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by cam_l 10mo ago
It probably depends a lot on your parents. I went with Popos. It is simpler than KDE for someone with dexterity and mild cognitive issues. Plus it fixes a lot of the annoying ubuntu / gnome decisions like snaps and hiding the taskbar e
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by cam_l 11mo ago
I have got to say, I rolled the dice on that headline before I read the link. Heads, windows was going to ditch all the ads and tracking, any other number and it was going full AI. Needless to say, not surprised when a number came up..
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by cam_l 1y ago
LMK when it gets bad enough that you feel a mosquito biting your leg and slap it, and you end up killing twenty of the little buggers and blood all over your hand. But seriously, mozzies suck and I hope it's not Iceland's future.
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by cam_l 1y ago
..art imitates life.
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by cam_l 1y ago
It does have tabs, you are probably just stuck on an old version because windows update broke. The only feature that windows maybe kinda does better is the preview pane, but even then, it regularly loses certain file types and in the latest
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by cam_l 1y ago
Beautifully said! I must just have a sixth sense to avoid those kinds of services. And I also have a zero tolerance policy. For example, if a restaurant says I have to order on my phone, I stand up and go to leave. I am old enough now they
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by cam_l 1y ago
I honestly have only come across one company that is app only. That was because I was with them when they changed over, otherwise I would never have signed up. This was my local gym which sacked their front desk staff and moved to app acces
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by cam_l 1y ago
>The problem with hand counting is that it scales very poorly. I think you have that the wrong way around. The benefit of hand counting is that it scales very poorly.
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by cam_l 1y ago
>The story was first reported by Ette Media, whose co-founder Antoinette Lattouf also had her number published on the site. I wondered if the ABC would acknowledge who broke this story. (Latouffe sued the ABC earlier this year for wrongf
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by cam_l 1y ago
Not only that, but if you actually click through to their link, they had to filter through a dozen stats illustrating your exact point to get their one (misleading) stat to claim otherwise. A masterclass in intellectual dishonesty.
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by cam_l 1y ago
But men are the perpetrator in around 75% of all domestic or family violence cases, if you read the stats a bit more carefully. You have got to be careful of people mixing perp and victim data, and also lumping stats. Both of which are pres
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by cam_l 1y ago
Not entirely true. They actually removed family violence as a direct factor and instead now look at the safety of all parties and best interests of children as the primary factors. We are yet to see how it plays out. But anecdotal data from
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by cam_l 1y ago
Does anyone actually like conversational AI? I feel like we are zombie walking into some dystopian future.. 'if life was a text-based adventure game'. So now am i back in a dark room fumbling around for commands. So I have to gues
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by cam_l 1y ago
I recently took the opportunity to get my 80 yr old mother to try out Popos after her old X200 finally stated glitching (and could not update to win 11). She has been using windows since 3.1 days (and dos before that), but recently has been
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by cam_l 1y ago
Or entire lobbies filled with bots with the same name that stand around doing nothing while one of them goes full spinbot, and auto kicks anyone who happens to join their lobby. Those bots I see week after week with the same accounts and no
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by cam_l 1y ago
The US has the most expensive healthcare costs per capita in the OECD, and the poorest health outcomes on average. You might think that this is merely because so many people in the US are not covered at all. But even when you account for pe
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by cam_l 1y ago
In a somewhat misguided defence of the OP, he actually makes two points. Giving a shit about your work is the second point. Without any other comments suggesting the alternative, I assume this is second in order of importance. And as there
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by cam_l 1y ago
I liked my old 'rolla that I could start with any key at all.. or even a paddlepop stick. Every time I start thinking about these little modern inconveniences, I re-arrive at the idea that this is yet another example of the difference
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by cam_l 1y ago
>what does it feel like to have 90% code/abstraction with 10% of visual sketch input I was playing around with automating some aspects of architectural model making a few years back. I was using grasshopper (because I am an architec
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by cam_l 1y ago
>strict rules about the fencing that goes well beyond what would qualify as a normal fence Many of the rules are similar, because they are generally commonsense rules. Australia has a few extra ones. No more than a 10mm wide protrusion w
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by cam_l 1y ago
Australia has some pretty strict laws around fencing pools and water features, requiring them to be fenced when deeper than 300mm (and very strict and onerous rules about the nature of the fencing). This applies to private or public water f
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by cam_l 1y ago
So what you are saying is, it eventually trickles down? edit: The reality is they don't spend enough for it to offset the harms that wealth inequality brings. I know a couple of people who have been using this London loophole as a way
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by cam_l 1y ago
I have been using zotero for this purpose. And I know it is absolutely the wrong tool for the job. But it is pretty good at grabbing the book detail, and I have a bunch of custom fields and comments, and I can add other stuff into the book
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by cam_l 1y ago
Name it up. Or don't, whatever.. just be a chickenshit about it.
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by cam_l 1y ago
I never use the bomb notations and I have not noticed this behaviour. I wonder if that is why? Anyway, with the no guessing mode i get more consistent times, and it's more fun/less frustrating. But I get faster times without it, j
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by cam_l 1y ago
Most common of these 'trucks' have a max payload of around 700-900kg, and a towing capacity of 3500-4500kg (but not at the same time). And by that I mean 'trucks' like the F150, referenced in the article. If you are buyi
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by cam_l 1y ago
Australia is straight up banning non competes for anyone earning under $175k, for this reason. They are also tightening up the contract law around non competes to reduce the impact of the scare tactics employers have been using to bind low
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by cam_l 1y ago
Are you saying that someone is using yugiyoh trading cards to cover up incriminating historical details of Microsoft's long term plan to purge general purpose computing from the world? https://www.tcgplayer.com/product&
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by cam_l 1y ago
I honestly cannot remember if this was part of the joke or an innocent typo.
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by cam_l 1y ago
God didn't write the texts.. people did. I mean, even apart from the fact god doesn't exist.

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