dingo454

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by dingo454 5y ago
Never seen this one in Italy, and I've been in several fairly old buildings.
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by dingo454 5y ago
Oh I know, I lived in a old house as well and circled through europe so I've seen/suffered all the plugs from UK/France/Germany/Italy... In this regard, long live the "europlug" and the trend switching tow
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by dingo454 5y ago
I really like this design due to how compact it is. Italy has an almost identical historical design*, but the earth is not offset so LN can be swapped. Both plugs and sockets are very compact, which is a far cry from the emerging standard w
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by dingo454 5y ago
Perhaps it is harsh, but element is being founded to improve the client, and I find several other open source clients to behave better than the official one. I call this honest criticism. My hope is to push matrix as an open protocol, to pu
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by dingo454 5y ago
My suggestion, again: buy FluffyChat. Add important missing features, such as cross-signing. Make it the default client. You can keep element for advanced users. I'd argue it's still not a great client for tech users either, but
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by dingo454 5y ago
You can. People have suggested the Element foundation to publish "red blue green yellow" versions of element with just a different app id for this. I wouldn't be against it (the _clear_ distinction between accounts is importa
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by dingo454 5y ago
I totally get it, but I still disagree. Getting more users on the network should be a #1 priority. You don't want to keep another 10 chat programs, just because matrix is "not" a plain chat app. If the element foundation does
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by dingo454 5y ago
For the average user the element UI is just confusing. This is the #1 complaint I got from all non-techies. They expect to just see a contact list, with each contact being a simple chat without the typing bar. Most of the other interactions
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by dingo454 5y ago
The Element foundation should use some of that sweet money to: 1) buy FluffyChat and some serious UI designers, because Element is probably one of the worst matrix clients in terms of UX. 2) fix decryption issues that happen randomly even b
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by dingo454 5y ago
I started to work as a staff member of a local research center mostly doing foundational research (genetics, life sciences), publicly founded so no conflict of interests. At some point, the founding body (the local administration) decided t
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by dingo454 5y ago
I generally never comment on this to my coworkers because I want to be polite and keep good relationships (I've had very hard responses to very polite requests just to open the windows in the past, so I simply stopped commenting). I&#x
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by dingo454 5y ago
That hardly masks anything TBH. You smell the same with some hint of mint on top. Most of the smell comes from your lungs, your clothing and your hair. You need to stay outside for a good 10 minutes to make a significant difference in perce
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by dingo454 6y ago
I'm in IT, but I've worked as electrician and carpenter for some years. IMHO this is not easily comparable as you'd think. You can easily estimate the time required to perform some physical tasks. It's a bit different if
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by dingo454 6y ago
YMMV but I've also disabled favicons as well where I can. For me the reason is that the icon is too small to be useful while browsing. The details are insignificant, so it just ends up being a "color" cue at best. I actually
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by dingo454 6y ago
What do you mean by "BOTH my own sending and the bill sending back to them? When did this happen, and from where? My last cross-country return was in 2017 for a lens (sold and shipped from amazon) and I had to pay for the shipping myse
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by dingo454 6y ago
Note that when ordering outside the country you still have to pay for the shipping fee of the return yourself _to_ the amazon store of origin you selected, making this a lot less flexible (and slower) than you'd think. As a frequent tr
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by dingo454 7y ago
Currently for me 4G is the only option to work remotely (the only alternative would be going with a wimax provider, or sat). I don't normally incur in the data size caps, but I will soon in the current situation, even when trying to be
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by dingo454 7y ago
That's the idiocy in general of modern car design. A bright-blue headlight of a modern car will actually make everything surrounding the headlights darker. A light which is slightly dimmer and more shifted towards red works much better
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by dingo454 7y ago
I use some CAD/CAM programs on Wine and they're sensibly faster in both rendering and general usage compared to a windows install (I have a dual boot system). I can only complain about some minor font rendering issues and the lack
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by dingo454 7y ago
I lost my cat in my 20ies, which died of old age. I wasn't living with my parents anymore for years when this happened. I still sometimes weep when I think about it, decades later. My father got cancer and lived with it for about 7 yea