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New comment by stinkyball in "How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood"

stinkyball — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:46:09 +0000

I too have experienced the light of Scunthorpe. ‘The skies reflect our labours’ as they say ;)

New comment by stinkyball in "17-year-old student exposes Germany's 'secret' pirate site blocklist"

stinkyball — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 20:22:41 +0000

Could you point me in the direction of said tricks please as I am having trouble getting a connection out of the RF ?

New comment by stinkyball in "Light Waves Brought to a Stop in a Crystal Promises New Ways to Control Photons"

stinkyball — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 11:27:03 +0000

Thankyou, great story :)

New comment by stinkyball in "Mounting your iPhone on your motorcycle can damage its camera (2022)"

stinkyball — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 06:00:20 +0000

There is something called vibration induced white finger. It was known as drillers finger too.

New comment by stinkyball in "Being a short-term rental host has become much harder"

stinkyball — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 16:12:47 +0000

One of the sisters is a great example for sure, and they were in my mind as I read your previous comment but I cant think of any others that come even close. Would love to see other examples.

New comment by stinkyball in "Mullvad Leta: A search engine used in the Mullvad Browser"

stinkyball — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 18:15:12 +0000

I too worried that my cost would balloon but I find that I actually search less as the results, for me, are better quality.

New comment by stinkyball in "Spotify Wrapped but for Your Photos"

stinkyball — Sat, 13 May 2023 11:32:37 +0000

Looks great but too much tracking for me.

New comment by stinkyball in "Working at Google: Maps"

stinkyball — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 08:37:05 +0000

Is this written by ai? Its mostly rambling nonsense.

New comment by stinkyball in "The death of the PCIe expansion card"

stinkyball — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 20:58:33 +0000

If you Alt-Space, M, and press one of the arrow keys, the windows will 'stick' to your mouse cursor so you can just wiggle your mouse after they key combo to bring it to you.

New comment by stinkyball in "Beginner’s guide to mechanical keyboards"

stinkyball — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 15:11:23 +0000

I’ve never experienced membranes wearing out but they sure do get extra mushy over time. I guess it’s boiling frogs.

New comment by stinkyball in "Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices"

stinkyball — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 21:38:31 +0000

Which AP are you looking at for the outdoors ?

New comment by stinkyball in "How to Dual-Boot Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10 with Encryption"

stinkyball — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 14:39:11 +0000

It’s VMware’s hypervisor. It installs to bare metal and you run vm’s on top of it.

New comment by stinkyball in "iPhone 12 Pro so costly in India, you can fly to Dubai to buy it and save money"

stinkyball — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 15:21:56 +0000

Why so passive aggressive?

New comment by stinkyball in "New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data"

stinkyball — Tue, 19 May 2020 19:06:27 +0000

How does one achieve this ?

New comment by stinkyball in "[dead]"

stinkyball — Fri, 08 May 2020 15:10:49 +0000

Why do you want spam?

New comment by stinkyball in "Twitter begins testing Reddit-style nested conversations"

stinkyball — Sat, 30 Nov 2019 09:27:27 +0000

Twitter —> shouting into the void ?

New comment by stinkyball in "Google bans family cafe for offensive content for posting photo of British dish"

stinkyball — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 17:37:49 +0000

"Can I bum a fag?" still being used too!

New comment by stinkyball in "PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity"

stinkyball — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 09:14:54 +0000

Please don't underestimate the privacy implications as once you have signed into the app store, you're signed into all the other apps too. I would much prefer to have a regular exe with a serial.

The credit card being in Microsoft's hands is just another surface that my card is exposed to, perhaps I'm being over zealous worrying on that front.

New comment by stinkyball in "PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity"

stinkyball — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 07:51:41 +0000

To answer your curiosity, I use your wm and I love it, but:

It means I have to sign in to windows: I have to deal with it nagging me to change my standard logon to a microsoft logon. I then have to worry about all the other apps and their permissions, privacy implications now and in the future.

I have to give my credit card details to microsoft. I can't easily take the software with me if I need to use another machine/laptop/tablet etc without having to, again, sign into windows in some way and have all of the above congnitave overhead *n machines. Hell even if I make another local user account for testing or whatever I can't even use your software as I again have to sign into windows even though its working for my main logon.

It all adds up to another thing that needs managing/thinking about, which pretty much takes the convienience of (your software, in this case) away.

If you wanted to make it restrictive and painful for your users, you have succeeded!

New comment by stinkyball in "PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity"

stinkyball — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 06:04:26 +0000

It's extremely fast and intuitive to use, middle button to drag windows to zones (or whatever you configure). It comes with some decent layout templates.

However the template system is in XAML which is fine if you're au fait with that but can be a bit fiddly to get what you want.

The only other issue I have with it is that the full version - which is definately worth the money - is distributed via the windows store which forces you to have an account with Microsoft. Overall though, excellent.