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If you'd like to improve, definitely! There are all sorts of things involved in singing that some do naturally and others (like myself) do not. Having a knowledgeable teacher who's…

Under $1000: Voice lessons at the local community school of music. I'm a lifelong musician, but was an almost entirely solitary one. I taught myself different instruments, but I ne…

Standard Ebooks also has an edition: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/p-t-barnum/the-humbugs-of-...

Dagnabbit! Thanks for pointing that out. Would edit if I could.

Standard Ebooks does modernize language; it's step 14 on the production guide[1]. [1] https://standardebooks.org/contribute/producing-an-ebook-ste...

I was a heavy Google Reader user and mourned it for years. At some point, though, I discovered Miniflux [1], and haven't really missed Reader since. What I do miss from the Reader …

It's not Escape Velocity, but Maelstrom was open-sourced [1]! A while ago I forked a version and changed the braking power-up to be controlled by a button press, instead of always …

It looks like the subject has come up a couple times on the mailing list [1] [2], but in my (admittedly casual) searching I didn't find anything since 2017, with the most relevant …

Accepting that we're just throwing out interesting-sounding ideas, I wonder if having a powered runway rail (or something of the sort) to provide takeoff power could work. With tha…

Wacom also sells drawing tablets with integrated displays [1]. I've never used them or an Apple Pencil, so I don't know how they compare, but Wacom isn't totally caught out here. O…

People do. That's what the pledge drives and "brought to you by viewers like you" commonly heard on PBS are about. Different local stations rely on difference funding sources. Stat…

PBS has underwriting spots that are only shown between programs and are subject to more restrictions than commercials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwriting_spot No programmin…

I glossed over it a bit in my first post, but the data on the drive is actually always encrypted. The system decrypts the data on the fly as it's read into memory, and encrypts whe…

Sorry for your experience. One standard approach is to set up full disk encryption. A common setup would encrypt every partitions but your /boot partition, so a thief would be unab…

What's your source for that? The CDC estimates 1 in 6 people a year get sick from food eaten in the US, and I can't imagine that none of that food is from a modern supermarket. Pou…

Van Gogh is most known for his painting, but he also created drawings. For example, he drew a pen and ink version of Starry Night [1]. I particularly like Windmills at Montmartre […

Any user can become a developer if he or she chooses. The user may decide it requires too much work to learn to code in order to implement a given change, but the option is there n…

At least they're not as dangerous as pool halls.

Are you thinking of sleet? Hail is associated with severe thunderstorms,[1] which definitely occur in areas with mosquito populations. [1] http://www.accuweather.com/en/features/tr…

I'm a little confused about the issue. I understand the problems you have with the reprompt option, and if that causes you to switch from LastPass, it's your decision. But could th…

But not enough to buy a smaller, more durable phone? One with a thick, rubber or plastic exterior case? No? I didn't think so. I only just recently upgraded from an old feature pho…

When did durability stop being a factor used to assess a phone's quality? As someone who is somewhat accident prone (and who doesn't want to spend too much time fretting about prot…