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by nickjj 11mo ago
> The mid 90s was pretty scary too. If you fast forward just a few years though, it wasn't too bad. You could put together a decent fully parted out machine in the late 90s and early 00s for around $600-650. These were machines good
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by nickjj 11mo ago
I try to come at it with a pragmatic approach. If I feel pain, I upgrade and don't skimp out. ======== COMPUTER ======== I feel no pain yet. Browsing the web is fast enough where I'm not waiting around for pages to load. I never f
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by nickjj 11mo ago
I'm running a box I put together in 2014 with an i5-4460 (3.2ghz), 16 GB of RAM, GeForce 750ti, first gen SSD, ASRock H97M Pro4 motherboard with a reasonable PSU, case and a number of fans. All of that parted out at the time was $700.
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Yep, I know what you mean. It skews back-end stats too. For example if someone buys a course, I hope they take it in full so they feel happy and fulfilled but in reality a good portion never start. It's like Steam games. Some people ju
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by nickjj 11mo ago
Windows 10 has some really weird UI quirks. I have my taskbar set up to be the small view on the bottom but I have the double stacked time + date so I can always see what time it is and today's date. It does this without making the tas
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by nickjj 11mo ago
I have quite some time ago. I tried 5 just now and while it looks familiar to a standard video editor it's missing a lot of features Camtasia and other video editors mentioned here have. It also feels like using a spaceship when all I
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by nickjj 11mo ago
Almost 100% of sales come from organic searches. Usually people would search for things like "Docker course" or "Flask course" and either find my course near the top of Google or they would search for some specific probl
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by nickjj 11mo ago
As someone who has sold video tech courses since 2015, I don't know about the future. I don't want to openly write about the financial side of things here but let's just say I don't have enough money to comfortably retir
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by nickjj 11mo ago
Not in a long time but their pricing page says a bunch of paid features don't work on Linux such as advanced titles and other enhanced effects. I don't know if that will apply to me since their site doesn't explain what they
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by nickjj 11mo ago
Yep, it's not really aimed at this style of video editing. Blender is amazingly designed and robust but it's really optimized for 3D design, not editing screencasts.
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by nickjj 11mo ago
Thanks for the suggestion and reminder! I remember trying Shotcut many years ago and it was worse (IMO) than Kdenline at the time. The good news is I gave it a quick spin just now and it has come a -really- long ways since then. Within 10 m
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by nickjj 11mo ago
I still want to switch, have been trying for like 8 years. Not yet unfortunately. Video editing is still pretty sub-par on Linux compared to Windows. DaVinci Resolve technically works on Linux and it's an amazing piece of software that
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by nickjj 11mo ago
I used to co-run an online gaming ladder back in the Quake 3 days. There were aim bots and other client side hacks back then but we requested that folks record and upload demos of themselves for competitive matches. This allowed anyone to r
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by nickjj 11mo ago
Yep, VirtualBox had it too with guest additions. Once VMWare Player stopped receiving updates I switched over to it. Since WSL became a thing I stopped using this method since getting a "native" Linux terminal through Windows was
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by nickjj 11mo ago
It's funny because I remember in 2014 before WSL, certain hypervisors like VMWare Player had the ability to run Linux apps in Windows using "unity" mode allowing Linux apps to be seamlessly blended in as regular Windows windo
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by nickjj 11mo ago
> The idea of personal blogging is for your own growth and history. That was why I started. Any business I got were byproducts of writing organically about the things I was working on. Courses were also a byproduct of doing the same type
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by nickjj 11mo ago
I'm not sure about this. I've released a new post every week for 10 years straight. My traffic in the last 2 years is worse than the first 2 years. At the blog's peak I was getting around 180k unique visitors a month for year
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by nickjj 1y ago
Besides user uploaded content it's pretty easy to accidentally destroy the reputation of your main domain with subdomains. For example: 1. Add a subdomain to test something out 2. Complete your test and remove the subdomain f
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by nickjj 1y ago
I've been using Walker now for a few weeks on a laptop running Arch Linux with Niri. I've used launchers on Windows (main computer for now) and macOS (work machine) and I have to say, Walker is really top tier. It blends into your
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Walker [Linux]: Fast and highly customizable multi-pupose launcher(github.com)
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by nickjj 1y ago
I thought about SyncThing in the past but was reluctant because I don't have a centralized server and I don't always want 1 device to be the definitive source of truth. For example: - On desktop, wrote a blog post - On d
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by nickjj 1y ago
How well does this work for sending a lot of files without re-sending the same file? I have a desktop + laptop + phone. When I want to sync a directory with a lot of files I wrote a little shell script that uses rsync to do it. This does re
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by nickjj 1y ago
I haven't gotten into battery optimization yet but I will say, I picked up a laptop not too long ago and put Arch Linux on it with Niri (window manager). I am getting about ~4 hours of active usage where the display is on full time and
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by nickjj 1y ago
The problem is if you need to verify everything you might as well do it yourself. I'm not convinced an AI will ever know how to distinguish a personal and business expense from a CSV dump of your credit card too. If you're going t
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by nickjj 1y ago
uv works great in a container, you can tell it to skip creating a venv and use the system's version of Python (in this case, let's say Python 3.14 from the official Python image on the Docker Hub). The biggest wins are speed and a
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by nickjj 1y ago
One thing that was holding me back from trying Niri is its configuration was limited to 1 file with no way to override or include additional configs which is quite important IMO for having 1 main config that you slightly change on different
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by nickjj 1y ago
It might be because of how airlines price tickets. For a 10 hour flight that costs $500 (economy) it will cost +$80 1-way to pick a seat. Not a special seat, just a seat in general. An exit row seat costs +$160 1-way.
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by nickjj 1y ago
I was told it's also illegal in the US for a hospital to bill you as uninsured if you have insurance. You won't get in trouble but the hospital will, but if they ask if you have insurance and you say no when you do, that could cha
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by nickjj 1y ago
It's more than the PWAs. There's: https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/blob/master/install/omar... https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/blob/master/instal
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I think that's ok if you have absolute paths mixed in. If I have some long path like ~/src/open-source/dotfiles or /home/nick/src/open-source/dotfiles it all works with fuzzy matching. You can hi

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