 7y ago
I don't like touching the screens either. https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/28/poo-found-on-every-mcdonalds-... Traces of faeces have been found on every single McDonald’s touchscreen swabbed in an investig
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by arthurfm 7y ago
By far the worst PC component I have come across containing LEDs is Kingston's HyperX Fury RGB SSD [1]. It's a 2.5" SSD with 75 LEDs! These LEDs generate so much heat (70°C+) that the drive thermal throttles and either preven
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by arthurfm 7y ago
> I would probably pay a flat $40 again for an upgraded version with a standalone license if such a thing were still available. The v7 standalone license is still available. https://1password.onfastspring.com/in-app/
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by arthurfm 7y ago
Here are the direct links to buy the standalone licenses: https://1password.onfastspring.com/in-app/1password-7-for-wi... https://1password.onfastspring.com/in-app/1password-7-for-ma...
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by arthurfm 7y ago
> OmniDiskSweeper is great for finding this stuff. iTrash [1] is also worth mentioning. It uses the Levenshtein distance algorithm [2] to find all of the junk related to an app. [1] http://www.osxbytes.com [2] https:/&#
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by arthurfm 7y ago
For some reason the centre console has an HDMI port [1][2]. Does anyone know what this is used for? The lack of any USB-C ports is also a strange omission for a brand new car, especially when many of Honda's rivals include at least one

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