ranger47

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by ranger47 4y ago
Same here. In fact, I still repair record players, cassette decks and 8-track units as a hobby. That said, I'm not about to sit here and say the modern vinyl thing is anything but a gimmick. As I said further in my reply, it's f
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by ranger47 4y ago
It is a gimmick, and it seems like you bought it, hook, line and sinker...but it wasn't always a gimmick. At some point, vinyl was the standard. It has lost that position since, but to not admit that these record producers are capita
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by ranger47 4y ago
>the author puts in the most thought and energy are about human interactions During my reading, I thought this was the point. I'm not sure the stories were trying to be in any specific genre, maybe genre-adjacent at best, but the au
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by ranger47 4y ago
Can it be a socio-economic problem? Do universities that these lawyers study at really need to be as expensive as they are?
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by ranger47 4y ago
I'll bite. What's on your unofficial reading list?
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by ranger47 4y ago
Obsidian is great. I tend to use it for TTRPG stuff since it's prettt portable. For actual notes, or detailed lists, I like Featherwiki. https://feather.wiki/
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by ranger47 4y ago
This article hits close to home, but there is one crucial component missing; free time. For the most part, I'm at my laptop or mobile about half of my primary work day, and take regular breaks from actual work to check out HN or any ot
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by ranger47 4y ago
It's interesting that people don't have the patients to vet or even start to question the veracity of their information sources. I think this part of the "how do you expert?" problem is the one that needs to be more care
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by ranger47 4y ago
I'm interested in following your project if you have a blog or anything.
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by ranger47 4y ago
Yep, Afrin and the like. They open things up nicely, for a time, then I have to keep using it or I spend a week feeling extremely blocked before returning to my baseline of annoyingly blocked. I have not heard of Azelstine, and will bring t
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by ranger47 4y ago
Naturally, this and a CPAP are in consideration, but getting to that point is profoundly difficult without health insurance in the US. I am seeking solutions for relief in the meantime.
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by ranger47 4y ago
Everything is a concern. It's not often that humanity gets it right the first time, so the trick is to be ready to make changes when new verifiable data comes to light.
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by ranger47 4y ago
What opened things up for you? I suffer from allergies, and have a slightly deviated septum, and I've tried so many sprays (caused dependency), breathing strips (falls off in the night), and even 3D printed a small cradle that would fo
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by ranger47 4y ago
Hmm, this is not correct. I work as a employment specialist for individuals with developmental disabilities, and they rarely, if ever, lose SSI or SSDI if they start working, so long as they stay under certain thresholds (hours, wage and as
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by ranger47 4y ago
ELI5: The US and China are not very good friends, but Chinese goods still get sold to US markets. China's gov't has a hand in every company in its borders, or so it is suspected, since this is routinely denied by the companies and
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by ranger47 4y ago
Spreading misinformation is a VERY different thing from constructive discussion of different takes on an issue. Anyone taking offense to a request like this can't tell the difference.
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by ranger47 4y ago
I have a Thinkpad X120e Chromebook that still kicks with Gallium OS on it. I think you can pick those up for about $50 USD now. There's a Chromebook version and a "regular" version.
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by ranger47 4y ago
Have a look at the upcoming MNT Pocket Reform: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/pocket-reform
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by ranger47 4y ago
I'm pretty sure lighting a fire and sending smoke signals was a less annoying input method than the stiff metal domes on that Pocket CHIP keyboard. I
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by ranger47 4y ago
Oh, good. We should be safe, then.
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by ranger47 4y ago
Who needed a study? We've known this for years, and it was even speculated at the dawn of Friendster, MySpace, etc. Watching a society (the US, for example) slowly say "social media is bad" then continue to use it is like wat
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by ranger47 4y ago
You remind me of someone... a man I met in a half-remembered dream. He was possessed of some radical notions.
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by ranger47 4y ago
Nebula is trying to bill itself as an alternative, but I am not convinced it will gain the traction it needs to become what we might call a YT alternative. Users have griped about the ads on YT for years now, yet they keep using it, which j
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by ranger47 4y ago
I wish there was still a modern newsstand equivalent to Byte.
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by ranger47 4y ago
My introduction to it was from watching The Wire. One of "Stringer's" lieutenants was shown reading a book behind him during meetings. I ended up looking up the book after finally catching the title and thought "hey, thi