theodric

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by theodric 3y ago
Somehow I ended up on Quora's spam list, and despite my many requests, they refuse to unsubscribe me. What I see come through as the subject of those daily e-mails is a constant trickle of inflammatory pseudo-questions, and not infre
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by theodric 3y ago
> People find a cushy place to work in with a good salary, then just work their way up the economical ladder (or the organizational) and will do anything that's needed to achieve that goal. It's as simple as that, and I am conv
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by theodric 3y ago
It's always the greatest iPhone ever! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPkso_6n0vs
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by theodric 3y ago
Whatever you do, don't take the Android 14 upgrade. Mine is dogshit slow now. I'm trying to decide if I can be bothered losing all my config and setting it up again with Android 13, or just paying Google for a new phone.
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by theodric 3y ago
Unfortunately the world is filled with people like my fried who, without fail, buys - for cash, not as part of a contract renewal - the max spec iPhone available every year. One for him, one for his wife. Sell the old ones, or give them to
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by theodric 3y ago
Also because typing "glow-in-the-dark CIA [neighbors]" all the time takes too long. I mean, /pol/ doesn't really shy away from using the odd slur. Just occasionally. Only in between the casual misogyny, gigachad fet
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by theodric 3y ago
Yes, it's full of "glowies." (We can thank Terry Davis of Temple OS fame for that term.) Occasionally, a nutcase who intends to do harm will have been found to hang out there[1], and the glowies don't want to be the last
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by theodric 3y ago
Not diving into the debate about whether this is a useful change, but I do want to push back on the notion that this "costs you nothing." It costs effort, which means it costs billable hours, and therefore money. The question is i
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by theodric 3y ago
Your exhaustion with the word mirrors my exhaustion with the practice, but ending use of the word will not quash the creeping shit
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by theodric 3y ago
It is, but it's further than I'd want to ride something like this, so it's fine.
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by theodric 3y ago
Miami has a large community of people who risked their lives and abandoned everything to flee Cuba to go hang out with the capitalist pigdogs in the USA. Their hospitality toward communist revolutionaries would be somewhat chillier than wha
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by theodric 3y ago
This looks to me like a rehashing of 2016's Snapchat Spectacles combined with the bone-conduction bluetooth temples available on numerous cheap AliExpress sunglasses.
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by theodric 3y ago
Google Glass offered customers a face-mounted camera in 2013. Snapchat released their Spectacles in 2016. This is not a novel concept, even in the consumer electronics space, to say nothing of Steve Mann's work which stretches back dec
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by theodric 3y ago
I ordered one for my wife so I've been treated to the stream of e-mails from Framework pushing back the definition of 'soon’ now into Q4 due to firmware issues. And it looks like they're just shipping anyway despite not being
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by theodric 3y ago
What I suggested is a mid-drive motor, not a geared hub motor. Can then size the drive and driven sprockets to whatever reduction meets the requirements of the build.
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by theodric 3y ago
I recently picked up a ThinkPad E14 gen 2 with a Ryzen 7 4700U for €200. The gen 3 version has Zen 3 CPUs. The Wi-Fi card is M.2 A+E compatible, and although it shipped with Intel Wi-Fi 6, I upgraded it to a 6E card for €20. It is a cheap b
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by theodric 3y ago
E-bike parts. Seems like a good application of something like a Bafang BBS02 (or knockoff) + thumb throttle. Chain drive, plug in a thumb throttle. Could instead use a hub motor, but their starting torque isn't great. Either way, you s
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by theodric 3y ago
It sounds like a girl, but it's a computer!
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by theodric 3y ago
I have a pair of Bluetooth headphones that indexes through 3 languages (Mandarin, Korean, English) on startup when you also hold down some other button besides power (play/pause IIRC). I don't think it's documented. Maybe you
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by theodric 3y ago
Something I've seen genealogists do, as well as some French-speaking Lebanese, and maybe others that I haven't noticed or encountered, is to put the surname in all caps to disambiguate e.g. 'Harrison Paul JEFFERSON'
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by theodric 3y ago
Sending "we're better together" RTO mails from their yachts, too, I'm sure.
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by theodric 3y ago
Grab an Xreal (formerly Nreal)Air and plug it into the USB-C port. Instant massive screen size increase. I've been happy with mine on the Deck.
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by theodric 3y ago
My buddy will be delighted to know that his $4700 MacBook is good to go until 2069
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by theodric 3y ago
I'm saying that my life as I know it would be dramatically different, and probably worse, had I not gone to university, but all of the benefits I assign to having gone are peripheral (friends, spouse, weak employability marker) rather
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by theodric 3y ago
The moment they went from premium computing device to status symbol? Out: YOU have a Macintosh In: $$ THIS GUY $$ has a $$ Macintosh $$
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by theodric 3y ago
B.S. If this was going to happen, why didn't it already happen a decade+ ago on the overwhelming-dominant mobile platform, Android? Especially given that the technology existed in a complete, commercially-available consumer platform no
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by theodric 3y ago
Indeed, nobody takes us seriously regardless of what the paperwork says
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by theodric 3y ago
Attending university was extremely valuable to me: I got to escape my parents, hang out with other people of compatible interests, experience broadband for the first time, and best of all, meet my wife. Oh, and employers sometimes filter on
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by theodric 3y ago
nothing runs away with your wallet like a Deere
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by theodric 3y ago
Something like a Kubota L2000 (or any of the many similar ones ranging 12-40HP) fits the bill for semi-modern-ish, light-ish, small-ish, capable-ish, and cheap-ish. It can even run a bucket loader. If I can get one with a mower, roller, and

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