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by zwayhowder 5y ago
Because there are no good subscription services available for the Windows market already. Oh wait I've got Xbox Game Pass and dozens of free games on that. And EA Play And the 1000+ games I own on Steam (Many bought from Humble) and th
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Along Hadrian’s Wall, ancient Rome’s temples, towers, and cults come to life(nationalgeographic.com)
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I want to use Firefox as my daily driver, but the inability to remap the keyboard shortcuts for tabs prevent me using it. On Linux Firefox maps Alt+# to tabs. I have two problems with that. Firstly on Windows Firefox uses the Control key, s
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by zwayhowder 5y ago
Came here to make the same joke. Sure it isn't an insightful comment worthy of great praise. But consider my hat tipped to you. 3.5mb down is faster than my mother used to get from her farm north-west of Kempsey NSW. Though to be fair
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by zwayhowder 5y ago
This. I have a Boox Note 2 that I love. I sync DRM free books to it via my NextCloud and I can draw/type notes in them and sync back to my computer. I've also got the Kindle and Adobe reader apps installed so I get instant when I
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by zwayhowder 5y ago
You can also have your script change the bash file seperator. https://bash.cyberciti.biz/guide/$IFS Something I wish I'd learned 23 years ago instead of 3 years ago :(
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My experience in most enterprises is that we don't get to pick all the tools and sometimes we don't even get asked our opinion. Recent case: The data team picked S3 for storage, and they picked Power BI for analysis. Don't as
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by zwayhowder 5y ago
You can also buy a bluetooth barcode scanner that works faster if this is going to be a regular thing. I copied my LT & GoodReads catalogs into Calibre recently to reduce my dependency on third parties. I've been a Calibre user for
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by zwayhowder 5y ago
Actually I might retract that statement, further reading on https://couchers.org/ makes me think that it could have been a lot better. People may not have left negative reviews because they didn't want to be perceived
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It was well thought out too, hard to spam with fake comments etc. My family hosted people for a year or two and we were never empty. The appeal of a family home with a private room that had dozens of reviews from well travelled guests was s
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by zwayhowder 5y ago
I do wonder though if the author had read Smith's first book. I always felt that The Wealth of Nations held true only if you accepted The Theory of Moral Sentiments as true. However if you believe that people's own selfishness is
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by zwayhowder 5y ago
By using the classics of course. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histiaeus#Ionian_revolt_(499-4... Sure the bitrate is a bit slow and it's UDP only but our governments have proved over and over again that they can&#
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by zwayhowder 5y ago
I use Password Store a dozen times a day, but for sharing passwords with my family Bitwarden is great. Cross platform, easy enough for anyone to use regardless of the IT profficiency and open source enough that I trust it more than Lastpass
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by zwayhowder 5y ago
This! The wonderful world of reflowing webpages that assumes anything less than 1080p is a mobile is so frustrating. I too find WQHD a good fit for my 14" Thinpad.
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by zwayhowder 5y ago
I used on in Japan years ago and had to wait about 5 years before they showed up in Australia at a reasonable price. Not worth replacing a perfectly good iron with, but if you accidently melt the cord to your current iron it's worth co
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by zwayhowder 5y ago
Also have a look at the unixporn subreddit. You'll find a lot of inspiration for beautiful and functional desktops that will consume all your time if you're not careful. But in a fun way.
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At my work (A university) We setup a TIG stack to monitor IT systems and then one of our facilities management people saw it and we got chatting. We have just setup a POC to pipe metrics out of multiple proprietary building management syste
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by zwayhowder 5y ago
I highly recommend you adjust your perspective. Look for the positives not the negatives. Isn't as easy to use as your Mac for some things, sure, but to start out thinking it isn't as good means you'll look for the things tha
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by zwayhowder 5y ago
I own several 3 & 4 character .com/net domains and have never had any requests to purchase them. They are all too obscure to be useful I guess. This one would only be super valuable to Google (Catch gmail.com typos) or if someone w
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On the one hand, a blatant cash grab. (IMHO) On the other hand, finally I'll have a domain to rival Robert Elz.
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True, but if the product was to fail they'd at least have one asset that they could recoup some money from. (Not that I think they'll fail, it looks very impressive so far).
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This is the thing that keeps me from recommending Mattermost in education. We had no end of trouble with MS Teams for the same reason. Students logged into our instance couldn't access their work systems. MS has made some progress to f
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by zwayhowder 5y ago
One thing I found when I worked on farms clearing paddocks or putting up fences was you always had a sense of accomplishment. You could look back at your days effort and see it while you had a cold drink. I work 18 hours on a presentation f
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by zwayhowder 5y ago
Their business model isn't to teach you languages, it is to make money off the millions of people who want to learn a new language.
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I never noticed the extra modifiers on Japanese keyboards. That looks incredibly useful (in a tiling WM at any rate) I am definitely putting a Japanese layout trackpoint on my birthday wishlist.
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The line isn't gas stoves. It's gas connections to new houses or businesses. Once you have gas connected you have gas hot water, gas heating, and oh yes, gas stoves. I suspect a lot of restaurants will move to bottled gas for cook
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It actually looks very similar to this 5 year old chrome plugin. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/anki-quick-adder/g... (I haven't used that one, I only use Anki for Japanese and therefore use Y
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by zwayhowder 5y ago
I haven't looked at Duolingo for a while, I tried it for Polish about 4 years ago and it seemed ok. I've used a lot of tools over the years for Korean, Japanese & Mandarin, all are ok, but I usually go back to Anki for pure fl
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Just for personal use as all the books were still in copyright and I own the paper versions, it was a (probably legal) fair use of them purely for reference while studying. I often needed to find information in the books and couldn't r
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It let me capture the pages with the correct orientation and the cameras have a fixed focus on the Platen so it works really well. Then Scantailer can crop automagically and deal with the rest.

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