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Do they break fast charging?
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The sharp end of a safety pin did it for me
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A... slab? Of wine?
Is that a whole pallet or something?
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Was it that the PDF produced by latex was less OCR friendly than the word one, or just that you didn't submit the PDF at all most of the time?
I guess if you trained a program to OCR PDFs that are produced by word it might get really good at that and less good at PDFs from other sources.
I'm curious if your CV font was computer modern?
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People are mostly talking about what a bunch of idiots they are though.
This lot look like they were cast by the daily mail, they couldn't be more of a caricature. It is absolutely not effective communication.
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Haha I have similar tastes, love a kebab.
Maybe those foods seem overrated because they are so accessible and easy to cook (few ingredients)? Easy things to start with if you're learning to cook.
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Are you someone who likes sweet stuff more than savoury? I'm not into sweet stuff and don't get the fuss about chocolate, but a nice savoury salty or spicy thing does it for me.
I guess everyone has different tastes.
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I get your point but hydrogen isn't just sea water, you've got an awful lot more energy to put in after the "tank is full so wrap up the hose and drive off" stage to separate the hydrogen from oxygen to get the fuel. The difficult bit comes after "get water".
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On the one hand, this is embarrassing for Russia, but on the other hand the UK's Trident nuclear deterrent failed a couple of times in a row over the last few years, so I'm not going to get too excited about it.
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It could go that way, but on the other hand they could be more like MorningLightMountain in Peter Hamilton's Pandora's Star, i.e. fascists who exterminate every other organism that competes with them for resources.
Great book if you haven't read it!
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Those are also good reasons, i.e. more than just "I disagree"
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It's supposed to be for bad faith posts/comments not just for disagreement
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Are those things in the middle at the back soft pretzels? They look like conkers (horse chestnuts), confused the hell out of me!
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I like it like this, looks very cosy!
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Agree to some extent, but the meaning would only become clear if they continue to listen instead of assuming they know what you're about to say and zoning out.
I have some of both with my SO and I'm not sure what's more annoying, being interrupted or explaining exactly what you mean and having none of it be absorbed.
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Up the chuff = good, down the chuff = bad
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How would you portray Bombadil in a Film/TV series if it was your decision?
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Sorry mate, totally forgot not everyone would have seen it yet. I'm behind the US so always assume I'm watching later than most people.
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At least that Cornish accent is quite mysterious!
Although he looks quite a lot like jack black I don't think he really acts that way.
I'm not sure how I'd have done it myself, it would be very difficult to put in lots of HEY HO BOMBADIL TOM BOMBADILLO type mad singing in a serious way.
Does anyone else live in a safe seat that may flip during this election? Looking at the latest Survation poll, which predicts Labour will win 484 seats (vs 64 to the Tories and 61 to Lib Dems), I can't believe how tight some of the results are projected to be in what have previously been very safe Tory seats as far back as I remember. https://www.survation.com/survation-mrp-labour-99-certain-to-win-more-seats-than-in-1997/ I've lived in some of these seats and always voted but without any real hope of flipping it. For them to turn red would be a huge change. One seat, North East Hampshire, was the safest Tory seat in 2015 (by numbers and by %) but this election the projection is Lab: 24.2%, Con: 32.2%, Lib Dem: 29.3%. Results night could be very interesting!
If anyone has any good tips on beating the midges, please share them! I got absolutely devoured this weekend up by Loch Latrine (edit: Katrine) (completely forgot it was midge season, so I was unprepared).
I've ordered myself some parts to build a PC for Linux gaming. In the meantime, i'm deciding on which linux distro to use. For the desktop environment I typically use KDE. I have used Ubuntu in the past but i'm ruling it out because of snaps and other such annoyances. This also applies to Ubuntu based distros that use the same repos (KDE Neon etc). I see the wikis recommend Nobara, but I'm reluctant to use a Fedora based distro because I'm so used to Debian/apt (both as a desktop and server distros). I'm not ruling it out completely though. Any reason why I shouldn't just go with Debian + KDE and install Steam? Will I be missing out on lots of performance improvements or is this easily addressed by using an additional repo for a tweaked kernel and proton version or whatever?
I'm working on a build list for a Linux gaming rig. It's my first build so I'd welcome any comments or tips! I'm mostly looking to run games like the Total War series. I'm not obsessed with getting peak performance, I'm angling more for a reasonable value mid-range build. Linux support is essential, I won't buy any Nvidia products. UK market if that makes a difference. List below... * CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor (£139.99 @ Amazon UK) * Motherboard: MSI B550 GAMING GEN3 ATX AM4 Motherboard (£89.97 @ Ebuyer) * Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory (£64.98 @ Amazon UK) * Storage: Samsung 980 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (£84.24 @ Amazon UK) * Video Card: PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6650 XT 8 GB Video Card (£239.00 @ Computer Orbit) * Case: Corsair 4000D Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case (£74.50 @ Computer Orbit) * Power Supply: Thermaltake Toughpower GX2 600 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply (£101.62 @ Amazon UK) Total: £794.30
f-droid.org
Discovered this one today when looking for an image editing app for Android. I've used Krita on Linux before but didn't know there was an Android app! The UI is a bit clunky on a mobile but it does the job!
github.com
It's a free software firmware replacement for ereaders based on Alpine Linux. I've not tried it myself but wonder how it compares to the stock firmware on Kobo, particularly in terms of battery life and general performance.
I have a box running kodi in standalone mode with X11. My TV displays "no signal" if I leave it for too long, does anyone know how to stop this from happening? I can still ssh into the box and use the remote app Kore so the system hasn't suspended or anything like that. Pressing up/down etc on the kore remote, which should change what is displayed on screen, doesn't wake kodi up. However, I can wake it up if I tell Kodi to play a video.
I'm looking for a linux kernel for Debian that is 6.4.2 or above (need it to support the AX101 WiFi module). The Debian package linked below is "linux-image-6.4.0-2-amd64 (6.4.4-3)" Does that mean the kernel version is 6.4.0 or 6.4.4? https://packages.debian.org/unstable/kernel/linux-image-6.4.0-2-amd64
Tell me your favourite rescue USB image and why! Also rescue tips and tricks as that's always interesting. I have been using a Debian installer USB as I had it to hand (DVD image IIRC) but if I boot into a shell without mounting another root FS the number of utilities is quite limited (just busybox basics). For example just now I wanted gzip but it only had gunzip... I feel like a shell started from the installer USB should have access to a lot more utilities because the files are there on the disk! Does anyone know a way to set up a kind of USB like the debian installer where you can install packages from the installer into the live environment?