slantyyz

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by slantyyz 2y ago
Reflective bird tape might work. For me, it was effective in preventing birds from attempting to build a nest on my transom window.
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by slantyyz 2y ago
Not to mention that the Sienna hybrid gets crazy good fuel economy for a mini van.
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by slantyyz 2y ago
The Thunderscan, for the time, was pretty awesome though. I remember borrowing one from a classmate to make some scans. Given how we keep a document scanner in our pocket these days, the whole notion of sticking a scanner into a printer see
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by slantyyz 2y ago
Agree. Calling it done and using it might be the best approach. If this is truly a "small project for myself", start using it. If the app mostly does what you want, and you enjoy using the app, anything in the last 30% that you fe
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by slantyyz 3y ago
I disagree, but only slightly, Windows 2000 was my personal favorite, especially for its version of Windows Explorer.
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by slantyyz 3y ago
If you find that bewildering, maybe it's a generational thing. I've been driving for around 35 years, and I never really found it too hard going from one car to another before the LCD era. At this point, I'm trying to avoid b
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by slantyyz 3y ago
> Google should have been required to be up front about their definition of unlimited Well, unless the definition of unlimited is actually unlimited as in "no limits", you shouldn't be allowed to use the word in any market
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by slantyyz 3y ago
> expect it to be free forever. Where does it say he expected it to be free? In the article, there's a tweet that says "So I paid Google a lot of money for a long time for a plan that included unlimited storage" To me, the
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by slantyyz 3y ago
I dunno, my 18 year old Honda (and wife's Toyota of same age) is pretty much all physical switches (and that's not counting all the cars I've driven since the late 80s). Outside of the occasional manufacturer idiosyncrasies,
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by slantyyz 3y ago
I'm probably in the minority of the minority, but I don't want a touch screen in my car. Or even any big LCD screen in my car. I would prefer my car to be relatively dumb, and free of distractions where possible.
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by slantyyz 4y ago
I've been on Fastmail for almost a year, and I get spam/obvious phishing attempts in my inbox. Compared to my experience with GMail before switching to Fastmail, I found Gmail to be noticeably better at spotting and filtering both
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by slantyyz 4y ago
They are just a bookmark, but on Windows, they become a first class citizen on your task bar. If you are the type to have a ton of tabs open across many windows, this also makes the "app" easier to spot. You can also pin the app t
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by slantyyz 4y ago
Which would be easily resolved by having them off by default? Having said that, I don't know how window snapping being on by default isn't incredibly frustrating for someone who is simply trying to precisely position a window near
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by slantyyz 4y ago
For those situations, there are wobbling mouse platforms that effectively do the same thing as a plug-in USB mouse jiggler.
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by slantyyz 5y ago
> 95% of the time it's a better resolution for doing things like coding and spreadsheets. Depends on the use case. my wife (accountant) lives in Excel, and I set her up with two 21:9 monitors side by side (42:9 overall) and she love
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by slantyyz 5y ago
If you're authoring 16:9 content, you can display 1080p video at native resolution with UI controls on a 2560x1440 monitor, which is also 16:9. 16:10 in a vacuum is a useless metric. Real world stuff like actual resolution, screen di
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by slantyyz 5y ago
> Doesn't really explain all the major banks going offline at around the same time. https://twitter.com/AB_inmate/status/1494079461347643392 I'm not sure I understand how that tweet offers proof the b
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by slantyyz 5y ago
> These 5 banks do not share infrastructure. Don't they all use Interac for a variety of services including e-transfers?
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by slantyyz 5y ago
Is that a thing? Outside of SMS, I only use Skype, Slack and Whatsapp for instant messaging, and in terms of spam, SMS, which is bound to my number, gets the most spam, which is already quite rare.
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by slantyyz 5y ago
That it binds to your cell phone number, and that I can't run the web client on an Android tablet (at least the last time I tried).
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BlackBerry sells patents linked to legacy smartphone business for US$600M(theglobeandmail.com)
1 points by slantyyz 5y ago|1 comments
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by slantyyz 5y ago
Sadly, I don't think dishwashers will last 20 years any more. Since 2005, I'm on my third dishwasher. The first one lasted 9 years, the second one around 5 (with one under warranty repair). At some point the repairs/parts cos
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by slantyyz 5y ago
Also, since dishwashers are "supposed to" last 10 years or more, they may force you to keep an older version of Wifi available on your network (e.g., 2.4ghz n) when all of your other devices may be on the latest version.
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by slantyyz 5y ago
From what I understand you can use a custom domain on the personal/family plans, but if you're aliasing emails (e.g. info@yourdomain, notify@yourdomain) to a single address, you need the business plans.
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by slantyyz 5y ago
Also, if you are using your GSuite account with Google Play, any purchases you made could be lost.
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by slantyyz 5y ago
I looked into this as an option, and it's worth mentioning - if you need email aliases, you'll need a Business 365 account, not a Personal 365 account. The Basic (lowest tier) Business account is roughly same price as the personal
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by slantyyz 5y ago
> I have stacks of class action letters and in almost every case I get exactly zero... I was pleasantly surprised when I got around $250 CAD from a Lenovo class action suit. I bought one of their consumer laptops that had a piece of crap
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Network Segmentation Cheat Sheet(github.com)
1 points by slantyyz 5y ago|0 comments
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by slantyyz 5y ago
If I didn't have a solution in place already, I think I'd pay for it. $10 for the lifetime fee is far from egregious, imo.
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by slantyyz 5y ago
While I agree with you in principle, at some point, you're going to run out of places to work at. Even the managers who I considered to be good at their jobs didn't record this stuff.

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