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by efreak 6y ago
There's ways to have the windows boot loader do it, but unless something's changed that really means the windows boot loader reboots the computer. EasyBCD[0] can do this, but only on an mbr partition with bios boot, not on gpt&#x2
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by efreak 6y ago
If you're dual-booting, you can go one better and virtualize your Linux distro in the windows environment. It works fairly well, the only problem is making the disk available for both types of uses; virtualbox has the ability to use a
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by efreak 6y ago
> Yes! I always remember the name of the books but almost never remember the name of the author. Then use the search mechanism in your file manager/OS. If your library is too large, use calibre itself. Alternatively, use a script to
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by efreak 6y ago
Better yet, you don't even need to open the full ebook editor to access the toc editor, iirc it's available from the right click menu (might not be a default setting).
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by efreak 6y ago
Why bother stripping them? Any decent reader should have settings to either override individual styles or ignore the stylesheet (FBReader has both, iirc it should be available for ios as well as Android) > I never really understand why p
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by efreak 6y ago
I think pypy might be a simple way to get around that, iirc it's pretty self-contained and doesn't need to integrate much. I ran it from /opt for a while, but ~/.local should work too.
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by efreak 6y ago
It won't help with being resource intensive, but there's a good number of electron-based ebook readers around. Alternatively, if you constantly have a browser open, you could use calibre-web and simply open the books in your brows
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by efreak 6y ago
> Goyal makes a lot of people uncomfortable because he is obviously on the spectrum. Never mind the first question that popped up in my head (Why would you care?), but _Why would that even occur to you?_ Why would you even look at people
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by efreak 6y ago
Who said anything about a keyboard? We're using phones here, remember?
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by efreak 6y ago
Don't DND, use airplane mode (if you want antitheft or incoming calls, disable cellular data and wifi--prey and other antitheft can toggle data by text message if necessary). This way you've still got it available for manual use w
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by efreak 6y ago
According to pokemon, gyms exist only as a place for making your pet fight someone else's pet
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by efreak 6y ago
This is how I learned that being in Congress means immunity from being fired for literally not doing your job. Regardless of your views, you shouldn't be refusing to help keep the government functioning.
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by efreak 6y ago
Try using Nitter. https://nitter.net/tubetimeus/status/1306359385656946688
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by efreak 6y ago
Libby is overdrive, which means one of several platforms that includes Amazon.
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by efreak 6y ago
Regarding development: I've had a growing belief lately that capitalism (local) isn't the worst thing about global economy. Rather, the global economy itself is what's bad. We shouldn't be comparing countries based on GD
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by efreak 6y ago
Looks like it's been done: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24494871
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by efreak 6y ago
I never had an issue with authentication. My issue was a typo in sudoers (I allowed a user to view syslog, iirc, and had a semicolon instead of a colon) that prevented me from using sudo, as only my primary user was allowed to log in via ss
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by efreak 6y ago
I think the Windows registry has this, doesn't it? Not really applicable to this use case, and do far as I know it's world-readable (acls are applied for writing, not reading) but it does have per-key ACLs (not sure about per-fiel
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by efreak 6y ago
Could be worse. I'm pretty sure some of the dirt on one of my monitors is actually dead pixels.
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by efreak 6y ago
There's a rot13 command in the bsdgames package on Ubuntu. Or you could just create an alias. Not sure if the command takes file input.
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by efreak 6y ago
Endlessh and tarbit do this
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by efreak 6y ago
If you'd like to be very visible in a different way, you could always waste resources: 1. Endlessh: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19465967 2. Tarbit: https://github.com/nhh/tarbit
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by efreak 6y ago
Wasn't there an `apt-transport-torrent`package a while back? It shouldn't be that hard to get going, just include a magnet link in the metadata for the package.
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by efreak 6y ago
It's unfortunate that cellular providers don't offer this. I get around it by setting my data connection to prefer 3g. It helps with a 500mb limit (data is expensive on cheap plans), but it'd be nice to be able to throttle ap
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by efreak 6y ago
To be even more pedantic, there's nothing stopping you from using VMDK (or other disk images like VDI, VHD, raw/dd, etc) files as a container (like tar or zip), other than some extra overhead. They can easily integrate into your d
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by efreak 6y ago
I had to transfer 2tb of data over a wireless connection that kept dropping packets. BitTorrent was the only method I found that worked; everything else either broke down when it disconnected, or had too low of a retry limit to be useful, o
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by efreak 6y ago
So make the sideload toggle like Android's bootloader--when you toggle it, wipe user data. Anyone who wants to side load will have to reinstall all their apps. There's other annoying things you can do too: require the user to wait
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by efreak 6y ago
As a non-mac user (and also not a professional in your terms), one of my biggest gripes about keyboards is that full 5250-style 122+ key keyboards (with f1-f24, without a fun/modifier key) are either old (massive & won't fit n
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by efreak 6y ago
Oddly, while Firefox nightly did disable my extensions after the update, Firefox stable has continued to leave them enabled. They're not working perfectly, but they're all enabled. xStyle, tampermonkey, etc are all working for me.
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by efreak 6y ago
Something something anycast.

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