spikej

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by spikej 3mo ago
Those one-offs can always be in a separate VM (in Hyper-V or something)
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by spikej 4mo ago
This is one usecase where I'm thankful for AI: to help generate a bunch of documents in a well structured manner (giving it audience, having it scan through my comments on why I did xyz, etc)
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by spikej 6mo ago
I had less "custom" work to do with IE 6/7 if I got it working well in Opera first was my experience...
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by spikej 6mo ago
Opera was my secret weapon back in the day: if it worked in Opera, it would be guaranteed to work in Chrome, IE and Firefox. It significantly reduced the browser quirks stuff I'd have to dig into. Dragonfly was top notch also: one of t
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by spikej 8mo ago
I'd be super happy if they left Windows alone and did just this for years to come. Use the other products to make money, and just maintain this Win 2000/7/10 type OS without new features, and stop trying to hide everything be
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by spikej 8mo ago
I hope there's more to it than something solvable with AutoHotkey... So far I just experience a buggier version of Windows 10 with features I don't want.
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by spikej 8mo ago
Bang on! This is definitely coming and very few talk about it.
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by spikej 8mo ago
Cannot even reliably permanently disable real time scanning...
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by spikej 8mo ago
Even without the AI, it's replacing native apps with web based ones. Case in point: Notepad. It's slower than WordPad on Win 10... and crashes!
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by spikej 8mo ago
"CUSTOMERS demanded bigger screens" That's a bold statement...
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by spikej 8mo ago
What about your local public library as a source? (that's worked for me)
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by spikej 10mo ago
Big assumption there... chances are they would rather keep the money or spend it elsewhere, instead of "unnecessarily" upgrading when things still work
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by spikej 11mo ago
This may or may not help, but have a look at ZorinOS. The latest release and it's announcement is targeted towards those wanting to jump ship from Windows -> Linux. They've tried to account for the adjustment with built-in tips
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by spikej 11mo ago
I use BazQux ( https://bazqux.com/ ) as it was the closest to the old Google Reader I could find. The developer also set up their own instance of FiveFilters Full Text Rss ( https://www.fivefilters.org/full-tex
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by spikej 1y ago
if I REALLY care, then I end up making an agent in my Huginn instance (and hope there's no Cloudflare, etc verification in front that blocks scraping https://github.com/huginn/huginn
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by spikej 1y ago
Most non-technical people I know that have VPNs simply have it for streaming media from platforms that geo-restrict. It's a cat and mouse game as the provider bans servers/providers.
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by spikej 2y ago
I had a similar problem with having to deal with an ISP provided modem, and solved it in the stupidest way possible: xmas light timer to reboot it in the middle of the night. It's set to go off for 30 min then come back on. Sadly, I&#x
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by spikej 2y ago
I have been running Huginn on an Ubuntu VM since Yahoo Pipes shut down almost 10 years ago. I've tried out NodeRed and n8n over the years but they've been a huge let down in ease of manipulating multiple RSS feeds and web scraping
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by spikej 2y ago
I'd never heard of it until I just Googled it... Is it a better experience compared to DuckDuckGo with bang operators?
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by spikej 2y ago
The safer option is to build your own install media using an unattend file. Here's an unattend file generator https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/
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by spikej 2y ago
I didn't realize I would have to say the answers over the phone when choosing the answers (and thought it would only ever be me filling them in online) CSR: "What is your mother's maiden name?" Me: "do you really wa
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by spikej 2y ago
Do you have any links for ones they'd recommend?
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by spikej 2y ago
That's nuts! For what it's worth, I bought this for my old chamberlain. https://gotailwind.com I was looking into replacing the old unit with a new one with myq but then read about all the problems and decided to give
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by spikej 2y ago
Which company, and which product did you see this with?
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by spikej 2y ago
Unless you're getting them for older hardware that only plays mp3 like my car stereo...
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by spikej 3y ago
This is a real problem that doesn't get talked about much...
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by spikej 3y ago
I did similar -- not to the level of Youtube videos -- but have that list for spouse in case something happens to me.
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by spikej 3y ago
Someone gave me an added tip to include a tape measure in the shots so you can more easily line up where things are after the wall's closed.
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by spikej 3y ago
My solution is same as your plan A. Except that local backup is a NAS that also stores all backups from computers as well as photos from phones. Then everything goes to back blaze and photos go to Google photos for convenience of sharing.
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by spikej 3y ago
This is spot on. I was having this exact discussion last week about how best to "strangle" an older application and deploy the new replacement for an upcoming project.

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