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yup! You I replaced it with an iFlash Quad [1] -- it takes up to four micro SDs.

I also replaced the battery with a 2000mAh and keep it all in the 30gb case. I also replaced the headphone jack and lock switch so they were black.

Modding iPods is a breeze, too. Just be gentle when you're disconnecting the battery.

[1] https://www.iflash.xyz/store/iflash-quad/

A guy in /r/buyitforlife posted a palm pilot (Tungsten C), and it got me thinking about heading back down this road (further than I already have.)

For portable audio, I'm using a souped-up iPod video. I'm thinking 2020 will be the year where I take another step in this offline direction -- at least with hardware.

Interesting to see a mobile hardware keyboard with a Dvorak layout.

great work! I love Tatham's puzzles. Every night I run through Cube, Galaxies, Guess, Inertia, Net, and Pearl -- but with my SE, I've got the puzzles as large as I can go before I am unable to actually play.

The overall experience is so pretty.

nice! For WaPO and all other paywalls, you can try either of these paywall bypassing extensions [1], but for me, I find that simply disabling scripts through uBlock Origin does the trick.

[1] https://github.com/iamadamdev/

Check Privacy Possum/Badger. The tracking headers are being blocked, which seems to break Outline.

I've been on about one meal per day for several years now. If I do a full brunch/lunch and late dinner, I feel so heavy.

I typically do a scoop of chunky peanut butter or some yogurt in the morning with coffee, then nothing until dinner. If I'm cooking, then I'll also snack a little while I prep. Usually at some point after dinner, I'm having another scoop of peanut butter.

I don't think this is for everyone, but for me it's perfect.

Years ago I would fast on a regular basis. Typically 1 - 3 days. It's something everybody should do once, even if they don't hit their target.

Like jahewson said, breakfast wasn't always a thing for adults. I'm not a nutritionist, but unless I'm training for something (which I am not), I don't see how my body could put three meals to work.

You can install Stylus in your browser and use one of several dark themes, or make your own.

https://userstyles.org/styles/113994/hacker-news-dark

With the structure of HN, it doesn't take a lot to make something nice.

It's not perfect, but I've been using this Kill Sticky [1] bookmarklet to ditch those modals without having to look around for their [close] or 'x' link.

[1] https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky

I rarely use twitter, but I've got @stevew -- and I get a lot of truncated mentions about Woz and others.

Early on, Etsy got rid of all of the 'vintage' stores, and there was a good deal of backlash --- but proper crafters were totally behind the move.

Back then, if you wanted to get some great traction, you got into the chats with the 'Moms' -- basically a small group that could easily get a lot of traffic to your shop. Sadly, that aspect of the site died out, they brought back the vintage, and ultimately accepted the non-handmade stuff.

For me, I left Etsy when they dropped / changed the chat part.

Etsy kind of followed the trend of my local indie craft scene. At first it was a small, tight-knit group of actual crafters -- then over time folks who used to visit the shows would blatantly copy another product and start selling... then came the vintage sellers... and then the sellers who sell other sellers, often when they're at the same show as those sellers... and ultimately people selling items that were made overseas that they either designed the pattern for or just purchased and glued something.

It's weird. But overall, as the local craft scenes became more popular, they also became more diluted and generic. There were more people selling, but roughly the same categories of products.

That being said, if you get into the right shows, you can still make bank... but, like Etsy, the maker spirit has died off.

Streaming definitely isn't renting, though. For an analog, it'd be like a video rental shop saying 'rent all you want for $11 per month'. Streaming services have released physical copies of their series. I doubt they've done it for lesser properties, but the main ones are out there.

But as for DRM, I view it in the same way we didn't technically own DVDs [1]. We purchased access to the film, but not the film itself -- except now its done with far more complex methods that change every few years.

> When consumers buy a DVD or Blu-ray disc, they are not purchasing the motion picture itself, rather they are purchasing access to the motion picture which affords only the right to access the work according to the format’s particular specifications (i.e., through the use of a DVD player), or the Blu-ray Disc format specifications (i.e., through the use of a Blu-ray format player). Consumers are able to purchase the copy at its retail price because it is distributed on a specific medium that will play back on only a licensed player. In prior exemption proceedings, the Register and Librarian have recognized that there is no unqualified right to access a work on a particular device. (pg 4 - 5)

The benefit of physical media is that you'll pretty much always have access to it so long as you have a method to consume it.

I agree that DRM isn't good, but I don't see this problem as anything new -- just the next step for the content manager's control over their owned content. Sadly, it's the consumer that loses.. but that's also not new. The only difference between the license for DVDs and bluray vs DRM is that DRM is enforceable, typically by time.

None of this speaks to DRM in gaming. Of all forms of entertainment, I think the DRM there has the greatest consequence to the consumer -- but I'm also not as familiar with that market.

[1] https://www.copyright.gov/1201/2015/comments-032715/class%20...

Personally, I view DRM for streaming different than DRM for purchased content. For streaming, DRM is to prevent the user from essentially archiving the catalog, which its fine by me. But DRM for purchased / non-subscription content isn't something I support.

There have only been a few times when I've purchased a book or audiobook with DRM. Removing that DRM was trivial with the right tools.

Basically, DRM sucks, but I'm willing to forgive it for streaming content, since you're paying for access to a catalog and not a specific product.

like Angostura said, some folks (me included) hide their dock. I probably haven't used the dock more than a dozen times this year. I use Alfred like we'd use dmenu (or whatever) with i3.

I love Thunderbird. When it went out of active dev, I switched to Postbox, assuming that they'd really get to work on the client. They didn't. They made it look mildly prettier, but stripped away a few of the good features without adding anything of value (to me, at least.)

