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by wffurr 5mo ago
The HP Dragonfly Chromebook is pretty good. The Asus models are also very nice. The Acers are hit or miss; quality is iffy on those and there's a zillion models so it's impossible to find a specific one. I wish Framework would k
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by wffurr 5mo ago
Social media is more like the printing press than any of those things. It radically changed the economics of distributing information. The printing press brought down the Catholic church and the Kings of Europe. The disruption caused by
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by wffurr 5mo ago
I have never had any problem with any of those things on any OS I have used. Pin the files app to your taskbar, boom, easy access to files and folders. Hit the circle key and type in the launcher box to search. Copy paste is...identical
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by wffurr 5mo ago
It never left.
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by wffurr 5mo ago
Or just count them before and after. Know how many you're supposed to bring home.
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by wffurr 5mo ago
Ford is still very much at it: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/05/how-do-you-design-a-300... Rivian and Lucid are both American automakers, as is Tesla.
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by wffurr 5mo ago
Having some basic curiosity about the capabilities of your tools helps.
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by wffurr 5mo ago
I used cloth diapers for both or my children and do lots of other inconvenient things for environmental reasons, so that I can feel good about my own behavior and choices. Many other people are the same.
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by wffurr 5mo ago
You nailed the primary difference. If I want to just use the tool I can do that; if I need to learn how to use a complex feature, I can consult the help or do a web search for a how to.
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by wffurr 5mo ago
Actually I get interrupted by a tour or popup when using a "point solution" all the time.
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by wffurr 5mo ago
Most user agents allow you to trivially search from selection. Double-click unfamiliar word, right click, select "search" or on macOS there's also "lookup" but that really only works on dictionary words.
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by wffurr 5mo ago
I plug in my EV almost every time I get home. The charger is hanging right next to my driver door in my driveway.
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by wffurr 5mo ago
You can't restrict callers as easily on a landline phone. You can block individual numbers, but most landline providers won't let you block by default. I can only imagine the support calls Comcast would get from people following
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by wffurr 5mo ago
Chatterbox has a BYO phone option and otherwise uses pretty standard wifi voip phones: https://voipkids.com/
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by wffurr 5mo ago
How did Claude do at conforming to accessibility standards on macOS?
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by wffurr 5mo ago
>> We just don’t even have any holiday that honors labor, laborers, or labor unions. That holiday is May Day but it's not federally recognized in the US specifically to hinder labor organizing in this country. President Grover C
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by wffurr 6mo ago
Seems like tcc, slimcc, and gcc -O0 are all better than rcc in this table; fast compilation and better runtime. Only kefir and clang -O0 (which is unfortunately what we use) are worse.
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by wffurr 6mo ago
How about a movie or more attention to the civilizational cataclysm that was burning coal near inhabited areas? Major cities during the coal burning area would seem post apocalyptic to us now.
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by wffurr 6mo ago
The X is pronounced "sh".
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by wffurr 6mo ago
Yes! Concrete please!
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by wffurr 6mo ago
"Just run an Ansible script on any old computer you have" uh that's way out of reach for the vast majority of humanity.
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by wffurr 6mo ago
>> migrate more of it to my home server How do we make that possible for everyone? It's out of reach for most. I'm a software engineer and even I don't have the time and patience to set up a home server much less migr
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by wffurr 6mo ago
Seems like "Reader Mode" ought to be the default for a user agent.
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by wffurr 6mo ago
>> Ed is for those who can remember what they are working on. https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html My first job out of university I was taught how to use a line editor in IBM UniData. It was interestin
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by wffurr 6mo ago
That's perfect and it doesn't request unnecessary permissions - it only wants access to youtube.com. Thanks!
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by wffurr 6mo ago
>> I think the blame-game obscures our own agency, which we pretend not to have, and overemphasizes the platform's power, which isn't as strong as we pretend Yes we do have agency. Also the platforms employ psychologists an
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by wffurr 6mo ago
> it respects my time > remove video thumbnail” and “remove YouTube shorts” chrome extension is a must install Which is it? Does YouTube respect your time and attention as a user or does it prey on them? I'm pretty sure it&#x27
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by wffurr 6mo ago
The YouTube home screen is a total wasteland. It's a disaster. It's a horrific attention suck that's done enormous damage to humanity's collective attention span. Recommendations are barely any better - sometimes they
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by wffurr 6mo ago
cmux? I don't know and it's not even a good comparison. tmux? https://www.google.com/search?q=tmux+vs+screen
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by wffurr 6mo ago
That's a totally different thing. Native macOS app vs portable terminal multiplexer. My main use case for tmux is detaching and re-attaching to a session on a remote server, for which it's extremely useful.

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