georgebcrawford

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by georgebcrawford 6y ago
> That's where the notion of a shared reality comes from. Sure, but that reality was a top-down creation. How much airtime did dissidents get? Socialists? Women? Marginalised people? And I don't mean reporting on them, but st
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by georgebcrawford 6y ago
What should "News" consist of?
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by georgebcrawford 6y ago
I see this repeated constantly - how many cases have there been? I'm asking genuinely.
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by georgebcrawford 6y ago
Surely that's part of its power though? The real-life facts of that existence are tragic of course, but shining a light on the issues is surely a positive thing.
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by georgebcrawford 6y ago
Years ago I read that The Wire made The Sopranos look...silly? Or at least not as serious and gritty. I kind of agreed for awhile, but I'm actually rewatching both and appreciate the different styles more. One thing that strikes me is
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by georgebcrawford 6y ago
> barring one scene in the first season Yes! Was that the one where Avon, String, and Stinkum arrive with the cash bonuses? I am rewatching a third time right now and couldn't figure out why it stood out as somewhat clumsy. It even
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by georgebcrawford 6y ago
I spent a few years on iOS and the number of notetaking apps that only use iCloud or Dropbox was infuriating. There was very rarely a WebDav or NextCloud option.
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by georgebcrawford 6y ago
I've almost managed to completely abandon the 24-hour news cycle. You hit the nail on the head with the anxiety thing. I live in Victoria, Australia and people looked at me like an alien when I didn't know what the daily COVID cas
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by georgebcrawford 6y ago
We’re definitely on the same page. I’ve been evangelising about interoperability for several years, meeting blank or glazed over stares the whole way. I’m definitely jaded.
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by georgebcrawford 6y ago
I get a lot of what you're saying, but I think you're conflating signal-to-noise with disappearance of the old weird web. It's still there, there's just a lot more other stuff out there too. For the most part I agree w
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by georgebcrawford 6y ago
Apparently not. I'm devastated! There's a redditor in California offering to do it for people. Sadly I'm in Australia and the postal systems are crazy right now.
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by georgebcrawford 6y ago
Have a look on reddit for /u/xueyao. He makes a couple of modded Thinkpads, including the "X330", which has the X220 keyboard, a 13.3" FHD screen, with plans for an 11th gen version early next year. There are mods a
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by georgebcrawford 7y ago
It's group chats that are the issue, not one-on-one conversations.
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by georgebcrawford 7y ago
IIRC, it's not so much abandoned as in what the author considers a finished state. I still use it and actually just paid another year's subscription. Like you say, there are some missing features, but it does what I need it to per
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by georgebcrawford 7y ago
I very much appreciate the approach! While I wouldn't say I was scared per se, I definitely ran up against the learning curve. I'll get going with org mode again asap.