bamboo

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[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Could you then bypass the quora login prompt with a user script that appends ?share=1 to every page?

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

UTM is really good as a free solution, otherwise Parallels is the go-to.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

And fwiw, most computer users still aren’t Adobe CC users.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Why wouldn’t you? They’re super convenient, being small and lightweight, with high quality keyboards that make them more laptop like, plus they support standard USB and Bluetooth keyboards. They aren’t full laptop replacements, but basic office productivity tasks they surely are, and have first class support from Microsoft office, google docs, and Apple’s office tools. In a meeting for example, they can be used to take notes, and then quickly screen mirror to a TV wirelessly or with a wired adapter and be used as a drawing tablet for sketching ideas or drawing diagrams. Extremely versatile, there’s nothing really like it (well, besides other tablets).

They certainly don’t replace a real laptop in all aspects, but they do for most people most of the time, hence why it’s common for people to use smartphones and tablets as their only computer.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Sure but I can’t run libreoffice on my iPad, and that’s a deciding factor for more people than the licensing.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

The big advantage of google docs is that it is free and good enough. Most people don’t need advanced formatting options, font size and a few choices are sufficient.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

As far as I know there is only one SSD model that meets my criteria (Samsung 870 QVO 8TB), and at $520 right now so I’ve decided it’s best to wait. I’d like it to be quieter but not so badly as to spend $1k on it (need two).

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago (6 children)

How noisy are these? I have a pair of shucked WD drives that should be equivalent to reds, and they’re pretty noisy in my otherwise quiet home office. Given they’re only 8TB, upgrading them to SSDs for full silence is something in considering as soon as the pricing and availability permits.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 21 points 7 months ago

Yeah it’s wild that the US government will fund private projects without getting the same bonds or shares that private investors would expect.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

Python has been around a lot longer than Microsoft has been involved.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago

FLAC is compressed, but unlike lossy codecs like AAC and MP3, FLAC is fully lossless. Lossy codecs delete information the authors believe you won’t notice, lossless compression keeps all the data and just tries to fit it in a smaller space. The original recording can be perfectly reproduced (taking into account sample rate and depth).

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 123 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Blocking a large messaging platform because a minority of people are using it for piracy, of all things, seems extremely disproportionate

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