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by ddingus 2y ago
PowerPoint Paste with source formatting or theme, I can't recall the exact name right now, rules. It means being able to mooch slides from any file and use them with no real fuss. An alternative is to turn the slide into a bitmap.
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by ddingus 2y ago
My experience is the same. I only owned one Intel MacBook Pro. Was the only one I needed thankfully. Missed the whole port reduction and power bar mess. I love my M1 Air. It is the first general purpose computing hardware that felt like
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by ddingus 2y ago
This effort is fantastic! I just ignore the drama and appreciate being able to learn something about the intense Apple environment.
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by ddingus 2y ago
Same. I have an M1 Air and it is an amazing machine!
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by ddingus 2y ago
My 2010 i7 MBP would do that under heavy loads. All aluminum body, with fans, and when that CPU really had to work it put out a lot of heat. Compiling gcc multi thread a few times would be enough.
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by ddingus 2y ago
Yes. I agree with you, just so we are clear.
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by ddingus 2y ago
Indeed. You know I decided to take my old note 8 for a test drive as a PC of sorts. Went ahead and purchased one of those USB 3 port bricks so I could hook up a nice display, keyboard, mouse, removable storage. Samsung Dex popped up and it
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by ddingus 2y ago
Well, perhaps we are not so far apart on this. Your news bolsters the "soon" in my comment above. I am quite happy to be proven wrong.
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by ddingus 2y ago
I agree with you about Apple hardware, BTW. Fact is, large numbers of people will just end up on Windows 11 :(
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by ddingus 2y ago
Is it this part? >Linux just is not going to be the general answer for ordinary people. It so, I hear you. A decade or more ago, I had Ubuntu running as a general use machine for family and friends use. It seemed almost there back then,
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by ddingus 2y ago
I don't know about that. Or at least, I won't say they are bad There are sets of deep roots in play here. Phrasing struggles are rooted in the differences in these systems, and unless we have spent time in each, struggle seems li
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by ddingus 2y ago
Lol, nothing is ever easy, is it? If I did not love computing, I would have bagged on all this long ago.
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by ddingus 2y ago
It is nice when that happens. Of course, you are welcome. If you don't mind sharing your take, what firmed up, I would read it with great interest!
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by ddingus 2y ago
All of us having this discussion are outliers. The things we talk about here which annoy us are for the much larger set of people who need them! Put another way, it is all about the set of us who cannot really participate in this discussion
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by ddingus 2y ago
If so, they are executing it badly. As for every executable being tagged, that is not required. People can build binaries with open tools and other people can run them. A hash gets created for Apple to play same or different with binaries
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by ddingus 2y ago
Thanks. That is fair. Your truth, and I respect that.
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by ddingus 2y ago
THIS! Back when I was new to all of this, the idea of people evaluating their computing environment seemed crazy! Who does that? Almost nobody by percentage, but making sure any of us CAN is where the real value is.
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by ddingus 2y ago
Seconded
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by ddingus 2y ago
Oh sort of. That is for sure a thing, but not THE thing. I would argue people are being tugged in that direction more than it being simply better. You can bet when people start to get to work building things --all sorts of things, not just
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by ddingus 2y ago
That is not the same thing If I were you, I would relax. At least you are not being shoved onto Win 11. And then think about that. Seriously. I did. Have a few times off and on over the years as we sink into this mess. I bet you find an
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by ddingus 2y ago
Nope. A user can just run them if they want to. It is not a big deal.
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by ddingus 2y ago
I agree and want to emphasize a few things: 1. Most users are not capable of using general purpose computing technology in a wild, networked environment safely. 2. Too many people who matter to ignore insist, "something must be done.
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by ddingus 2y ago
I am not do sure, though I feel the idea is compelling enough to warrant exploration! Text adventure games are fun and I enjoy them a few times per year. I need to mention "Eaten By a Grue" podcast. Kay Savitz (sp?) and Kerringto
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by ddingus 2y ago
Oh wow! That thing is fantastic! It is Sony doing what it does best; namely, making great consumer electronics. I want one. Those big dials are super fun to use by all appearances too.
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by ddingus 2y ago
We just went back to one. For a number of years we let a phone do this job. Then on one super rough day, both my wife and I were just drained! We hit the bed and were gone, snoozing hard. Well, neither of us managed to have a phone charge
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by ddingus 2y ago
Yes, I did not mean to imply otherwise. The way I have always come to understand this boils down to what modulation actually is. DC is not modulation. Anything above DC can be, or maybe technically is and must be managed or accounted for.
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by ddingus 2y ago
Agreed. I will start lists and notes from 0, and have dropped a few hex expressions in my time. Sometimes I am in an odd frame of mind and maybe am just signaling that to see what others may do or say.
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by ddingus 2y ago
> here's your $F minutes Another weird choice, different syntax. I triggered a little when I saw the comment too. 0xF has always been hard to read for me. $F is hard to read for others, and it all seems to depend on where and on w
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by ddingus 2y ago
It can carry frequencies much closer to DC. The above mentioned FM upgrade to VHS, called HI-Fi VHS I believe, had excellent audio recording capabilities. I used it to archive albums back in the day, and when I play some of the warped ones
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by ddingus 2y ago
And still quite a useful tool, particularly when exploring undocumented instructions.

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