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I prefer solder wick over the pump most of the time. Plus it’s cheap.

I know some higher end gaming motherboards that were targeted towards the overclocking community had two bios chips for exactly this purpose and switching between them was trivial from what I remember. If you overclocked too far, you wouldn't brick your system. It seemed like overkill to me. I'm guessing this is less common than it's worth to fix in software, but then at least continue to give support for the issue.

If I may address this with both skepticism and curiosity, why. I think I speak for everyone when I say I would pay to go back to facebook 2018. No algorithm, no ai.

from what I've gathered, it's a licensing nightmare. Of course it's better than the current alternative which is piracy, but it's a drop in the bucket with regards to the people who will use it in this specific licensing agreement.

This was around 10 years ago, but at the time the suggestions on the forums were more towards fidelity and 5.1 surround sound. I can't recall exactly, but something of the sort. My guess is that these were people with audio backgrounds who wanted to commit to the project.

I was making suggestions that were more for DJs. My suggestions were (vaguely from memory) keyboard and midi shortcuts for going back 4 - 16- 32 beats. Looping the same number of beats. setting exact cue points (think off beat) and setting synchronized (auto move to the closest beat if bpm was set). Nothing crazy and things that I felt would be necessary for most DJs.

I must have set my alerts far to high because I was bombarded with emails for a week until I completely unsubscribed. At the time I was also getting interested in XBMC and felt their community was much more welcoming and the software was simpler to understand.

this went out of style a long time ago. when you play videos out, everyone just stares at the screens.

I got out of DJing and into tech because of my love for dental insurance. For a while I tried to influence the direction of mixxx and was getting great feedback from other DJs but none from the developers.

This was my great introduction to why I will never be a great developer, and why open source will never be on par with paid professional software. I admire their efforts, but mixxx will always be a hobby project in my eyes.

I'm not going to go into details as I don't want to create a throwaway account for HN, but I can attribute a lot of people's feelings in dating apps to a few things. I got an email from Bumble a few years ago that said I was in the top x percent of people swiped on.

If you try to brute force stats your way to dating apps, you will fail.... to some extent.

A lot of this comes down to looks that you can control, and looks that you cannot control. Some people are born better looking than others and when you spend less than a second filtering people, the first factor you use is looks. That said, not everyone is looking for the same qualities so ymmv, but better looking people find dating apps much easier.

Throwing money at apps works. I'm not going to go into details because my opinion is not based on anything other than my opinion, but I found that the more I spent on the apps, the more dates I would get.

Modern dating when compared to traditional dating offline is not even the same thing. Ghosting and talking romantically to multiple people is normal. You can't let yourself get emotionally attached to anyone until you actually know them or expect anything from them.

I've heard horror stories from both men and women from online dating, and I've only had great exeriences from it. Some people find me attractive, and at the time I was very active and fit, so I usually got past the swipe test. I'm honest with myself and ok with my flaws. I'm also comfortable in social situations which helps me talk to new people.

I think crunching the numbers in this style only looks at a binary 'reality' of dating apps and not what you can do to help yourself and other factors that can lead you to what you ultimately want from partnership, or relationships or physical comfort or whatever else lead you to online dating.

I feel like they would make a killing if they made a pro version that would be able to dock into a simplified desktop. I’ve been wanting this for years. They love taking a semi cooked idea and polishing it and this could make Samsung dex look like a child’s tool. I think a lot of this community would be interested in something like that. I like what they did with CarPlay, now they just need office play.

for what it's worth, I've when gnome moved from version 2, I was completely lost. I went to xfce for a while then settled on kde for a long time but when I reformatted a machine to have to the side of my work laptop, I used pop_os just to test it out. It is on par with ubuntu as being a complete cohesive operating system. I'm excited to see where they take it and without knowing much about them, I'm a supporter.

I moved from lastpass to bitwarden also, but I don't see the reason to move to apple passwords. I'm mostly linux at home, and I use the bitwarden browser plugins for chrome and firefox. I wonder how they plan to integrate browsers, since I imagine they won't have a linux app. Historically, they haven't written great windows apps, so I wonder how this will fair.

I’ve been happy with tasmota but I imagine that this would serve the same purpose.

Begun, the clone wars have.

I tried to get this to work multiple times around 2004. This might be where I first dove into linux. I gave up every time. I ended up using windows media center which worked flawlessly for years. I moved on to plex and a hdtvhomerun when they released it (it handles deleting old series, etc). About a year ago I realized I don't really watch live TV anymore and unplugged it.

