mackrevinack

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Comment · 2 years ago

make it a separate program that people can install if they want to. if its really that great then people will download it

Comment · 2 years ago

grist is sort of similar. its a spreadsheet/database hybrid that lets you use python for formulas, and they have a self-hosted option:

https://www.getgrist.com/product/self-managed

Comment · 2 years ago

or something like the yotaphone where it has an eink screen on the back. the specs were always pretty awful though

Comment · 2 years ago

"a 3d scammer app" this one sounds like the real money maker :p

Comment · 2 years ago

i only recently noticed that powershell accepts ~ as a shortcut for your user folder. anyone know how long that had been a thing?

Comment · 3 years ago

the good thing about miniDisc is that its relatively easy to get the tracks back off it again. like if you wanted to share a disc with a friend, they could copy the tracks onto their computer using webminidisc or some other software. all the software is a bit old and janky but it's quicker than having to copy a tape!

Comment · 3 years ago

i used to have a lot of trouble finding things as well until i discovered the command pallette (the / key opens it). now i do nearly most things just by fuzzy searching for them

Comment · 3 years ago

usually the polite way of going about it is to credit the original artist in some way but it seems zeppelin didn't make any attempt whatsoever. dazed and confused is a good example. its not just copying a chord progression and taking it from there, it was the whole thing, the name, the melody

Comment · 3 years ago

has anyone read the translation by james legge? that's the only copy i have but i haven't got around to reading it yet. would it be better to go with something else even if i have to pay for it?

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/laozi/tao-te-ching/james-l...

Comment · 3 years ago

heres a few general ones. on my linux computers i have a bash script to install firefox, then it sets up symlink of the user.js file from my own config folder to the default .config folder. on windows i just manually add it

  user_pref("browser.aboutConfig.showWarning", "false");    // disable about:config warning
  user_pref("browser.startup.page", 3);    // restore previous session
  user_pref("browser.ctrlTab.sortByRecentlyUsed", "true");    // cycles tabs in recently used order
  user_pref("signon.rememberSignons", "false");    // dont ask to save passwords
  user_pref("browser.search.suggest.enabled", "false");    // disable address bar suggestions
  user_pref("toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets", "true");    // enable custom css

this is the only css i could find that i like since it keeps the window controls as well, although since a recent update, theyre just showing as a white box now but they still works https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery/issues/458#issuecomment-9...

Comment · 3 years ago

the user.js file is a very underrated feature as well. i have a few computers and some of them are dual boot which means i have a lot of firefox installs so its great just being able to drop in the user.js file and have everything set up the way i like it

Comment · 3 years ago

the name was a bit of a mouthful as well "windows phone 7 series". or even worse if "microsoft's" had to be added at the start of it

Comment · 3 years ago

you can find some of them on openstreetmap by searching for "bunker_type=pillbox"

https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1Cno

Comment · 3 years ago

not sure if this is what you have in mind but Code by Charles Petzold might be worth checking out

Comment · 3 years ago

nice. i like that neo store let's you bookmark things