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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
I've had a logitech trackman marble connected to every desktop/laptop I've used for over the past 20 years. I find it much easier on my wrist/arm to scroll the ball instead of physically moving the mouse and its a good f
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
I'm imagining everything was ASCII character art schematics, given the available toolset back then.
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
I recall "Anarchist's Cookbook" and phone phreaking manuals as ubiquitous text files found on every BBS's file section.
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
As a user my only cost involved was purchasing a 1200baud modem for my C64 I was around 13 at the time. Shortly after that I got a dedicated phone line to not tie up the house phone. I don't recall what terminal emulation software I us
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
you can learn a lot about a person by sitting down and having a meal with them and miraculously alot of the online vitrol dissipates when you have a chance to see them as a full person.
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
I think the new version is beautiful it shows the flow and connections of the lines and stations to easily count stops and make transfers while on the move at a glance.
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
check out the Guardian Project's PanicKit. I'm not sure if it's still in active development but it looks like what you just described.
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
Writing this on my 12 year old HP Pavilion 23 all-in-one running Pop as a bedside device for streaming video and audio books. It's smooth and responsive even with multiple videos running and flipping between browser tabs.
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
+1 for filters and folders. Then either Do, Defer or Delegate.
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
Exactly. Working around the operations needs of the business and communicating availability to set expectations can suffice in some scenarios where five 9s are not required.
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
A months+ long maintenance windoe is untenable and I would have returned the thermostat as well. That's one example. In a smaller IT shop (~8 people) maintaining all services for a 500 person 9 to 5 business maintenance windows provide
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
Just crazy enough to work!
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
I've installed a great tabbed file explorer aptly titled "Files". It's a little rough around the edges but shows a lot of promise. Prior to that QTTabs worked well but didn't play nice with dark mode or the "
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
> Did I understand correctly: does this mean that I need to have a working Internet connection to install Win11 (non-"Pro"), hoping that my NIC works during the installation process? That is my read on it. The guidance to &quot
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
from the article > Local “offline” accounts require Windows 11 Pro. and still no tabbed Windows Explorer. zero interest in this I see no benefit.
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
perfect. I was looking at the pdf version on the actual mega65 site but did not see this. ty.
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
for 800 it would have to include a spiral bound user manual.
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
(b) was policy from HR at my last employer and I would always forward HR any reference I wrote for employees for review before sending to make sure it complied with their requirements. There was more flexibilty for reference letters written
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
> I am no fan of digital ID's but did he really need a FOIA request to break open the idea that Apple were thinking of adding drivers license to their native app and talking to the DVLA in various states about it? He would need an F
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
I believe so.
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
From the article: > Apple has partnered with Duke University to research the third brain using advanced medical technology powered by Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning based on people and documents. What? From the WSJ article
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
I've been a happy user of the (free) version of libib for ~8 months now. Android and website both work great for my purposes (800 books, manually added) but as parent states the service can be used with a barcode scanner for larger li
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
bluetooth beacon tracking in retail settings
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
This looks like an interesting platform to work off of, thanks for the info I'm going to start following their progress.
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
The DIY version of this (for me) is to use one of the spare android devices laying around, install lineage (or your rom of choice), strip it down to just what you consider bare essentials (for me it would be gps, music and voice-to-text (
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
I gave up sugar in my coffee ~4 teasoons a day without any problems, but salt I am finding is more difficult to avoid.
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
iCloud != home
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
> The GOP had to go with what they could get. While it certainly remains to be seen, my (conspiracy?) theory is that a percentage of the payment to Cyber Ninjas will make it's way back to the GOP in the form of campaign contribution
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
no, sometimes I am definitely lazy.
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
my sibling was born premature and spent 78 days in the hospital when born. I was a young child myself so I haven't a clue as to cost but it put my parents into bankruptcy.

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