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cbpowell

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    Comment #43916233

    My impression (perhaps incorrect) was that the guy was being sarcastic.

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    Comment #39304626

    Give MusicBee a try. https://www.getmusicbee.com/

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    Comment #35950420

    This site is cromulent.

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    Comment #31194859

    "People like this person"... did you even read the post? OP is nowhere near California, doesn't benefit from California's infrastructure at all.

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    Comment #28795546

    You have heard of the tech interview process, yes? :-)

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    Comment #26996188

    In 1994/5-ish I had a compendium of HOWTOs published in book form called "DRx. Linux", put out by Linux System Labs. It was awesome, and THE way to get Linux configured. Good memor…

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    Comment #26146379

    Assuming you really want to know, try SharpKeys.

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    Comment #26003323

    Agreed. And yet it's somehow ascended to being the default environment for Fedora, Ubuntu, Pop!_OS...

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    Comment #25921487

    As an owner of a HiDPI laptop, I'm here to tell you that if you want to connect it to an external monitor, you will be disappointed in Linux. For a laptop-monitor combination in Li…

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    Comment #23235737

    That, imho, is the major boat anchor holding KDE down: the ugly defaults. If they would take a moment to apply tasteful default settings it would make a huge difference in the mark…

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    Comment #23231664

    Give KDE a try. Gnome has steadily dumbed down and removed features; KDE is delightfully customizeable and very, very polished in current form.

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    Comment #23231648

    Twenty-five-year Linux user and lover here, and heck, I got a good chuckle out of the guy's comment.

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    Comment #23035629

    This is on Windows 10 x64. I'm interested to try again when you have a new build.

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    Comment #22998217

    It certainly looks quite beautiful, but sadly UI interactions -- resizing, clicking around, etc. -- seem to be fairly laggy at this point. Love the look-and-feel, but I think the i…

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    Comment #20758683

    Wikipedia has a very nice writeup on the device: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device) They stress it had no active electronics. The imagery in the article cle…

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    Comment #2524984

    That's all true, and I concur. Delivery confirmation is certainly the weakest link in the whole equation and may never get solved with the current SMTP protocol. The other pieces, …

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    Comment #2524979

    A good point, and I understand. I tried to anticipate this concern: there is a user preference that purges message body info after the message has been sent. The relevant confirmat…

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    Show HN: Add FedEx-like tracking to email with CommAssure

    This came about from the inevitable solve-the-world's-problems conversation(s) that happen over beers. I'd heard time and again how email could "never cut it" for "real" business c…