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by pbnjeh 3y ago
I grew up during a time when the principal way to see older movies was on broadcast television. Not only chopped up for commercials, but, as I later learned, with many critical moments removed. Years -- decades -- later, when I returned to
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
Lazy Loaded Meaning Tempted to write that "Meaning".
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
My parents have a couple of newer Outbacks. My father, who's rather technical and pays close attention to these things, had commented repeatedly that he likes how Subaru appears to be more conservative in deploying new technology, but
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
Sanitation and hygiene, dental care, antibiotics, and vaccines. In some cases, improved diet. Those are, I believe, the biggest factors in increasing life expectancies. Perhaps also pregnancy and infant care, getting 0 to 5 year olds past h
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
Several years ago, I started supplementing with vitamin D (D3, by the way; there is a difference) due to a history of cancer on one side of the family. I wasn't expecting to feel anything. Within two days, my mood stabilized significan
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
I have a couple of N5105 boxes I got off of Amazon on sale, but I haven't put them into use, yet. I've never bought off of AliExpress. I'm in the U.S. Do people take precautions when ordering from them? I'm not so worrie
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by pbnjeh 4y ago
Not a Cessna, but... https://www.ronpatrickstuff.com/ (Actually, I suspect you've probably seen this -- a while back. But, like me, it may be a pleasant little memory, along with the one of that fellow with one in his
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by pbnjeh 4y ago
What do these companies use internally, when they actually have to find something in their own inventory for themselves?
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Eben Upton Interview: Raspberry Pi Availability and More [video](youtube.com)
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by pbnjeh 4y ago
Circa 30 minutes with "Explaining Computers" YouTube channel host Christopher Barnatt
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by pbnjeh 4y ago
P.P.S. I can't edit my parent comment anymore, so replying to self. The restaurant was Salty's. I wasn't zoomed in enough to get the name to pop. Lorraine's is the steak house in Omaha that both my great aunt and Warren
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by pbnjeh 4y ago
One afternoon in early fall of 2005 or 2006, I had a couple of hours to kill -- it might have been been before an evening flight out of SeaTac. I drifted down towards the water nearby, to come across Saltwater State Park. After checking out
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by pbnjeh 4y ago
Thank you. For myself, I prefer not to force application closures. If something's stuck, I'd rather look into it and avoid potential data loss. I'm seldom in that much of a hurry, these days (but I understand others can be).
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by pbnjeh 4y ago
I actually have a W520 that I'd like to continue to use. (That keyboard, plus a surprisingly decent display panel for Lenovo.) I hadn't heard of this problem, so thanks for the heads up! I'll be very planful and sparing in
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by pbnjeh 4y ago
I have a CalDigit mini Thunderbolt 3 dock that provides two DisplayPort ports, a 1 Gbps Ethernet port, and a USB (2? I forget) port. I use it to connect two WQHD monitors, Ethernet, and a wired mouse. It's a real crapshoot whether the
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by pbnjeh 4y ago
sydney6 is referring to a Thinkpad BIOS setting that is labeled "Linux" but really pertains to enabled sleep/power states -- per Linus' video (the OP), this setting works just fine with Windows, too. This is all describe
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by pbnjeh 4y ago
Thank you!
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by pbnjeh 4y ago
Finally, an explanation. I don't run around enough to care about quick/instant startup. Despite using the Windows 10 Windows menu Power command to "Shut down" my Thinkpad X1C6, I took it out of its bag the following day,
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by pbnjeh 4y ago
For such cases, I've taken to starting the BBC World Service stream on my phone's speaker at low volume. Just loud enough to be a presence but at or below the threshold where I can easily make out the words. Without really paying
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by pbnjeh 4y ago
I don't know whether this would be you or mupdf -- I suspect the latter -- but I'd really like to be able change the line spacing (i.e. the "leading") in the epub reading mode. I find line spacing to be one of the larger