benoliver999

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by benoliver999 1mo ago
Surely the smart money is to go to Spain
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by benoliver999 2mo ago
FT is great. The Week I just cannot get on with the style of writing.
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by benoliver999 2mo ago
My RSS reader accepts email newsletters so I subscribe using that and funnel them all into feedbin
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by benoliver999 2mo ago
Ditto here. I was an early customer and it's just flawless. It powers right off my piano USB so it's basically silent. If I ever get good at piano it'll be handy
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by benoliver999 2mo ago
I have had a few failures and I can only assume it's the second one? I have one on a thinkpad that only works if you hold it in the right position
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by benoliver999 2mo ago
I get trouble with the female ports too I have had a failed port on my laptop - fortunately the laptop can charge on two of its ports but it sucks to have lost one. I have had a failed port on an iPad, and on my phone. Again I was fortunate
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by benoliver999 4mo ago
I've been reasonably happy with it since 2013 now. This last year however, I've started to hear complaints from staff of annoying popups about AI stuff people don't want to use
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by benoliver999 4mo ago
I remember in the early days you could watch your storage quota go up in real time.
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by benoliver999 5mo ago
We did this with Jeremy Brett Sherlock. Boxed set is of some sentimental value, but we tired of loading the disc, finding the episode etc. Even worse if you have to stop half way. They ended up ripped and played on kodi
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by benoliver999 5mo ago
I run jellyfin and on iOS infuse is the only player that seems to work with all codecs
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by benoliver999 5mo ago
There's one in the UK too, Cinema Paradiso. The prices are also quite high. Also, the turnaround times were really slow. Slow mail perhaps, but at the same time it's kind of in their interests to not turn things around so fast. In
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by benoliver999 6mo ago
https://ooh.directory/ is a great list of blogs that is nice to navigate
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by benoliver999 7mo ago
Yeah that just tripped me up trying to recomission a 2012 Macbook Pro. Couldn't connect to wifi except through a password-less hotspot. Then I couldnt get online because nothing with SSL was working. I didnt have a pen drive so I had t
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by benoliver999 7mo ago
Yes it's a common misconception that you can only make wide crumbed hipster crusty loaves. Those are great but if you want plain white bread, buns, croissants, etc etc it's all possible to do.
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by benoliver999 7mo ago
In fact a lot of these helped shape our miserable dystopia. HN didn't see that coming
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by benoliver999 7mo ago
The switch to systemd is the last time I FUBARed my system. 2012 it looks like?? I simply did not even remotely understand what I was doing.
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by benoliver999 8mo ago
Also long time zerotier user here, I run a controller for our company. I'm starting to experience infrequent but annoying drops in connection, and DNS is a headache. How is netbird on iOS?
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by benoliver999 8mo ago
Wow, I just tried noctalia and it instantly replaced a load of brittle and stupid hacks I was relying on, what an amazing out of the box experience
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by benoliver999 8mo ago
That's what struck me about niri when I tried it - it does what it promises without any show stopping bugs or complications.
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by benoliver999 8mo ago
Electric car battery degradation has been super interesting, in that they are going way further than people thought they might. Jonny Smith on youtube bought a 300k+ mile Tesla and the battery is at like 75% health. As far as I can tell if
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by benoliver999 11mo ago
There's also ems-esp which I use on an older Worcester Bosch boiler to set flow temperatures based on the outside temperature (managed by home assistant).
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by benoliver999 11mo ago
All our desk phones at work are poe and they have pass through ports to allow connecting a PC to the LAN. Really neat to just have one cable that gives you a powered phone, and Ethernet access.
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by benoliver999 11mo ago
What switch do you use? I have PoE wifi APs throughout the house, but I bought an Aruba switch and it's super noisy tbh. Fine for me because it's in the basement, but I couldn't recommend it
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by benoliver999 1y ago
I use this very specifically for setting up new machines. It's one of those where I don't use it much, but when I do it has saved me a whole lot of time, and it's worked well every time.
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by benoliver999 1y ago
I notice that with niri even people who have never seen tiling WMs instantly 'get' it. I think the animations are a large part of that.
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by benoliver999 1y ago
Yes same here but with i3, I ran it for over 10 years but niri was just an instant 'aha' moment for me. I will say, recent builds have a 'mini map' sort of zoom-out feature that I quite like - my one critique of niri was
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by benoliver999 1y ago
They read it lessloss I guess
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by benoliver999 1y ago
If you don't back up to google drive, the process is much much more hairy. The transfer looks smooth but I have seen it fail in multiple instances. These days I learn not to get attached to my message history
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by benoliver999 1y ago
Many moons ago I tried out a service [0] that did this with pocket articles (although I used to send to pocket vis RSS). It was pretty good! It didn't last long though. I suspect maybe it's easier now to nail the layout if ai can
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by benoliver999 1y ago
If you can spring for Ruckus (I just buy used off ebay), it's worth it. The controller is integrated into the AP - for me that was worth it over unifi alone.

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