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sentrysapperon I've used all the notebooks

> I’ve been playing with the idea of making my own notebook. With a UUID for every notebook, page numbers, and a QR code that will let me jump from the page to some digital system.

This sounds a lot like Rocketbook. https://getrocketbook.com/

sentrysapperon Pop _OS 22.04 LTS has landed

I've been using Pop_OS for 4 years and installed it on about 5 machines. The set-up is well-documented. IMO the latest versions have shifted the desktop experience closer to MacOS than to Windows/Ubuntu.

That said I think it's still a fine distro to explore for folks new to Linux.

sentrysapperon Huawei MatePad Paper – eInk Tablet

Under specs it lists 2 speakers and 4 microphones.

sentrysapperon Five Levels of Hype

airhorns

sentrysapperon Tinysheet

I get your point, but it does appeal to me. There are times I wish my Keep list had a totals function. I'll probably try this next time I need to share something on Keep that needs a calculation or an itemized quote.

sentrysapperon Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to displace traditional meat

> To be fair, the traditional meat industry already benefits from enormous direct and indirect government subsidies

I think the author could have done a bit more legwork on this. That is not an insignificant figure.

sentrysapperon How to bypass Sprint/T-Mobile 2FA in under 5 minutes

So while Sprint and T-Mo are culpable in this poor training, I feel bad for the tech support agent. She clearly just wanted to help this person out.

sentrysapperon Launch HN: Buoyant (YC S21) – Blimp drones for air freight

I'm sure patent trolls would agree with that advice.

sentrysapperon Hundreds of fishing vessels vanishing along Argentina’s waters

Thanks, thought I was about to read up on a ship breaking kraken or some rogue anti-fishery org.

sentrysapperon It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency

"Trust is the raw material from which all types of money are minted".

You make a valid point, I do trust that our government will come to collect what's due from the citizens, but what about the corporations?

Worth noting there are quite a number of what are known as Community currencies still active in the US & Canada:

USA: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_community_currencies...

Canada: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_community_currencies...

sentrysapperon Ask HN: What are some of your favorite journals or magazines?

Started reading more in print magazines to help pass the lockdown time.

In general, I'd recommend Monocle to just about anyone. The articles and photography are top notch: https://monocle.com/magazine/

For Canadians living in or entranced by the Maritimes: https://maritimeedit.com/

sentrysapperon Scientist: A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths

is there a library like this for PHP?

sentrysapperon Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?

Pebble definitely deserves a mention. Lost mine this October on a high dive. Had it for three years never had an issue with it. I was feeling okay with it for awhile, but then I started missing meetings at work and time sensitive texts - was too used to having easy access to it my calendar and notifications.

Started looking for a comparable smartwatch: always on, good battery life, and Android notifications, there's just nothing there.

Ended up ordering a Pebble Time Steel from eBay. I feel like a part of my life and sanity was restored.

sentrysapperon Guessing the pressed keyboard keys by analyzing the audio from the microphone

Can you combine this with or does it use relative positioning of the microphone? Seems like a good way to map where keys are (measure lower decibels which would be keys further from the mic).