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by specproc 1y ago
It's more like shifting from a normal to an electric bike. You can go further and faster, but you can get to a point where you're out of juice miles from home, and getting back is a chuffing nightmare. Also, you discover that you&
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by specproc 1y ago
There are two big offers with streaming services: catalogue and curation (playlists, up next). On curation, taking one's time to do that oneself is arguably superior. You get to know your music better, tailor the collection to your tas
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by specproc 1y ago
This reminds me of the present I came up with for a mate's 40th. I ran up a bunch of playlists on Spotify, pulled them down with spotdl, burned them to CDs, ran up some album art, and slapped QR codes linking to the playlists on the ba
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by specproc 1y ago
Thank you kindly
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by specproc 1y ago
Not an awful lot these days, but I used to write long, bureaucratic docs for a living, worked a lot with complex budgets and financial reports too. Nothing beats native Word or Excel for this sort of work. Browser-based tools and open alter
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by specproc 1y ago
Thanks, I see stuff like this and think, "well if it worked well everyone would use it all the time". Affinity is something I use occasionally enough to be able to put up with a bit of jank. Appreciate the response, good to know w
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by specproc 1y ago
> So, am I able to run Office 365 on it? > Yes. :) I mean, great. I've never actually tried since going all in on Linux. Figured I'd just abandon the Windows world. This would be useful though. Does anyone here actually do t
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by specproc 1y ago
Massive crashes often precede massive wars.
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by specproc 1y ago
It's gotta happen though, right? Pretty much guaranteed. What's the event that precipitates it?
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by specproc 1y ago
The old English 'ᵹ' has visual similarities with the Georgian 'გ', also our 'g'. We've two letters that are visually similar to yogh 'ȝ': 'ვ' (an English 'v', or 'w'
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by specproc 1y ago
Yeah, I had so many Nvidia/wayland issues that totally evaporated on moving to Arch. I guess that's the benefit of rolling.
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by specproc 1y ago
I had great fun this week with the batch API. A good morning lost trying to work out how to do a not particularly complex batch request via JSONL. The python library is not well documented, and has some pretty basic issues that need looking
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by specproc 1y ago
You're describing virtually every policy for virtually every government, certainly since the coalition. Arguably a lot of what we've seen before. The UK doesn't have governments, it has a public policy unit for global capital
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by specproc 1y ago
We need to start treating phones differently. We're entering a world where we can't choose what we run on them. Their primary purpose is to gather data on us and serve us advertising, they're engineered for addiction, yet eng
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by specproc 1y ago
My anti AI take is that it's no fun. I'm on a small personal project with it intentionally off, and I honestly feel I'm moving through it faster and certainly having a better time. I also have a much better feel for the code.
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by specproc 1y ago
I've actually been in there, didn't love it. I'm very much on the left, from an economic perspective at least, and a bibliophile, but I found the selection underwhelming. There weren't that many shelves and I just don&#x
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by specproc 1y ago
All I've done in Typst is my CV, I saw it here a while back and thought it'd be a nice use case. It took about a day to get my head round the language an another to get it looking like I wanted. It's pretty simple, but I foun
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by specproc 1y ago
I find it completely devoid of joy, the frustration without the satisfaction and growth.
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by specproc 1y ago
Nice. I'm sat on Gnome like a basic again, as I got tired of fucking around with dotfiles and deciding what sort of login manager defines me as a person. Had been thinking of giving KDE another whirl, but now Cosmic seems roadworthy, a
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by specproc 1y ago
Gnome via extensions, but not natively. I've never really clicked with any of them. Not sure about KDE.
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by specproc 1y ago
For me, the old web died with filesharing. It was the point the legal and corporate world asserted control, truly a free place until then, anything felt possible. I'd go as far as to say filesharing was a completely new, post-scarcity
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by specproc 1y ago
I usually use some obscure dialect of Brainf*k, this means: - Everyone thinks I'm smart, - The client has to return to me for the simplest changes ($$$), - I get paid to practice my favourite language,
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by specproc 1y ago
Yeah, I always assumed my inversion preference was something to do with my left-handedness. I'm guessing it should have been tested for in the study cited. Massive omitted variable bias if not.
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by specproc 1y ago
The article does not document isolated cases of individual free speech, but a coordinated campaign of government run propaganda.
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by specproc 1y ago
A side note, but there've been a couple of times in the most recent season of (the largely excellent) Strange New Worlds where I've thought "they're talking to the computer like an LLM now". The holodeck episode spr
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by specproc 1y ago
The problem with the UK is not population growth. 20 percent over 30 years is neither exceptional nor unmanageable. Population growth is by and large a good thing, it means more people working, paying tax, making pension contributions. More
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by specproc 1y ago
For so many arguments, I'm also thinking copyright here, the framing is always about the little guy. These laws/practices are there to protect/enable small businesses and content creators. The reality is very much the opposit
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by specproc 1y ago
I'm a real app minimalist, only basic stuff for day to day living, but the browser is what sucks my life away. I've tried things like Leechblock, but they don't stick. The only thing that's really worked is turning the d
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by specproc 1y ago
The scene has really moved on. I had a modest amount of bitcoin that's just been sitting there since the Silkroad. I'm broke and finally decided to use it. Asked a crypto friend how to manage it in 2025, he pointed me to a service
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by specproc 1y ago
Also in Georgia. I first noticed when Gmail went down. I was working on a site using Google fonts and that was also struggling.

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