ewoodrich

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by ewoodrich 15d ago
I want one on my balcony pretty much just to offset A/C usage in the summer.
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by ewoodrich 2mo ago
Here’s a gift link (not sure if it will get cut off eventually): https://www.wsj.com/business/big-companies-are-starting-to-h...
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by ewoodrich 3mo ago
FWIW every one of those issues can be solved by running Win11Debloat one time (except update length which is variable based on hardware, but auto-update/restart can be disabled). https://github.com/raphire/win11d
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by ewoodrich 4mo ago
My 9 year old Pixelbook is still supported and will continue to get updates for one more year! I did not expect that went I originally bought it.
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by ewoodrich 4mo ago
My Pixelbook from 2017 still receives regular Chrome OS updates.
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Iran Tightens Its Grip on Hormuz Despite Cease-Fire(wsj.com)
23 points by ewoodrich 5mo ago|9 comments
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by ewoodrich 5mo ago
Costco uses a convention for their retail (doesn’t work for by-weight) products where e.g .97 typically means it’s a limited run or to be discontinued. There are others as well, they have more precise meaning for their internal procurement
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by ewoodrich 6mo ago
I’ve used this Powershell script on every Windows 11 machine in the last four years (5+ devices) and have never needed to re-run it after an update. It’s the first thing I do on a fresh install, and with my selections I see fewer ads (0, mo
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by ewoodrich 6mo ago
The Onn TV sticks (Google TV based) are an incredible value (the middle of the line-up $25 version is the best deal currently) for a bloat/ad-free experience if you just install the free Projectivy launcher from the Play Store and unin
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by ewoodrich 6mo ago
Sorry if I sold myself a delusion about the Linux distro I casually tried but I've been jumping on and off Linux for 20 years at this point and didn't get the memo it was outdated until later on. The significant change here was be
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by ewoodrich 6mo ago
Yes! Per-monitor fractional scaling on Fedora/Wayland finally allowed me to switch my default OS on my laptop from Windows 11 to Linux. I had to give up on my previous attempt a couple years ago with Linux Mint/X11 because it wa
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by ewoodrich 6mo ago
I just block all those results on Google for free with uBlock Origin and uBlacklist.
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by ewoodrich 6mo ago
> modern Amazon no longer offers fast shipping This is highly location specific, in the last 3 years at my current apartment my orders are received roughly 40% same day, 40% next day, 20% 2+ days shipping. And I've never had
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by ewoodrich 6mo ago
Home Assistant supports an absolutely massive number of both manufacturer and community maintained integrations that are necessary for a truly universal all-in-one home automation setup without vendor lock-in. Plus, for the full HAOS experi
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by ewoodrich 6mo ago
It's demonstrating the implications (principle of explosion) of a contradiction being allowed in a system of formal logic. You can change "suppose both are true" to "suppose the rules of a logical system permit stating b
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by ewoodrich 6mo ago
Focusing on the word "Office" feels like a bit of red herring considering it's frequently used in other Microsoft Office replacements like LibreOffice or OpenOffice. Something like "EuropaOffice" would have followed
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by ewoodrich 6mo ago
Damn, an OLED screen at my go-to 14" screen size, and I can actually run Fedora on it? Going to have to do some more research on this thing...
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by ewoodrich 6mo ago
$599 is about 4x what I paid for my current Chromebook...
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by ewoodrich 6mo ago
Yep, I've been using ChromeOS/ built-in Debian VM for light VS Code, web dev and terminal stuff on a 150 dollar Lenovo ARM Chromebook with 4GB RAM for the last 2 years as my couch PC. I just disabled Android apps because that push
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by ewoodrich 6mo ago
> I also took inspiration from ChromeOS's replacement of Caps with Search Hah, I do the exact same thing for the exact same reason on every new Mac/Win/Linux machine for almost a decade now. Karabiner on MacOS and
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by ewoodrich 7mo ago
Thanks, I can see the point being that a smaller subset of that would work on 8 GB, but I don't think you can really just divide by half? (Considering a much larger portion of the 8 GB would be dedicated to base OS/unified GPU nee
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by ewoodrich 7mo ago
It’s also a pretty useless metric since modern browsers suspend stale tabs aggressively these days.
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by ewoodrich 7mo ago
I’m confused, you’re talking about 16 GB of RAM but OP said: Having only 8 GB sucks unless you're using it as a terminal or media player. I have the M1 MacBook Pro with 16 GB too and it’s fine for normal web development and mult
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by ewoodrich 7mo ago
Shared iPad overview Shared iPad allows more than one user to sign in to an iPad. The iPad needs to be supervised before Shared iPad can be used. Shared iPad can be used not only in education but also in business. Multiple users can
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by ewoodrich 7mo ago
I remember my first internship for a Boeing subcontractor in 2010ish went all-in on thin clients for like half the company of 200 employees or so. But with an on-prem Windows Terminal Server as the backend for RDP. It was mostly fine-ish ex
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by ewoodrich 8mo ago
When I was a kid I used to pack my house's cable modem in a backback and bring it to my friend's house a couple miles away when I'd visit to play Xbox Live. My dad had a back-up dial-up connection for emails and mom didn&#x27
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by ewoodrich 8mo ago
Perhaps, I can't say with 100% certainty that I wouldn't if offered 50k+ just for writing a blog post. But in doing so I would also have to accept being labeled a "crypto shill" instead of "crypto critic" for t
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by ewoodrich 8mo ago
OpenCode also has an extremely fast and reliable UI compared to the other CLIs. I’ve been using Codex more lately since I’m cancelling my Claude Pro plan and it’s solid but haven’t spent nearly as much time compared to Claude Code or Gemini
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by ewoodrich 8mo ago
Okay yeah, not great... https://steve-yegge.medium.com/bags-and-the-creator-economy-...
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by ewoodrich 8mo ago
Yes, this exact scenario has happened to me a couple times with both Claude and Codex, and it's usually git checkout, more rarely git reset. They immediately realize they fucked up and spend a few minutes trying to undo by throwing ran

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