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fletchowns

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    Comment #49079032

    It works great on Macbook. I don't know why they don't suggest it to folks when car or train movement is detected! I have a feeling a lot of people don't know it exists. I wish my …

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    Comment #48404185

    Copy/paste this to your local news organization and your representative in congress.

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    Comment #48316300

    > then began responding to come again manually Presumably they meant to write "to some again manually". On the one hand I'm kind of surprised when typos make it into major publicat…

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    Comment #48230522

    > uvx or uv tool weren’t much better as that posed new problems where a user wouldn’t get upgrades. Couldn't the user just run `uv tool upgrade `?

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    Comment #47134927

    I was more referring to an advance directive / living will sort of thing

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    Comment #47134370

    Those plans should be in place regardless of the results of a blood test

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    Comment #45974633

    Kdenlive is awesome. I am only a hobbyist but I cancelled my subscription to Premiere when I found it.

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    Comment #45919105

    > Gaming works astonishingly well on Linux these days They have certainly made a lot of progress, but there are many of us that will be stuck unless all the new AAA titles are supp…

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    Comment #45767021

    > Curious what the purpose of calling a pay phone is? (wasn't possible in my country) If you want to let somebody know you can't talk right now but you will call them back in 10 mi…

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    Comment #45702220

    I've got 18TB on Glacier and it costs $2.80/day I've only tested partial restores from Glacier since it is expensive. I've got a raidz2 array locally as insurance against having to…

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    Comment #45700379

    I've been using Nextcloud for years, but I've never used the web UI. Windows desktop app for syncing my Documents folder, and Android app for synchronizing a few folders on my phon…

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    Comment #45700201

    Never heard of this before, what a great project! I wish my Roborock QV 35A was supported. Still considering sponsoring the project though, because what a great initiative it is!

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    Comment #45663021

    First thing I thought of as well! Despite being short lived, MarchFIRST was influential on Apple's branding and comeback.

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    Comment #45612375

    > Bundling view and controller in the same file It reminds me of how PHP development used to be back in the day. That's not meant as a bad thing, I always liked how simple it made …

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    Comment #45612018

    I liked the idea of Bookshop.org but I was surprised when I ordered something from it, it shipped from somewhere 2,000 miles away from me. I had the misunderstanding it was going t…

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    Comment #45498104

    That is unfortunate there's so many Redis instances out there that not only are exposed to the public internet (330,000) and don't have authentication configured (60,000). I'm gues…

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    Comment #45367913

    Yeah I think that was it!

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    Comment #45365349

    I think my text highlighting habit started in the late 90s when the prominent N64 website (what was the name of it??) would have text intentionally "hidden" on the page in the same…

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    Comment #44897579

    I run it on my dev machine because that's what I run on my servers. Keeps things simple with the consistency.

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    Comment #42691462

    > I've been wondering for a while what the alternatives are. Raspberry Pi + Snapcast + Any speaker with an AUX input I've got a few Pi's hooked up around the house now to extra spe…

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    Comment #42581541

    Have you tried using tmux?

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    Comment #41704411

    Always create a backup or snapshot before any major media reorganization :)

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    Comment #41702699

    It really is an incredible resource, and Picard is a wonderful app. Very satisfying getting a library properly tagged! Takes a while, but totally worth it. Shoutout to ListenBrainz…

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    Comment #41372978

    Cheating in online gaming is such a blight on the industry. Such a waste of time & money for every legitimate participant in the market, except for the groups making and profiting …