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by duffyjp 3y ago
The thing keeping me on Prime has been their unlimited photo backup service. The desktop app either doesn't work anymore or I have too much content for it to handle. It spins and spins but nothing happens. I can manually backup via
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by duffyjp 3y ago
For the reverse (computer -> phone) I use a browser extension called "The QR Code Extension." Click it and it displays a QR code to the current URL you just point your phone's camera at. https://chrome.google.c
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by duffyjp 3y ago
In the late 90's I was an instructor in a youth PC repair class. For a fun demonstration we took an old IDE drive, removed the lid and had it running defrag. We did this outside. Next to show how important it was to prevent liquid s
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I've never purchased a lottery ticket but I do get a small reduction in my state property taxes from those who do, so I guess I win once a year.
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by duffyjp 3y ago
Tires make a huge difference in MPG, stopping distance etc. Every economy car I've checked ships with much more expensive tires than you'd probably bother replacing them with since they can eek out an extra MPG or two for the win
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I'm that guy at work. I solved the problem by completely rewriting our huge and aged out internal application. The plot twist is that I also completely wrote the original crappy codebase.
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I dual boot (currently Artix) but the gaming experience is still best on Windows.
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I mostly use Macs, and without wasting your time with the details my CTRL-C equivalent in the Terminal is WindowsKey-C. Well, I was in Powershell on Windows 11 yesterday and needed to CTRL-C something and muscle memoried my Mac shortcut an
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I have the XPS 15 9530 from 2014. Somewhat depressingly it's the most powerful intel laptop I own so I still use it when I need to be mobile with Windows. I had to disable turbo boost to keep it from going nuclear under even trivial l
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by duffyjp 3y ago
One of my earliest memories is asking my dad, "what's that sound you hear when there isn't any sound?" Mine isn't torturous, but I sure would love to hear silence, I've never experienced that.
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by duffyjp 3y ago
The thinness of the "Corporate Income Taxes" ribbon in that sankey diagram is upsetting.
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I don't disagree, but they already know where I live and how far my commute to work is (was, yay WFH) as those are standard questions I've answered with every company I've used.
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I was fooled into using one from Progressive once. For the record I'm an extremely cautious driver of a 99 horsepower Prius C, exactly the type an insurance company should love to insure. Any breaking of even moderate intensity cause
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I have an alias that while trivally simple is quicker to type and remember. It copies whatever file you give it to the clipboard which is super handy. I use it with the "Compare with Clipboard" to diff a file in Rubymine for exa
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by duffyjp 3y ago
> 0 points (18% upvoted) lol
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I would love having one of these in a collaborative workspace. I'll open up the ERD for a modestly complex database and it's illegible on even a 5K monitor. I was asked to bring one to a meeting once so what was I to do other th
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I have a VR headset, and it lives in a cardboard box. The reason is that the only thing I'd actually use it for it does poorly. That being immersive media consumption. By the time you have a virtual movie theater the resolution rema
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by duffyjp 3y ago
My 2011 MBP is still going strong. With 16gb ram and an SSD it's honestly not even slow unless you have to compile something.
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by duffyjp 3y ago
Yep. I've been doing this for years. It changes a plist file in your home dir somewhere if I remember correctly.
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I do this on my Macs. Windows and KDE also have the option. GNOME stopped doing desktop icons by default ages ago. It's such a better experience IMO. I have Desktop added as one of those fan-out folders in the MacOS Dock so it'
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by duffyjp 3y ago
That Canon model number looked familiar, googled it and yep it was the same POS I owned ages ago. Can confirm massive clogging problems.
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by duffyjp 3y ago
Point #3 (Using Your Phone as a Mouse and Keyboard) mentions utilizing the gyroscope. I've had that idea in the back of my head for years and years and am super excited somebody actually built it. Looking forward to trying this out.
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by duffyjp 3y ago
My server is quite similar, an e3-1275L v3 with 32GB of ECC from a trashcan Mac Pro. I had been planning to migrate my i9 desktop into that role at some point but not supporting ECC you're making me second guess that option. Maybe I&
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I'll run memtest86 for a full day when I build a system or get new ram. I've never seen an error outside of the situation where a stick has gone bad and it errors like crazy. I don't use ECC other than on my homelab server
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by duffyjp 3y ago
Let's say there's some sort of afterlife and it's super great. You can do whatever you want in a paradise. Okay, now imagine that lasts for trillions of years. What are you going to do? You're either going to go insa
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by duffyjp 3y ago
Luckily I ordered the AX210 over the AX211 because the AX210 was cheaper. :P
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by duffyjp 3y ago
Huh really? I put an AX210 wifi 6E card in my absolutely ancient Intel i7-2600 Optiplex and it works great.
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by duffyjp 3y ago
How about just send them a box with a prepaid shipping label back to your IT office?
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I drive a Prius C. I adore it, see them everywhere and of course it was canceled. I live in Wisconsin and so see so many full sized trucks that have never touched a dirt road or been to a Home Depot. If everybody got 50mpg in a little ec
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by duffyjp 3y ago
Less comfortable but maybe less fatiguing? I know when our Costco cart gets hard to move it's time to go. Next we'll get hybrid carts with electric assist.

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