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by ropeladder 10y ago
I had endless trouble getting my logitech wireless audio receiver to work in Windows 8 & 10. Works way better in Linux Mint (though it still forgets the pairing pretty often; but that's way less annoying than simply being unable to
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by ropeladder 10y ago
"...and likely implementation." It's true that you can make UBIs and NITs equivalent, but I think it's important to emphasize the implementation part: they are very unlikely to be implemented the same way. This is becaus
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by ropeladder 10y ago
If you want to sync larger Zotero libraries for free between computers you can use SyncThing to sync the libraries and then let Zotero sync up the database. SyncThing isn't cloud based, so your machines have to be on at the same time,
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by ropeladder 10y ago
After WeatherSpark shut down I spent a few minutes poking around weather data sources before getting overwhelmed and giving up. It looks like they get all their historical data from Weather.gov. (WeatherSpark lists their data sources here:
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by ropeladder 10y ago
Yes. Listary is the one thing I miss from Windows after I switched to Linux Mint. (well, that and running Foobar2000 natively) Also I wanted to mention 7+ Taskbar Tweaker ( http://rammichael.com/7-taskbar-tweaker ), which is
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by ropeladder 10y ago
I really like the grouping features and the labels work pretty well too (though it's slow with large groups). Thanks for sharing your work!
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by ropeladder 10y ago
I found Tarkin pretty distracting from the start. I don't think other people I was with noticed though, so maybe it wasn't a bad choice.
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by ropeladder 10y ago
It's true that anyone who dismisses people as 'SJW types' is probably going to experience a lot of cognitive dissonance reading metafilter. Metafilter has a lot of female users that feel safe expressing their opinion and tell
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by ropeladder 10y ago
Definitely agree with this. Here's hoping that with the Time's extra resources they will be able to keep more up to date.
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by ropeladder 10y ago
I had long assumed that Valve added the "past 30 days" aggregate to show when games had improved rather than gotten worse. (i.e. early access games) Kind of interesting that it helps clarify changes in both ways, and implies ver
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by ropeladder 10y ago
You can't get what's app to do anything if you don't grant it access to your contacts. I ended up creating a new user profile on my phone based on a new Gmail account just to run what's app...
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by ropeladder 10y ago
It convinced me to switch. I've been on Windows since forever and was excited for Windows 10, but the privacy (and auto update) issues convinced me to dual boot with Linux Mint, which I now use for everything but the occasional game. I