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by julianz 1y ago
My colleagues took one a week ago and are both Android users from New Zealand, so I don't think that's true?
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by julianz 1y ago
They could perch on the dowels once dry...
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by julianz 1y ago
This works great! Nice one.
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by julianz 2y ago
It's cool, but that's definitely a Ralph Steadman background generator, much more than Pollock.
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by julianz 2y ago
Everyone knew someone's uncle who swore blind that he made heaps on the bonus bonds and had all his money "invested" in there, but I received some around my 10th birthday and they never struck a single prize. In 40 years.
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by julianz 2y ago
We found this museum completely by accident on a visit to the US, and it is a delight. When I saw the Connection Machine all lit up, I squealed :) It seems like the reason it's on like that is because it used to belong to the NSA so th
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by julianz 2y ago
I understand the hassle, but it's a shame the Newcastle round is no more, it was a brilliant track and had great racing. Really showed off Newcastle to those who haven't been there as well.
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by julianz 2y ago
How things change - I remember when the university I'd previously worked at finally managed to kick IBM out and replace the universally reviled Lotus Learning Space with... Blackboard! I guess it metastasized over the years and is now
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by julianz 2y ago
You definitely can get Google to mark one of your Keep notes as the designated "shopping list" and then add items at the top of it when you ask it to, it works pretty well.
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by julianz 2y ago
And their lemon, lime & bitters is fantastic.
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by julianz 2y ago
NZ Marmite includes sugar, which I find horrible, but my family likes it so we have both in the house. I am Vegemite for life.
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by julianz 3y ago
Yup, same. Lots of real world things are still organized through FB or Messenger, so the account sticks around. I only rarely open the app.
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by julianz 3y ago
Notion - I moved from Evernote so for the most part I still use it like Evernote, although I'm adopting the more complex features as I find them useful. Microsoft Office Family pack - I keep an eye out for discounts on this through the
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by julianz 3y ago
When was SmartThings good? I missed that. The only thing I use it for is an oven that, even though it is connected to the internet, can't manage to update the time when daylight savings time changes. To get the oven to update the time,
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by julianz 3y ago
Holding down the space bar on my (Google) keyboard brings up a popup to change the keyboard. Sliding my finger along the space bar shifts the cursor. I miss my very first Android phone (the original HTC Desire) which had a tiny hole they ca
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by julianz 3y ago
XRes was interesting, it would do all the imaging operations at reduced resolution to make them work quickly, and then when you saved the document it would perform all the actual work at full res. It sort of worked, but saving could appear
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by julianz 3y ago
I was a big (paid) Evernote user for a long time, and also don't particularly like Onenote. I switched to Notion (paid) and it's been pretty good - they had a patch a year or two ago where the mobile apps were a bit rough but they
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by julianz 3y ago
Even better, it's 6 people. You plus 5 family members.
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by julianz 3y ago
I wonder how that 100 year guarantee is holding up? https://longnow.org/ideas/evernote-and-the-100-year-data-gua...
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by julianz 3y ago
Non-paywalled version from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/legal/bankman-fried-loses-bid-toss-c...
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by julianz 3y ago
Happily, Ballast Point beers are still made under license locally here in New Zealand (by Behemoth Brewing) and are available fresh in my local supermarket. Yum! https://asiabrewersnetwork.com/news/new-zealands-behemoth
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by julianz 3y ago
Given that nearly all that volume is made up of artificial wash trading to manipulate the price, I'm not buying it. If crypto had any real world use I would see it when I stepped outside into the world, and I don't.
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by julianz 3y ago
That happens to me periodically, I am prompted to check the 2FA settings and confirm the phone number.
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by julianz 3y ago
You don't need a Pi to run pihole, it runs great on a low spec VM.
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by julianz 4y ago
?? The Google Maps I use offers to download the maps if I ask for directions on a long journey. It doesn't seem to have download limits and I never need to think about it again.
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by julianz 4y ago
Yep, same. My dad introduced "total quality management" into New Zealand and I heard about Deming a hell of a lot growing up.
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by julianz 4y ago
And also, given that with Range Rover reliability they'll perpetually be in the shop, you'll always know where they are!
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by julianz 4y ago
They were bought out by Haier a few years ago, they still exist as a brand in NZ, not sure about elsewhere. Anecdotally not as good as they used to be.
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by julianz 4y ago
That's very sad. I was reading Darwin's Radio while travelling in Cambodia in 2001 when the WTC attacks occurred. In the aftermath, with the anthrax scare and the CDC response it was sometimes hard to tell the difference between w
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by julianz 4y ago
On a phone it's a bunch of boxes and the text is too small to see, so horses for courses I guess.

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