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by presto8 14d ago
Companies with ecosystems would like their users locked into their ecosystems. There are many large companies that still do business with customers even if their customers do business with their competitors.
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by presto8 2mo ago
I love KOReader on Android, but unfortunately it requires granting permission to manage all files on the device. I would prefer if it used the approach most apps use, which is to select a folder on the device that it can access. Then I can
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by presto8 4mo ago
Won't that be impossible as long as VPN is viable?
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by presto8 5mo ago
> Public transit like buses and lightrail are significantly more efficient per person than personal vehicles. I would be interested to see a study on that. I see many buses driving around with zero or one passengers on them. If a bus is
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by presto8 8mo ago
> But FLOSS software is mainly made by developers. Who [...] are awful at UX Doesn't UX depend on the target user and product? To take vi or emacs as examples, they have incredibly steep learning curves, but I think many of their us
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by presto8 8mo ago
The Fed's interest rate goal (which is half of their dual mandate) is 2%.
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by presto8 8mo ago
> There are still several 2% cards that don’t require Apple Pay, although I don’t know of any with no foreign exchange fee other than maybe the Fidelity one. The Bread American Express is a 2% card and no FTF. Fidelity is still the best
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by presto8 9mo ago
I have a very similar setup, but using gnus, mbsync, notmuch, and afew. All mail stays on the servers (including a self-hosted dovecot server on my home network). I manage about 10 email accounts with very little effort. It's easy to g
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by presto8 11mo ago
+1 for emacs-bedrock! It helped me get started with reasonable defaults out-of-box. From there, I started adjusting it to my own needs.
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by presto8 1y ago
Discovered Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC edition recently. It's great! It is supposed to get security updates through 2032. It doesn't have Cortana, OneDrive, CoPilot, Edge, etc. (Which is a good thing IMO.) Nor does it require a
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by presto8 1y ago
Overly-anthropomorphised dialog boxes (such as pop-up offers on web sites, not so much on operating system controls) bug me in the same way. Instead of "Yes, please" and "No, thank you" buttons, I would prefer simply &qu
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by presto8 1y ago
With NIIT, it's an additional 3.8% on top of that (for the highest income filers). So 23.8%. https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/questions-and-answers-on-the-ne...
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by presto8 1y ago
gnus (on emacs) is pretty good. But it may require an entire lifestyle change :) The beauty of gnus is that it's elisp all the way down. So if you don't like something, it's most likely configurable.
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by presto8 1y ago
> My point is less about where the money goes and more about not subsidizing cheap Chinese shipping. FWIW, most of the packages I've bought from AliExpress over the last 6 months have been delivered by private couriers (like OnTrac
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by presto8 1y ago
> Just to get the numbers right: [0] there is a $25 minimum, that becomes $50 June 1st, on all packages below or at $800. Things are changing very quickly, so it's hard to keep up. But I believe this was revised on April 9th to $100
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by presto8 1y ago
> On the one hand the guy in OP article didn’t have documentation and he illegally crossed the border, so what do you do as ICE? The guy claims he is a US citizen, but I bet you a lot of illegal immigrants without documentation claim the
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by presto8 1y ago
Did my taxes with taxes.cashapp.com this year. I recommend it. It's free to file both federal and state. It handled my complex tax return, including rental income with depreciation, RSUs, ESPP, section 1256 contracts, etc. And it can i
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by presto8 1y ago
I like darktable as a Lightroom alternative.
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by presto8 1y ago
Many B2B transactions are tax-exempt but it's complicated. And gets really complicated once international transactions are considered. And also whether the company has a physical nexus in the place the product is being purchased. All i
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by presto8 1y ago
Because VAT is collected at the border on imports, some people (wrongly) consider VATs a tariff. Considering that VAT is rebated on exports, VATs are trade neutral. Sales tax as implemented in the US is not as tax efficient as VAT due to th
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by presto8 1y ago
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by presto8 2y ago
Would alttab meet your needs? I've been using it with xmonad and it works well. https://github.com/sagb/alttab
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by presto8 2y ago
> Tesla is still up compared to where it was a year ago. $TSLA was $222 on 2020-12-29. Since Tesla does not pay a dividend, one could have made a lot more money investing in Treasuries over that time. https://finance.yahoo.com
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by presto8 2y ago
Fidelity Cash Management has a 4.5% yield (which is also state-tax free for those in states with income tax, which could be a boost of up to 0.5% for some).
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by presto8 2y ago
I've been wearing the same N95 duckbill for about 3 years now. It is getting a bit dirty but structurally it's fine. I don't wear it every day though, only in what I deem high-risk situations. Its construction is much more ro
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by presto8 3y ago
Does virt-install automatically download the ISOs? When I try it, I get the following message: $ virt-install --name alma9 --memory 1536 --vcpus 1 --disk path=$PWD/alma9.img,size=20 --cdrom alma9.iso --unattended ERROR Val
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by presto8 3y ago
man configuration.nix Then use the search function of the pager.
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by presto8 3y ago
Check out marginalia[1]. Whenever you press M-x, it will pop up a buffer showing all the commands (with most recent ones on top) along with their keybindings and a brief description of what they do. Embark[2] is also cool. It will show all
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by presto8 3y ago
The video adds a lot of extra stuff beyond what is in the NY Times video: There is an interview with one of the test takers; a description of three possible correct answers (1, 3, or 4, depending on the perspective); a video demonstration o
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by presto8 3y ago
The guy interviewed in the video said he answered "3", but then later when asked, said he got an 800 (perfect score). So he must have answered every other question correctly!

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