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I can one up you. Verilux sells a "happy light" SAD lamp thing, still sold at Costco, which uses a mini-USB plug, running on 19V 300mA or something.
Yeah. How the FUCK does the USB Forum not shut that down?
It's mostly due to political gridlock here, but look at all the crumbling bridges and dams -- the transit that never got built, and the feeling that somehow we are wealthy yet we never have any money for important issues.
Japan's GDP per capita still keeps growing. And the average Japanese still has an excellent quality of life.
Japan also has so many pointless infrastructure projects; things like laying concrete into river beds to control their flows, or retention systems to stop mudslides that only started because they clear-cut forests and replaced them with sugi as a make-work project... The workers are there, if they got rid of the make-work projects.
doesn't help that it feels like clickbait, at least for HAI, and most of them can be summed up with a tweet.
Even GTK is cross platform!
Manjaro is a rolling release distribution!! What do you think will happen under this model? It's the same issues as Arch and Gentoo.
Consider Debian instead, where upgrading is always viable but doesn't just happen randomly. My current Debian install dates back to _etch_ when it was frozen to hit stable. Years later I'm on testing for bullseye, on newer hardware, and everything is fine. Never any issues upgrading from stable to stable, only went to testing because I started needing newer libs for my GPU.
funny how they all turned out to be mixed bags. the best part? people telling me web apps are "lighter". even back then I knew that was a hot load of bullshit.
good to know the other shoe has dropped and we're really going full-circle to thin clients/mainframes, but shittier.
Have you seen one in the last decade? It's changed dramatically, and ranges from an open-air grocery store to yes something more depressing like what is in that wiki article.
They did something similar when testing gaming on linux -- used an unusual distro rather than just use the latest Ubuntu, and then complains about issues that only exist in their chosen distro... no shit.
I have no idea how they got so popular, they always make mistakes like these in their content.
But Israel basically wanted the leadership to bend over further than they'd be willing to do, and the deal was cancelled.
Today with a more diverse Lebanon it's still possible. There would need to be a shift away from Syrian and Iranian interest but it is definitely possible.
I was going to ragequit at you for copy+pasting something into google translate, as it's شُبَاط not فبراير.
but TIL, only in the Levant do we say شُبَاط apparently.
I have one I got gently used from a coworker, who special ordered it... it's got a sticky spacebar that will random lock up and need to be lubricated; the keys are just printed on ABS so they're already wearing out and they look ugly as sin (plus they get so grimy so quickly).
the only pro on this thing is the volume wheel / media keys, and the fact that the mac will recognize it and follow the "correct" behaviour. had tons of problems with previous keyboards since mac osx doesn't seem to have the same level of customization as eg kde.
they're also advertised as having cherry keys, but they're really no-names -- not even Kalih, Outemu, or Gateron (who at this point are as reliable or better than cherry).
Hard pass. My coolermaster keyboard ended up being a lot better. not holding my breath that apple gets its shit together and adopts a better keyboard layout. did wish someone made a mechanical that maybe used a dip switch or something easy to switch between layouts.
Panasonic used to also make great vacuums. Basically any canister vacuum will be well-equipped. Dyson is vacuums what Beats are to headphones.
https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/crane-1-2-gallon-humidifi...
"Crane 1.2-Gallon Humidifier" -- 1.2 Gallon, cold mist ultrasonic, has those weird LCD buttons but has been pretty reliable. you clean it periodically with vinegar and a cloth. The only issue I've had is it's easy to accidentally overfill. The lid comes off so you can clean it super easily.
If you look, most plywoods are "whitewood" or whatever is cheapest (most softwoods are incredibly strong as the term is just a synonym for coniferous). If you compare apples-to-apples -- Baltic Birch (or similar products with only birch layers) to solid birch...
The plywood doesn't have any noticeable wood movement;
The plywood can have fasteners and glue in any face (unlike solid where endgrain must be joined);
The solid wood usually has much better stiffness;
The solid wood is limited to shape and size by nature of trees; plywood can be found in larger sizes.
Good wooden chairs are impossible to find commercially now. The wood from the seat needs to be very wet and a wood that doesn't split easily, and the wood for the legs needs to be riven and dryer than what its final environment will be (so as close to 0% moisture as possible, at least <10%).
This is so that the legs expand a bit into the seat, which will continue to shrink, and make an incredibly tight fit. But it's not conducive at all to mass-production, which is why you often see them nailed, bracketed, bolted, etc, all sorts of dirty tricks.
Woodworking is a rabbit-hole you might find compelling or infuriating. You can't unlearn the knowledge when you do.
for a lot of us city dwellers, that already makes it unaffordable.
I think the Buy Nothing movement is really accelerating this trend of trying to connect people to drive the recycling community. Don't throw out old furniture, your local Buy Nothing group will be full of people happy to rehome it.
I also have no idea how they ever thought that was a good idea vs just using a barrel plug.
the ONLY thing that's worked for me is syncthing -- I can't copy files over USB reliably at all.
I guess I could also pay for google photos but honestly fuck google so much. I have a pixel 3a so all I get is the unlimited low-res images.
Why the hell this thing can't just backup files over USB or SMB or a card reader/USB drive plugged in to usb-C is beyond me.
if you say Mexico is in your definition of North America then it should include all of central america, almost all these countries have a lot of land-based trade.
In Canada we have not had any cases related to truckers, but there's a lot of them who have to do the cross-border route, as well as people who commute daily across the border. heck in Canada and the US there are a few spots where crossing the border is necessity -- the only school is in the other country, nearest hospital, the local library, a popular golf course, etc.
or places like point roberts, extremely small but extremely isolated, or Hyder, Alaska.
I still think it would have been worse without the letter, and at least it helped my neighbour's spirits. She comes from a part of the world where nothing happens without a bribe, and even then it ain't very effective.
I think I paid 1000 JPY for it, but these days it's around $10-$20 on amazon.
I used to use Staples Sustainable Earth notebooks, now I've started using their TruRed series. I also use Rhodia notebooks, but am switching to TruRed because they're easier to find, cheaper, and handle my other inks better (the rhodia stuff actually performs terribly with all my other inks -- no idea what the deal is).
Combined with a 0.3mm Platinum nib I never have any issues. If you've tried Parker Quink it's significantly faster.
Do use luer-lock though, because the other kind of syringes suck. Just ask your local pharmacy -- they usually carry them and they can be used for all sorts of non-illicit-drug reasons.
In the US/Canada Lee Valley sells a set of blunt tip syringes for inks and glues.
But you might have a local shop (most cities seem to have at least one -- either catering to artists or catering to the wedding/cards types).
The Lamy Safari is a great starter but I found the Platinum Plaisir and the cheaper Platinum Preppy to also be great introductions. The Plaisir also comes in finer tips, down to 0.3mm, which helps for those of us with angry writing :) It's also quite a bit cheaper, and the piston refill is cheaper.
(although these days I just use a syringe to refill as drawing ink up any other way seems to never work right...)
you could just use the pi camera for a webcam, since the port is still there?