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by zafiro17 1mo ago
I also happen to adore the now defunct Autopoint. Turns out there's a guy even more devoted than us - Jonathan Veley. When the factory in Ohio closed he bought all the remaining stock and now sells a modern version (modern plastics&#x
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by zafiro17 3y ago
The nightmare is over? I've used Usenet for years. Most serious users filter out any post originating from G2 to do away with Google posts. It's been a huge source of spam and annoyance. Usenet gets better as it gets smaller, h
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by zafiro17 3y ago
Interesting follow-up to your Autopoint story. I met Jonathan Veley at a pen show. He is a pencil afficionado too (a self-professed "Lead Head") and bought the remaining stock of the Panda lead factory, plus a lot of equipment.
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by zafiro17 3y ago
This is tangential to the subject at hand, but I feel obliged to complain about how much Substacks now requires you install its app to read the content. Very similar to Reddit, in fact. I've watched the progression in pushiness over
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by zafiro17 3y ago
I'm kind of surprised by the comments here. I've used TDE for years (on the Q4OS Linux distro). It excels at being a low-resource requirement virtual desktop for teams needing a modern distro/kernel/browser but want it
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by zafiro17 4y ago
This is one of the apps that not only keeps me on a desktop/laptop computer (vs a phone/tablet) but also keeps me on Linux. I've got all my photos stored on a NAS device in my house, and manage backups myself (to external ha
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by zafiro17 4y ago
I wish both the K9 and Thunderbird teams all the best. K9 needs some love, and so does Thunderbird, honestly. I use Aquamail on Android and love it. Great feature set, works great with multiple accounts, lots of configuration options. It
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by zafiro17 4y ago
Comp.misc for computer stuff Misc.news.internet.discuss for oddball Sci.misc for science These are three decent groups for content similar to HN. If you need a usenet provider, try solani.org (no cost) or individual.net (paid but excellen
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by zafiro17 4y ago
I'm using Mageia with great success. KDE, frequent security and package updates, big repository, non-Ubuntu. Former Mandriva and Mandrake for those who remember Linux in the early 2000s.
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by zafiro17 4y ago
I just tried out delomore and am very impressed. Bookmarking now!
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by zafiro17 4y ago
I applaud the work that went into this, but unless I'm missing something, they've recreated a terminal server, where nomachine has delivered desktops for ages and works over a connection as poor as dial-up.
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by zafiro17 4y ago
This article feels like it written specifically for me. I have a strong nostalgia and affection for shortwave radio while sadly also forcing myself to come to grips with the fact that it's a dead medium. I was a volunteer in rural Cen
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by zafiro17 5y ago
Looks like the first paragraph was a recent edit. I'm not sure how gopherpedia works but perhaps it only syncs periodically.
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by zafiro17 5y ago
If text-based access to popular websites is your cup of tea, there are two very good gopher interfaces I use regularly: gopher://gopherpedia.com for Wikipedia and gopher://gopherddit.com for Reddit. The latter is not ve
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by zafiro17 5y ago
Every time a vivaldi post shows up on HN it attracts a lot of negative comments (and some positive ones). Will just add my voice to the mix - Vivaldi is my primary browser and I love it. On my 5 year old laptop I experience no slowness, a
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by zafiro17 5y ago
Prof. Davis' software is Jed. Slava Pestov's is Jedit. All is good.
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by zafiro17 5y ago
I used jedit today, and actually I use it most days. It's a great piece of software and these days, the only reason I have to install a java runtime on my Linux boxes. Hypersearch is outstanding, I love the approach to macros (and I&#
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by zafiro17 5y ago
I do too. Slightly different template: Left half of page: "work stuff." Right half of page "personal stuff." Bottom two inches of page: "long term goals for the week." I use one sheet per week, adding bullet
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by zafiro17 5y ago
Fond memories of my click wheel ipod, but I actually just bought a relatively generic MP3 player and am thrilled with it. Wrote about it here: https://therandymon.com/index.php?/archives/360-The-MP3-Play... The h
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by zafiro17 5y ago
Noom, a popular diet/weight-loss app, works on the same principle. I've used it. To start the free trial you need to prepare the payment mechanism. Then after X amount of days, the paid service automatically kicks in. I wasn&#x
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by zafiro17 5y ago
That's useful most of all to FB, where plenty of political discussion is about how to put a leash on FB these days. Don't want users to be subjected to that now, would we?
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Paean to the Mixtape(therandymon.com)
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by zafiro17 5y ago
For that price (approx USD 120) I get 4 lines, so my whole family. I'm not happy about the data breach, but I'm very happy with TMobile otherwise, and I seem to have a better deal than my friends on AT&T and others here in th
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by zafiro17 6y ago
Hey wow, I love this idea, this design philosophy, and this commitment to reuse. It occurs to me it may also solve another complaint I've always had with laptops, that you have to find the machine whose screen, trackpad, keyboard, wei
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by zafiro17 6y ago
On behalf of Usenet users everywhere, this is excellent news, and I wouldn't be surprised if Usenetters begin stuffing other useful newsgroups with crap in order to removed from Google as well. Google's assimilation of Usenet cont
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by zafiro17 6y ago
Funny to see this. About a month ago I took a break from my usual environment (Linux Mint Cinnamon) and gave Icewm a try. I decided after a week of usage that it did everything I need in a window manager: fully configurable with hotkeys, m
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by zafiro17 6y ago
I love using Lynx on medium.com. It strips away all the non-content and leaves the good stuff. In fact, I can't browse medium pages using any other browser.
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by zafiro17 6y ago
The folks who do Fastmail built Topicbox ( https://topicbox.com ) a few years ago and I don't yet see how Front differs from that product. Basically, it brings the concept of conversation channels to inbox, while providing a
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by zafiro17 6y ago
I've got a Brother MFC L2710DW that both Linux and ChromeOS print to without any trouble at all. Newer Chromebooks with the Google Playstore also give you access to the Brother Print & Scan app, which also works.
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by zafiro17 6y ago
Apple is slowly disappearing from my family's hardware portfolio, and recent software changes are accelerating it. Back in 2005 or so I converted my entire CD collection to digital, and managed it happily using Itunes. Somehow in the

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