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by cpsns 4y ago
When I bought this Mac it was actually completely fubar. The internal battery ruptured and ruined the main board, so I had to source a “new” one. The new one came recapped by the seller and I recapped the analog board myself, so it should b
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by cpsns 4y ago
I’ve got the Mac hooked up via an esp8266 running a SLIP server. Most of what I do on it web wise is through Gopher, it’s just the best overall solution for a computer of that age imo. Things like HNGopher and 68k.news are great, those kind
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by cpsns 4y ago
Very cool, somehow I’ve never heard of this, but it looks like it could be very handy. Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll look into it and try it out on my home server.
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by cpsns 4y ago
Hi HN, I've been ruminating of this a little bit and figured I'd write and post my thoughts (I'm not a good writer, sorry in advance). I don't expect this to get much traffic, but if it somehow does my cable line probabl
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by cpsns 4y ago
That’s not really relevant, safety systems should be expected to work reliably, or report to the driver when they can’t (something my car does if covered in snow).
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by cpsns 4y ago
I have and I’ve never been able to understand tiling WMs. After using nontiling ( I don’t know the term) window managers since Windows 95 my mind is just trained for that sort of window management, anything else feels wrong and frustrating.
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by cpsns 4y ago
I lived in a place where they were banned and roadside signage highly regulated and it was awesome, some much less visual clutter and noise. Every time I would travel I’d be shocked at how much advertising there was.
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by cpsns 4y ago
Sure, but they usually don’t cost so much to fix. Most engines don’t catastrophically fail and in the given scenario an ICE car would be a better choice than a used electric with a reconditioned batter.
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by cpsns 4y ago
I feel the same way about Linux these days and I’m not an amateur. Hardware support wise it’s the best it has even been, but it feels increasingly unstable software wise. The fragmentation is crazy, things are hard to rely on long term, and
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by cpsns 4y ago
The huge lines are more due to the insane menu Tim’s has right now. It’s far too complex and requires endless context shifting from workers. The workers at my local Tims have been complaining about it for a long time. The half closed ones t
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by cpsns 4y ago
> Aren’t you glad that you had the chance to exist and enjoy your own life? Not particularly no, but that’s a very unpopular opinion to hold. I remain unconvinced that this is preferable to non-existence.
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by cpsns 4y ago
Of course we’re doomed, on a long enough timeline our only fate is extinction. The only question is how long it will take to reach that point, it’s not a matter of “if”.
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by cpsns 4y ago
It is correct, back in the Panther days when Safari was new the default home page was Apple.com. I’m not sure how long they did that for, but like you said, what else were they supposed to do? It was a different time, homepages were treated
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by cpsns 4y ago
I feel like it’s important to distinguish between the two, because seemingly everyone else does. Apparently most people don’t think it counts as a lightning strike unless the lightning hits you straight on the head. It doesn’t matter to me
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by cpsns 4y ago
I haven’t been hit directly, but I have been indirectly. I was working with some wiring inside a building when it got struck maybe 100ft away outside. All I recall was seeing the biggest flash of my life and then being ~6ft away from where
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by cpsns 4y ago
Same situation with for me, I heat exclusively with a wood stove. Oil is ungodly expensive and so is electricity meaning neither can compete with 250CAD/cord of cut, split wood. Costs me about 1000$ to heat my house all winter long. Su
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by cpsns 4y ago
The communities/groups are significantly higher quality than the average subreddit, especially for niche subjects. Frankly they're the only thing I use Facebook for, because the people on hobby groups are way more knowledgeable th
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by cpsns 4y ago
> Do you consume meat or dairy? No I don't, so that gotcha won't work ;)
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by cpsns 4y ago
Millions of tons is hyperbole, but my point remains. As convenient as they are, devices like them aren’t good for the world. They might be a rounding error, but I’m going to call out rampant consumerism and environmental issues where I see
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by cpsns 4y ago
Two weeks is typical for most jobs in North America.
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by cpsns 4y ago
Literally almost any working camera will be fine, just pick one you like and have at it. As a beginner your photos aren't going to be amazing, so you won't gain much from some crazy expensive/fancy camera, nor do you even kno
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by cpsns 4y ago
And some people don’t even end up with a long term partner. The outlook for some is incredibly bleak.
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by cpsns 4y ago
I'm guilty of doing everything you've mentioned as well, for the same reasons, but this especially: >I'm afraid to make investments fearing that the market could crash the second I enter, and erase my money, leaving me vul
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by cpsns 4y ago
Humans have a choice and the ability to consider and reason about morality. It doesn't matter what we technically are, because we have a choice in what we eat and how we treat animals. Vegan bears and native tribes are irrelevant, you
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by cpsns 4y ago
> I find myself shocked by how little regard people have for the intelligence of other animals. If people readily accepted the intelligence of many mammals, much less other animals, they would have to confront some very serious cognitive
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by cpsns 4y ago
How is the cost of a plane ticket relevant at all? I can afford to fly around the world tomorrow if I want, that doesn't matter. > I don't have a uni degree either, kinda sounds like a you problem for lack of a better term I&#x
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by cpsns 4y ago
Leaving the country is not trivial for most people. I see this comment a lot from people who have left, but for lack of a better term it's an extremely "privileged" position. If you're either not in a high demand industr
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by cpsns 4y ago
> The major sense I get from Canadians whenever I arrive back is an enormous sense of financial illiteracy. Like they just don't know or care about how badly they get ripped off all the time on so many things and will never care eno
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by cpsns 4y ago
I fully agree with this. People constantly claim small subreddits are still okay in defence of reddit, but my question is: where are those subreddits? My experience on reddit has been universally negative regardless of community size. The s
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by cpsns 4y ago
That is true of a very, very small portion of recent history. Functionally autistic people would have been fine, if not the slightly weird, eccentric guy in a group.

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