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by smichel17 5y ago
I strongly recommend Simpletask (disclosure, I've sent a couple PRs). Not visually polished, but functionality is the best, bar none: Lua scripts allow extensive customization of your workflow. Free & open source. Only on F-Droid d
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by smichel17 5y ago
Continuing to brainstorm-- Say, the way some messaging platforms have threads which can branch off of the main channel. Maybe this platform has something like that, too; instantaneous and temporary , where messages disappear N minutes afte
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by smichel17 5y ago
> social obfuscation layer A veil, if you will
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by smichel17 5y ago
I math'd this out recently and decided that ~16:9 actually would be the ideal ratio for me.. On a ~42" 8k monitor, using 2x scaling. I'm optimizing mainly for viewing three documents side by side here. Having your primary doc
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by smichel17 5y ago
What about by volume? Also, stronger meaning what? There's a combination of factors here: not just whether it breaks, but also how (dent vs crack..). Also, how well it ages. Also, how much flex does it have and how does that affect the
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by smichel17 5y ago
I think the second part of this post makes a more compelling argument against NC licensing. https://blog.wolftune.com/2011/07/brain-parts-song-video.htm... The core point: > The Creative Commons Non-Commercial
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by smichel17 5y ago
It's not strange. You tell the computer to "start to shutdown" and after 5 or 10 minutes of updates, it finally finishes!
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by smichel17 5y ago
https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by smichel17 5y ago
Well, that's the difference, isn't it? People were able to convert their VHS to DVD. Doing that for DRM would be impractical and/or illegal.
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by smichel17 5y ago
In a home owner's association, the home owners are part of the association. You have to play by the rules, but you are also part of the body that makes the rules. In this case, the party setting the rules is more like the rich person
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by smichel17 5y ago
The main difference between each of those scenarios and the one I describe is that we have words to describe them. From your post: freehold, leasehold, buy, rent, loan (and I'll add: mortgage). You don't need to read the fine pr
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by smichel17 5y ago
It's not just "a" private company, it's the private company which sold you the device.
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by smichel17 5y ago
What galls me about this model is not that it exists, but that companies are allowed to use the words "buy" and "own" in their marketing and contracts around this. The distinction between buying and renting a house, or b
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by smichel17 5y ago
Android illustrates why GNU/Linux makes a meaningful distinction.
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by smichel17 5y ago
You can definitely learn to draw, if you want. It just takes practice. I used to think I couldn't draw, but after taking a painting class, I learned that it's much more technique (and less intuition) than you might think.
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by smichel17 5y ago
In my experience, Micro-USB cables have a far shorter lifespan than any other common, comparable cable. Wish they'd gone straight from Mini-USB to USB-C.
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by smichel17 5y ago
People's experience will vary eidely because the problem is in the supply chains, not production. In most cases, there exists plenty of X, it's getting it from Y to Z that's the problem.
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by smichel17 5y ago
I'd say Elm is a decent example. Released 2012. Historically, the ML family has been fairly unpopular, with a little bit of ocaml in the wild and not much else. Elm is certainly also niche, but I think it meets some definition of &quot
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by smichel17 5y ago
You're making the mistake of anthropomorphizing a corporation. Past a certain size, corporations start behaving less like people and more like computers, or maybe profit-maximizing sociopaths. The intent doesn't matter, because 5
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by smichel17 5y ago
Same with cats! It's a common reason why many house plants which are toxic to cats are potentially fatal. They die of dehydration, not strictly poisoning.
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by smichel17 5y ago
I was using OSMAnd the other day. Wanted to change a setting that I knew exists, since I looked through them all at one point (don't remember which one off hand, sorry). Spent 2 or 3 minutes looking for it before I ran out of time and
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by smichel17 5y ago
Here's a short case study. I am the maintainer of Red Moon, a FLOSS screen filter app for Android. Over a period of several years, the location of the toggle has moved from a switch at the top, to a switch and a floating action button
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by smichel17 5y ago
Additionally, ReCAPTCHA is worse than a metal detector, since in addition to being an inconvenience, it's performing unpaid labor for Google. It's more like a bouncer at the door, who won't let you in unless you grease his pa
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by smichel17 5y ago
https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by smichel17 5y ago
IMO the year of the Linux desktop was 2015, when Microsoft made their operating system available gratis.
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by smichel17 5y ago
I think we tried that once, "in order to form a more perfect union".
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by smichel17 5y ago
Ah, that does complicate things. It's not totally clear to me why they think "Given that the first leap hour would not happen for centuries, it is not clear that any systems (legal or technological) would build in the necessary co
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by smichel17 5y ago
+1, seems like leap seconds could be covered via a leap hour every 10k years or so. Implemented as a daylight savings change that gets skipped. Implement it at the level of time zones, which is complexity that we already have to deal with m
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by smichel17 5y ago
That "free" money comes from fees paid by the seller to the credit card company, and is passed along to you in the form of higher prices. Unfortunately, paying cash seldom lets you opt out of these credit card driven price increas
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by smichel17 5y ago
Huh. During my undergrad, one of the most time-consuming courses was almost entirely pair programming. Having another person there to pull you back on track when you get distracted, and vice versa, was definitely a productivity improvement.

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