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Ask HN: Good hobby OS recommendations for learning
2 points by insky 12y ago|1 comments
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by insky 12y ago
Large wattage items aren't on for that long in my experience. We could get our electric use right down and probably run it on solar during the summer months, save for the fridge/freezer, fan in the bathroom, the kettle and hair d
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by insky 12y ago
Perhaps we should build better software that helps to reduce power in electrical devices? A decade back I remember every office in a building I worked in (in the UK), leaving their machines on pretty much 24hrs. The building manager sugge
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by insky 12y ago
Since realised that I've bought both SD and MicroSD cards with and without cases. A MicroSD got bent in the post, bought as new. And a accidentally put my foot on an SD while shuffling cards.
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by insky 12y ago
Hairsplitter.
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by insky 12y ago
Don't the MicroSD cards come with plastic cases, but not the larger SD cards?
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by insky 12y ago
Except when you tread on them. As I found out yesterday. I had another that got damaged in the post, bent and dead.
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by insky 12y ago
Regarding tracking. We had a hickup at work, with a url that triggered an expensive cronjob. It was being hit mysteriously. It turned out to be the new tab page in Chrome or Firefox (I can't remember which one), which was requesting
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by insky 12y ago
Not to mention web sites that use a graphical icon in the background instead of a textual one or lack a fallback X on pop up windows. I'm forever groping around trying to shut these overlays in the dark.
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by insky 12y ago
There's nothing wrong with optimising for Grandma. The key is to make the most useful features easy to get at, and the more powerful ones discoverable. The bookmark/history manager could be better. It has no autocomplete/aw
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by insky 12y ago
Well kind of. I bookmark sites and then bring them back up by focusing on the location bar (CTRL+L), then typing * (to search bookmarks), and typing a few characters to get me to sites that I visit frequently. Which is fine if you use the
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by insky 12y ago
The problem I have with Firefox is that it just doesn't really innovate. We've had some small UI changes. But there's legacy cruft still in there that isn't addressed. Like the bookmarks and history manager. There isn
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by insky 12y ago
On an Android tablet I have, tab switching under Chrome can be done with a thumb gesture. Tab switching under Opera for me is a fiddle and an annoyance. And that's on a larger device than a phone.
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by insky 12y ago
I'd be very happy with all animation/audio being click to play. I'd like to nominate a video player to play videos. Currently I can't play Youtube videos in Firefox, so I have to open Chrome for the task. I'd pre
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by insky 12y ago
Exactly, this is window managment territory. I think that tabs came about with Opera because they were essentially cheap windows, and as window management has been so dire on most mainstream OSs, tabs were really welcome. But at the end o
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by insky 12y ago
I enjoyed listening to the author of Open Molar on Floss Weekly: https://www.openmolar.com/
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by insky 12y ago
It breaks paging.
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by insky 12y ago
You could actually have quite a bit of fun with this kind of wordplay.
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by insky 12y ago
Just be careful... http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2012/nov/22/...
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by insky 12y ago
You might be able to flip this a little. I can spend lots of time sitting in front of the screen and achieving pretty much nothing. Whereas sometimes a good walk and logical run through of the problem is all that's needed, in fact it
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by insky 12y ago
I tried this for a short while until a local cat pissed on my netplug! I actually found it quite hard to get comfortable. That's the biggest barrier to being portable in my eyes.
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Ask HN: How many Dvorak keyboard layout users in the wild?
2 points by insky 12y ago|1 comments
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by insky 12y ago
I remember reading a study that suggested that having a mobile library with onboard printer to print your request instead of a paper loan, would work out cheaper. Each library loan approximately worked out to be about £6. Libraries aren&
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by insky 12y ago
Took me a while to work out just how to preview fonts on that page.
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by insky 12y ago
Just a side note, as someone that works at home a lot, physically by myself. Others can treat you with suspicion. A few neighbours have colluded and perceive me to be a monster. I am male, and my partner (female) travels to work. I think
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by insky 12y ago
Yeah, and you can feel isolated even with close friends and family.
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by insky 12y ago
The energy is still there, it's just misdirected.
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by insky 12y ago
Oh come on, digital copying is very, very cheap.
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by insky 12y ago
(Well I don't get a vote being south of the border. But I do hope that Scotland does get its independence. (I'm not really sure why I feel like that. I'm not anti-europe. Shouldn't the sum be greater than the parts?)
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by insky 12y ago
A good portable bookmark format, or an open API, accessible from web browsers could really help (me). I bookmark liberally, from different web browsers on different devices. Sadly I still haven't gotten round to aggregated that data.

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