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by velosol 3y ago
If 200ppi is your spot you have to go back another decade to hit the IBM T220 (2001-2005): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_T220/T221_LCD_monitors
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by velosol 3y ago
Those notches are about to turn 50! There's a lot of patents out there for various hand alignment helpers but the one that is closest to what everyone is used to is 3848723 [1] filed 23 July 1973. [1,pdf]: https://image-ppub
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by velosol 3y ago
I've been pretty happy with mailbox.org, German based and has support for various keys to use with custom domains (SPF/DKIM) including the ability to have the same custom domain used across multiple accounts (nice for extended fam
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by velosol 4y ago
Plenty of other people addressed the hex driver options - but if you mean the other way around (a drill bit with a hex base) those are also an option: https://images.homedepot-static.com/productImages/9ba9ebd6-8...
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by velosol 4y ago
The blog post is... lacking but they have some half-decent technical reasons at [1] if you're interested. [1]: https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-blog-removing-sms...
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by velosol 4y ago
Holy crap you weren't kidding! The blog post needs to be shelved and redone as every listed reason feels post hoc while the reasons listed at that link ([1] for anyone who dislikes friction) are grounded in reality and show Signal bein
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by velosol 4y ago
He was definitely against the encryption-over-SMS feature of TextSecure as Android and smartphones more broadly grew in marketshare. He also wrote the blog post on how it doesn't matter if you have multiple messaging apps (or federatio
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by velosol 4y ago
If you aren't already familiar with the concept of the 'third place' [1] it might be an interesting thing to learn more about. There has been for a while (20+ years) a decline in enforced third places (e.g. declining religios
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by velosol 4y ago
If you have a safe area it's worth testing how your car works, usually push-to-start is actually a multi-state button between Ignition & Accessory On, Ignition Off & Accessory On, and All Off.
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by velosol 5y ago
Having a VPN back to your home IP really helps with the overseas logins in my experience. If it doesn't work turn on the VPN and it sees you coming from a 'trusted' IP and you're set. The fact that I've had to learn
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by velosol 5y ago
The only alternative I found to Fastmail that was somewhat competitive in terms of tech & security features and not one of those countries was mailbox.org but their webmail is not Fastmail's and Germany isn't far behind those
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by velosol 5y ago
I wonder if FaceTime web [1] actually will work on Firefox or Chromium on Linux. [1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212619
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by velosol 5y ago
I agree on PM2.5 but gas is clearly worse from a CO2 (and other combustion byproducts) point of view compared to induction which is limited to 'just' the food items and the containers they're in.
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by velosol 5y ago
Almost certainly designed to ASHRAE 62.2's specs so that you get enough ventilation through a combination of infiltration (leakage) and additional mechanical ventilation. It's certainly worth it and if designed as a continuous ven
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by velosol 5y ago
Is this because Betamax recorders and/or tapes had the same sort of 29:59 limit that some cameras have today (e.g. cheaper Canons)?
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by velosol 5y ago
That reminds me of the slashdot moderation system - when a user gets modpoints they get to spend them on posts as they browse and indicate why they spent that modpoint that way (e.g. 'Troll' or 'Flamebait').
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by velosol 5y ago
I've used Total Commander's Send to Wifi [1] before and found it workable for that use case (where both are on the same WiFi network; presumably you could use a hotspot for a place without WiFi at all). [1]: https://www
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by velosol 5y ago
I can't speak for lmilcin, but wide open is also critical in low light to minimize ISO noise or to even have a stop or 2 down from the widest to have a little width in the focal plane while still capturing action. Agreed on the shots w
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by velosol 5y ago
I remember reading about being able to pull a fuse to disable cellular connectivity on Teslas a few years back and you could also opt-out of data collection but it was apparently an involved process over email. Has anyone been through going
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by velosol 5y ago
>Different virus sizes, different mask effectiveness. Not necessarily - when speaking and otherwise spreading aerosols they start out much larger than any virus particles contained within them and quickly dry out and shrink if in air (i.
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by velosol 6y ago
It's the grave accent - pretty rare in English outside of loan words from other languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_accent#English
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by velosol 6y ago
Currently using it with maildir on Windows 10.
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by velosol 6y ago
Reading through the GFiber TOS it's not clear that you must use a Google account - they refer often to "the email address used to setup your account" but you can have a Google account with an email address not serviced at Goo
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by velosol 6y ago
I agree. It might depend on where you start the 'netbook' definition and how you count 'most'. The EeePC was x86, the Chromebook Pixel was x86 along with many that followed with balance being ARM variants. More recently
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by velosol 6y ago
It is possible if a bit convoluted [1, 2]. When I looked into it last year it seemed the good guides were focused on Clevis & Tang with a separate server (i.e. your PC at home on your network would boot but if away from the Tang server
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by velosol 6y ago
Back in the XP days it was a veneer on GIANT AntiSpyware which as I recall was viewed as a separate component to anti-virus back then. As things evolved you saw combined firewall/anti-spyware/virus/adware from companies like
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by velosol 6y ago
This is beautifully written; I stepped away from keeping up an in-depth understanding of silicon processing a bit before FinFETs took over and this feels like one of the best introductions to the basics of gate geometry of FETs.
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by velosol 6y ago
The issue comes when an auto update regresses something that the user relied upon. As long as the automatic update has a 'downgrade' option that's tenable but most of the solutions out there make downgrading difficult. I pre
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by velosol 6y ago
And it seems reasonable for an employer. What about banks? The argument I'm coming up with just isn't as compelling for no other reason than I'm 'only' risking my money, not corporate access.
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by velosol 6y ago
Copenhagen (among other places) has a pretty convenient app-based model for parking. You use one of a few competing apps on your phone and enter your car's registration plate. When you park you open the app and it pulls location and

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