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skuthus

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About skuthus

Hi, I'm Skyler. I work in IT for a major aerospace company. Before that, I worked in IT for a major software company. Sometimes I work for myself.

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    Part of the fun for me is that it's kind of like a zen garden, but for buildings. I would love to see people start to populate and let the computer decide what they do and what the…

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    Comment #29267398

    consistent uptime, apparently

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    Comment #29176739

    you know that's bad, right?

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    Comment #28922593

    it's called the macbook air

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    Comment #28061571

    To be fair, Apple users only care about privacy when it suits them - 5-6 years ago, it was not a priority of any apple user and many mocked non-apple people for caring about it. If…

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    Comment #28031796

    obsidian has a whole number of these things - to what degree, I do not know, but it's definitely worth looking

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    Comment #28029387

    You could do all this work, or you could just use https://obsidian.md/

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    Comment #27668699

    Thank you! Didn't see it before I posted.

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    Comment #25750744

    I agree that corporations should be curtailed in both their size and power. This would resolve the paradox of speech being free, but it's platforms being controlled by a few large …

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    Comment #25750258

    precisely. A better way to look at it is that you are free to travel by other means. The burden is convenience.

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    Comment #25750031

    >the billionaires running the digital tools all decide to ban me, I am silenced. How so? Are you incapable of using non-digital media to communicate? Are you incapable of creating …

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    Comment #25738907

    Sounds like reasonable open internet regulation, like the type that "The Left" has been fighting to get for decades, would have really been something useful for Republicans to not …

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    Comment #25635508

    Totally - you can also easily sync it with your own service, if you don't want to use their sync service. The flexibility is definitely a huge selling point.

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    Comment #25635263

    Over the course of the last year I have been working on building a personal zettlekasten. I started in Notion, making several relational databases. However, after experiencing some…

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    Comment #25350412

    Also used in Watchmen (2009) to great effect

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    Comment #25210395

    >I don't want to worry about whether my music will work five or ten years from now This is exactly what Apple has already done to the iTunes world, music you had a decade ago is su…

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    Comment #25094086

    Very cool, love seeing projects like this produce repeatable results.

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    Comment #25083471

    My thinkpad works very well with linux, I recommend Zorin or Arch

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    Comment #25076353

    As of now it says the issue is 'resolved' for users failing update, but none of my macs attempting to upgrade agree with that status.

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    Comment #25075808

    Wow this is a huge cluster - threw a complete wrench in my work for almost an hour. Is this what we should be expecting from Apple going forward?

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    Comment #25075639

    This did help, thank you!

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    Comment #25075374

    Currently there is an outage preventing users from downloading the update - also experiencing extreme slowness on all macs after having selected the update for download - even thou…

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