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by citrusybread 5y ago
should absolutely be illegal. usually barrel plugs are coded for each voltage. I can one up you. Verilux sells a "happy light" SAD lamp thing, still sold at Costco, which uses a mini-USB plug, running on 19V 300mA or something. Ye
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by citrusybread 5y ago
I mean, you could almost make the same argument for Canada & the US. It's mostly due to political gridlock here, but look at all the crumbling bridges and dams -- the transit that never got built, and the feeling that somehow we ar
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by citrusybread 5y ago
definitely. a lot of his other content is just kind of out there -- missing some critical details or glosses over other things. doesn't help that it feels like clickbait, at least for HAI, and most of them can be summed up with a tweet
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by citrusybread 5y ago
Qt, wxWidgets, hell even Java's UI toolkits were all cross-platform long before Electron crawled out of the swamp. Even GTK is cross platform!
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by citrusybread 5y ago
you can't possibly compare Manjaro to Windows. Manjaro is a rolling release distribution!! What do you think will happen under this model? It's the same issues as Arch and Gentoo. Consider Debian instead, where upgrading is always
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by citrusybread 5y ago
There's also Adonis as the Lebanese equivalent, in ON/QC at least.
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by citrusybread 5y ago
hahaha, fuck, I remember ages ago, maybe 2013, when people were trying to get me to buy into the "web 2.0" craze -- "Web is the future!", "web can scale!", "nobody will install apps!", "your stuf
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by citrusybread 5y ago
isn't this effectively how home depot and lowes are run? basically everything is on consignment, and they occasionally spin up private-label versions of tools to sell?
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by citrusybread 5y ago
yeah, until they start putting cellular modems in these things. only a matter of time. don't new LG/samsung TVs connect to open wifi now if they can't connect to yours?
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by citrusybread 5y ago
it's hilarious you know. for almost 20 years we had this perfect "it sits it fits" approach to usb, now here we are, four standards three cables one connector. easily avoided by just keeping a different connector for each spe
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by citrusybread 5y ago
the President's Choice stores seem to carry the good stuff!! :)
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by citrusybread 5y ago
>Have you seen a easy Asian wet market in person before? If you’re comparing it to Whole Foods I’m not sure you have? Have you seen one in the last decade? It's changed dramatically, and ranges from an open-air grocery store to yes
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by citrusybread 6y ago
LTT is so trash. The specs are all wrong. They did something similar when testing gaming on linux -- used an unusual distro rather than just use the latest Ubuntu, and then complains about issues that only exist in their chosen distro... no
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by citrusybread 6y ago
Lebanon tried to make peace before the civil war. I think anyone with Lebanese family can see how Lebanon pre-civil war and Israel had more in common than Lebanon had with the greater arab world, or even with Palestine. But Israel basically
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by citrusybread 6y ago
>2021 فبراير1 I was going to ragequit at you for copy+pasting something into google translate, as it's شُبَاط not فبراير. but TIL, only in the Levant do we say شُبَاط apparently.
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by citrusybread 6y ago
I can highly recommend ... not buying the DAS keyboard with mac layout. I have one I got gently used from a coworker, who special ordered it... it's got a sticky spacebar that will random lock up and need to be lubricated; the keys are
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by citrusybread 6y ago
Miele vacuums are less expensive and do a better job at filtering. They're also basically unkillable. Panasonic used to also make great vacuums. Basically any canister vacuum will be well-equipped. Dyson is vacuums what Beats are to he
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by citrusybread 6y ago
I've had good luck with this Crane so far: https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/crane-1-2-gallon-humidifi... "Crane 1.2-Gallon Humidifier" -- 1.2 Gallon, cold mist ultrasonic, has those weird LCD butt
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by citrusybread 6y ago
No, it depends on the application. There's a reason it's still called "solid wood". If you look, most plywoods are "whitewood" or whatever is cheapest (most softwoods are incredibly strong as the term is just a
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by citrusybread 6y ago
>Just always looking for good deals and willing to driving 200+ miles for them. for a lot of us city dwellers, that already makes it unaffordable. I think the Buy Nothing movement is really accelerating this trend of trying to connect pe
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by citrusybread 6y ago
what else are they going to do? encrypt the files and store the key... somewhere? interact with local keyrings which aren't compatible across all platforms?
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by citrusybread 6y ago
I have that exact same light panel. I have no idea how the manufacturer got away with it -- they're not a small company at all. I also have no idea how they ever thought that was a good idea vs just using a barrel plug.
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by citrusybread 6y ago
not the OP, I'm on Linux + Android and I hate my phone so much. next phone will be a pinephone and a DSLR or mirrorless camera at this rate. the ONLY thing that's worked for me is syncthing -- I can't copy files over USB reli
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by citrusybread 6y ago
porous border with Mexico? and by the time it arrived it was too late. if you say Mexico is in your definition of North America then it should include all of central america, almost all these countries have a lot of land-based trade. In Can
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by citrusybread 6y ago
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. My neighbour's work permit was stuck in limbo pre-covid. On my advice, she contacted our Liberal party MP, and although the MP signed off on a letter asking for it to be expedited, IRCC ba
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by citrusybread 6y ago
Platinum Plaisir is also a great pen! I combined with Noodler's Bernanke Blue. It dries extremely quickly and it's very smooth writing. At 0.3mm (Platinum Fine), it's really hard to tell the difference between inks but Bernan
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by citrusybread 6y ago
you might already know this, but Noodler makes an extremely quick drying ink called the Bernanke. It's available in blue and black and dries way faster than anything I've ever seen. It doesn't feather or bleed on any paper I&
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by citrusybread 6y ago
Refilling with a syringe is fairly easy. Lots of places sell blunt-tip syringes or you might be able to get away with insulin needles (I'm not sure -- pink tipped luers are the smallest I've ever used). Do use luer-lock though, be
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by citrusybread 6y ago
In Canada, Wonderpens is an excellent source of fountain pens & inks (based in Toronto). Stylo is also great in Montreal and ships. But you might have a local shop (most cities seem to have at least one -- either catering to artists or
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by citrusybread 6y ago
a pi running linux enables more advanced STEM than a laptop running a locked-down chrome environment. you could just use the pi camera for a webcam, since the port is still there?

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