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by asciimov 6y ago
When it comes to expensive audio equipment I'm a buy once and use it for a long long while type of person. Sure "better" comes out every so often but I see audio as an investment and I want to get my money's worth. These
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by asciimov 6y ago
That's weird cause here in Texas I see them a lot and the only places I'm going right now are grocery stores, walmart/target, and home improvement stores. If you took public transportation or go any place young people hang ou
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by asciimov 6y ago
Apple is a lifestyle brand now. Lifestyle brands aren't cheap as you want everyone to know just how much someone spent for a pair of headphones.
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by asciimov 6y ago
Diem/Libra seems like a convoluted scheme for Facebook to be able to globally repatriate money at will. Sure they would have to manage to grow it to a certain scale first, but by controlling the whole wooden nickel factory it wouldn&#x
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by asciimov 6y ago
> It’s my belief that it boils down to a few things: - self learning - dedication Opportunity is the biggest differentiator among the rich and poor. Intelligence is fairly evenly distributed in our society, being poor doesn't mean y
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by asciimov 6y ago
Happiness is a choice. Being poor doesn't mean your sad all the time, it means life is tough, tougher than the lives of the rich. Even in the toughest of times, there is plenty to be happy about.
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by asciimov 6y ago
I'm not saying it can't be done, it just needs to be better without all the chicanery. Mine are on Arch & dwm, one with a 4k scaled down 150% (or 133% depending on my mood), for me it mostly works. But it would be much nicer t
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by asciimov 6y ago
Linux needs good HiDpi scaling support before I'd be willing to by a high res linux laptop.
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by asciimov 6y ago
Hidpi is still a total crapshoot on linux (depending on distro and window manager). My current setup uses xrandr to scale my 4k to 1440p. It's not perfect, but it's better than other options.
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by asciimov 6y ago
I use dwm, you get keybinding support inside the config file and then you can use scripts or commands to manage everything else. Dwm isn't for everybody, you modify the c source and compile to get the changes you want. The best part is
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by asciimov 6y ago
A good alternative to strictly terminal-based workflows are tiled window managers. The big gain is that you don't have to give up all those gui apps as they blend in next to the terminal apps quite well.
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by asciimov 6y ago
Gotta expand broadband and get rid of datacaps first.
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by asciimov 6y ago
I think you have it backwards, the old movies would be the draw, the new releases would be the premium. You have to keep people subscribed to the service, well curated old movies would be one way to do this.
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by asciimov 6y ago
I'd actually like Alamo Drafthouse more if they skipped the whole dinner thing. I mean the dinner thing is great, but I do find the extra movement distracting. The drafthouse I typically go to doesn't have stadium seating so it is
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by asciimov 6y ago
> Why do we want this back? Because people can't behave. It's not too much to ask for people to act appropriately in certain situations. During a movie, or stage production, it is not too much to ask for people to shut up and s
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by asciimov 6y ago
Hands down the best movie experience I've had was this old refurbished theater in my hometown in the 90's and early 00's. Two weekends each month they showed an old movie. Classics from Casablanca, Laurence of Arabia, Fiddler
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by asciimov 6y ago
It wasn't any better before cell phones. People still talked during the movie, kids ran up and down the aisles, people would get up in the middle of the movie to go to the bathroom. What changed was big home televisions got cheaper, an
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by asciimov 6y ago
If you're like me, you've been conditioned to click the ok button on windows to get dialog boxes to go away. Never really reading what/when something is going to happen. Windows 10 hasn't always warned you about an updat
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by asciimov 6y ago
As someone who grew up in west Texas, the struggle is real to not sound like a moronic hick. I do a pretty good job, unless I spend any more than a day or two around relatives, then it takes me a couple of weeks to stop the drawl. Biggest d
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by asciimov 6y ago
The better solution is to ban all leaf blowers and make people use brooms. Low noise, very low pollution, and no toxic batteries either.
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by asciimov 6y ago
Even Linux has its issues. The groups competing for "the one right way" to do things. And the ever present issue that you are one update away from breaking something.
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by asciimov 6y ago
I want something in the middle. I want semi-configurable software with boring UIs. Boring because I want predictable, predictable because I want to spend the effort to learn something once and then not have to worry about learning it again.
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by asciimov 6y ago
To improve education you have to improve opportunity, and in different places that will mean different things. Talent and ability is well distributed, but having access to resources to make the most of that ability tends to be concentrated
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by asciimov 6y ago
While all these things are nice, and certainly would get me to upgrade my current 6th gen iPad. But the thing that I would really like the most is a fixed memory manager. I have to reboot my iPad about once a week just so that safari will f
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by asciimov 6y ago
Dead Tree™ - It's foldable, portable, you can take notes on it, you can burn it to start a fire, or recycle it. It's cheap, available virtually everywhere. Doesn't take batteries and generally isn't as prone to causing e
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by asciimov 6y ago
I don't know who this person is, but this is a story that can only be told by a rich person, or someone who's family has money. How do I know, because he isn't worried. You see when you are poor, or have been poor, you have t
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by asciimov 6y ago
That's what they are doing. The 787-Max 8 is being rebranded as the 787-8.
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by asciimov 6y ago
Sounds like two different issues: 1. A child that is growing up. 2. A parent that gives in too much. This lady needs to set rules for use, and then be firm with them. If you don't want your child to use a device for more than an hour a
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by asciimov 6y ago
Boeing needs to do some publicity stunts to get the public interested in flying on these. Best thing they could do I put their Board of Directors and their families one one and fly it around the world.
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by asciimov 6y ago
Unless your really need to print huge amounts of photos, most people would be better served by having their photos printed at a store or through an online service.

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