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by phantasmish 1y ago
Probably to take back a bunch of the education market, which was lost to Chromebooks.
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by phantasmish 1y ago
It's what I've used for years and it's entirely fine for me. For a long time I installed iterm2 because "that's what you do" but one day I realized I was suffering a little wasted disk space, slightly slower st
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by phantasmish 1y ago
What's amazing is that these folks can straight-up publish what they plan to do, and then people still act surprised when they do it. It's so weird. See also: Project 2025. Or various propaganda strategies that are proposed public
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by phantasmish 1y ago
Documentation should often be wrong. There should be five options for each piece of tooling, none of which quite work the same way, all of which have a fan-base singing their praises, and three of which have critical problems you probably w
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by phantasmish 1y ago
cmd is brilliant. I have to shift my entire hand downward a little to hit ctr+c/ctrl-v, and make a pinkie-stretch that I can feel straining my hand. Cmd+c/v keeps three fingers on the home row, and involves just a slide-over of th
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by phantasmish 1y ago
Archive.org has a lot of the old flash stuff, including Xiao Xiao.
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by phantasmish 1y ago
A new rise of political violence was clearly coming in when Trump told his supporters, on camera, in front of a crowd, that they ought to shoot Hillary if she won—and then he not only still had an active campaign a week later, but went on t
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by phantasmish 1y ago
> (Though over in America, most of the historic grand mansions are now tourist attractions, for lack of heirs with the wealth and interest in maintaining them.) Part of this is that the "old money" tended to withdraw from publi
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by phantasmish 1y ago
"Meritocracy" was a satirical term invented to mock the way that the markers and abilities suggested by "merit" tend to accrue self-reinforcingly to the "meritorious" and those connected to them, creating a str
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by phantasmish 1y ago
In the right circumstances and frame of mind, symphonies or sometimes brass band tunes play in my head, multilayered and everything. They've even got enough persistence that I can "rewind" them a few seconds (probably within
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by phantasmish 1y ago
I believe both that aphantasia may be a real thing, and that the vast majority of discussion about it online is plagued by so much imprecision and variety in use of language that it can be hard to say how many people who think they may ha