nathanasmith

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by nathanasmith 4y ago
I didn't even realize it was a thing back in the day but I had a Windows 95 CD and happened to be poking around on it one day and discovered the video. I was like "Wow cool!"
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by nathanasmith 4y ago
I view this stuff for what it is. Fanfic with high production values. Nothing more.
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by nathanasmith 4y ago
> When you're actually from the US as a Millennial or Gen Z'er, it's not hard to see what happened. The previous two generations taught us nothing > Gen X had such an easy go of it I was still in college when the dot co
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by nathanasmith 4y ago
Have you looked at the Lenovo Duet Chrome OS tablet? I have one and it's great. Runs Linux and Android programs quite well, very portable (516 grams/1.14 pounds) an 11 inch screen, and battery life is great since it has an ARM pro
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by nathanasmith 4y ago
If I need a standalone window I reach for lxterminal. It's lightweight, modern enough looking, and does exactly what I need without any annoyance. Most of the time though I just use guake which as most everybody here knows is a termina
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by nathanasmith 4y ago
One thing I really like about the background noise feature on iOS is it actively mixes with whatever music you might happen to be listening to on the device so that when the music punches in, the background noise generator backs off and whe
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by nathanasmith 4y ago
I ordered a 1080p screen and controller from Aliexpress for my trusty old Lenovo T420. Installed in about 30 minutes and worked perfectly. The difference in image quality versus the original crap panel is huge.
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by nathanasmith 4y ago
This falls in line with how I've always thought it might be better to learn a foreign language from an instructor who mastered it as a second language rather than a native speaker. Assuming two instructors of otherwise equal theoretica
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by nathanasmith 4y ago
I will sometimes upvote and then reply if I think a comment is particularly good. I will never downvote and then comment, it's one or the other depending on the situation. Probably all in my head but doing both, to me, feels like &quot
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by nathanasmith 4y ago
As another big fan of MRU tab switching, there is an extension for Chromium based browsers that enables this feature: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quick-tabs/jnjfein...
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by nathanasmith 4y ago
>When I bring home my System76 and leave it in my bag over the weekend, it will always be dead by Monday morning. You may be interested in this systemd script I found on the Debian wiki[0] that enables hibernation and power off after a p
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by nathanasmith 4y ago
I usually reply to these fake texts with something along the lines of "send newdz". Have yet to get a response back for some reason.
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by nathanasmith 4y ago
Well played. This (and the preceding comments) is some high class bait. Congrats on hooking a few fish with it. FWIW though Hacker News isn't typically the best place for this kind of thing. >my karma now burns
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by nathanasmith 4y ago
It’s a shame there isn’t some kind of system wide filter for notifications using regular expressions or something. Probably a job for an Android ROM creator.
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by nathanasmith 4y ago
I’ve had the Kill Sticky bookmarklet handy as the first item in the bookmarks bar of every browser I’ve used for years and it is phenomenal in how simple and useful it is. Works everywhere from my iPad to my desktop and everywhere in betwee
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by nathanasmith 4y ago
I bought this one right here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NPZZ1JW There are cheaper ones that may work just as well but I wanted one a little larger than those others so I didn’t have to sit quite so close. The review
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by nathanasmith 4y ago
I sit in front of a 10,000 lux light box for about 30 minutes at the start of each morning which has profoundly improved my mood and overall happiness. There’s a ton of evidence for the use of light therapy to treat Seasonal Affective Disor
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by nathanasmith 4y ago
If you habitually try to open the wrong door at a restaurant entrance or wherever where there's a double door and one side is locked, quickly glance for the side that has the keyhole in it. That's the one that's open.
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by nathanasmith 5y ago
I was going to post this. The act of breaking down an overwhelming abstract goal into simple actionable steps and getting everything out of your head into a trusted system has helped me achieve a mental peace unlike anything else I've
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by nathanasmith 5y ago
I'll echo the others' sentiments. Only bother with the Dune books authored by Frank Herbert starting with the first published Dune itself. The "Dune" books written by his son are bad fan-fiction.
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by nathanasmith 5y ago
It appears that device isn't using the RISC-V module under discussion but an ARM version instead. >I decided to install in my DevTerm the simplest module compatible with the popular RaspberryPi Linux distribution. It’s slower than t
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by nathanasmith 5y ago
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong but last time I checked I couldn't find any content blocker for MacOS Safari that would block pre-roll Youtube ads whereas uBlock Origin in Chrome, Firefox, etc. does not have this problem.
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by nathanasmith 5y ago
>Who needs 28 hours of battery? A nice advantage is in a few years when the battery wears down some you'll still have fantastic all day battery life compared to most other laptops.
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by nathanasmith 5y ago
Assuming USB ports, you cheekily plug in another keyboard!
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by nathanasmith 5y ago
I've been using the Hacker News API[0] and Python's Flask web server to create my own curated version of the website. Not only does it place new articles, since the last time I refreshed, at the top of the list and marks them with
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by nathanasmith 5y ago
>Some personal "get better" things, like... "I tell stories badly. I should avoid them." where I rate it a "2" for a "yeah, I did ok this week" or "1" if I transgressed I thought I was th
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by nathanasmith 5y ago
#!/usr/bin/env bash
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by nathanasmith 5y ago
Maybe check to see if the trackpad is turned off in the BIOS. Aside from that, open the machine up and fiddle with the connector to see if it helps.
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by nathanasmith 5y ago
>Doesn't the T420 lack USB 3 though? It does but fwiw the T420s has one. I'm pretty sure you can get Express Card USB 3 ports too. >even with the "good" 900p screen it wasn't very good with awful viewing angle
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by nathanasmith 5y ago
I know a guy that used to make sites like this. The gibberish you see is scraped from somewhere and its purpose on the site is to give Google bot something to see and rank the site for search terms related to the content. There's a PHP

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