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Re:Casio Watches of the 1980s on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:24AM (#50338085)
Yes, This is precisely what I'm using now.
Re:Casio Watches of the 1980s on Saturday October 31, 2026 @01:25PM (#50318096)
I’ve owned a few mechs and eventually sold all of them. Too fiddly, hated worrying about the accuracy.
It might be a positive. It might not be. Better to have some humility about the situation.
Re:NixOS is making me less afraid on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:37AM (#50167115)
Similar here, but I'm running rootless podman containers in Guix like this:

  (oci-container-configuration
        (environment
         '("CRON_MIN=2,32"
           "LISTEN=0.0.0.0:80"
           "OIDC_ENABLED=0"))
        (image "freshrss/freshrss:edge")
        (log-file (container-log "freshrss"))
        (extra-arguments
         '("--pod=freshrss"))
        (provision "freshrss")
        (respawn? #t)
        (volumes
         '("...")))
Re:Beauty in DVD Menus on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:28AM (#50006250)
"Beauty" wouldn't be my word of choice for these.
Better title: Reddit plans to disable rss next month
Re:Paul Graham on LLMs 'Thinking' on Friday September 25, 2026 @04:52AM (#49841856)
Stupid anthropomorphism that only serves to reduce human accountability.
Re:People Hooked on Vapes Try a New Way to Quit: Cigarettes on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @09:33AM (#49815905)
Cytisine. I buy some on Amazon. Works wonders, no cravings but strange dreams.
Re:AirPods 5 on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:44PM (#49631813)
I had the Air Pod Pro 1 for many years, but unfortunately lost in an airport. I upgraded to the Pro 3, but the pods are shaped differently and now fall out of my ears. I didn't even research ear fit, not thinking this could be a regression.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256143886?sortBy=rank

I think the advice is the same regardless of AI use: read articles written by authors that have a history of high quality writing.
'inferencing' -- is this a real word? Inference is a good noun. Infer is a fine verb. But Inferencing?
Re:Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book) on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @10:15AM (#49345946)
I get that the data science world has moved on to python, but I always felt that R's data.table had the slickest dataframe developer experience. I have toyed with Polars for a few hours, maybe I should give it a better chance.
Re:All memory manufactured in 2027 has been sold out on Saturday August 08, 2026 @07:26AM (#49220781)
Very neat. What's the power draw on this machine?
Re:Solving Fermat: Andrew Wiles on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @12:36PM (#49086453)
efficient mathematics hypothesis? What's that?
Re:My Emacs Configuration (Dired) on Friday July 24, 2026 @12:31PM (#49038018)
Thanks, dired-hide-details-mode is particularly neato. I also learned a few things about marking.
Re:Ghost Cut – or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @01:08PM (#49009979)
My first thought as well. drag-and-drop is also fantastically useful for data you cannot Cut (e.g., moving an email attachment from one draft message to another)
Re:In Emacs, Everything Looks Like a Service on Friday July 10, 2026 @09:57AM (#48860004)
Emacs users (myself included) would feel less like cramming every aspect of our work into Emacs if more tools embodied the freedom and hackability that comes with using Emacs. It's not that Emacs is better, it's that other tools are more restrictive and not self-documenting.
Cool, I don't have to set my clocks back this December.
Re:It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12 on Saturday May 30, 2026 @07:39AM (#48335126)
Pro motion and battery life for me
Is Gentoo an outlier or do all Linux distributions deal with this problem?
I was gaming on Linux when steam first came out for that platform, but there were too many broken games. Tried again with Proton debute, and more problems. I switched back to Win10 for about 5 years on my gaming machine, but the push to Win11 made me want to try linux again for gaming. I installed Guix and Steam, and I am still just floored at how much progress Linux gaming has made in 5 years. Basically every works, and it feels only imperceptibly slower than gaming on Win10. I'm on AMD card, so ymmv!

I'm about to beat Lies of P :)

Re:I Want to Live Like Costco People on Thursday May 07, 2026 @04:49PM (#48054770)
There's nothing appealing about costco to me anymore. Living is suburban DC... The parking lots are packed and dangerous, there's too many people in the store, the produce quality isn't there, and it takes forever to checkout. It doesn't fit my lifestyle anymore, and I'm the perfect candidate for someone that could benefit from going there once in a while.
Re:My .config Ship of Theseus on Thursday April 30, 2026 @07:57AM (#47961155)
Re:My .config Ship of Theseus on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @08:35PM (#47956551)
Yes, separately. At home i run guix system but at work i use Guix package manager on Ubuntu wsl. My dots are private but Ill share some good repos to learn from when i get back to my desktop.
Re:My .config Ship of Theseus on Sunday April 26, 2026 @08:59AM (#47909968)
I’m moving slowly in the direction of Guix home for dotfile management, but until it covers all my bases, I’m fond of the gnu stow method
+1 for FreshRSS (recommended at the bottom of the PC Gamer article). I just started my mass migration to self-hosting (it's way better in 2026 than it used to be), and I'm very pleased with the FreshRSS webapp and NetNewsWire integration. I consider it a solid hedge against enshittification. I probably won't go full self-hosting, but I'm enjoying the move.
Re:Why the KeePass format should be based on SQLite on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @01:12PM (#47155328)
> Synctrain

Good tip, I'm going to check that out!

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