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Engineering technician for the UK's leading biomass boiler manufacturer.

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pidgeon_lover
·6 dagen geleden·discuss
How much does it cost? I was spooked when there were no prices on the website and it says only "email for quote".
pidgeon_lover
·12 dagen geleden·discuss
I will be buying a Mullvad subscription because of this. Keep up the good work! Private individuals should have the right to free speech/expression, whatever that is, and that is a value I admire this VPN company for standing up for.

Too many companies pay lip service to the current political fad du jour, and it's annoying. I like an apolitical company that does its thing and doesn't pretend more.
pidgeon_lover
·13 dagen geleden·discuss
Not Sequel-lite?
pidgeon_lover
·13 dagen geleden·discuss
Smart criminals go into politics
pidgeon_lover
·25 dagen geleden·discuss
Can those be used without logging in online to Steam?
pidgeon_lover
·25 dagen geleden·discuss
Can it be used without logging in online to Steam?
pidgeon_lover
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
If you want to make sure to block Amazon, use: https://github.com/Darthagnon/kindle-kual-blockamazon and also one of the Kindle software update blockers here: https://github.com/Darthagnon/BlockKindleOTA
pidgeon_lover
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
I wasn't very happy as a user with an interest in tech/internet history to find my old bookmarks and notes had been hijacked by the new renamed project. The Original Freenet (Hyphanet) was quite interesting. The new one, less so, especially with the name hijacking.
pidgeon_lover
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Found a link to the Fossil forum thread I opened about this very problem of the split between Fossil Wiki and docs:

https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forumpost/e19ed2bfea94fc91f544c...
pidgeon_lover
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
I wanted to host our company wiki in Fossil, but there is no way to import it because Fossil completely separates versioned project docs and the built-in Wiki function. Our git-based wiki could be imported into Fossil as "docs" but would not receive the nice formatting, GUI editor or dedicated page that the Wiki function does. There is also no benefit to manually converting it all to Fossil Wiki as some of our wiki editors work on raw markdown.md files and commit changes by git which is not possible with the Fossil Wiki; everyone would be forced to use the online editor only, whereas currently we have a choice of markdown or Gitea's editor.
pidgeon_lover
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
I don't understand why browser-makers don't leave window management to the window manager. Split view has been standard in Windows (and probably Linux?) since 2009. I know Mac doesn't really do split windows without additional software, but that's an Apple-being-awkward problem.
pidgeon_lover
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
> "This is a quite a unique situation, and I think the young female has a keen eye to actually spot it," [Chris Newman, director of the National Centre for Reptile Welfare, said]

What an odd thing to say.
pidgeon_lover
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Someone made a nice player website for the Aadam Jacobs collection (probably vibe-coded): https://aadamjacobs.dunlap.ai/
pidgeon_lover
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
> use the subscription plans you already have, avoid paying for API usage, and keep the setup simple enough that you can try it in a few minutes.

That interested me, but the article does not explain how to do this at all. I was hoping it would tell how use my work's ChatGPT Pro subscription via the CLI without having to pay per token over their API.
pidgeon_lover
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
> Unused memory is wasted memory.

Why does my computer freeze and become unusable when the RAM is 90%, then? That myth is complete nonsense - RAM is like a seatbelt or a crumple zone, serves as a buffer between the user and crashes, and will hopefully never be tested under use.
pidgeon_lover
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
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pidgeon_lover
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Wagic the Homebrew and MtG Forge are both high-quality FOSS Magic the Gathering simulators.
pidgeon_lover
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
I love the smell of bloatware in the morning
pidgeon_lover
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
Once installed, I've found Electron installs tend to balloon from 80-200mb (installer) to 1.5GB or more (Electron + dedicated browser cache)
pidgeon_lover
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
Thank you very much for that! That might explain why one of the macbooks I installed Windows on seemed to have laggy screensavers, whereas the others (Air) seemed to work just fine.

I installed the MacOS Lion installer from a memory stick to the internal SSD (partition 1), Mac OS Lion itself to partition 2 (minimal size) and Win7 to partition 3 via Bootcamp, and it works well, aside from laggy screensavers on one of them, and losing around 10GB to the Mac Lion installer partition 1 (I don't know if there's a way to force it to install MacOS to 1x partition, rather than 2x, while fully offline)