twmiller

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by twmiller 3y ago
> That said, on my most recent trip to Paris, I actually found Parisians a lot nicer than the last time I was there (~1995ish?). My wife and I had the exact same experience. We had been to Paris in the late 90s and when we were there a c
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by twmiller 4y ago
I pulled an old Kenwood HF transceiver my dad had given me about 10 years off of a shelf in the garage about a week ago. While I was digging around for the various pieces of it (long story short, it was broken, started repairing it, got ove
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by twmiller 4y ago
Meh. The moment I, for any reason, cannot collaborate unless I get my hands on a computer it stops being collaborative. Or not. 'Collaborative' doesn't mean 'accessible by anyone'. Collaborative just means capable o
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by twmiller 4y ago
The same sort of people who decided it'd be interesting and/or fun to snag an extra phone line and set up a BBS back in the day, I suspect.
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by twmiller 4y ago
I think you're only half wrong here. The difference is that you can virtue signal to people inside of your own crowd without much consequence, but if you seek to offend them, they kick you out. There's definitely (a lot of) virt
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by twmiller 4y ago
"Guess what: in the fediverse, it would never have been possible to ban Trump in the first place. Sure, leftist servers could have stop syndicating his posts, but this would not have had much more of an effect than individuals blocking
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by twmiller 4y ago
It took me about 45 minutes last night to install a pleroma server and get it set up. Also as 'just an experiment'. This was on a server that had nginx running on it but not much else.
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by twmiller 4y ago
"Who would be a peer as an interviewer?" Dick Cavett has forgotten more about the art of the conversational interview than most people have ever known. Intelligent, perceptive, and witty. I'll take his 40-year-old youtube cli
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by twmiller 4y ago
How is that “counter-balance”? Obviously the medical folks are only going to have talked to people who’ve had accidents, where as the bike forums are filled with people who’ve had accidents, who’ve had close calls, and who’ve had no issues.
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by twmiller 4y ago
It's also a bunch of horseshit, because the Acropolis museum in Athens is absolutely phenomenal and clearly shows that Greece is capable of caring for them adequately.
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by twmiller 4y ago
Best thing for you in terms of getting to listen to indie artists, but what do they get out of it?
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by twmiller 4y ago
I don’t think the modern mac is any more (or less) difficult to extend than windows or linux…
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by twmiller 4y ago
I've been playing Four Against Darkness. It's not really a solo roleplaying game out of the box, because the 'role playing' aspects of it are extremely minimal. In fact, out of the box it's really more of a P&amp
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by twmiller 4y ago
I'm older than dirt. Last week I watched 'Severance' on Apple TV. It was very good. Last night I watched the first episode of 'Tokyo Vice' on HBO Max and it was definitely good enough that I'll keep watchin
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by twmiller 4y ago
I have a hard time taking anyone seriously when they drop something like this: "MacOS felt a kind of dumb, and does so ever since" ... I mean...MacOS is just *nix these days and has been for 20+ years. I jump back and forth betw
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by twmiller 4y ago
I get 'No Results' when I type 'DVD Player' in spotlight.
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by twmiller 4y ago
I have a M1 Mac mini. It doesn't have a non-removable app called "DVD Player" on it. (Or, if it does, spotlight can't find it and I don't see it in the folder where I copied the 'apple droppings' apps to.
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by twmiller 5y ago
Hrm. I dunno. I recently picked up a couple of old laptops to goof around on (a 2003 Thinkpad T41 and a 2005 iBook G4) and both of them (laptops!) have keyboards that are so much better than my modern keyboards that I was sort of taken ab
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by twmiller 5y ago
Also own a Mac SE/30 and pretty much went through the hoops that the linked article did, only I did all of it myself. I also picked up an ethernet card for it because I had a retro-computer connection who got me one for a really good
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by twmiller 5y ago
...does the video of the guy in the coffee shop remind anyone else of Neil Stephenson's description of 'gargoyles' in Snow Crash?
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by twmiller 5y ago
It's really not. That was the concensus of many reviews when these things were new. I'm not (by any stretch) implying that DAC differences are 'audiophile snake oil'. There is a difference. It's just that the &
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by twmiller 5y ago
Yep. As mentioned, Apple Watch is the way to go if you're looking for a modern shuffle, and it does support offline Spotify these days. The issues with using an older shuffle is that replacing the batteries on ANY of them is a massive
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by twmiller 5y ago
I love how everyone is chomping at the bits to get one of those iPods with the Wolfson DAC when a) most people can't hear the difference and b) even among people who can, they're probably not using headphones* that are good enough
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by twmiller 5y ago
Sometimes I think that it might be good to ditch the smart phone in favor of a dumb phone. Then two things occur to me: 1. 90% of the ‘communicating’ I do with my phone these days is text messaging, and I almost never make voice calls anym
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by twmiller 5y ago
The thing about Adams with regards to world building is that it was always story first. This is why he wrote four different versions of the actual Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy story. One for radio, one for the book, one for the televisi
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by twmiller 5y ago
You can still get software to do this. I think there's even an election app (!) for that. lol
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by twmiller 5y ago
"I personally don't know enough about mRNA to have a say, but what I can safely assume is that Malone knows more about mRNA than most people who are saying he is wrong." Why can you safely assume that? Further, I'm less
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by twmiller 5y ago
"He’s about as right as most media organizations." Is this true? Do you have any analysis to back this up, or is it just something you made up because it makes you feel good?
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by twmiller 5y ago
How is 'we will hurt you with bad publicity' not part of the free market in action?
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by twmiller 5y ago
This is blatently obvious in America right now. A LOT of voices crying out against the 'cancel culture' are the first to line up when it comes to canceling something THEY don't like.

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