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by ndespres 5y ago
I use my iPad as a second monitor using Duet Display. It works over wifi as well as tethered with USB. I am not sure how it matches up with Deskreen. It cost some money, maybe $20 for the iPad application.
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by ndespres 5y ago
That was exactly my experience traveling from USA to Europe. My iPhone didn't support global bands and wouldn't work with a local SIM. My iPad, however, came with the Apple SIM and let me purchase a local data plan in 2 different
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by ndespres 5y ago
I think that they are commenting specifically on the reasons for the staff shortage, in response to the popular claim that people are quitting their jobs over the vaccine mandates.
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by ndespres 5y ago
My 1-year old had a toy with a small plastic non-functioning telephone. After 1 demonstration where we pantomimed using a phone, he started picking up everything and holding it to his ear. Fruit, books, other toys, pretending it were a tele
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by ndespres 5y ago
I have noticed "don't talk to the police" being repeated often around here lately, with links to the youtube video. While it is probably good advice for your general day-to-day encounters with police, I don't think it is
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by ndespres 5y ago
Or alt+tab into Teams on macOS?
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by ndespres 5y ago
In terms of things that are not specifically targeted: I still see things attacks on open SMTP ports to relay spam email, installing crypto mining software on PCs and servers, scanning for insecure VoIP phone systems and racking up long-dis
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by ndespres 5y ago
There's something worse than "ridiculous" for insisting on a toy that has so many drawbacks for the people around you while you're using it for your own enjoyment. It's selfish.
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by ndespres 5y ago
In my rural area, one of the "last mile" problems is that there's now an extra leg. Since the small local post offices no longer hand-sort mail, but drive it to a larger hub post office that has the address OCR machines to au
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by ndespres 6y ago
Adoring the reproductive parts of our bodies seems like a normal biological response though being so fascinated by them that you would be a a contributor to WikiButt or whatever would also be strange to me. To fetishize the foot is somethin
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by ndespres 6y ago
Had a similar experience when I showed up to an interview for a Windows sysadmin job that a recruiter had arranged. First thing they said was "so your resume says you have 5 years of AS/400 system administration experience?"
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by ndespres 6y ago
I think a major omission from the authors' wishlist of BYOC-capable applications is chat. Maybe in their case they are lucky enough to have a choice in the matter, but I think overall the walled gardens and closed APIs for the major ch
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by ndespres 6y ago
I'm still doing sysadmin work remotely while I slowly grow our own herd of dairy goats (12 now as of last week) for our soap business. Still a very low-tech setup but I may finally splurge on an electric milk pump this year after 5 yea
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by ndespres 6y ago
He visited every port on all 4 coasts of the island, roughly covering the perimeter. We understand this to mean in common speech that he walked "around" the island even though he didn't truly circumnavigate it. We know what t
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by ndespres 6y ago
As others have said in this thread and in many other places, the minimum wage does not really correspond to the wage required to live a comfortable and dignified life. It is merely the least amount of money an employer can pay an employee w
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by ndespres 6y ago
It's a "bad thing" because there are benefits to being employed with a company that treats you like an employee, which you are not going to get when you're fired and told to go work for Instacart as a contractor if you w
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by ndespres 6y ago
This is a story about a grocery store chain replacing their own employees who perform a job at the company, with "independent contractors" from a 3rd-party service. I'm not sure what case you're trying to make, whose dig
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by ndespres 6y ago
>>"We can't paper over our lack of viable careers by creating low-skilled jobs that pay the same as jobs requiring a college education." Well, why can't we? If we are saying that these types of jobs need to exist,
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by ndespres 6y ago
Much in the way that I would recommend to anyone struggling with "Moby-Dick" to try starting with Melville's much shorter novella "Bartleby, the Scrivener" to get a taste for the authors' style, wit, and use of
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by ndespres 6y ago
Not sure if they are referring specifically to this, but as of February 2021, Atlassian will stop selling new on-premise Confluence licenses. I expect a lot of companies will have to transition their on-prem servers to the Atlassian Cloud h
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by ndespres 6y ago
Probably the most helpful automation in my life is the automatic door on the chicken coop. Swings open in the morning and closes automatically at night.
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by ndespres 6y ago
There's another gap between small family farms and huge scale enterprises. There is a lot of demand for local but quality. Whether it's grass-fed beef, eggs from truly free-ranging chickens, or heritage breed pork that's well
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by ndespres 6y ago
Or search for a term like "System" and get results like this, all with the same icon: 1. Bing web search results for "system" 2. System Information, a program that shows a report about hardware and software in your compu
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by ndespres 6y ago
I have long suspected that Excel's treatment of CSV files was intentionally antagonistic. For example, opening a CSV file will start an importer function where you must specify how fields are delimited within the file, and "comma&
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by ndespres 6y ago
"Many people who live near Kentucky’s distilleries say the problem has worsened as bourbon’s popularity has soared. According to the Kentucky Distillers Association, 68 distilleries dot Kentucky, a 250 percent increase in one decade. &
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by ndespres 6y ago
I think you're final paragraph is contradictory. I think the environmental impact of our limitless energy consumption so far is clear. Reducing consumption is the only way to reduce further impact. Modern society uses a lot of unnecess
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by ndespres 6y ago
No, not really in America. There are a few freeform music stations that still have actual DJs in the booth selecting records that they like, but mostly al the FM broadcast stations here are owned by 1 or 2 advertising companies who play pre
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by ndespres 6y ago
This is true but you may also encounter some anachronisms. For example, married couples sleeping in separate beds was not something that historically happened- it was just how TV producers dealt with censorship dictated by The Hays Code, th
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by ndespres 6y ago
Oh, how high-minded and ethical of them, to turn down "opportunities to .. collect or mine data" like the rest of Silicon Valley does. Give me a break. It's one thing for consumer internet companies to show me an ad for mattr
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by ndespres 6y ago
The "network" functionality, whether you use the social/feed aspect of it, does warn you if you attempt to pay someone that you've never paid before and that you have no friends in common with. That's also a good wa

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