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Re:Play Runescape Classic Again on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @08:53PM (#34703075)
Same! Though I got in much later when it was Simba
Re:Building an E-Ink weather display for our home on Monday November 14, 2022 @11:59AM (#33597112)
I followed this guide mostly on my PW4 and found the instructions to be a lacking / out-of-date.

Dropping this as a warning for people trying this out - your Kindle firmware should be < 5.13.X. You need to be very careful about auto-updates that'll undo a jailbreak so put it on aiplane mode until you jailbreak it.

After you do, I'd recommend you then install KUAL and then MobileRead Package Installer so that you can install the mod that prevents auto-updates and then you can install and control USBNetwork in a more user-friendly way.

Here's a summary that is more stats friendly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MYw9LcLCb4
Re:Privileged Poor vs. Doubly Disadvantaged at Elite Schools on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @05:39PM (#21403077)
I really enjoyed this article. I haven't read Anthony Jack's book on the issue yet (I'll add it to my list!), but the framing of privileged poor and double disadvantaged was a new way for me to think about education inequality.

The transition into an "elite" college, even as a middle class Asian-American male, was incredibly difficult on me mentally. My background in public school system in North Carolina (not in the Triangle Area or Charlotte) was a stark contrast from the elite high school institutions that many of my peers had experienced.

The example of "office hours" in the article resonates particularly strongly with me - I had never treated my instructors as "allies" and struggled completing psets and utilizing my professors and TAs as resources. I didn't realize until reading this article now that I had been treating them like adversaries.

Re:Postmates laid off all its city managers yesterday on Thursday August 31, 2017 @01:44PM (#15142168)
And their customer service is nonexistent. I was charged way more than I should have been, and tried filing a ticket that never got answered or responded too so I just had to pay up. There's a right way to approach these delivery services, but Postmates doesn't seem to be close enough.