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zwayhowder
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It's not even on the same level. Container tabs as the name implies are all in the same window, and you can program them, for example always open up google.com domains in my Google container, while opening amazon.com in my shopping container.

This keeps the cookies separate and means you are tracked less. Yes you can manually do this with Chrome profiles, but before this feature was introduced into Firefox I had a dozen or more Chrome profiles to keep all my work, community and personal Google/Microsoft logins separate.
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I have been toying with the idea of introducing something like JD to my system using tags though so something can be both.

I use Paperless to catalog all my PDFs, Obsidian for notes and Gmail for email, Todoist for tasks and Cloze for CRM, all of which support tags.
zwayhowder
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I use a Boox Note 2 almost daily for reading and regularly with a bluetooth keyboard for writing. It has a stylus, and the OCR is good enough for even my terrible handwriting (I should have been a doctor apparently) and I use that to scribble in the margin of PDFs etc.

My setup uses Autosync [1] to synchronise a folder from my desktop to the device. On my desktop I have Zotero (a Citation library) and Calibre both configured to export to that folder (in subfolders). With two way sync my notes are back on my PC almost instantly which is fantastic.

I also run Readwise and Obsidian on the Boox.

1: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ttxapps.au...
zwayhowder
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I switched to vertical typing. It was a challenge at first, but now I can type almost as well vertically as I can on a normal horizontal keyboard with significantly less pain in my arms and shoulders.

I already owned a Moonlander keyboard with the tripod mounts, so a little playing around with Small Rig mount and I have my vertical keyboard, affectionately known as the Type Fighter.

To get to vertical I started with desk mounts that I could adjust and progressively increased the angle of the tilt. Eventually I joined the two halves with a 300mm straight rod. But I don't have the photos of that handy.

Also in the picture, my left handed trackball (Elecom) and my Logitech MX Vertical. I alternate the mousing hand regularly. (Trackball for big movements, mouse for fine detail and gaming).

https://imgur.com/a/TdV502g
zwayhowder
·2 yıl önce·discuss
One thing that I fully internalised only recently - despite learning Asian languages for literally decades. The things western people take for granted as ubiquitous in our culture are often unknown to Asian cultures.

As an example recently talking to a Japanese friend who is the same age as me we realised she had seen less than 10% of the movies that "everyone born in the early 80's has seen". She didn't know who OJ Simpson was, nor is she familiar with Henry VIII and his 6 wives. She knew the Backstreet Boys & One Direction, but not Take That nor East 17.

Traveling in China a few years ago I was surprised to see many Hokusai images used on clothing and shop decorations.

The Mona Lisa might be the western world's most famous artwork, but you rarely see it on a T-shirt unless you're meeting a tourist near the Louvre. I suspect that if both were in still trademarked that Hokusai would be making orders of magnitude more on royalties than Da Vinci...
zwayhowder
·3 yıl önce·discuss
Every company I've worked at for the last decade at least has disabled POP3.

I'm not saying it's right, I'm saying for a mail client to be useful in most orgs it needs to support IMAP (and these days Oauth2).

Having just found the updated instructions for using Oauth2 with isync on the Arch wiki I know what I'll be doing this weekend :)
zwayhowder
·3 yıl önce·discuss
I got as far as the assumption of POP3 for fetching mail and stopped reading TBH. Here was me hoping for some cool new guide about Mutt with Oauth or similar.
zwayhowder
·5 yıl önce·discuss
Their business model isn't to teach you languages, it is to make money off the millions of people who want to learn a new language.
zwayhowder
·7 yıl önce·discuss
My first day at a big4 consulting firm I was given the best advice I've ever received. "You need to get comfortable saying no to requests that aren't important". It's so easy to drown in consulting by trying to please everyone. Sometimes you just need to say "no, I can't do that now I'm too busy.".