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by opan 7mo ago
>There are a few parts to the difficulty. One is that when I have something to say about my day, there's nowhere to say it; no one on HN cares whether I fixed up the blinds or cooked pork steaks. I hang out in an IRC chatroom for th
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by opan 7mo ago
Interesting idea, thanks!
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by opan 7mo ago
Nitpick, but I love vim (and to a lesser extent emacs) and am not a programmer (sadly). I don't believe you need to be a programmer to use them. Using vim is "just" using your computer. Personal notes, system configuration (d
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by opan 8mo ago
I spent a couple months memorizing the test questions/answers with Anki, without learning the theory, and passed the second level test (the one below Extra, I forget the name). I got a cheap Chinese (ABBREE brand I think) radio but nev
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by opan 8mo ago
Fullscreening windows is typically a feature of tiling WMs, and tiling often makes it easier to adjust the ratios of the splits in small amounts. I think tiling works well at all resolutions.
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by opan 8mo ago
The WLAN cards are soldered now, so I don't think they need to.
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by opan 8mo ago
They are actually very nice screwdrivers. I had a cheaper no-name set before and ended up stripping screws a lot more often. I got their Mako kit and it's worked great the last 4 years or so. If you ever do work on old game consoles I
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by opan 8mo ago
Sadly the T440p (my main machine for several years) and T420 run insanely hot even with fresh paste and a cleaned fan, at least while docked and in continuous use. Could not for the life of me overcome it. Got a T14 Gen 5 and it's a so
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by opan 8mo ago
Specifically the T14 had half or fully soldered RAM for the first several gens. Gen 5 restored the socketed RAM. T440p was the last with a socketed CPU. We've lost a lot of power user features over the years, but ThinkPads still tend t
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by opan 8mo ago
Lenovo has long had a separate board for the power connector you could separately replace. This is likely a continuation of that idea. I had an X220 Tablet (Released in 2011) from eBay that was sparking when I plugged it in. IIRC I just uns
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by opan 8mo ago
Failing RAM is rarer than it seems from posts online. My theory is that it's so easy to test for that everyone says to do it even if it's unlikely to be your problem. It reminds me of people who needlessly recap (replace capacitor
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by opan 8mo ago
pmOS runs well on a couple OnePlus phones (6, 6T). For whatever reason the Snapdragon 845 and 865 have decent mainline support. I expect the OnePlus 8T to join the prior list of phones in the near future. You can similarly look at which gam
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by opan 8mo ago
I'm personally happy with LineageOS on OnePlus stuff, but have you considered getting a Pixel that's 2 gens or so old from eBay? I find old flagships drop in price pretty quick and are often a better deal than a new low-end phone.
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by opan 8mo ago
I am familiar with nvim and fzf but not nvALT. Could you give me a brief explanation of the workflow here? Is fzf just used to jump between separate note files or what? Personally I have a general notes.txt as well as more specific ones lik
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by opan 8mo ago
Obligatory: https://retrohacker.substack.com/p/bye-cups-printing-with-ne...
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by opan 8mo ago
How many generations of that mouse design have there been now? Any changes to it? Wireless charging support could be a nice bandaid on that terrible design.
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by opan 8mo ago
I have some nostalgia for XP, especially the Zune theme (separate download, black+orange recolor of the default), but due to the Classic theme being available in so many versions and often using it either for more performance or easier rici
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by opan 8mo ago
Going against the spirit of TFA here, but I believe you can eat anything at any time of day, and my favorite breakfast tends to be regular food. Chili, soup, pasta, baked potatoes. Something warm, filling, and usually involving salt. I do s
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by opan 8mo ago
Debian had a new stable release 45 days ago. For now I would imagine things aren't too old there. Although a friend of mine recently ran into some ancient packages on Mint, so maybe Mint/Ubuntu are oddly behind Debian Stable right
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by opan 8mo ago
>Drinking caffeine in the morning seems like a really good proxy for whether an individual has somewhere to be that day. Anecdotally, on a Sunday morning with 8 hours of sleep and no plans, I'm still going to caffeinate at least onc
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by opan 8mo ago
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/issues/1... https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/195... https://github.com/matrix-org&#x
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by opan 8mo ago
There is Mumble for a free software option similar to TS. Works well in my experience. I've hosted a server for friends for around a decade now I think.
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by opan 8mo ago
There's more than just the big flagship server and hosting your own. There are lots of small public servers you can sign up for, similar to email.
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by opan 8mo ago
Strongly agreed. I'd like to see users pushing more for this. Return to IRC, try XMPP or Matrix, put up a forum. Lots of options exist that would be more freedom-respecting, stable, and publicly searchable.
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by opan 8mo ago
I've been thinking we could eliminate a lot of niche specialized distros by replacing them with system configs for Guix System or NixOS. Maybe if you got Ansible involved it could work for Debian and Arch also. Set your default package
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by opan 8mo ago
matrix.org used to feature weechat-matrix among the recommended clients, but last I looked it wasn't there anymore. Dead project, probably. A shame.
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by opan 8mo ago
Neither one strictly requires a login AFAIK, actually. You can chat with an unregistered nick on IRC, and Mumble has certs, but I think they're optional and don't have associated passwords.
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by opan 8mo ago
This is an interesting angle, actually. For me, IRC is the most fun out of the big three (free software chat protocols) of IRC, XMPP, Matrix. The variety of bots and their commands (I never see bots on XMPP or Matrix, kinda odd), being able
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by opan 8mo ago
Steam itself is proprietary, and I imagine they'd expand the existing Steam chat and not do something separate like Proton. I don't think jumping into the arms of another company managing a centralized proprietary social platform
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by opan 8mo ago
Mumble for voice is unironically great. For video, maybe Jitsi. I don't often have a need to video chat, personally.

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