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by slantyyz 7y ago
Have you thought about adding old school modems to that list? We've come a long way from telephone couplers, BBSes and Compuserve in terms of how we get online and communicate. +++ ath
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by slantyyz 7y ago
As an older person, I thought it was a reference to the red room in basement in the Amityville Horror.
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by slantyyz 7y ago
I don't know if I'd use the word "fantastic". In many ways, I feel that the Windows and Android clients in particular are still second class citizens compared to their Mac/IOS counterparts.
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by slantyyz 7y ago
Here's a recent experience I had with them... When you have sync issues, the workaround in the absence of a Force Sync button (which used to exist ) is to create a dummy secure note or to log out and log in again. Most users won'
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by slantyyz 7y ago
Another option: If you have a Cricut or other cutting machine, you can buy the vinyl and cut your own.
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by slantyyz 7y ago
There is also http://mathnotepad.com/ which is based on https://mathjs.org/
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by slantyyz 7y ago
If someone is thinking of doing it because they watched Pet Fooled on Netflix, I advise that they do additional research first. Raw isn't necessarily better or worse, but best to make as informed a decision as possible. I pasted this l
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by slantyyz 7y ago
A good source of information raw food is the Skeptical Vet blog (written by a vet who tries to take a scienced based look at veterinary medicine). http://skeptvet.com/Blog/2013/11/raw-diets-for-pets/ (th
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by slantyyz 7y ago
For some use cases, you can use Keytar ( https://github.com/atom/node-keytar ) which uses the credential system/keychain on the OS.
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by slantyyz 7y ago
I had portable cassette players that would rewind or fast forward to the next blank spot between songs. It was slow, crude and limited to the next and previous track, but it did work well in the era before CDs.
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by slantyyz 7y ago
I used to buy leaderless cassettes and I had no issue with auto reverse on my portable cassette players.
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by slantyyz 7y ago
Really? That's interesting. I don't have that experience running Rails on Windows. Having said that, I do use thin for my development instance, so maybe that's why.
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by slantyyz 7y ago
FWIW, when I switched from Mac to Windows, I was able to still do Rails development in Windows itself (I guess it ultimately depends on your Rails app complexity and the gems you rely on) and deploy my solutions to Linux servers. This was b
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by slantyyz 7y ago
>> That’s a bullshit argument. I said "That's why I no longer have a Mac and have a Windows laptop instead." It's not an argument. It's simply a statement of fact that explains a choice I've made for myse
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by slantyyz 7y ago
I haven't seen the name Remember the Milk mentioned in years. I had to google them and was a little surprised to see that they're still around.
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by slantyyz 7y ago
I have only one laptop that had an "expanding" ethernet port (a Lenovo), and it's not great. It's the first flaky built-in ethernet port I've ever had in a laptop.
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by slantyyz 7y ago
Yes, but when you're trying to position something precisely, that's a problem. This doesn't happen when you have a physical button that only has an on/off state. Keep in mind, I hate trackpads because I'm generally
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by slantyyz 7y ago
I usually turn them off. I find clicking and dragging more difficult on laptops without physical buttons (Macbook and Windows) than laptops with physical trackpad buttons. YMMV
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by slantyyz 7y ago
So the solution is to have a briefcase full of dongles? That's why I no longer have a Mac and have a Windows laptop instead.
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by slantyyz 7y ago
I have always found strange things to happen when my held down finger (on the "virtual button") moves too much or changes pressure - on both Windows and Mac. That's just one more thing to think about in the back of my head. I
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by slantyyz 7y ago
>> Okay, but if a dongle breaks, you just buy another dongle. Sure. But what if you're onsite somewhere and can't get one nearby? This is a huge problem if you're somewhere where you are required to use a wire for netwo
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by slantyyz 7y ago
>> These are all good things, because people like them, and are happily handing truckloads of their money over to Ive's company for products with these "features". That's kind of assuming that Apple users are all t
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by slantyyz 7y ago
They aren't for me. While I would say Macs have always had excellent pads, I still hated them. I want to be able to have a finger on a physical button that doesn't detect any touch movements when dragging something.
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by slantyyz 7y ago
>> I knew defining a dongle would bring out the pedants Some might say your narrow definition of dongle was an attempt at being pedantic. >> I think the real point is being overlooked here. The real point being overlooked isn&#x
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by slantyyz 7y ago
The problem has less to do with dongles than having a diverse product line catering to multiple user types. Apple has basically decided to make all their laptop lines ultrabooks (which is their prerogative). And because a lot Mac users are
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by slantyyz 7y ago
Even though my last Mac, the early 2011 15" Macbook Pro, was a complete lemon in terms of execution (GPU overheating issues), I loved that design and form factor. It had all the ports I wanted, plus the end-user expandability. At one p
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by slantyyz 7y ago
I'm a mouse user (who actually really liked both the much maligned mighty mouse and magic mouse), but when it came to track pads, I hated that Apple didn't have physical buttons for the trackpad. My hand eye coordination on trackp
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by slantyyz 7y ago
It's not unreasonable to call an SD card reader a dongle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongle#Other
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by slantyyz 7y ago
I don't think that's an issue. Few, if any of Apple's competitors are willing to invest in the high manufacturing costs it takes to produce something like a Macbook Pro, or a 2019 Mac Pro. Apple isn't one to cut corners,
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by slantyyz 7y ago
While I get the appeal of the Retina Macbook Pros and forward, my love affair with the Mac laptop ended with the discontinuation of the 15" unibody Macbook Pros. Those unibody laptops represented just about everything I wanted in a lap

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