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guy_threepwood

@ guy_threepwood @lemmy.world

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  • in what proportions do you mix beer (pale lager) and apple juice?

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  • I don’t know why you would want to do that? Just drink less beer?

  • Ubuntu Pro for Personal/Home Use

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  • I’ve tried it. Can’t really see much difference from not using it. As others have said, being a personal user you’re not much of a target - being smart about what you run on your computer has much more of an effect on security.

    In the future I probably won’t bother

  • What are the current best ways to learn languages online?

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  • I found a personal tutor and I spend an hour with them every week (online). Outside of that I watch YouTube videos (with English subtitles) and practice with friends who I have who know the language too. I have tried Memrise, Duolingo and others in the past and I have made considerably more progress this way.

    Basically: find someone who can actually make sure you’re getting something from it and find a good way to practice too

  • E-ink tablet for note and reading

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  • I have an original reMarkable (not the 2) and whilst it’s a but slow for big fancy scanned PDFs it is generally pretty good for what I want. It does also run linux so you can ssh into it and do everything locally away from their cloud services which is nice

  • I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it.

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  • See also the Camelford disaster

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  • remove shoes, belt, put laptop/phone on the tray bins

    Some airports are removing this requirement now, but there are usually signs

  • I'm annoyed with the idea of getting a Mac

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  • Notch. I don’t think there is any damage. It just seems to ”let go” whilst dragging much too easily

  • I'm annoyed with the idea of getting a Mac

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  • I recently got a (second hand) M1 MacBook Pro and the trackpad is surprisingly awful Compared to the last MacBook I had (a 2012 rMBP). I find it very awkward to drag things for some reason. I wonder if I am perhaps ”doing it wrong”

  • Your favorite font for terminal and GTK/QT apps?

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  • This reminds me of people who used Computer Modern to make it look like they had written their paper using LaTeX to get better marks. It usually worked

  • WHAT

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  • Macintosh Pus actually. At least I hope it’s a Plus. If they gutted a 128k or 512k that would be sad.

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  • If you still have a land line you can dial locally without even an area code. This worked in most countries. Some mobile phone networks kept this tradition although in a weirder way: you could dial locally when physically located in those areas, and your phone would display the area code you were in on the its standby screen. Which worked as long as you weren’t on a border between cells and it picked the wrong one.

    Over time this went away.

    I don’t think this is what you have experienced, but it was a nice thing that blurred the lines between land line and mobile phones for a little while, and I think it’s interesting.

  • YSK if you have a library card or are a student, there's a free streaming service called Kanopy

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  • I get Pressreader access with my library. Gives me access to newspapers and magazines for free, which is pretty good. Especially for overseas things which are otherwise quite difficult to get

  • I think Doordash is changing its delivery fee after you go to check out

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  • I go and look up the place I am searching for on Google Maps, see if it has a direct website / ordering system and always prioritise going direct if I can. Many now do, and by and large they have lower fees / lower minimum values since they don’t pay such a high premium for the platform.

  • Who is generally recognized as the greatest of all time criminal defense lawyer?

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  • Phoenix Wright?

  • What was your first Linux distribution?

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  • I used Vector Linux 3.2, which was Slackware based, mostly because it was a small(ish) download on my friend’s Cable internet connection. Shortly after I moved to real Slackware. This was probably 2003/4

  • How it feels to use xkill

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  • Kinda surprising nobody thought to make a lightgun version of xkill. At least, a few minutes of searching and I can’t find anything

  • Do you change your hairstyle according to the weather?

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  • My hair is thick and waist length. In the summer months I have to have it tied up somehow or I overheat, much to the annoyance of people in my life who like to see it down 😅

    I’ve considered trying natural lightening techniques (some people say lemon juice, others in my family with similar hair say it works) to lighten it to reduce the heat. Maybe this year I’ll give it a go.

    One other thing I’ll say is that if you’re already hot, adding volume makes it worse as it traps warm air

  • What happened to cylindrical plugs?

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  • It is my understanding that Apple actually wanted to use 3.5mm jacks for their ADB keyboard/mouse interface in the early days, and some prototypes exist which used the jacks.

    https://www.applefritter.com/node/294

    The plug manufacturers couldn’t guarantee that you wouldn’t sometimes get high resistance issues if the plugs were left connected all the time. On a pair of headphones you’d hear that as static and turn the plug or unplug/insert to get it going again. But you can’t “hear” through a keyboard.

    They used mini DIN 4 instead.