nekobrain

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   by nekobrain 2y ago

   Just "upgraded" to a Pixel 8 from a 4a (it wasn't even my intention to do so, went to have my 4a battery replaced but the shop botched the job and I needed a working phone quickly), I agree with every point made by the author
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   by nekobrain 4y ago

   The tip of your pick should be really close to the tip of your thumb, that's the main point for me.
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   by nekobrain 5y ago

   A Raspberry Pi might very well be the reason I work as a SRE today, I think it was the first machine I SSH'd into and that got me that "anything is possible" feeling.
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   by nekobrain 5y ago

   OMG yes! I thought it was just me being too young :)
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   by nekobrain 7y ago

   Milan :)
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   by nekobrain 7y ago

   Correct, I'm from Milan and riocontra is used almost exclusively in Milan. We have the same "pelato" -> "topela" correspondence by the way!
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   by nekobrain 7y ago

   We have something like that in Italian too, in the area where I come from we call it "riocontra" (which is "contrario", ie. "opposite", with the syllables inverted) . It's probably not as widespread as ve