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There was a time when it was quite bad, especially if using Wayland and under heavy CPU or I/O loads. I think this has mostly been solved now, but I do recall getting frustrated wi…

I can't find an announcement yet, however the pricing page now shows it's not included, and various support articles have removed any mention of the the Pro plan including access t…

https://x.com/TheAmolAvasare/status/2046725498592722972 https://xcancel.com/TheAmolAvasare/status/204672549859272297...

Having switched to a kobo in the last week from a kindle, yes it is still possible, but involves a few steps, one of which can require an old version of the kindle for PC app. [1] …

I'm not able to test this right now, but my understanding is that this was fixed (after 20+ years?) with this merge: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/merge_requests/156...…

The storage costs coming in from 1st March feel like they're going to catch a lot of organisations out too. Private repos will cost $10/month per 100GB of storage, something that w…

This has been developing over the last few days, with some users of the Tado smart thermostat and heating system being locked out of the app that's used to control both heating and…

This has been developing over the last few days, with some users of the Tado smart thermostat and heating system being locked out of the app that's used to control both heating and…

I've previously moved from Pivotal to Shortcut (when it was still called Clubhouse) and found it to be a good alternative for our small team. I did end up having to write my own im…

I wouldn't describe mine as particularly unique, but I did a writeup for the lobste.rs thread, so will share it here: https://jamesmcminn.com/articles/office-2024/

There is a annual tradition on lobste.rs of a thread for sharing your current desk / battlestation at the start of each year, which often attracts some unique or interesting setups…

Not a single mention of sleep, which one would think would have a strong relationship with both coffee habits and learning and memory.

Replying here due to depth limits. > Can you point out the part of the article that disagrees with the assertion "cats are domestic animals"? This is neither relevant nor the issue…

Did you actually read the article I linked to? I ask because actual evolutionary geneticists don't agree with you, and I'm likely to side with them on the genetics of the matter.

Whatever do you mean? Something being domesticated has no bearing on wether or not is it native to an area.

It is in no way a faulty comparison. We did not domesticate cats in the same way that we did dogs, cows or chickens [1]. Wild cats found human populations useful because they attra…

What point do you think I am trying to make, exactly? Native fauna is defined as animals which historically have naturally occurred in the local area [1], and wild cats are by defi…

The UK, Scotland in particular, as a starter for 10. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_wildcat

I've found DBeaver [1] to be a good replacement after giving up with pgAdmin3 (I did love pgAdmin2, however). Datagrip is also fine if you're a Jetbrains user. [1] https://dbeaver.…

This is a partial cheat, because there was software involved, by the coolest physical thing I've made is probably the photobooth I put together for my wedding, combining an old lap…

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35457507 rather than accusing someone of being a sock puppet and doing EXACTLY what this post was created to avoid.

I could not take the book seriously due to how shallow it was. Written to sound clever, but lacking any actual substance. It literally could have been 2 pages of bullet points and …

I tried to read his Deep Work book, and it was truly awful. Usually I avoid writing reviews for books that I didn't finish, but Deep Work is one of the worst books I've ever tried …