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bedstefar

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    Comment #49234378

    Wow! Gotta try that out! I'm from outside the USA, hopefully it'll work too with SI units

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    Comment #48647936

    I do. I used it in the late noughts for my cryptology BSc because I was too lazy/busy to learn TikZ proper

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    Comment #48409068

    Were these ever sold outside the USA? This is the first time I hear about the product.

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    Comment #48367832

    > Modern (as in, since the 1980s) terminals are very capable of multiple fonts and font-sizes. I usually use a non-proportional font for coding myself. Is that really true? Can I, …

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    Comment #48367817

    Yeah, but as far as I'm aware you get to pick one font and one size as long as the UI is laid out with literal ASCII spaces and newlines. You can't have tooltips with a smaller fon…

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    Comment #48367265

    I don't really get the TUI craze. Would love it if someone has some perspective that I'm lacking. Display technology has seen so much progress in the past decades. Apple marketing …

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    Comment #47873884

    That's a good tip, thanks. What I meant to say was that there's probably at least a handful of self-hosted services you could run to offset that $20/mo. Another one could be Bitwar…

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    Comment #47873224

    This looks like an excellent platform for running a "homelab" in the cloud (no, the irony is not lost on me) for lighter stuff like Readeck, Calibre-web, Immich. Maybe even Home As…

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    Comment #47800338

    ... in exactly one of this planet's countries

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    Comment #46732957

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_burn_centers_in_the_Un...

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    Comment #45487757

    Not trying to account for the parent's claim, but generally check diskprices.com for the latest deals on Amazon (.com, .co.uk, .de, .es, .it etc)

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    Comment #45344447

    I worked in the Arctic for the better part of a decade. There's Starlink now, but I've been TRULY OFFLINE for weeks (with plenty diesel generated power) as recently as 2018. Techni…