drewzero1

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by drewzero1 3y ago
I always jumped back and forth between Keramik and Plastik. I've tried a few times but haven't been able to get back into KDE since the KDE3 days.
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Good to know! I haven't looked into the configuration at all, just been using it as-installed since hearing about it a little over a year ago. (Thanks, Late Night Linux!)
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Yes, that has been one of my biggest gripes with our Ford Fusion. The seat heater control is on the touch screen which is (a) not very responsive or accurate when cold and (b) taken over by the rear view camera when backing up. If you miss
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by drewzero1 3y ago
If your files include non-bootable ISOs, they will also show up in the boot menu. I haven't tried selecting one to see what happens.
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Yes- it formats the USB when you install Ventoy (to add an EFI partition) but after that you can put other files on it in addition to the ISOs. It will only show the ISOs in the boot menu and ignore the other files.
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by drewzero1 3y ago
I had a friend who was an Apple service tech at a local computer store, and that's what he called it as well. I thought it was apt as you don't usually need to enter that mode unless you've DFU.
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by drewzero1 3y ago
I'm sure they are, but it's much less noticeable than the handheld ports of things used to be. Having played many hours of Star Wars Battlefront II on PS2 and original Xbox, the PSP versions of Battlefront (II, Renegade Squadron,
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by drewzero1 3y ago
I've been playing Skyrim and Portal 2 on the Switch Lite and it keeps amazing me that games that my PS3 struggled with are now perfectly playable on a handheld device that has pretty good battery life and doesn't burn my hand. A d
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by drewzero1 3y ago
What a sweet idea. I could see a lot of my (essentially) e-waste becoming ornaments, though not many devices are as conventionally "beautiful" as the CueCat.
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Pretty impressive to fit USB onto such a necessarily low-cost product at the time.
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Is there anything you feel people tend to miss or get wrong when telling the story of the CueCat? Or has the record already been set pretty much straight? It still comes up occasionally... heck, I found one in a cupboard at work last week!
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Careful searching for that book, especially if you're at work... There's a bit of an unfortunate coincidence with the title.
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by drewzero1 3y ago
There was a palm pilot version of Lights Out that I used to play a lot when I had my Tungsten E. At the time I felt like I was pretty good at solving it, but now I've completely forgotten the strategy.
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by drewzero1 3y ago
That's not how that works, syntactically or logically. The sentence has a distinct meaning that is not preserved when trying to cancel our the negations like that. (This isn't "I don't owe nobody nothing".) Less con
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by drewzero1 3y ago
We did that in my office one April Fools' Day. Switched the wireless receivers on the mice of two coworkers whose desks were across from each other. It was a funny moment but of course they figured it out quickly!
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by drewzero1 3y ago
It sounds more like a Pokemon Go related warning from just a few years ago... people were wandering into all sorts of places where they shouldn't have been, trespassing, sometimes even getting injured or killed, just looking for Pokemo
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Or like advertising that a car will be able to drive itself without any human intervention, and then deactivating or removing the sensors that might allow anything close to that capability...?
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Timing is good for sharing this now, with NaNoWriMo right around the corner. I have heard a similar approach advocated to get through a first draft of an entire novel in a month: just write it all down, never backspace, and save the editing
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by drewzero1 3y ago
I occasionally pick up old hand tools at rummage sales, estate sales, etc. just because I like the look of them, but have found that I enjoy cleaning up and using them too. I have an old cherrywood level that is a decoration in the house, b
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by drewzero1 3y ago
For a long time I was baffled by the seemingly unnecessary gizmos that are popular 3d print subjects, because to me 3d printing was just a means to an end. Eventually I realized that the printing itself is a hobby for a lot of printer peopl
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by drewzero1 3y ago
I wouldn't characterize the Disk II controller as "cutting corners" (a term which connotes shoddy design/construction or reduced quality) but instead as using clever tricks to do more with less. By most accounts it did t
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by drewzero1 3y ago
When I used it (and Kolibri, Floppix, and QNXdemo) in the mid-2000s it was mostly down to the speed of the floppy drive. So about the same as loading Windows 10 from a conventional (spinning rust) hard drive.
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by drewzero1 3y ago
The frustrating part was that the requirement was only checked by the installer, so you could put the drive in a supported machine[0] to install, then swap it back and it would run fine. I think there was a similar thing with a processor sp
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by drewzero1 4y ago
Often when showing off something cool I built for fun, people say "you should make those and sell them!" This company is a great example of why I don't. Mad respect for the author though. It'd be cool enough to just get
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by drewzero1 4y ago
That's kind of how I use my Surface Pro. I keep it docked on the desk and carry it with me if I need it to be portable. If I could build/buy a computer this size with an integrated screen and one or two PCI slots in the back, I&#x
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by drewzero1 4y ago
So true. SV-types have been so conditioned to look for the monetization angle and the fediverse has been designed and built to be the direct opposite of that. I think a lot of people are so busy looking for the fame and the money that they
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by drewzero1 4y ago
I've done this with quinoa and it's pretty good if you can avoid burning it. The little popped grains look like adorable mini-popcorns. I've also had pumpkin seeds pop when toasting them in the oven. They don't get the &
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by drewzero1 4y ago
> The pessimism here on HN is bizarre! This has been my experience on HN in general, though I recognize I've been part of the problem. It's really easy to dump on things and feel smart.
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by drewzero1 4y ago
Every instance has its own moderation policies, and the user has the option of moving to another instance (and keep being able to interact with the fediverse at large) if they clash with the mods or don't think they're doing enoug
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by drewzero1 4y ago
People have been putting check mark emojis in their Fedi display names forever, as a joke. While I could see an instance considering something like that to help pay for server costs I don't think it's likely to be very popular.

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