bluGill

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[–] bluGill@fedia.io 4 points 5 hours ago

Green is a myth. (I'm colorblind)

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Mouse with your off hand means your main hand can do other things - type or such. Most keyboards have a numberpad to the right, so the left is the more ergonomic place for a mouse.

I have two computers, and two keyboards and two mice. I keep a mouse on each side. (I tried a KVM and didn't like it). YMMV.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 4 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

I need the mouse cursor to be better at drawing attention to itself at times though. When you have a couple big monitors often finding where that cursor is hiding becomes a problem.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 6 hours ago

part of a tribe that's tribally opposed to clean vehicles.

Remember actions and words do not match here. Many of those people are happy to verbally say the support clean vehicles and such. However they are buying big trucks with big engines. They will vote for someone who says "get the oil company", but if gas prices actually go up they will vote for someone else (and the people they vote for know it and so in turn say kill the oil companies, but when the oil companies want something the get it)

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You still have a power supply with a laptop.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

Your kids should inheirit the desk your great granpa mades, those plates that have been in the family for years. Your lost $40 should be used to pay the taxi driver who brings you to the hospital where you die.

give them love now. Teach them to care for thenselves. They should expect to get nothing. Spend your money yourself for what makes you happy.

Don't give the bills - pre-pay your funeral. (Careful - there are a lot of scams here).

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

Unfortunately I have little hope the next will be better.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io -1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why are you typing anything in a grocery store? Type in the kitchen when you need to add something to the list, but in the store it should be just checking off the items as you put them in the cart. Maybe you have a good reason, but it feels like you are solving the wrong problem. [insert long rant about usability and human-machine interaction]

If you really need a keyboards I agree bluetooth keyboards are chunky. I often use a 60% keyboard with my phone, but it is a lot larger than my fine despite being a small keyboard. There is no getting around the size of hands though, you can't make a good tiny keyboard (even a 40% won't fit in your pocket).

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 0 points 2 days ago (4 children)

You can find bluetooth keyboards that work just fine on a phone. The hard part is finding a good small one.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 3 days ago

Hopefully firefox and the like will start putting spellcheck in their mobile applications again. I got mad at auto correct because it was worse than my spelling (at least you can guess what I meant - auto correct often changed to the wrong word: you wouldn't think to I might mean something else). I also often use a bluetooth keyboard, again spell check is needed.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't make fruit smoothies.

We actually have a blender in the kitchen - my wife and kids make fruit smoothies. Since we have it I use it for some soups - but this is only about 2x/year and I would eat chunky soups and do without a blender. This is the point I'm trying to make: you can do without things and live a satisfying life - so is it worth it to have the thing?

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 3 days ago

Take a look in the kitchen in places that don't need to show off their equipment. The places you name want to show off the shiny expensive equipment and so cheap quality is a negative for them.

 

My wife is complaining that we have music all over the living room all the time. With a couple kids in music lessons, school bands (regular, jazz), orchestra, and such a practice session often needs 6 books and 5 loose pages of music so I can't blame her for being frustrated. There is no easy way to store all that and find what you need for the current daily practice sessions.

Putting a tablet (suggestions? schools gives the kids an iPad, and I'm looking at pinetab2, or boox for me) on a stand seems easy enough, but then what?

Mobile sheets seems to be what others around me use, so probably what I'd end up doing too, though I'm not locked to anything. Any other software that I should be looking at? I do like the idea that we can synchronize page turning.

The hard part is getting all my music onto my NAS. Do I just scan all my books? Buy again as PDF (only rarely an option). Entry the music into some other program? I have some sheet music I want to put into lilypond - is there anything that would sync my tablets to a rendered version of this.

I already have Jellyfin and I see book options (but have not used it yet). Calibri-web also comes up often for books. Both seem book reading focused and music flows / organization is different. Anything else I might want to put on my servers that might be better?

Any other thoughts? What have others done that works?

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