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by bxparks 4y ago
I find your post and the TFA difficult to read quickly. When I read, I don't consciously read every single word. I depend on recognizing the shapes of words, and the organization of those shapes with respect to each other. Without the
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by bxparks 4y ago
Every 2 years I take Xfce (Xubuntu, Mint Xfce) for a test drive. It seems light and fast, I want to like it. Then every 2 years, I rediscover that the resize border on each window is 1px wide, which is completely unusable. When I google for
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by bxparks 4y ago
Funny enough, I stopped reading the Register after a few attempts because I disliked its headlines and tone. "To each his own" I guess.
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by bxparks 4y ago
I think you are joking about "USB4.1 2x2 Gen 1 V2", but I can't tell. USB naming is messed up.
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by bxparks 4y ago
I used KDE back in the 2004-2007 time frame then switched to GNOME. Back then, I think GNOME was similar enough to KDE that I hardly noticed much difference. I haven't used KDE since then, but I take it for a spin every 2 years just to
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by bxparks 4y ago
Would you believe that it took me 1-2 years to figure that out? I swiped that little arrow awkwardly with my mouse for 1-2 years, before I accidentally hit a key to get that login screen. I think the issue was that I'm sitting in front
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by bxparks 4y ago
I used to use GNOME for many years, mostly because it was the default on Ubuntu. Now it's one of my least favorite desktops, I'll use almost anything else. I got frustrated at the seemingly random, user-hostile, backwards-incompat
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by bxparks 4y ago
Two small things I would love to see changed with the current calendar, but will never happen: * February deserves to have more days, so that every month has either 30 or 31 days. Taking away 1 day from August and January, and giving them t
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by bxparks 4y ago
I haven't used Thunderbird in 10-20 years. Why does Thunderbird allow you do that, but not Gmail? My personal Gmail account has ~350 folders (labels) and ~300 filter rules. One of my previous work GSuite accounts had probably 1000-2000
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by bxparks 4y ago
Even more confusing, the time printed by our computers may appear to be UTC, but is probably POSIX (or Unix) time. It is very close to UTC but ignores leap seconds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time During a posi
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by bxparks 4y ago
> All native Linux filesystems (except ext4) are case sensitive about filenames which utterly confuses most users. This wonderful peculiarity doesn't have any sensible rationale. Less than 0.01% of users in the Linux world depend on
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by bxparks 4y ago
I have tried learning FreeBSD occasionally, mostly for nostalgia because I learned Unix on BSD 4.3 (or 4.4?) on MicroVaxes many years ago. But I get stuck on some very basic things: - My wifi card doesn't work. The installer recognizes
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by bxparks 4y ago
> I seldom reboot since linux hibernate got good Hmm, I have not owned a computer that can hibernate in Linux since about the early 2000's. Every 3-4 years, I try to activate hibernate on one of my computers using the latest Ubuntu
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by bxparks 4y ago
What is that replacement? java.util.logging?
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by bxparks 4y ago
Just want to thank everyone who responded with suggestions. I think it's amusing that there seems to be at least 5 different solutions to this problem: pyenv, nox, tox, asdf, docker.
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by bxparks 4y ago
What is the best way for an author of a Python package to develop and test on multiple versions of Python (e.g. 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10), and be able to switch easily among the various Python versions? Every time I try to research this, I
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by bxparks 4y ago
The Li-Ion battery on the Klein TI250 is not replaceable as far as I can tell. It will be e-waste within 3-5 years. Same with all the FLIR cameras that I came across. The few models with replaceable batteries at my price range were the Fl
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by bxparks 4y ago
Before yesterday, I would have said Cloudflare. But after ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31573854 ) and ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31576353 ), I'm planning to transfer out of Cloudflare
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by bxparks 4y ago
I recently transferred my domains from Google to Cloudflare precisely to avoid being terminated by Google's false-positive AI. Now Cloudflare is pulling the same stunt? Is there anything you can say to reassure your customers? Or do
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by bxparks 4y ago
Similar to the software industry, politicians don't get elected for maintaining old bridges. They get elected by building new bridges.
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by bxparks 4y ago
The problem with using a burner phone is that you could be assigned a phone number that has been blacklisted due to its abuse by a previous owner. Then Google terminates your account as soon as you use the banned number.
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by bxparks 4y ago
I'll be an armchair economist and throw out my ideas for why this is happening: * Dramatic increase of inequality in the last 40 years means that wealthiest buyers are determining the price of the entire housing inventory. I know too
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by bxparks 5y ago
This Miracle Kitchen would be my Kitchen-from-Hell. Every unnecessary moving part is something that needs to be maintained, and is something that will eventually break and will need to be repaired or replaced. When I moved into my current h
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by bxparks 5y ago
I went through this ritual almost every time: $ java --version Unrecognized option: --version $ java -v Unrecognized option: -v $ java -version openjdk version "1.8.0_312" Looks like this was fixed in
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by bxparks 5y ago
Not just Docs, it's Google Drive that I find hard to replace (Docs, Sheets, Draw, Slide, etc). The recent debacle with Legacy GSuite motivated me to pay for a Microsoft 365 account, and create a sync of my Google Drive to OneDrive, con
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by bxparks 5y ago
Cloudflare Domain Registrar. They sell at-cost, so $9.95/year for a .com/.net domain. But don't use your gmail account as the admin account. For email forwarding, Cloudflare Email Routing looks promising. I'm just about
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by bxparks 5y ago
I agree, very easy to use. Prices are pretty good, but not the cheapest. But the most important question is: What happens when they ban your account? You will lose your domains. Congrats to the Google engineers who made this happen. But I t
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by bxparks 5y ago
I used the 16-character App Password. It requires 2FA to be enabled though.
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by bxparks 5y ago
I don't think anyone at Google is incentivized to fix this. Because fixing it will probably increase fraud, decrease revenue, and increase operational costs. I think the only realistic path to fix this is through Federal legislation th
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by bxparks 5y ago
The ATtiny85 is nice, with 8kB flash, 512 bytes RAM & EEPROM, 5-6 GPIO pins, they are just enough to do something interesting. But I don't use the ATtiny85 as much as I want to, because flashing requires a separate programmer hardw

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