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I always include Makefiles as a way of documenting useful (short) tasks for developers that are onboarding to projects. It gives them confidence in their ability to pick things up …

Plex focuses on having a server component that transcodes and their “Plex Pass” service for better connectivity, enabling lightweight native players for all of your devices. This w…

Is it possible this graph also reflects that his readers are more likely to employ Safari’s tracker-blocking?

Amazon appears to allow this, judging from their inaction every time I report it.

Commands are explicit and shareable. If you’ve mastered then good on you, but it makes you an island.

I’m surprised to hear that bluetooth, GPS, and cellular don’t work in water. I wonder what’s the science behind this.

While it comes across as an obvious cash grab, the cassette is a compelling feature if you consider that it does 30 washes and has its own memory of how many each has left. While i…

Having been blocked on a customer’s locked-down Windows machine where the security software breaks the update process, this isn’t a welcome change.

What it takes to get through app review

Looking beyond the obvious problem here, just curious why the admin ran chkdsk /f for no reason, then did it on 6 more systems after observing it caused ntfs failure.

I find it hard to move from vim because of its ubiquity. Same with bash.

By removing the charger from the package, you may have to buy a charger that comes in its own packaging. Net new waste. Including the charger in the package was actually the best w…

A trip down memory lane, bringing back so much just looking at the fonts. It’s amazing how much I associate each company’s historical fonts with their brand.

I never call until I’ve exhausted all self service options. I don’t need to be told every time “Did you know...you can find us online to X, Y, and Z?” Verizon customers are paying …

My electric bill has gone down over 30% per month after getting one of these. Replaced a super old electric unit. Many states have rebates that an installer can have applied when g…

Not mentioned, they don’t want to support residential customers serving web sites (or anything else)

Little-known fact: Windows of today is an entirely different OS than early DOS-based Windows because Microsoft took ownership of the 386-based “OS/2 3.0” codebase it jointly develo…

Running a FidoNet-connected BBS meant I had direct access to read every EchoMail group I could subscribe my BBS to. At the time it was a great source of real, insightful written co…

This is overblown. Disney+ was mostly fine all day for everybody I know. I consider it a successful launch by any measure.

When this technology can exist in space, earth will have orbiting shipyards building space craft.

My series 0 is my “silent” alarm clock. I wear it every night and wake up with nearly 100% battery. Try shutting some of the extras off, and you’ll be surprised at how long it last…

You’ll be delighted with the elements you can mix to make new elements. I love this game, and the original. To start, Try mixing air with earth, then add fire to the result.

So every landlord will now raise 5% annually even if they hadn’t in the last. That’s often the effect of governments regulating increases, from what I have seen of stage utility re…