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by pengo 4y ago
"Bleak House" by Charles Dickens, unless I can get Anthony Trollope's "Barsetshire Chronicles" accepted as a single book.
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by pengo 4y ago
My company hasn't used anything but Open/Libre Office since its inception. No problems. The only slightly related issue has been the one client who continues to send email attachments from Outlook as winmail.dat.
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by pengo 4y ago
I did use Amazon a couple of times when it first arrived, but wasn't comfortable with its overreach in every area of operation, and have avoided it since. There are more equitable alternatives
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by pengo 4y ago
The clipboard data format for copying and pasting is determined by whoever wrote the software. Some software allows for format conversion of copied data at the point of pasting; again, that's a decision made by the software provider.
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by pengo 4y ago
I've just sold my newest laptop as part of the sale of my business, which leaves me only: - Dell XPS13 (16GB i7 but six years old) running Linux - OneMix Yoga (7" micro laptop) running Linux - Apple Mini (64GB i7) for music produc
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by pengo 4y ago
We adopted SQLite for a commercial Windows application suite. the architecture allowed users to export, backup and share databases (useful in the context). I've also used it for a large number of developer desktop utility apps. I'
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by pengo 4y ago
Dozens, at least. Everything from: NAS apps that download television Electronic Programme Guides and automatically schedule recordings; to personal radio stations that integrate text-to-speech, calendar entries, local news headlines and the
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by pengo 5y ago
I'm a Firefox user. When I see a cookie popup I immediately CTRL+R to switch to Reader view. It usually works; I still get to read the page, but without the popup or any advertising.
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by pengo 5y ago
If you have the right hardware, most Linux distros "just work" out of the box. I've deliberately bought Dell XPS machines for work because of this. But I've also been helping older neighbours and friends gain or maintain
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by pengo 5y ago
[EDIT] ... the battery life has never bettered three hours.
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by pengo 5y ago
I bought a OneNote four years ago (8GB RAM, 128GB MicroSD, 1.6GHz proc, 7" screen, tooled aluminium case). There's a lot to like about the form factor and I found the keyboard and screen adequate, running Debian and Mint successfu
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by pengo 5y ago
We use Object Pascal (via Lazarus) and compile the code for each target platform. The apps concerned are (only?) dev utilities, but they're fast and have a small footprint.
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by pengo 5y ago
I got into programming in 1990 as a business manager with a need that could realistically only be met with a software solution, and no budget. I thought "how hard can this be?", took a laptop home and taught myself BASIC. Even tho
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by pengo 5y ago
For me, SSDs pushed me over the line. I've been running Linux on Dell's highest spec XPS13 for five years and recently updated to the latest model. The only thing either the new or previous laptop labours at is video transcoding,
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by pengo 5y ago
I had a bad dose of the 'flu in 2005. I could keep hydrated, but not tolerate much else. By day three I had the headache from hell, and eventually figured out it was caffeine withdrawal. I decided I didn't want to be functionally
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by pengo 5y ago
Very cool site!
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by pengo 5y ago
I subscribe to one UK magazine, mailed monthly to NZ. That's my only subscription. I buy music from Bandcamp, HDTracks and occasionally CD. I buy boxed set DVDs. I run my own media server. My dev business does have three subscriptions:
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by pengo 5y ago
Tweetdeck's filters have given me manageable Twitter feeds (I have multiple accounts for different purposes), but I see "The New Tweetdeck" removes these. When that's out of beta I guess I'll need to find a third pa
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by pengo 5y ago
Trello. It used to be my preferred project tracker, but the introduction of workspaces and their recent insistence on obfuscating posted URLs has broken our workflow and made me keen to move.
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by pengo 5y ago
I do a crossword (from the same site) over breakfast. Some days it's easy from the start, and I know I'm already firing on all cylinders. Other days it's a slow start, but by the end I've mentally limbered up. I think Su
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by pengo 5y ago
> How do you deal with Microsoft's crap on a daily basis? I don't. I moved fulltime to Linux rather than try to mitigate Windows 10's predations. I wouldn't go back.
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by pengo 5y ago
Any longform content I write at telegra.ph gets the URL stripped from my tweet, while the same content at graph.com (an alias) doesn't. So, yes, I think Twitter does censor Telegram links.
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by pengo 5y ago
Linux: only once, when there was no upgrade path to the newer distro version. MacOS: never. Windows: at least a dozen times (and I haven't used Windows for five years).
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by pengo 5y ago
[1] Top quality laptops (high spec XPS13s running Linux) rather than cheap ones. [2] A good (non-electric) bike in my small flat town. [3] SailfishOS rather than a surveillance or walled garden phone. [4] Intel Synology NAS with maxxed out
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by pengo 5y ago
I have two Dell XPS13s, one five years old, one new. Both took to Linux (Mint, in my case) like ducks to water. They dual boot from rEFInd, but I seldom use Windows (I have just one heritage Win application to support, and that's been
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by pengo 5y ago
I'm now into my third year with Sailfish as my daily driver (Sony Xperia XA2 Plus) and can confirm it's first rate. And if you need an app that doesn't have a native Sailfish version, it'll almost certainly run the Andro
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by pengo 5y ago
A quote that's stuck with me for decades: "The purpose of life is to give life purpose." It may sound trite, but I've found it to be true. I've lived a life of serialised purpose, increasingly more altruistic than c
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by pengo 5y ago
We have a high-end NAS and all devices (laptops, desktops, tablets and phones) back up to that. That NAS then backs up to the cloud overnight, every night. We're also getting a second NAS which will do an offsite mirror of the first in
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by pengo 5y ago
I work from home and I've had a standing desk for twelve years now. I also start each day with a fifteen minute routine of static exercises: situps, pushups, squats, chinups. Both the standing desk and the morning exercises are now so
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by pengo 5y ago
I'll take a contrarian approach and say that, as a Class A asshole, you can get a job almost anywhere. Every team I've been part of as a dev or team leader has had at least one. I've been in hiring cycles where management has

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