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Man, besides being slow; I really miss those days. I could say I was "into computers" and it meant something. Eternal September ruined it.

Dell chargers only work (reliably, and at capacity) with Dell devices. Also Dell devices will (sometimes) refuse to work with 3rd party chargers. Get a charger that displays the vo…

Lol, that's what I thought this was about too. Why don't these people/companies think about how hard it will be to search for their $thing !?

It shows paintings based on your location and the 'time of day', or something. From the `About`: >Plein Air — A painting for right now, wherever you are >Plein air — French for in …

Do you know what the maximum SD card size that it'll support? I'm especially interested if a 1TB card will work.

Here's an easy script to scan for compromised packages: https://cscs.pastes.sh/aurvulntest20260611.sh Not my script. It's easy to read/parse. Never pipe a script directly to bash.

Have you looked into Sway/i3?

In the infamous words of George Carlin: "Selling is legal, and fucking is legal; but selling fucking is not legal."

I loved the look of the fonts on DOS after I upgraded from a C64. My favorite was the exclamation mark on 1024x768 (VGA). It had curves! Pointy at the bottom right above the dot, a…

I have encountered the exact same kind of frustration, and no amount of prompting seems to prevent it from "randomly" happening. `the error is on line #145 fix it with XYZ and add …

Similar in concept but for different reasons; does anybody know of a way to convert images into a '8bit pixel map'? My wife likes to take images and crochet them into tapestry/blan…

Could you please describe your use-case? How do you use it? How do you make use of it? I use Claude code, so I understand that paradigm; I don't grok this though. Is it any differe…

But the 90s was only 20-years ago! lol, you got me. Stupid old brain not calculating time correctly.

It absolutely is worth trying. I look forward to it being battle tested and proven. I just don't want to be the one doing the testing. rg, fzf, and several others that I can't thin…

I've been a fan of all rust-based utilities that I've used. I am worried that 20+ (??) years of bug fixes and edge-case improvements can't be accounted for by simply using a newer/…

Here is the comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077285

This comment does not deserve to be flagged. It is worth knowing the bias of the source as it taints everything it touches.

I'd rather have a slate.

Ublock origin Settings -> Filter Lists -> Cookie Notices (enable them). No ads, No annoyances. Why are you still struggling with this?

Canada should re-enact the AutoPact [0] (tldr: I don't see this in the wiki article, but the real benefit was; for every 3 cars sold in Canada, 1 had to be 'made' in Canada). This …

Check anybody that has done the AT.

The day-to-day impact of being diagnosed is practically non-existant for me. It might explain "why" I might react to a specific stimuli but it doesn't stop the reaction. At best it…

I've been a "PC Gamer" for 31+ years. The 'value-add' that steam brings to the table is INCREDIBLE. Thanks to Proton/Linux efforts. (1) my games are installable AND playable on _ev…

Its the screen (size) that mattered. While screens make terrible input devices, for content consumption they are king. And that is the dividing line between blackberry/iphones. An …

Not necessarily the first, but the earliest that I can remember: Decades ago (before they were sold/bought/sold), Opera (web browser/suite) used gestures as a navigation tool with …