stevewillows

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by stevewillows 7y ago
yeah, the 5.5 is the best. Such an easy mod, too. Combined with Rockbox and it's a near-perfect media player.
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by stevewillows 7y ago
yup! You I replaced it with an iFlash Quad [1] -- it takes up to four micro SDs. I also replaced the battery with a 2000mAh and keep it all in the 30gb case. I also replaced the headphone jack and lock switch so they were black. Modding iPo
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by stevewillows 7y ago
A guy in /r/buyitforlife posted a palm pilot (Tungsten C), and it got me thinking about heading back down this road (further than I already have.) For portable audio, I'm using a souped-up iPod video. I'm thinking 2020 w
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by stevewillows 7y ago
Interesting to see a mobile hardware keyboard with a Dvorak layout.
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by stevewillows 7y ago
great work! I love Tatham's puzzles. Every night I run through Cube, Galaxies, Guess, Inertia, Net, and Pearl -- but with my SE, I've got the puzzles as large as I can go before I am unable to actually play. The overall experience
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by stevewillows 7y ago
nice! For WaPO and all other paywalls, you can try either of these paywall bypassing extensions [1], but for me, I find that simply disabling scripts through uBlock Origin does the trick. [1] https://github.com/iamadamdev&#x
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by stevewillows 7y ago
Check Privacy Possum/Badger. The tracking headers are being blocked, which seems to break Outline.
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by stevewillows 7y ago
I've been on about one meal per day for several years now. If I do a full brunch/lunch and late dinner, I feel so heavy. I typically do a scoop of chunky peanut butter or some yogurt in the morning with coffee, then nothing until
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by stevewillows 7y ago
You can install Stylus in your browser and use one of several dark themes, or make your own. https://userstyles.org/styles/113994/hacker-news-dark With the structure of HN, it doesn't take a lot to make somet
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by stevewillows 7y ago
It's not perfect, but I've been using this Kill Sticky [1] bookmarklet to ditch those modals without having to look around for their [close] or 'x' link. [1] https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky
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by stevewillows 7y ago
I rarely use twitter, but I've got @stevew -- and I get a lot of truncated mentions about Woz and others.
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by stevewillows 7y ago
Early on, Etsy got rid of all of the 'vintage' stores, and there was a good deal of backlash --- but proper crafters were totally behind the move. Back then, if you wanted to get some great traction, you got into the chats with
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by stevewillows 7y ago
Streaming definitely isn't renting, though. For an analog, it'd be like a video rental shop saying 'rent all you want for $11 per month'. Streaming services have released physical copies of their series. I doubt they&#x2
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by stevewillows 7y ago
Personally, I view DRM for streaming different than DRM for purchased content. For streaming, DRM is to prevent the user from essentially archiving the catalog, which its fine by me. But DRM for purchased / non-subscription content isn
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by stevewillows 7y ago
like Angostura said, some folks (me included) hide their dock. I probably haven't used the dock more than a dozen times this year. I use Alfred like we'd use dmenu (or whatever) with i3.
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by stevewillows 7y ago
I love Thunderbird. When it went out of active dev, I switched to Postbox, assuming that they'd really get to work on the client. They didn't. They made it look mildly prettier, but stripped away a few of the good features without
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by stevewillows 7y ago
yeah, like nammi said. Basically, go to Profiles > Session > check 'Status Bar Enabled' > Configure Status Bar If you hit rainbow and hate it, just remove the items and re-add them and they'll go back to normal. :)
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by stevewillows 7y ago
When I moved back from the betas, the minimal theme is what I missed the most. Its so clean. Combine that with the status bar at the bottom, and I'm in heaven. It's one of the few pieces of software that I really miss when I'
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by stevewillows 7y ago
A lot of people in the low-end VPS community use this [1] -- and I've used it ever since. The installation script just works. Adding a new user? Run the script. I don't think we're alone in the struggle. https://gi
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by stevewillows 7y ago
Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection for IOS or Android is an excellent collection of games with variable difficulty. I enjoy Galaxies, Net, Inertia, Pearl, Guess, and Untangle the most.
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by stevewillows 7y ago
that's crazy about LastPass. It was a decent product for its time, but password managers evolved quite quickly over the past few years. My beef with 1Pass is that they charged around $35 - $50 for their standalone product during the ex
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by stevewillows 7y ago
Spreadsheets are the best -- specifically Google Sheets. The addition of QUERY really allows Sheets to be superior to Excel, at least for the things I use it for. Combine that with an IMPORTJSON script, and you can create really clean, stru
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by stevewillows 7y ago
I've been using Bitwarden since just after it launched. I've yet to have any issue with it. The desktop, browser, and mobile clients are all seamless and... well, just work. I was part of the LastPass exodus after their acquision
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by stevewillows 7y ago
if the runtimes and all that are the same, it wouldn't be difficult or very time consuming to do this with FFMPEG or even MKVTOOLNIX. I'm obsessed with commentary tracks for movies and television -- and rarely does one copy have e
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by stevewillows 7y ago
There are a few things listed in this thread. For me, my favorite Android tweak (once rooted) is to modify ro.sf.lcd_density to pop the phone into tablet mode (for most apps.) Jailbroken IOS 9.3.3 had Little Brother, and there is a way to d
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by stevewillows 7y ago
That's an excellent example of the wealth that is on youtube. As he was going through those knots, I could think of a dozen ways to use each one. They're so simple, but effect -- and with zero waste. He's got a real wisdom in
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by stevewillows 7y ago
My favorite 'around town' headphones are Sennheiser Momentums. Really light, comfortable headphones that sound great. Along with these, @brundolf's suggestion of the Koss PortaPros is excellent. Cheap headphones that fold up
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by stevewillows 7y ago
I think this is true for most technical jobs. What makes us good is that we understand how to search, which leads us to the corners of the internet where other technically minded people seek help and answer questions. I've seen frien
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by stevewillows 7y ago
there is a lot more to making chalk than I realized. https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/c3/19/ae/06e559e...
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by stevewillows 7y ago
You also can tack on `?mode=guest_open` to view any massdrop URL without a login. https://drop.com/buy/drop-oblotzky-gmk-oblivion-v2-custom-ke... -- keycap set is $125

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