emeril

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1. 61.▲
   by emeril 1y ago

   I've had the same for a number of years - mine is even more vanilla than yours rock solid
2. 62.▲
   by emeril 1y ago

   at least for now, I just make sure that any internet connection is "metered" to avoid updates + use an LTSC build + use a bunch of winhawk + openshell to make it...usable :( ms is def at the point of major enshitification
3. 63.▲
   by emeril 1y ago

   yeah, i was able to successfully use 2003 until 2018 at which point I could no longer get it to work sufficiently in whatever build I had of win10 I then used 2010 (least bad new version it seemed) until now... mixed feelings about even mor
4. 64.▲
   by emeril 1y ago

   i still miss office 2003 - esp as a power user of excel - it was so much faster/more reliably than the modern versions 65k rows was a feature, not a bug...
5. 65.▲
   by emeril 1y ago

   torrenting is a lot easier than using an antenna and ota dvr... that said now that I have more than enough skills for these things...barely watch tv anymore anyway
6. 66.▲
   by emeril 1y ago

   I suppose though to be honest, it seems they are still the best for cloud sharing I think?
7. 67.▲
   by emeril 1y ago

   hmm, as an actual accountant on this forum, bookkeeping usually isn't the tough part it's how to account for bizarre ambiguous business situations often in the context of bureaucratic business requirements no LLM could currently c
8. 68.▲
   by emeril 1y ago

   I'm still waiting to hear 4'33" by John Cage and it's allegedly very popular
9. 69.▲
   by emeril 1y ago

   very true - for many tasks excel is enough, better, and faster
10. 70.▲
    by emeril 1y ago

    consider a multivitamin (or least eating big varied salads regularly) - that seemed to get rid of my recurrent canker sores despite whatever toothpaste I use fwiw, I use my kids toothpaste (kids crest) since I suspect most toothpastes are c
11. 71.▲
    by emeril 1y ago

    I know about boofing, I learned about it during one of the more recent us supreme court confirmation hearings
12. 72.▲
    by emeril 1y ago

    I miss slashdot when it was at its peak decades back unsure why precisely it descended so much not crazy about HN's approach but the quality of the discourse here is so high through whatever mechanism, I don't much care
13. 73.▲
    by emeril 1y ago

    I still use PSP 4.1 on win10/11 after 30 years... loads in <1 second and does 99% of what I need in an image editor (barely took more than a couple seconds to load even 30 years ago on regular hardware) for the remaining 1% of the t
14. 74.▲
    by emeril 1y ago

    don't get your hopes up - I fully plan on moving to Canada and sending my children to college there even if we elect a "better" president in the future the fact that roughly half of of the electorate is fine with how things a
15. 75.▲
    by emeril 1y ago

    I had bad tinnitus years ago that thankfully eventually largely went away That said, always having some white noise or music going helped a lot
16. 76.▲
    by emeril 1y ago

    yeah, I use GV with all sorts of things that don't normally allow most likely as a result of being grandfathered in - i.e., I suspect they don't recheck old active numbers as being invalid per VOIP classifications/etc.
17. 77.▲
    by emeril 1y ago

    I've found not to trust excel for CSV's generally unless I build them manually in excel as a concatenation
18. 78.▲
    by emeril 1y ago

    yeah I agree, afraid it doesn't have a/c either should cost like nothing to add simple stereo system with a couple speakers
19. 79.▲
    by emeril 1y ago

    that's a nice solution too but re: mercedes it requires the user to actively use that feature which I suspect most won't remember to do
20. 80.▲
    by emeril 1y ago

    maybe so, but this would seemingly solve most of the problem with easy to implement tech the real test is to find out if this effectively eliminated all fob hacks for volvo since they may not be faster than the tiger, they just need to be f
21. 81.▲
    by emeril 1y ago

    part of what helps is, at least, before buying a car, to get insurance quotes and then you see the true cost of THAT car
22. 82.▲
    by emeril 2y ago

    for those who didn't realize - same guy is Walton Goggins father in S03 of White Lotus
23. 83.▲
    by emeril 2y ago

    I've had my laptops battery swell more than any phone
24. 84.▲
    by emeril 2y ago

    and those indian made antibiotics sometimes are little different in effectiveness than candy I dread it when any generic medication I get is made in india or china since the fda doesn't meaningfully regulate/test their stuff
25. 85.▲
    by emeril 2y ago

    -as a democratic american - why bother? -roughly half of the us populace supports the current authoritarian regime and the other half's senators and representatives are largely useless and aren't even doing what they can except fo
26. 86.▲
    by emeril 2y ago

    ah - i usually view using https://hckrnews.com/ it seems for whatever reason the above viewer omits it
27. 87.▲
    by emeril 2y ago

    why was this link not easily accessible in the first place?
28. 88.▲
    by emeril 2y ago

    most of those with crohn's would likely have developed it at some point - 99% of those with food poisoning won't develop crohn's
29. 89.▲
    by emeril 2y ago

    I used to only use one side of the grille and usually not close it for most things where I cared about retaining the moisture
30. 90.▲
    by emeril 2y ago

    I generally try to have staff time stamp their files with date/time and mark them read only - I suppose that's easier than git though not as good...