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Re:I Do Not Remember My Life and It's Fine on Friday June 06, 2025 @03:33AM (#44198614)
I can see myself in this. Face blindness is really a problem for me, too. Thankfully younger people (who all look the same to me) have taken up tattooing themselves, which makes it a lot easier to identify them (because it's easier to remember than a face)
Re:Advent of Code 2024 on Sunday December 01, 2024 @04:42PM (#42290934)
You can also set a time rule. For me it's 45min, if it takes longer to solve it, I an allowed to quit.

It's totally worth it, though, especially for the first week, when you look up how other people solved the thing you just solved. I always learned (or re-learned) something from that. IMHO there's not that much value in looking up solutions before you solved it yourself, though.

Re:IrfanView on Saturday March 30, 2024 @06:42PM (#39879397)
Have used it since forever. Just used it today an hour ago. Usually to paste a windows screenshot and then do minor editing or cropping.

Now windows has gotten a lot better, with the [WIN][Shift][s] shortcut (so cropping no longer is necessary). But that still misses a feature to quickly draw an arrow.

Irfanview has that. Screenshot, crop, F12, put an arrow to point at something, copy, paste into Teams.

So fast...

There have been a few articles like this and without a return percentage or number of returns it's a worthless waste of reader time. Of course some people who just wanted to try out the device will return it.

I would have a returned a first generation ipad as well (I did try it out on release day but after playing with it for 15 minutes I knew it wasn't for me)

Personally, I'd feel bad to buy one and return it a week later - I'd feed better to pay a restocking fee, because I want to try one out, but don't want to keep it..

Re:DJI announces the sub-250 gram drone mini 4 pro on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @06:44AM (#37657317)
The DJI Mini Pro 3 works without Wifi and using the expensive controller, without a phone app, so the opportunities to upload captured data to China are very limited.
Re:How to Stare at Your Phone Without Losing Your Soul on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @03:26PM (#36129372)
The next step could be language learning via Duolingo (which is also highly addictive) or browsing memes on 9gag.

Maybe getting a small phone like the iPhone Mini is a solution, because while it does phone things (music playing, photos) great, the small screen discourages social media and web surfing. Add a book case to the phone so you only see the screen when you decide to see it. This may remove the need to constantly look at the phone.