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New comment by jbj in "Just got a MacBook Pro for work; what are your tips?"

jbj — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 20:08:10 +0000

you are correct. however this allows you to keep touch pad scrolling separate from mousewheel scrolling that will otherwise be tied together

New comment by jbj in "Just got a MacBook Pro for work; what are your tips?"

jbj — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 19:12:55 +0000

disable mouse acceleration and install unnatural scroll wheel to flip scrolling direction

https://github.com/ther0n/UnnaturalScrollWheels

Dot matrix printer using water and SUV [video]

jbj — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 17:13:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKIs_u5jr1s

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36421394

Points: 4

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New comment by jbj in "When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of your ability to think"

jbj — Thu, 11 May 2023 08:47:39 +0000

no pun intended, actual typo caught in the wild ;)

New comment by jbj in "When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of your ability to think"

jbj — Thu, 11 May 2023 07:11:02 +0000

Especially on my phone I have actively disabeled all spelling control, and successively suggestive typing.

writing a sentence while making it, I feel too much the words are being forced on me.

Where as it can be a great tool, I like to exercise my mind, the same reason I calculated all Matrix determinants with pen and paper when I started my engineering degree.

Some people may go to the gym and work out, but I am like to just squeese in exercise within my bicyle commute.

Sometimes there may be greater projects requiring more heavy tech, but for housekeeping I honestly dont mind harvesting the synergies of planning and doing things by myself.

New comment by jbj in "Krita: A professional free and open source painting program"

jbj — Mon, 01 May 2023 16:30:10 +0000

if you have an old surface tablet, this is really great with linux surface kernel

[ https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface ]

New comment by jbj in "Compromising Garmin Sport Watches: A Deep Dive into GarminOS and Its MonkeyC VM"

jbj — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 00:47:50 +0000

I am pretty sure you can use the sports tracking functions in garmin without an account, if not, at least without connecting the watch to a phone. You just need to connect with usb to copy the activity file (.fit) which can be converted to tsv.

regarding the passive tracking I dont have a clue

New comment by jbj in "Show HN: Don't Hold Your Breath – Breathing Analysis with Polar H10 HR Monitor"

jbj — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 10:19:01 +0000

I am a long time Garmin user, and sync to runalyze, when paired with a hear rate chest strap, they also calculate a breathing rate

New comment by jbj in "Show HN: Don't Hold Your Breath – Breathing Analysis with Polar H10 HR Monitor"

jbj — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 10:16:22 +0000

dont you need to hold both hands on the watch to get this from apple?

New comment by jbj in "KeePassXC Audit Report"

jbj — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 21:54:05 +0000

Not KeePassDX which is in F-Droid?

New comment by jbj in "Why are weather apps still so terrible these days?"

jbj — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 22:43:07 +0000

there is always a good moment to 'curl wttr.in'

New comment by jbj in "Why are weather apps still so terrible these days?"

jbj — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 22:40:42 +0000

https://yr.no works great for northern europe

New comment by jbj in "DIYtouchpad"

jbj — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 08:33:56 +0000

there is an interesting interview with Federico Faggin from Synaptics explaining how they created their touchpad in this youtube video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SonkKtxZx8w

New comment by jbj in "Microsoft tests Windows account menu error badge when Microsoft Account not used"

jbj — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 20:32:14 +0000

If you are on an android phone what supports shelter[1], I can recommend installing "social" apps inside the shelter, and just sleep the apps when you don't use them.

In regards to windows, it feels to me as morphing into a solution for large corporations if disregarding the tabloid news while leaving private users just waiting for a friendly OS to be presented for them.

[1] https://github.com/PeterCxy/Shelter

New comment by jbj in "RNA compound and vitamin B3 found in samples from near-Earth asteroid"

jbj — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 23:01:19 +0000

not only uracil and niacin, also other molecules:

'''revealing that a wide range of organic compounds such as racemic non-protein type amino acids, alkylamines, carboxylic acids, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and nitrogen heterocyclic molecules are present in the aqueous or organic extracts'''

from the linked paper.

racemic mix refers to the equal amout of stereoisomers

New comment by jbj in "Hardware microphone disconnect (2021)"

jbj — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 17:40:16 +0000

this comments reminds me about owning a mac and installing a github repo to allow mouse scrolling direction to not be tied to touch pad scrolling

[edit] just following up, it was UnnaturalScrollWheels, which have been notarized: https://github.com/ther0n/UnnaturalScrollWheels/releases/tag...

Extract-msg can separate attacted files from an outlook mail sent as attachment

jbj — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:24:10 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/TeamMsgExtractor/msg-extractor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35049867

Points: 3

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New comment by jbj in "Microsoft makes Outlook for Mac free"

jbj — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:16:46 +0000

just a few days late to get me to use outlook ... just last friday I was installing outlook to open a .msg file with attachments, the hassle of having to setup an account was enough to uninstall again and asses if I trusted a pip package to extract it for me. Much respect to those open source developers.

https://github.com/TeamMsgExtractor/msg-extractor

New comment by jbj in "OsmAnd 4.3 for Android devices"

jbj — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 18:11:24 +0000

OsmAnd worked great with multitouch on my old ms surface (fedora+waydroid) but now it crashes after a few seconds. I hope to get it up and running, it is amazing for offline maps on such a big screen.

MS Surface connect to USB adaptor

jbj — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:42:25 +0000

Article URL: https://dancharblog.wordpress.com/2021/10/06/surfaceconnect-usb-c-pd-usb-5gb-s-adapter-quick-review-teardown/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34324706

Points: 2

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