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by slantyyz 7y ago
According to this newer Linus Video [1], one of the T2 SSD slots still needs to be populated with an Apple drive to boot from other drives. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcLbSCinX3U
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by slantyyz 7y ago
There are launchers for Android, but they don't work perfectly. For me, the only icons I would need is "Call", "Answer" and "Silent". Of course, that begs the question, why not use a "feature phone&qu
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by slantyyz 7y ago
According to a Linus Tech Tips video[1] that I saw a a couple of days ago, you can use PCI nvme drives on the new Mac Pro, but it won't even boot unless one of the proprietary Apple SSDs is connected (because of the T2). [1] https:&#x
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by slantyyz 7y ago
While I get that designers hate skeuomorphism, I tend to think there are still significant benefits to it with seniors. With my dad in particular, if the icons were literally photos (as opposed to "graphically designed" icons) of
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by slantyyz 7y ago
I'm kinda jealous of your experience. My dad (early 80s) struggles with tech in general, including the iPad and iPhone. Many in his peer group use touchscreen devices with fewer issues. This is what I noticed from trying to teach him h
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by slantyyz 7y ago
Isn't Wine also for MacOS too though?
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by slantyyz 7y ago
> it emulates API of an OS that has very large amount of software it runs I thought WINE stood for Wine Is Not an Emulator - has that changed?
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by slantyyz 7y ago
I use Wallabag ( https://wallabag.org/en ) which is similar to Pocket, except that you can self host it.
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by slantyyz 7y ago
Trackballs are very underrated, imo. While I'll admit Apple's trackpads have been the best laptop trackpads for the past several years, I personally hate trackpads. I always make sure I have a mouse in my laptop bag. This is going
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by slantyyz 7y ago
I was thinking it was either Games for Windows or Git for Windows, and missed "Great Firewall" on first skim of the Readme.
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by slantyyz 7y ago
While I hear what you're saying, I think YMMV with Thunderbolt as a hard requirement. When I bought my laptop a couple of years ago, I made sure that it had TB3 for future-proofing, but I have yet to use it, and I suspect that I'l
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by slantyyz 7y ago
This might not be so true after CES is done. I was watching Linus Tech Tips[1] video yesterday, and Asus had a new array of nice laptops (albeit, gaming laptops) that were AMD based, including a 13" one with decent AMD CPUs [1] https:
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by slantyyz 7y ago
Ok, are any of the old fogeys here other than me reminded of the Cauzin Softstrip when they see the printable/scannable code? Back in the day, way back, actually, you would manually type in source code from print magazines for applicat
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by slantyyz 7y ago
The low-end video editing market also hasn't been satisfied with closed source proprietary software either. Yes, there are a lot of players, especially on the Windows side in the under $100 price range, but nothing I've used has b
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by slantyyz 7y ago
There are also non-ISO variations such as the 445 calendar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%934%E2%80%935_calendar
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by slantyyz 7y ago
If your goal is to finish something you started, then pick the easiest stuff to learn that can produce the fastest results based on whatever you already know, even if what you know is "out of fashion". Also, keep in mind that
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by slantyyz 7y ago
For a z-wave device to pair to my hub, I need to put the hub itself in pairing mode. Unlike wifi devices, a zwave device can't just join my hub by knowing an SSID and password. Yes, I could do something similar with a wifi network and
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by slantyyz 7y ago
I think the big concern is the presumption of a non-techie that a medical company would take good care of their information, because of regulations, etc. I would not be surprised if a LOT of Lifelabs customers used the same password on thei
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by slantyyz 7y ago
Sure, but I would still want to check that network's clients as well, so I would still want to identify the devices on that network to ensure that only my devices are on it. Either way, it's still an additional step compared to Z-
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by slantyyz 7y ago
Zoneminder is pretty good, all things considered. It was my go-to NVR before I switched to the Unifi ecosystem. I guess the one drawback (when I was using it) was that it didn't record audio, and that its UI was relatively unpolished.
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by slantyyz 7y ago
I'm on IPV4. It's not about how many IP addresses I have available, it's that all those smart devices can pollute the list of devices connected my wifi network. I like to know what's on my wifi network, and because my me
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by slantyyz 7y ago
I've been gradually retiring my wifi smart devices in favor of Z-wave because I find them far more reliable and much easier to maintain and manage. It's also a little annoying having a pile of wifi devices whose only purpose is to
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by slantyyz 7y ago
I think Scriptella is fantastic. It does one thing extremely well, and for me, that's all I can ask for.
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by slantyyz 7y ago
> There are Java packages that haven't seen a commit in years and are still perfect for a task. My favorite is Scriptella ( http://scriptella.org/download.html ) which recently just got its first update in around 7 ye
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by slantyyz 7y ago
Maybe, maybe not. The only reason why this special cloth even made the headlines and why it's a hot topic for discussion is because it is considered an outlier from a care perspective.
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by slantyyz 7y ago
I'm of the view is that if it's an Apple monitor, there's probably nothing you need to do to it other than plug it in and power it on. The color calibration out of the box will probably be near perfect, and all the controls w
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by slantyyz 7y ago
In a twisted way, the headline is also performing a public service. I can tell you that if I bought one of these monitors, I wouldn't have read the manual, and I would have thought of the free cloth as one of those "nice little to
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by slantyyz 7y ago
Now that you ask that, I wonder if any other monitors targeted at high end pros have the same "special care" requirements.
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by slantyyz 7y ago
All that effort by Apple to design a such beautiful monitor only to have a crudely taped message on it seems... wrong. To me, it makes more sense to include or offer a dust cover (presumably lined with the same material as the special cloth
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by slantyyz 7y ago
I don't think $10 is egregious for a replacement cloth, given the price of the monitor.

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