mackrevinack

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by mackrevinack 4y ago
cover the sun with your left hand and position it so the bottom of that hand is just covering the bottom of the sun. then start measuring with your other hand, from the sun to the horizon
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by mackrevinack 4y ago
personally i have found that pocket is like a black hole for articles. ive saved so many over the years but only end up reading .01% of them
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by mackrevinack 4y ago
you could save yourself a ton storage space by using the timelapse mode on your phone's camera app. just set it to the shortest interval, which is usually 1 second
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by mackrevinack 4y ago
> people just go "so?" its fascinating how most people would be at least annoyed if they found someone looking in their windows every day. even if that person was someone official looking who didn't look like they were goi
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by mackrevinack 4y ago
i havnt got around to trying floccus out fully but i hope its good because i switch between firefox and vivaldi every few years so it would be nice to have something that would work on both https://floccus.org/
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by mackrevinack 4y ago
just did a quick search and found this https://github.com/flide/8VIM
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by mackrevinack 4y ago
i usually just take photos of that type of thing. they take up much less physical space
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by mackrevinack 4y ago
any time i read hackernews stuff on my eink i always spend a lot less time reading overall, mainly because its a lot more inconvenient to use. but that's a good thing some times!
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by mackrevinack 4y ago
no sony had waterproof headphone jacks a really long time ago. a lot of their phones still have headphone jacks as far as i know. seems like they are the only decent company left in that regard
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by mackrevinack 4y ago
there was an obvious trend with other phone manufacturers as well. as soon as they made their own brand of wireless headphones/earbuds, the headphone jack was removed from their phone.
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by mackrevinack 4y ago
i bookmark a lot of channels as well. for my most watched channels i also add them to newsblur since it makes it easier to see when new videos are available without having to go to each individual channel. there are a few other rss readers
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by mackrevinack 4y ago
microsoft are so bad at naming things. "hey cortana, open my your phone app"
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by mackrevinack 4y ago
being able to have a consistent name for your server instead of using an ip address such as "192.168.1.23:4567", which would change often if you didn't set up a static ip. once you bookmark "devicename:4567" or refe
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by mackrevinack 4y ago
definitely syncthing, even though it pretty much blends into the background once its set up, but i really couldn't imagine going back to life before i started using it i have a sync folder called 'drop' that gets added to eve
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by mackrevinack 4y ago
i wasn't sure if you were trolling with your original comment but now i am
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by mackrevinack 4y ago
im guessing you live in a warm climate so. i don't and metal laptops are nearly always cold and sap the heat from your hands. im not sure i would like carrying all that extra weight around either. its not like i an going out on an expe
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by mackrevinack 4y ago
i had wireless headphones and true-wireless ones later on and i still went back. i mostly use my wired headset now and have a fiio bluetooth receiver for the times i would prefer to be more mobile. i switch between two computers, a phone an
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by mackrevinack 4y ago
workflowy. i use dynalist these days as my main outliner / note taker since it has a lot more features, but workflowy still just has something more elegant and minimal going on with its UI
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by mackrevinack 4y ago
townscaper is another "game" that i would consider to be very elegant considering all you do it click somewhere and it decides what type of building to add. the only option you have is what colour it will be https://you
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by mackrevinack 4y ago
was just about to mention this as well. considering it only takes 30 second to install and log in on a device, and then it just works without any more setup... can't really get any more elegant than that
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by mackrevinack 4y ago
yea i prefer squared over lines, but rhodia's dot patterns give you the best of both and it's a bit more subtle as well https://rhodiapads.com/images/dot_pad_detail.jpg
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by mackrevinack 4y ago
every now and again i read hackernews and reddit stuff on my boox ereader and having a slow refresh rate is definitely a good "feature" since it makes it a lot more tedious to read things compared to my phone, which helps me spend
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by mackrevinack 4y ago
everyone once in a while i think about getting an iPhone or iPad for one reason or another, maybe for the camera or some music making apps that you can't get anywhere else, but i quickly scrap that thought once i remember that i can&#x
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by mackrevinack 4y ago
movies can also better adapt to be a bit shorter or longer depending on whether the story calls for it. something i notice myself thinking after i finish most tv shows i watch is: "that really could have been shorter". it might be
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by mackrevinack 4y ago
true detective, season 1
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by mackrevinack 5y ago
DuckDuckStop
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by mackrevinack 5y ago
im using a boox nova 3 at the moment. i mainly went with this device because it uses android as the OS which makes it easy to install syncthing and sync my books folder to it. i can add or remove books / long form articles to the synct
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by mackrevinack 5y ago
same. these days it seems the only way i can avoid mistakes is to swipe slowly
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by mackrevinack 5y ago
sounds like you are describing grist https://www.getgrist.com
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by mackrevinack 5y ago
nice. more e-waste because you can't resell them when you want to change or upgrade to something else or when they stop fitting you

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