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by jonpurdy 6y ago
This is a great example of why I still prefer torrenting films and TV shows as opposed to using my wife’s Netflix sub: the pirated media is better! Netflix and Hulu and competing with easier to use and more flexible pirated media, whether t
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
I used the MenuMeters forks up until a few months ago when I purchased iStatMenus. Love it and well worth the money, especially since I can used the unified view (so my widgets don't get moved around arbitrarily by menu bar reorganizat
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
Another data point. Tried to get a discount in our Inner Sunset 1BR that we paid $3250 for. Other units in the same building listed for the past few months for $2700 with 2 months free (effectively $2250). Denied a decrease (citing CA Fair
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I, too, vastly prefer purchasing outside of the App Store to the point where I’ll often not bother if I don’t absolutely need the app. Too many times I’ve tried to run App Store apps and been bothered with my Apple ID. I prefer the decentra
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
I wrote an article a few months back about this(1) and post when it's directly relevant. Main takeaways: audio is more important than video; get that correct first. Easiest thing is using a cheap headset microphone. Advanced noice canc
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
Used to shoot sports back in uni, circa 2008 (Just amazing how much things have changed since then). IIRC, the pro lenses (white Canons) focused faster as a result of them letting more light in, as well as having faster motors (USM), thoug
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
Canadian living in USA. My brain is regularly fried by healthcare here, it ends up being a simple high level equation. My out of pocket max per year is around $6000 USD, and my salary is double what I was (under)paid in Toronto, and taxes a
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
I'm the GP, and I also switched to iCloud Drive. But thanks to a comment above I've moved my _sync folder back to Dropbox and use Maestral as my Mac Dropbox client and it's been working great for the past 18 hours or so. I sw
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
This has been ongoing for me for... I don't even know how long. At least Mojave, maybe earlier.
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
Thank you! The reason I ditched Dropbox was because of the bloated Mac client. Maestral looks like it might bring back the 2010-esque Dropbox client feeling (fast and efficient). I mentioned above that I switched away; iCloud Drive is prett
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
I don't meant to take away from the article, but it makes me sad to see such awesome people building and writing about really cool bespoke solutions. It's obvious that Arun knows their stuff and is able to communicate it clearly.
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I would assume that there usually isn't an immediate economic benefit of doing so. Fortunately, we live in a society that is much more inclusive than it used to be. As Tim Cook said, "When we work on making our devices accessible
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I’m one of them. Bought a used 2015 13” back in 2017 just to get the old keyboard back. Sold it a few months ago for the 2020 13”.
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I read the beta and the final copy. Great to see it evolve based on real feedback from hiring managers and job seekers. I used the advice to spruce up my resume a bit and tailor it to specific employers. But more importantly, it helped me k
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
The only squeak I hear is if I sit down or get up from the chair and put the weight of my hands on the seat. No squeaking when just sitting in it, even when adjusting tension and recline.
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
I was in the market for a desk and chair recently. Long story short: sitting at a floor table and on the couch all day was causing issues with my back and hamstrings. I did look into the AltWork setup mentioned. At $7000 (or $4500 for manua
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
I wrote an article with some overlap with Ben's article about this back in March[1], so I've been experimenting with trying to get better audio and video outside of Zoom and other apps. They tend to optimize for the lowest common
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
> You send an email to a prospect, that person quickly follows up saying they are not interested, but 3 months later, they reopen that same email, you get a live read notification, you instantly take your phone and follow up. You win. Th
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
There is some middle ground between the "just turn it off" folks and the article. For me, by default I deny notifications to apps. Only communications (like WhatsApp/Signal/iMessages/email client) and stuff that NEE
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
Email is a pain to deal with and unwanted email saps attention and time from one's day. One of the reasons I use individual email aliasing for every company[1] is because I wanted to avoid wasting cumulative hours or days over my lifet
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
An interesting dichotomy between big cities vs small towns has come up and being discussed the replies to this. Interesting that it is a very North America-centric perspective. Go to South Korea or Japan and you'll find rural villages
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
Anecdotal of course, but a couple of jobs ago I did on-call rotations for a week on every few weeks. I got paid some additional money and time off, but the psychological impact was too great for me and it just wasn't worth it.
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
Bill Atkinson’s PhotoCard has been around on iOS since 2010. $1 to get a 4x6 print mailed anywhere in USA or Canada. Yes, the Bill Atkinson from the original Macintosh team. He’s also been a photographer for decades and presumably used his
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
It was already a dire situation running a Mac with eGPU or a Hackintosh even before the RTX 30-series announcement, and much more dire after that. The likeliness of Apple allowing NVIDIA to produce Mac drivers again is close to zero. It’d b
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
I wonder if there's a way to snooze emails using time spaces like how SRS systems (like Anki) do it. First snooze is for 1 day, second for 3 days, etc.
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
Others have mentioned the efficiency of cooling individual rooms instead of the entire home so I'll skip that. (Not to mention that in Korea and Japan, halls are considered "outdoors" and are not heated or cooled, which is a
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
I wrote about this issue on my blog. Basically just using email aliases on a custom domain to enable per-provider filtering, and deletion of the alias if they ignore unsubscribe requests or get hacked. https://jonpurdy.com/2
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
TL;DR: if on the fence about replacing a MacBook Pro with a ThinkPad, give the 2020 MBP a try. It's bought me another three years of time to stick with the Mac and see how the ARM transition plays out. I wanted to let others in my situ
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
Very happy to have seen this! I like that Alisdair uses a sticky header on the page to verify that it works.
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by jonpurdy 6y ago
I use a Pi Zero W + extra USB wifi to share modern wifi with my legacy PowerBook 2400c + 802.11b PCMCIA card. This setup could let me do it without the USB wifi hanging off the USB OTG adaptor. * This is not secure but it’s fine for my vint

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