I'm amazed at my own programming progress over the past 10 years. I used to read these posts in awe of how people knew how to do such fascinating things that seemed so magical to me. 5 years ago I got myself a raspberry pi and an Arduino starter kit and just started playing around with them. I learned python by practicing on leetcode and other sites and I'm able to recognize a lot of libraries and patterns in his code. It's a bit less magical but I have a much more refined appreciation for posts like this.

I wonder about this all the time. In the past 5 years I've learned a lot of IoT projects, electronics, arduino. I've played around with linux for decades, but my passion was originally music.

I went down the music path but the money was awful. It taught me how to apply myself to different projects, and I don't love tech as much as I love music, but it allows me to have the freedom to do other things, which I also love.

was it due to the core or a plugin?

You would think they would be more aware of very commonly used acronyms, especially those with a negative connotation.

I would love this for 3D printers. I’m calling hacker spaces and libraries trying to find one close to me.

If not just Firefox, other related products. They seem to have the same issue as Google with starting and dropping strange products. I was actually considering using their password manager on iOS when they announced it would be discontinued.

Near the beginning of the pandemic I got frustrated with the trackpad and battery life of my lenovo yoga, so I bought a ~$250 asus l204m.

Aside from my 2011 15 inch MacBook Pro which also had its issues, this has become my favorite laptop. I don't mind the small keyboard surprisingly, and I find myself getting light work and practice problems done while my wife and I watch TV.

The cons: video playback, the screen resolution, something about how the screen refreshes is also odd. 4gb max memory. I carry a dongle to use a generic usb-c charger.

The pros: Actual 10 hour battery life (mint xfce), and I can get 12 if I drop the screen brightness. Full size HDMI port. Great linux compatibility (from what I can tell). MicroSD expansion sits flush. Light and small, and I actually prefer 11-12 inch laptops now. Only costs $250 so I throw it in a bag if I'm going somewhere.

I get the fun around these devices and cyberdecks, and I have a couple raspberry pi projects, but at $250 for x64 processor and 4gb memory with a keyboard, screen and battery, it's not even a close call for me.

I don’t think x64 is ever going to backtrack to the power efficiency that arm offers. The real scare is if apple comes out with a new xserve with blades of arm processors.

For the average developer, yes. As for someone who troubleshoots all of my families tech hardware / software, I don't let anyone under 60 get a pc, they are limited to iPad only. I tried to get two of my younger cousins on Linux. One worked for a while replacing a virus ridden pc, but when he upgraded, he went back to windows. It's not that windows is better, its the liability of their expectations that something will go wrong. I still get windows issues on my locked down pc computer, but when they get a small bug on linux, it confirms their biases.

I took the deep dive into tech trying to fix the 2x cd drive someone gave me for my x86 pc. Part of the passion I have for tech is learning and digging deeper, and reading about topics I haven't learned yet to the point where I get a bit of malaise when I'm not learning something new. I say this as I'm repurposing an old pc to a full time nas and learning about zfs pools. There's always a simpler, faster, more expensive solution out there that takes the complexity out of the equation, but part of the fun is the complexity for me.

Regarding the issue he mentions with unmounting of drives on raspberry pis, I've found the issue that fixed it for me was a reliable power supply.

I hear this argument a lot, and I think you are missing a piece of the collective which is that we do already all agree on many things such as anything that can be misconstrued as child porn. I think there is a serious argument to be made for individual cultures and individual groups such as families who would want more choices for control, but I think the slippery slope argument doesn't really hold muster.

I found myself paying upwards of $100 monthly in these small incurring charges until my credit card was lost and they were all cancelled. I'll answer with what main services I used to pay for and what I replaced them with. Evernote got replaced by OneNote. It's not an equivalent, but it gets the job done. I moved from lastpass once they changed their subscription model to the free tier. I'm considering moving to bitwarden's free tier. I'm somehow unable to get together the few hours it will take to migrate a handful of sites and email accounts from my 1and1 site to something less painful, but every time I try to move, it becomes a small nightmare.

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image capture on mac should be able to do it. requires to be plugged in via usb.

brilliant answer. Moreover, there is no GIT for designers made from the ground up (I'm envisioning a gui for past drafts).

Also, there are no standards for schools of design. There is no professional course that teaches the basics of ergonomics for the web the same way architectural web development can be taught. Most of the people like myself just follow a few major blogs.

I know many designers who would love to donate to open source projects.