I spent some time hopping around clients and eventually landed on plain old MacOS Mail with an extension to put the unread count in the menubar. It wasn't perfect, but it was good enough.

On a side note, I don't understand why clients don't all allow plaintext composition and a menubar inbox count.

Anyway, it's great to see TBird back in active development. It's consistently been the best email client for my needs over the years.

yeah, like nammi said. Basically, go to Profiles > Session > check 'Status Bar Enabled' > Configure Status Bar

If you hit rainbow and hate it, just remove the items and re-add them and they'll go back to normal. :)

When I moved back from the betas, the minimal theme is what I missed the most. Its so clean. Combine that with the status bar at the bottom, and I'm in heaven.

It's one of the few pieces of software that I really miss when I'm on my linux boxes -- even if its purely aesthetic.

edit: if you want your status bar at the bottom, Prefs > Appearance > General > Status Bar Location

Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection for IOS or Android is an excellent collection of games with variable difficulty. I enjoy Galaxies, Net, Inertia, Pearl, Guess, and Untangle the most.

that's crazy about LastPass. It was a decent product for its time, but password managers evolved quite quickly over the past few years.

My beef with 1Pass is that they charged around $35 - $50 for their standalone product during the exodus, and about a year later moved to their subscription platform --- pretty much abandoning development for the standalone users. The OSX application was far less buggy than the Windows client. And when you needed to grab a new copy of the standalone client, it was buried on their site in a FAQ.

1Pass should have offered a few months for free to pull the standalone folks over to the new service, but instead they said 'we don't have any offers, but feel free to contact sales' -- which is a difficult sell when compared to the newly polished Bitwarden that works on all systems and browsers out of the box without any requirement for payment or a subscription.

All this said, we're technical people, so we're more aware of sketchy practices and are quick to jump to different products, and may not be their target -- especially with their previous lack of Linux support.

Spreadsheets are the best -- specifically Google Sheets. The addition of QUERY really allows Sheets to be superior to Excel, at least for the things I use it for.

Combine that with an IMPORTJSON script, and you can create really clean, structured data sets for nearly anything you can dream up. I've been tracking movies and TV shows, for instance. Combining a few of the APIs out there to get the best possible results really makes the set shine.

I don't code beyond modifying basic things, but I rarely find something I cannot do with a spreadsheet.

[1] https://github.com/bradjasper/ImportJSON/blob/master/ImportJ...

I've been using Bitwarden since just after it launched. I've yet to have any issue with it. The desktop, browser, and mobile clients are all seamless and... well, just work.

I was part of the LastPass exodus after their acquision and used 1Pass with Windows and (then) OSX. The lack of Linux client was a hassle, and eventually left me shopping around. I tried Keepassx and the others, but I ran into issues with sync (most likely my error.)

I saw Bitwarden mentioned here and gave it a swing. Importing everything only took a minute, and I haven't looked back. It works on all operating systems, has 2FA, etc etc. It's perfect for my needs.

At some point in the future I may go self-hosted.

if the runtimes and all that are the same, it wouldn't be difficult or very time consuming to do this with FFMPEG or even MKVTOOLNIX.

I'm obsessed with commentary tracks for movies and television -- and rarely does one copy have everything in one realistic-to-archive file size. Typically the offset between the two sources will be identical (assuming their respective sources are also consistent), which makes the entire process a breeze.

There are a few things listed in this thread. For me, my favorite Android tweak (once rooted) is to modify ro.sf.lcd_density to pop the phone into tablet mode (for most apps.)

Jailbroken IOS 9.3.3 had Little Brother, and there is a way to do it by modifying system files -- but if you mess up, you're totally screwed. With ro.sf.lcd_density, its as easy as taking the number and breaking it down by 5% increments until you find a sweet spot.

That's an excellent example of the wealth that is on youtube. As he was going through those knots, I could think of a dozen ways to use each one. They're so simple, but effect -- and with zero waste.

He's got a real wisdom in his voice and style.

My favorite 'around town' headphones are Sennheiser Momentums. Really light, comfortable headphones that sound great.

Along with these, @brundolf's suggestion of the Koss PortaPros is excellent. Cheap headphones that fold up small, but still give excellent output.

Personally, I would avoid NR headphones for a commute if you're walking at all -- especially in a city.

I think this is true for most technical jobs. What makes us good is that we understand how to search, which leads us to the corners of the internet where other technically minded people seek help and answer questions.

I've seen friends and family search for errors or 'how do I...', and their searches mostly yield youtube videos and scraper sites. For me its mostly SE, reddit, and product specific forums.

Knowing how to ask the right questions and understanding jargon is often the greatest asset.

there is a lot more to making chalk than I realized. https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/c3/19/ae/06e559e...

You also can tack on `?mode=guest_open` to view any massdrop URL without a login.

https://drop.com/buy/drop-oblotzky-gmk-oblivion-v2-custom-ke... -- keycap set is $125

I love how every community has their 'thing' that is sought after. Looking up chalk leads down a very narrow rabbit hole.

Some say that Hagoromo sold two of their compression molds to Sejong Corp (who also took the name), while the other went to Uma-Jirushi.

If I had a use for chalk, it'd be fun to try to create the perfect stick. Compression molds aren't hard to find or even make, then its down the mix. I assume that Hagoromo was using more than water and a super fine plaster (e.g. Plaster of Paris) with white Tempura paint..

Has anybody tried making chalk before? I've made chalkboard paint for signage (just unsanded grout and paint), but I never thought to take it a step further.

I'm just saying that for people who have no issues with piracy, the provider has an even more difficult time winning their business. For companies like Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, etc, it should be in their best interest to be available on all platforms like Chromecast, etc.

We're not debating the views of piracy from the parent -- that was already established.