johnpowell

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by johnpowell 6y ago
There are multiple DNS options. Or you can just use Unbound and be your own DNS. https://i.imgur.com/3sVDwhQ.png https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/unbound/
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by johnpowell 6y ago
Ditto. I have had tons of dental work. Fire up the iPod, and yes I still use a old iPod Nano for walks and dental work so I can be distraction-free. Toss in some nitrous and it is almost a pleasurable experience. I certainly don't drea
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by johnpowell 6y ago
Back in the day the internet for normal people was 3 bucks a hour over a 14,400 modem. I didn't consider myself a "creator" for posting my recipes for making mashed potatoes in a crock pot. I just wanted to make the world hav
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by johnpowell 6y ago
I never had to Bing how to quit nano.
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by johnpowell 6y ago
Propagandhi did a song about this in 2005 called America’s Army (Die Jugend Marschiert). They even have a hat-tip to Enders Game near the end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjt1LUbw-Zo
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by johnpowell 6y ago
While not nearly as bad as what is in the article. Predictive text in Messages on iOS now suggests "cancer" when I type "can" and "chemotheteropy" when I type "ch". And to really rub it in "ma&qu
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by johnpowell 6y ago
I was really into skateboarding from about 12 years old to 30. But back in the day I used to buy the Sony Sport Walkman's. The big yellow ugly ones. When I would skate I had the Walkman in my left hand at all times. I used to fall a lo
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by johnpowell 6y ago
When I was getting my woodshop going I was hitting up estate sales/auctions. There was one I auction I scored a nearly brand new SawStop table saw, Dewault planer, and ShopFox joiner (kinda crap) for under 600 dollars. All the stuff wa
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by johnpowell 6y ago
And he also has a thing on getting a pretty good woodshop going for under a grand.
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by johnpowell 6y ago
I haven't noticed that in Netflix. But 80% of my use of the Apple TV is plex and a little app I wrote that reads directories on my computer running Apache and shows everything in a directory structure. And a bash script that runs throu
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by johnpowell 6y ago
My main beef with the roku is the sluggishness of the UI. And I have a few of them in the house (ultras or whatever the top of the line one was as of six months ago. Amazon had a sale and I bought a few). I also have a bunch of Apple TV 4Ks
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by johnpowell 6y ago
Weird.. I use rclone sync to move files between OS X in my room to Ubuntu in the garage and both of those to Google Drive. It has always just moved new files or changed files.
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by johnpowell 6y ago
I bought this book at a place called "Hungry Head Books" in Eugene Oregon in 1997. I was working as a projectionist at the time and pretty much had to kill 30 hours a week in the booth. This was before wifi or cell phones so I wou
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by johnpowell 6y ago
So lets say that there are a couple hundred thousand dead and you are pretty sure that 50% of the people out there have it. Are you going to go out for dinner or a movie? Not me.. But ignore me if you aren't saying that the restriction
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by johnpowell 6y ago
This is the number of people that filed for unemployment in the last week. A staggering number. Just seven days of data.
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by johnpowell 6y ago
I have a friend I talk to daily for 5+ hours a day that works for a major UC school in California. They can totally work from home and everyone kept passing the buck when pressed about this. The other day the staff got pissed enough they go
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by johnpowell 6y ago
Since everyone seems to be all negative I will share a story about the greatest day of my life. This happened around 10 months ago and it involves hash browns. Due to mouth radiation I had to have all my teeth pulled and then two months of
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by johnpowell 7y ago
I use Mintmobile (US) for my cellphone. They are a cheap provider. I pay $180 a year for 2GB of a data a month. They emailed the other day saying data is free for the next month.
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by johnpowell 7y ago
Not sure if this is bad form to respond to my own comment here. But my comments here have probably been massively depressing. I have a positive one. There was a radiation tech, a older gentleman. He noticed that my belt slowly was failing.
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by johnpowell 7y ago
That is the fucked thing about cancer. It is never over. Even if you come up clean in a PET it is always still there. Lingering. Forever.. The mental game after you recover is nearly as bad as the actual treatment. When I was between scans
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by johnpowell 7y ago
I had inquired into why people refuse and the radiologist pretty much said that religion seems to be a major factor. He also asked me about the "gun situation" where I live. We have a lot of guns but they are locked in a safe. The
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by johnpowell 7y ago
Absolutely. That was the goal. If I didn't like it we could pop it out in a minute and it won't hurt. So no harm in having it done. I am glad they were aggressive. I would have died a painful death without it. When the ENT guy sai
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by johnpowell 7y ago
For sure. When I first saw the oncologist he made me meet with a lady that walked me through chemo. She laid out that explicitly that I am such a slender guy that I will die without the tube. And my kidneys will fail since I will probably n
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by johnpowell 7y ago
Wowsa.. You had it worse. I had a "swallowing coach" who was a doppelganger for David Mitchell. The WILTY guy. The best posh comedian. And yes, a swallowing coach is a real thing. I was charged 600 a hour for him to watch me eat p
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by johnpowell 7y ago
Whole milk. I tried the heavier dairy products but they slowed things to a crawl. The feeding tube is actually very narrow. I tried blending spinach and other assorted vegetables and it clogged it. You have to do a intro with a person befor
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by johnpowell 7y ago
Yeah, it is for cancer. From what I gather they need to go in through a vein in my leg and go up into my liver to inject some chemo and a oil to try and kill/starve the tumor. This all seems like witchcraft. I have been dealing with th
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by johnpowell 7y ago
When I was towards the end of mouth/neck radiation I wasn't able to swallow anything, even water, for about a month. So I was just using TwoCal® HN in my feeding tube. I was using six cans a day which is about 3K calories. I still
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by johnpowell 7y ago
Shit... I have a thing scheduled for early next month. Not a full on surgery but it is pretty invasive and urgent and they require me to be in the hospital for a few days. I'm not in New York but I am in hotbed for the current problem.
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by johnpowell 7y ago
Because that would shine a light on just how creepy this all is. We know they do it but the normal person might be a bit concerned if Google and Apple just announced "We track you everywhere and who you interact with." My sister f
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by johnpowell 7y ago
There is a reason it is called the IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers).. If you try to UBER union electricians you are probably going to be in for a rude awakening.

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