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by jolmg 1y ago
This is also why AUR helpers are unofficial and the packages don't come prebuilt. The official way to use the AUR is very manual, precisely to encourage reviewing. You have to download the PKGBUILD and accompanying files manually (git
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by jolmg 1y ago
> also it is amazing to me that shells still exist in more-or-less the same form. dear god can I just get a terminal that runs something like Python directly? There's no reason why you can't set Python to be your shell. Here yo
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by jolmg 1y ago
Pre-teen walking to a friend's house a mile away, probably semi-frequently? Is that a risk or a near certainty? Looking for online guidelines, I find this: > According to an American Academy of Pediatrics survey of social workers th
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by jolmg 1y ago
This kind of has the same energy as advising a depressed person with "just be happy".
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> but that doesn't change the meaning of words. Words can have multiple similar definitions with small variations. If I look up "defamation" I get: > Defamation is a legal term that refers to any statement made by a per
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by jolmg 1y ago
A teen can go to the store on their own and consume the cigarettes and alcohol right out the door without the parents knowing. There I can see why the parent would need the collaboration of greater society. But for a phone? A child/ear
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by jolmg 1y ago
> That said, a better approach would be to limit kids under certain age from owning smartphones with full internet access. Instead, they could have a phone without internet access—dumb phones—or ones with curated/limited access. Why
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by jolmg 1y ago
> This shit would end tomorrow if they had to start delivering modems with 1 inch high letters that said "THIS DEVICE WILL TRACK YOUR LOCATION WITHIN YOUR HOME AND SHARE THAT DATA WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE", I
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by jolmg 1y ago
You don't need to know them to empathize with them.
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You can still make the decision whether to top-post or inline-post based on your recipient. Programmer's mailing list -> inline post. Family member -> top post. You can send a stranger an inline post, somehow confirm they were ab
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by jolmg 1y ago
3d printers start around 250 USD. Filament's at 15 USD/kg. You can get familiar with gcode, with CAD software, making parameterized models, etc.
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by jolmg 1y ago
Hey, some feedback on those 1/24 holes that fill through scrolling. They're not matched with the steps of the scrollwheel. It seems like a step fills 1.2 holes. It pauses the animation of your demonstration between your points. Ch
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by jolmg 1y ago
> There's nearly nothing you can buy today for less than a dollar. Aren't most things in the fruits and veggies section under a dollar? What's a carrot or a lemon cost? Looking at the weekly ad at Food4Less, tomatoes are 2
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by jolmg 1y ago
I wouldn't consider downvotes to mean something is prohibited. I did in the past because that's what I limited myself to downvoting, but people just downvote what they don't like for whatever reason. All you can do is to not
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by jolmg 1y ago
It's not a Windows vs Mac thing. It's using closed-source software vs open-source, i.e. Windows & Mac vs Linux et al.
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IIRC from when I visited a library earlier this year, they were still being used in the genealogy section.
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Being able to work while in the sun might be nice. Transflective LCDs would be better for this if they were as widely available and didn't likely suffer from lower pixel density.
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by jolmg 1y ago
Possibly meant "the citizen's father"
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by jolmg 2y ago
Without looking at stats, I would think android phones.
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by jolmg 2y ago
Your comment makes it sound like a browser being fingerprintable is a desired property by browser developers. It's just something that happens on its own from different people doing things differently. I don't see this as being ab
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by jolmg 2y ago
I thought UNESCO world heritage sites were physical locations rather than aspects of a possibly physically dispersed culture. Is the site the whole country of Sweden?
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by jolmg 2y ago
Checking the datasheet for Bangle's display, it seems to also be a transflective LCD.
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by jolmg 2y ago
Was wondering the same thing. I found this: > 1. Can I choose a color for Core Time 2? Yes you can! Just not yet. We are finalizing all the color options and will contact everyone prior to shipping so you can choose which color best suit
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by jolmg 2y ago
> I have a desktop computer but nowhere stable to set it up and work. > I know I can earn 3-4x more doing freelance tech, but I can’t do that from a car. I'm seeing cheap x86 laptops on Amazon for like 120-150 USD. If you need mo
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by jolmg 2y ago
Taking pain meds daily for life doesn't seem like a good plan. Maybe try e-ink? There are e-ink monitors on the market if that works, if the problem's the light. You can also try software like Redshift[1] for regular monitors. If
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He's not. He's mentioned that.
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It's the same person in both patents, Takuo Aoyagi. You can register a patent in separate jurisdictions, because they're separate jurisdictions.
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by jolmg 2y ago
> You may have to euthanize a chicken Looking online on reasons to euthanize chickens, it seems to be about not prolonging their suffering when ill. I don't really know much on farming practices, and I'm not commenting to say t
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by jolmg 2y ago
My first impression with "Wireshark for Docker containers" is "... Well, Wireshark already works with Docker containers, so if your goal is to be Wireshark for Docker containers, you'll just fail by definition. Can'
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by jolmg 2y ago
https://pine64.com/product/pinenote-community-edition-coming... Comes pre-installed with a Debian-based distro. It's basically a regular computer in an e-ink tablet form-factor. You can use whatever language and w

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