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It’s like a bicycle for your body
You don't want a screwdriver, or anything else, pressed up against a control rod or a rotating component.
Re:Are the Americans Awake? on Monday July 10, 2023 @10:50AM (#36667310)
Betteridge's law?
Or one of those MacBooks with the sticky keys
Re:Little rant about GNOME's file manager (a.k.a. Nautilus) on Thursday April 14, 2022 @12:32PM (#31029260)
Regarding 3, I have found search in Nautilus to be faster than Windows Explorer, which never returns.

I just wish I could get Miller columns in Nautilus

Re:Colors in movies and TV: What happened to them? on Thursday January 13, 2022 @09:18AM (#29920961)
Like Lost
Re:Apple Podcasts Subscriptions on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @04:10PM (#26880871)
This feels like when Google announced they were discontinuing Google Reader. Things were so good, and now I'm worried they will never be the same.
Re:I Still Use RSS on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @05:42PM (#26020185)
There is jsonfeed (https://jsonfeed.org/)
Re:I Still Use RSS on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @05:40PM (#26020161)
Thunderbird supports RSS...and NNTP.
Re:Harper's Index, April 2013 on Sunday March 17, 2013 @03:51AM (#5388527)
Yes, slugs would have been a much clearer value to have reported.
Re:Google Reader shutting down on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @10:22PM (#5372706)
I am the say way. And I feel that my heavy use of Gmail and Google Reader meant that I was more likely to use other Google products when needed, ie Docs, Calendar. Without Reader, I don't feel like a Google user, just a Gmail user.
Re:Texas Students Revolt Against Mandatory RFID Tracking Chips on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @12:03AM (#4477920)
It is probably related to the students sense of choice. A teenager chooses to carry around a smartphone because it adds some benefit to their life that outweighs the cost of being tracked. Whereas with the RFID card, the student sees little to no benefit but incurs the cost of being "tracked".
Re:Stephen Wolfram on Steve Jobs: A Few Memories on Thursday October 06, 2011 @07:42PM (#3082072)
I couldn't read the whole thing. Once I saw the he mentioned NKS in the first paragraph, I had to x-out.
Yeah, and remember it was the idea of "ignorance of the law is no excuse", that ended the sitcom Seinfeld. Sad.