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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

File Manager is the best for bulk renaming too

Or just anyone who likes the convenience in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've been cutting my own hair for the last 14 years for this exact same reason. I still have the same pair of clippers too so I must have hundreds by now

Techniques and Strategies For Maintaining Focus in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Tried that but I forget the planner exists and inevitably lose it so I stick to cloud-based apps now. ToDoist is my go to for personal checklists and planning now

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah i'm the world's worst listener and I absolutely hate it so I'm always trying to find ways to fix it. I can watch entire season runs without knowing what happened. I've been known to go to the cinema and leave without having paid attention to a single thing. I've listened to literally hundreds of podcasts but don't bother any more because there's just no point. Five minutes at best and my mind goes elsewhere.

Ironically if there's something else I'm trying to focus on and there is a TV or something happening in my peripheral I often can't tune it out.. lol

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OK I'm sold - I hear a lot of good things about OneNote but I struggled to understand the appeal on first glance. If it is good enough that you can find notes that far back then that could work well for me.

Btw Planner is great if you haven't used it. It's designed as a collaborative tool but I use it mostly as a way of keeping track of where I am with various tasks. I put it in my startup folder so it comes up as soon as I log on. I'll make checklists and basically talk to myself via card comments. Comments are timestamped and are forwarded to outlook so it's a better way of logging things than my usual method of digging through old Outlook messages. It has a couple of shortfalls but its really keeping me sane at the moment

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I take notes and write up mini reviews on my laptop when I watch shows as its the only way I can follow what's happening. Even with no distractions I tend to drift off into my thoughts.

Once or a twice a year at work I'll go through the cycle of creating a new planning system, doing really well with it before it ultimately fails. It's better than nothing though. I'm using Microsoft Planner a lot now.

I have a Galaxy Watch which I use to help with my morning routine. It syncs with google calendar and I schedule in everything I need to do in minute detail (wake up, get up, make breakfast, eat breakfast etc....) it kinda works but not so much just recently. Again better than nothing.

How about you?

What are some FOSS programs that you think are a far better user experience than their counterparts? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I went back to Windows a few years ago because I needed audio production software but would go back to vanilla Debian in a heartbeat if I needed a PC for anything else.

I switched to I3WM later on with my Debian PC and that was godlike too

What are your defining memories of computing in the old days? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I actually love vi to this day. As long as you understand the basic concepts (how to navigate, append/insert, switch between modes, save and exit) it's great. I'm a touch-typer so I could whiz around vi like nobody's business.

HATED Emacs though

Webamp: cross-platform implementation of Winamp 2.9 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

WACUP can do milkdrop

An classic that every arcade had back in the day. What was the hardest level for you? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I managed to beat the cast of Friends a couple times but the Steve Ballmer boss level fucked me up every time

What are your defining memories of computing in the old days? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I had similar problems with BASIC type-ins and would not eat, drink or sleep until I had figured out the problem. Trying to do the same with assembly would have killed me

What are your defining memories of computing in the old days? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

All unlabelled, with a bunch of corrupted ones but you never threw them out just in case it was a one off and you really needed that extra megabyte? Or was that just me?

What are your defining memories of computing in the old days? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Another thing - my windows 95 era PC was packed to the gills with bad desktop themes. Usually South Park related with annoying soundclips that played whenever you did something. Obnoxious mouse cursors and wallpapers that hurt the eyes.

I was upset when everything moved to ATX and computers powered off by themselves because I didn't get to see the modded 'It Is Now Safe To Turn Off Your Computer' screens that came with the themes

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I remember my dad bringing home a BBC Micro when we were kids. I knew just enough to get Chuckie Egg running.

Later we had a PC running Windows 3.1. I was an expert in crashing the plane on F-19 Stealth Fighter. One day I deleted the OS and that was the end of that computer..

Some years later we got an old Elonex PC that dad's work were getting rid of. It was just good enough to run Windows 95. We had dial-up internet from Freeserve for a time - we would have I think 2 hours in the evening to use it.

I remember

- Trying and failing to download shitty quality videos from wwf.com (I was a huge Attitude-era Wrestling mark...)


- Playing questionable games on Newgrounds


- Trawling Yahoo directories and webrings for random weird stuff


- Trying to download a low-bitrate rip of the Macarena from Kazaa and giving up when it estimated 2 days DL time.


- Terrible browser-war era websites. Broken Javascript/HTML. BLINKING TEXT. Incompatible flash videos.

I broke our family computers so often that I knew the Windows licence key without having to look. I learned how to fix the computer out of sheer terror for what my dad might do if he came home from work to find the PC broken again.

After we got rid of the dialup I would go the library pretty much every day. I had literally boxes of floppy disks that I would stuff into my pockets so that I could download stuff to take home. Mostly old emulators, ROMs and text adventures from ifarchive.

Crazy to think the lengths I would happily go to for things we take for granted now.

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