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#582Groklaw There are important legal things happening, involving our industry, and which I think do not get the coverage required.
Can't really believe I had forgotten about that. Feels like I read it a few months ago and last update was in 2013!
I guess life is short and moves fast!
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#583Stumbleupon. I remember spending hours discovering all sorts of strange and niche sites, that I would never have found otherwise. So much esoteric and random stuff came up, and sent me down many rabbit holes that changes my life such as learning about DIY electronics etc.
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#584The Kawasaki KLR 650 and the Suzuki DR 650. These make great, reliable long distance adventure bikes suitable for almost any terrain.
You may argue that these bikes are still in production, but in Europe its all but impossible to lay hands on them due to EURO5 emission norms.
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#585Stumbleupon. I remember spending hours discovering all sorts of strange and niche sites, that I would never have found otherwise. So much esoteric and random stuff came up, and sent me down many rabbit holes that changes my life such as learning about DIY electronics etc.
I forgot how fun that was! I'm checking out their new site right now!
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#586Mac OSX Snow Leopard. Butter smooth and uncluttered.
aah the good old days
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#587Zeo sleep monitor, a low accuracy low precision low cost EEG-based sleep monitor, which worked a lot better for me than the movement-based systems. What I mainly cared about was tracking when I actually went to sleep.
Was looking for this. Completely agree.
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#588I know this will not be a popular reply but I miss the Apple Newton dearly and wished they had the chance to ship a 3.0 version. The Newton OS 2.0 was so much better than what came before it, I think the message pad was the best personal computer I had in terms of actually being personal. It felt like your machine in a way that modern smartphones don't.
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#589The Macbook Pro chassis before the OLED touchstrip. I'm a web developer and learned on MBPs. The touchpad was the right size, the keys had the right amount of travel, the form factor and weight were perfect. Right now I'm considering moving to developing on a Galaga Pro and using Windows/WSL. I've got most things setup on my desktop how I like using HyperTerm (I had too much trouble with Cmder), VS Code, and ZSH. I c…
Apple has ditched so many cool things in the MacBook line. 1) MagSafe. I know they really want to go all in on USB-C, but the original MagSafe connector was awesome. Even the weaker 2.0 version was nice. There were two instances where that connector saved my laptop. 2) The laser-drilled power indicator. That was so cool. It looked like the light magically appeared through the aluminum. Now there's no indication whats…
There are hacks for the magsafe desire...
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/7/12/15960594/m...
I just switched to a new 2018 macbook pro. The missing esc key isn't so bad. Thought I would hate it, but like everything else, including new FB redesigns, you get used to it and move on.
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#590Earlier quoted context omitted.
> nor get my GPG and SSH keys for Github working. This definitely works, I've used it back in the day (needs "enable-ssh" in config).
Good to know. I was following instructions for Windows on Github and just felt ultra dense as it kept not working.
Oh I think I used ssh pageant [0] once and Putty support in GnuPG, I think it was more reliable (I don't remember clearly, sorry for that!)