slantyyz

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by slantyyz 7y ago
It's not a big story, but it's not quite insignificant. Do you read the manual when you buy a monitor? They're all pretty much the same and work out of the box, especially an Apple monitor. I can see a lot of people just sett
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by slantyyz 7y ago
You're assuming anyone cleaning an office can read English, so you'd probably have to have that message in multiple languages and trust that Google Translate did a good job. Besides, who actually uses screen savers these days? Don
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by slantyyz 7y ago
Probably not an issue in most situations, but if you're unlucky to have these monitors in a space where custodial staff who didn't get the memo might take it upon themselves to wipe some dust off a screen, or several screens... yi
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by slantyyz 7y ago
After seeing @undersuit's comment, I decided to try the Ubuntu Server 19.10 ISO and it booted fine off a USB drive. Good to know that no tricks are required (such as these: http://www.linuxium.com.au/home ). I had been
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by slantyyz 7y ago
Does that mean you didn't need to use a boot drive with a 32 bit boot loader? I've been having trouble getting any of my sticks (one an ASUS Vivostick, the other a no-name) to even boot a Linux installer off USB or CD, but that co
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by slantyyz 7y ago
Oracle is a bit of a reach, imo. Oracle's definitely a standard in companies of a certain size and pedigree, but it's not even remotely as ubiquitous as Office, which is both a business and consumer product.
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by slantyyz 7y ago
For context: When I was growing up and going to school (in Canada in the 80s), all of her work was generally classified as Canadian Literature, aka canlit. She was (and still is) considered one of our biggest home grown literary giants. I d
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by slantyyz 7y ago
> Amazon can take action anytime it wants. These new verified purchase review scams are because Amazon took action against incentivized reviews (which had disclosure rules that most reviewers obeyed). Yeah, incentivized reviews might n
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by slantyyz 7y ago
>> Age old scam that works because of people like Jessica who lack any moral compass and will help to screw over anyone for a buck. Keep in mind that this current scam has only become the norm because of the outcry over incentivized r
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by slantyyz 7y ago
I think the synergy of the Ive-Jobs relationship was that Ive was the "how it looks" guy, and Jobs was the "how it works" guy, and the "how it works" guy always had final say on a product. Looking at the past f
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by slantyyz 7y ago
It wasn't just Nvidia GPUs. The early 2011 MBP failures all had ATI GPUs.
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Apple says its been losing money on its repair programs(appleinsider.com)
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by slantyyz 7y ago
>> If making the device upgradable and accessible adds the same percentage in materials then it's pretty much a wash. In the case of Apple products, it can save you a pile of money. The last Mac I bought was the early 2011 MBP (y
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by slantyyz 7y ago
>> I’ve never known anyone to throw away a Mac. Many people with the overheating 2011 MBPs did. Even within my very small social circle, I knew of three 2011 15" MBPs (including my own). Of those 3, all of them had to get the rec
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by slantyyz 7y ago
>> Make sure you can buy cheap compatible cartridges This is not always an option. Some companies have DRM on their cartridges. My dad's Epson printer's DRM wasn't strictly enforced until a recent firmware update render
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by slantyyz 7y ago
>> I'm looking to print way less that 100 sheets/yr, we are talking shipping labels here, nothing serious. If you're only doing shipping labels, you might want to consider a label printer. I got a Brother thermal label
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by slantyyz 7y ago
For me, the sync has been less than perfect (Windows + Android user) on more than one occasion. There used to be a force sync button way back when, but it has since been removed as far as I can tell. I had to Google a workaround (creating a
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by slantyyz 7y ago
After trying the Mark Text demo (very nice), I got very curious about the editor control and how I could integrate it into something I am thinking about working on. It looks like the editor is called Muya: https://github.com&#x2F
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by slantyyz 7y ago
It still comes with the latest Nokia feature phones. I just bought a Nokia 3310 for my father, and it has a fancy color version of Snake built in.
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by slantyyz 7y ago
>> This wasn’t a hate post. It was a legitimate question. Seen through a different lens, it's actually a compliment. The poster sees the utility in the tool, even though it's not built on one of the poster's preferred p
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by slantyyz 7y ago
I also used to live mostly in A mode until I got dogs. Nowadays, I find myself shooting in S mode a lot. Having said that, I don't like shooting wide open on a fast lens except in certain circumstances, so like you, I sometimes prefer
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by slantyyz 7y ago
> should only be used in studio settings. I would tweak that to say "controlled settings". I occasionally use manual in the same fashion as you, but I don't have a studio, or anything close to it.
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by slantyyz 7y ago
Call me old school, but for conversations relating to something concrete and time sensitive, I prefer to do a voice call. I don't trust any text based medium for that. I use a hierarchy when it comes to prioritizing communications and
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by slantyyz 7y ago
What I never understood is sites that put links only available in the footer -and- enable endless scrolling. Worst thing ever.
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by slantyyz 7y ago
I consider a big part of the problem to be notifications, and their respective default settings. Before smartphones (generally speaking), the majority of your notifications were on your computer. If you walked away from it, you were no long
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by slantyyz 7y ago
My friend's BBS had a dungeon style role playing game (this is around 1986), so you could waste quite a bit of time playing that game. The best "purchasable power up" in the game was an "All You Can Eat"... which ra
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by slantyyz 7y ago
I remember getting excited about 2400bps. I was not as early to the BBS scene as some of my friends, but I had to start at 300bps, even though my first model was rated for 1200. There was a known issue with the serial port on the Apple &#x2
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by slantyyz 7y ago
Yes, that is true too. It also depended on what software being used to run the BBS.
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by slantyyz 7y ago
When I started BBSing, chatting was still a luxury feature available only from the larger corporate BBSes or the indie sysops who could afford multiple lines. Back then, the indie sysops didn't have access to stuff like ads to monetize
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by slantyyz 7y ago
And the number of concurrent users was directly correlated to the number of phone lines there were for the BBS. So there were a lot of indie BBSes that scaled to... 1 concurrent user.

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