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towb··on Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)
Gave up on making it pretty... But my tip is to read the manual so you know what you put in your config instead of just copy paste.

I love tmux, does exactly what I need it to do and doesn't try too hard to make the terminal a place with unicorns and fancy GUI magic.

towb··on Why does my diet soda taste off? Aspartame hydrolysis
I don't know, maybe I got used to it real quick. When the new (and better :P) coke zero came out people didn't shut up about it, so would be strange if they changed pepsi and almost nobody noticed. But I did have that happen with beer though, a beer I liked started tasting real bad, then I had it for the first time in 10 years or more last summer and it was good again. Think tastebuds works in mysterious ways and changes a lot more than we think.
towb··on Why does my diet soda taste off? Aspartame hydrolysis
Carlsberg Sverige and Ringnes AS (also Carlsberg), I'm guessing it's made locally.

Haven't notice anything with the Swedish Pepsi max and I'm drinking _a lot_ of it. Didn't get the flu yet so my taste buds should be good! Coke zero got a lot better after the new recipe if you ask me but still a Pepsi guy :)

towb··on Ask HN: What to do instead of drinking alcohol?
You have to learn that fridays and saturday nights aren't when everything fun and exciting happens. Takes some getting used to.
towb··on Sweden clears snow-covered walkways before roads (2018)
People need to know that when they read about "Sweden" it's often about the central parts of Stockholm. Plowing is not a culture thing it's a political decision for public roads.
towb··on Netflix raises monthly subscription prices in US, Canada
I don't have Netflix every month anymore. The content is getting more spread out over so many of these newer streaming services. Before it was ok, Netflix was cheap enough and had most of what I watched, but no more. It's getting too pricey to keep around just out of convenience. I'm on a really tight budget so it matters.
towb··on Form Validation Using JavaScript's Constraint Validation API
I recently got locked out of a site because they screwed up validation. I used a gmail alias to sign up, my.mail+thesite@gmail.com, couldn't submit, couldn't trick it to submit anyway because who uses a real submit these days... I went there to cancel a subscription, decided it was easier to block them from taking the money than to contact support.
towb··on Please Shrink the Trackpad
But it's not just putting a finger on the trackpad, that doesn't trigger a click. It's a really quick tap. But I'm not out to convince anyone so do your thing :)
towb··on People who have unusual, or non-existent, inner voices
It's not through the ears so it's different, it's not like talking with the vibrations and bass from the throat. It's a milder voice for me but it's still more like I'm hearing my voice than anything else I think.
towb··on People who have unusual, or non-existent, inner voices
Oh good. Think everyone here is trying themselves right now. I don't really see anything when I picture stuff in my head, it is more that I know how something looks or should look or could look and it's much less than a picture, but for sure more than words. And for the inner voice, I hear my own voice in my head, it's like I'm talking to myself all the time, like a crazy person. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
towb··on Duck says ‘You bloody fool’ and can imitate other sound, scientists fascinated
Swearing a lot at ducks while fishing, never got more than a quack back so far and I hope it stays that way, but I'll keep my ears open!
towb··on Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence
Other than the show changing since the move Spotify just isn't a good media player, and it's a shitty podcast app.
towb··on What I know about cleaning and seasoning cast-iron skillets
A while ago I looked up the company that made mine, think they closed down in 1966 or around there. So it's at least that old, but could be 10 or 20 years older or even more. Use it every week :)
towb··on [dead]
We still have "radiactive chernobyl pigs" running around the woods here in Sweden. Meaning that in some areas that got hit by the cloud that blew in over northern europe, wild boar dig around and down to 1986 soil levels and over time accumulate caesium or whatever it is.
towb··on “Full English” tops UK hangover-cure survey
There is no cure. Not for me anyway. Swedish midsummer celebrations tomorrow and I just bought a bottle of Havana Club and a bunch of beers. I know what to expect and only time will help... a lot of time... Haven't been drunk since last summer, that's the only thing that truly works ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
towb··on Last remaining 1000+ user community channel seized by Freenode staff
"Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! ..." - seagulls from Finding Nemo

The only explanation of what's going on that I can think of.

towb··on Everyone Has JavaScript, Right?
But it's a choice, like not having a smartphone, the rest of us still want and can have nice things. In the cases where it's not a choice it's something else, some may need to make sure it still works. I'm not going to do it, I have no reason to.
towb··on Everyone Has JavaScript, Right?
"Have they switched off JavaScript? - People still do." Is that really a valid case 2021?
towb··on Tony Hawk on his skateboarding legacy
I'm still doing it too, playing Tony Hawks Pro Skater 1+2 that is, and I stink! Can't do combos :/
towb··on There’s no place for expensive laptops with 8GB of RAM anymore
Alright, I have ~120 browser tabs open in FF but most are hibernated. Sometimes I open a lot of tabs in another browser for... ehm... other reasons... Never a problem. And no loading of huge projects in vim. MBP 16"

At least we can agree that 8 isn't enough :D

towb··on There’s no place for expensive laptops with 8GB of RAM anymore
About the same for me... 8 gb was often too little even 10 years ago but for what I do these days 16 is always more than enough.
towb··on Global chip shortage spreads to toasters and washing machines
I wouldn't mind a chipless toaster. Probably lasts for 40 years too.
towb··on Spotify is killing the open podcast ecosystem (2020)
Haha yes! How could he not have seen the ring of fire video and still be Elons number one fan???

Could we confirm parallel universes now? Because the one Joe lives in is different. Think he lost touch. Also noticed him being more of a dick lately, the "I'm a nice person"-Joe is off in yet another universe doing something else...

towb··on Spotify is killing the open podcast ecosystem (2020)
>I liked JRE, but even as a Spotify user, I don't listen to him anymore.

I used this long podcasts to fall asleep to but had to stop now with spotify. I cast it to a google home mini and set the volume to pretty low, so I just can hear what they say pretty much, but at a random point spotify stops it and plays an ad at volume level 9000+ and doesn't resume play. How bad isn't that? Oh and Joe is getting less likeable lately... not sure if we should blame spotify for throwing all that money on him or what...

towb··on Bunny Wailer, Iconic Reggae Singer and Wailers Co-Founder, Has Died at Age 73
I was lucky to see him live a couple of times. Top 3 Wailer, shared first place ofc. Bunny was cool, maybe not as cool as Peter Tosh with his M16 guitar, but still pretty cool!

Here's a favourite from the Rockers soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id1_ieMEDh0

towb··on Drug for treating obesity cuts body weight by 20 percent
Appetite is not a choice though and it's not easy to just ignore and do the right thing. It's not a thing you can change just like that.
towb··on Leaving Cmder for Alacritty (2020)
Same, used a few different until I found termite and it did everything I sometimes struggled to get working on the other ones, with minimal config.
towb··on Things I wish I’d known about CSS
Yep, for sure! It was a fun ride but I'm happy it's over, though I don't enjoy CSS the same these days. Could be age and all that, who knows.
towb··on Things I wish I’d known about CSS
I think we picked up a lot more of the basics back in the days because doing CSS was much less forgiving than it is now. And the whole struggle with pixel perfect between browsers just forced you to spend hours on these tiny things.
towb··on Halt and Catch Fire
This was so good and it just got better for every episode and every season.
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