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by wink 4y ago
My last (and only long-lasting) subscription was the German c't magazine and I'm not sure when I cancelled it, probably more than 10 years ago. I kinda miss computer games magazines of the 90s, because they were... nice, in a way
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by wink 4y ago
Definitely different per manufacturer here in Europe. Coke cans have always been thicker than Red Bull for example, like I think in general our 0.25l cans. But yeah, the 0.33l cans have become thinner over the last 20 years, but I can'
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by wink 4y ago
Not exactly sure how representative I should feel, but before, working in the city center, a lot of shops/restaurants got my foot traffic, and since I've been WFH it's mostly my local grocery store that gets all the money.
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by wink 4y ago
I find that description overly negative. I was running Testing on my work laptop for years (up to 2017) and I only had to build like 5 packages myself where I needed a bleeding edge version. Definitely didn't feel worse than any Ubuntu
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by wink 4y ago
Cool idea, could imagine myself browsing quite a bit, but I found it hard to work with. I searched for "Opinel" and I only see the suggestions, I would have expected a way to have a search result page because with the small images
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by wink 4y ago
How is this different from PasswordMaker (in JS or adddon form) that have been around for a decade or longer?
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by wink 4y ago
The only Antivirus that has not yet bitten me is Microsoft Defender. I'm not usually one to praise MS, but this one eliminated a whole category of problems for me and many other people, especially non-technical folks. It works 99% of t
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by wink 4y ago
the New Relic who either had a breach they never notified me or sold my email address? I've getting random spam to newrelic@<domain> for years now. Nope, they'll never see any money if I can avoid it.
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by wink 4y ago
As someone in Central Europe, the idea of a "starter" house is pretty weird, but I guess the topic has been beaten like a dead horse. People buy a house once they can afford it, and that's usually not the case before 30 or 45
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by wink 4y ago
I don't think you can only blame it on less people smoking. I'm pretty sure I only remember a single person's apartment (in my age range) who actually smoked INSIDE. All the other (heavy) smokers, still went to their balcony,
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by wink 4y ago
I wrote something like this for conference talks ~12 years ago because I hate PowerPoint and don't have a Mac (for whatever not completely disastrous presentation tool my coworkers used). Didn't use it for a while but markdown to
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by wink 4y ago
> Gatestone Institute is a far-right think tank known for publishing anti-Muslim articles. From Wikipedia. So no, not even gonna read that article.
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by wink 4y ago
I noticed that I like podcasts just how I like blogs. Even if it's objectively great (as decided by the masses), I probably don't like it and can't stand listening to it for long. But if I stumble upon something I like to rea
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by wink 4y ago
As someone who has repeatedly switched browsers in 20 years... for some reason, sometimes Firefox has performance issues on some platform, or maybe just how it's packaged. I've heard people describe Firefox on Windows as slow (I n
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by wink 4y ago
I've not had one myself but all my friends are so hung up on some annoying details of most induction stoves that I am kinda ok with my old normal electric one (never had gas, it's not very common around here). Details include: The
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by wink 4y ago
That's not true - they weren't hitting the mass market very well, but to a certain demographic those were really nice.
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by wink 4y ago
6kg less doesn't sound like enough to provoke such a strong reaction though? I mean, just as a total layman who is regularly gaining and losing about 5 kg, I can't imagine that would be enough to trigger getting or losing the type
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by wink 4y ago
I noticed I'm no longer reading books. Maybe it's just that I haven't found anything enticing the last few years but in the same way as I don't like watching movies anymore I can't seem to manage to sit down and rea
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by wink 4y ago
Yeah, we didn't have exactly those in the 80s, but more with planks and ropes (think low-level tree houses). I've not had a good look at playgrounds the last few years (none where I usually go for a walk), but the ones in my child
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by wink 4y ago
Fascinating to hear that, as someone who a) doesn't remember having a serious wifi problem on Linux for probably 15 years and b) has never used a wifi dongle on a non-laptop. Wifi is a complete non-problem for me. I remember fiddling i
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by wink 4y ago
My favourite story of this is where "falling out of the happy path" included my parents being self-employed and the sheer surprise that people can have wildly differing income per month :P
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by wink 4y ago
I've heard people say "I'm only being sated by the extras/side dishes, give me 1kg of meat and I will eat 1kg of meat as the main course" and to a degree I understand, at least for "normal" dishes with mea
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by wink 4y ago
I don't buy that line of reasoning. I'm personally going between "I don't crave sweets at all" for weeks to "give me everything we have at home and when I go for groceries I will buy more". Maybe there are
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by wink 4y ago
Mine's a Clojure app and I'm running it via `java -Xmx180m -Xms180m` and my fly.toml has a kill_timeout of 15 and in services.tcp_checks I now have interval 25000 and timeout 9000 - but as I wrote, it's a very basic app, anyt
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by wink 4y ago
Ha, thanks. Was on Linux when I wrote that so couldn't try it. Also Win+Alt+Number opens a new window of that type. Weird hand twisting aside, this could be useful :)
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by wink 4y ago
It's ok, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to register with "multiples of the same application" open, i.e. if I have Firefox at Win-2 then it's always the first window that was opened (which is fine most of the time
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by wink 4y ago
This is not too different to how I've been using tiling window managers for the last decade. There 9 or 10 virtual desktops which are accessed with WIN+1-0. 1 is for shells, 2 is the IDE, 3/4 are browsers, 6 is administrative stuf
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by wink 4y ago
I've been running a hobby project on their free tier for a while and it's mostly cool. Wrote up some stuff back then: https://f5n.org/blog/2022/trying-out-some-hosting-options/ but unfortunately non
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by wink 4y ago
IIRC I've never used one, but I've also never owned a washing machine. By sheer luck both apartments I've been living in since 2006 have had a communal washer/dryer/drying room - but at least I would have the space
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by wink 4y ago
We were working exclusively with filenames (and files) that we generated ourselves, moving them around in our own infrastructure, and writing all of our own configs, yes :P I didn't insinuate that there weren't problems or that I

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