benoliver999

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by benoliver999 3y ago
For those in the UK still interested, CinemaParadiso is a really good DVD/Blu-Ray rental service https://www.cinemaparadiso.co.uk/ I feel like a luddite sometimes but I really love movies and hate the limited selection
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by benoliver999 3y ago
"These people" are generally called upon when the community is struggling to find water.
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by benoliver999 3y ago
In The Traveller's Tree by Patrick Leigh Fermor, a travelogue from the Caribbean, he gives an account of water divination. He initially sees it as some voodoo myth, and is taken aback when they repeatedly find water.
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by benoliver999 3y ago
I actually had this happen, and RAID Z2 saved me from a very long recovery process. I thought it might be the controller but a year on I've had no further issues. Sometimes drives do just go like lightbulbs.
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by benoliver999 3y ago
I drove the pilgrimage, and there was loads of parking!
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by benoliver999 3y ago
Yeah it's not 'that' small lol
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by benoliver999 3y ago
Yeah in my experience you need a 'thermal transfer' printer instead. Uses a ribbon to transfer the ink rather than treated paper. A lot of manufacturers make the same printer in thermal transfer or direct thermal models.
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by benoliver999 3y ago
I have this with movies. I don't back them up because of the storage requirements. Everything is ripped from BluRays that I own, but... can I be bothered re-doing them?
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by benoliver999 3y ago
Grenfell was a fridge iirc
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by benoliver999 3y ago
I love this sort of thing. But I learnt more about it from your comment vs the actual docs!
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by benoliver999 3y ago
My mate's family had one, and I thought it was really cool as a kid. Then I started using it and wondered what people actually used it for, it seemed to do nothing I was used to doing on other computers. And even though now it's o
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by benoliver999 3y ago
Yeah most banks let you do this online too, so it's really simple. I have lots of magazine subscriptions and it's one-click to cancel.
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by benoliver999 3y ago
on arch it comes with extra/texlive-binextra
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by benoliver999 3y ago
I don't understand the interval thing. Anyone who knows what 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' sounds like knows what an octave sounds like, and anyone who has seen 'Star Wars' knows a perfect fifth. Does he mean two not
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by benoliver999 3y ago
I have a 2003 Citroen and it's easy to find the service manual but very hard to use it. It's not a PDF you can just flip through, it's software. You have to run it in a windows XP VM, following a very specific set of installa
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by benoliver999 3y ago
Been using it for years at https://www.bfoliver.com Not really had a reason to switch.
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by benoliver999 3y ago
No
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by benoliver999 3y ago
Aah so Arthur is the guy after me!
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by benoliver999 3y ago
Howdy, that's almost me! AMA! I've spent 10 years as the lone dev at a small medical facility, writing database software and dealing with lab hardware etc. I guess I've touched 100% of the codebase because I wrote it all, but
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by benoliver999 3y ago
Look how quick the transition libera.chat was. If Discord went away no one can just spin up a discord server.
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by benoliver999 3y ago
"Here's your zero place medal"
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by benoliver999 3y ago
Yeah I look at e.g. Bosch and it looks like a standardised size and fit. Bit ugly but removable and replaceable.
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by benoliver999 3y ago
I worry about this with most components of e-bikes. I suppose a mid-drive one is probably always gonna have parts you can replace but custom kit like VanMoof seems ready for landfill.
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by benoliver999 3y ago
Company of Heroes was a favourite among my university friends. We spent hundreds and hundreds of hours on it when we should have been working :) "Ready ze panzerfaust"
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by benoliver999 3y ago
These days I display it as "12 July 2023" to avoid confusion.
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by benoliver999 3y ago
I'm glad I jumped ship when they got bought out by a shady company with a history of price gouging. I like porkbun for personal stuff, dnsimple for work
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by benoliver999 3y ago
https://www.bfoliver.com Over 1000 posts since 2014, loooaods of movie reviews (mostly pithy short takes to remind me that I actually watched the movie) but some techy stuff which is what people actually seem to read. I am curre
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by benoliver999 3y ago
You just gave me an 'aha' moment here. I've been using the cli version of joplin basically as a text-file manager, but with a decent-ish mobile app. I've been struggling with keeping it updated etc and have been consider
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by benoliver999 3y ago
Yeah me too. I love syncthing but prefer using it with an always on 'server' like dropbox rather than just pure p2p. What I really like about it is that you don't have to sync everything everywhere. I have work folders I sync
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by benoliver999 3y ago
I like and use joplin. Waiting for it to sync sucks (even though it's pretty quick) but I like that you can edit in vim on the desktop and a dedicated app on mobile. I use it for recipes, where it's easiest to write them on a lapt

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