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2021

I own this exact Uni cable according to Amazon and find it to be perfectly adequate in charging my XPS 15 www.reddit.com/r/Surface…
I’ve been replaying earthbound with a reproduction cartridge on an original SNES. This was the road not traveled. www.reddit.com/r/earthbo…
Go fiddle with the microwave for a minute and learn how to change the setting, then you will have learned something and won’t make the same mistake again, which generally registers as a success. www.reddit.com/r/self/co…
Microsoft Bob and Packard Bell Navigator were the big ones youtu.be/RkU4WWEUj… youtu.be/YABFz8nEV… www.reddit.com/r/windows…
Imagine if we knew all the math governing the matter in the universe, if we had a snapshot of matter-placement for any point of time, we could extrapolate the positionings at any point of our timeline. Then, imagine if we had the ability to reposition that matter, we could recreate the conditions of any point we like. You may argue that ‘well maybe you could do this with a solar system, but there are billions of humans on our planet, not to mention all the lower life… would you be able to precisely predict their movements based on one snapshot?

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You know, there is an actual bright side to most situations. With the pandemic, I get to stay home to work and skip traffic, small talk, wearing pants, pretending to work when I need a distraction, spending money at restaurants… www.reddit.com/r/AskRedd…
In fairness, I think we’ve all taken a look at our project’s package.json and wondered where in the hell the front-enders in our org get this shit. But generally, when you look through their trendy set of libraries and the gulp workflows running it, it’s typically fairly sensical. I find a lot of times, this kind of thing is a team member or two trying to enhance their dev experience, and while it can be hit-or-miss it’s not like people don’t do these things in other areas.

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You should check out 8bitdo’s mod kits, turn that controller into a wireless one. https://www.8bitdo.com/mod-kit-for-snes-controller/ Edit: Pair it with this SNES dongle (which I own for my SNES and love) https://shop.8bitdo.com/products/retro-receiver-for-snes www.reddit.com/r/alttpr/…
Bridge Crew is a wonderful experience, the best ST game around www.reddit.com/r/startre…
For the most part, Star Trek is a hard-science universe and encourages us to view religions in that context. DS9 and TNG, for example, it’s clear that humans are generally atheists. When Picard interfered with that proto-Vulcan culture, he wouldn’t play to their belief systems because he refused to lead them down a bronze-age religious path. DS9 shows it fairly well, the Bajorans see the wormhole aliens as the prophets, but even to people who have witnessed them firsthand they still wouldn’t call them prophets regularly.

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Not that I’ve ever used it or that it will be compatible with your version, but this seems up your alley https://github.com/awamper/howdoi www.reddit.com/r/gnome/c…
Logitech devices work well in Linux for the most part, these are basic wireless peripherals they’ll work exactly as expected. www.reddit.com/r/linuxha…
I think a lot of people fall into this perspective that nobody will ever love them, and they take past experience as evidence. But really what this means is that the approach your using is unsuccessful. In reality, even if you have severe physical and mental issues, there are still people out there who will be into it, probably more than you realize. My advice is to lean into the statistics, go to an online dating site, clean up your profile and picture so you don’t come off as an axe murderer, and cast a wide net.

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I came up with dial-up in the ’90s, and around the turn of the century we had in-home broadband and that felt a bit transitional. I remember when everything started shipping with Wifi (802.11B) that was a turning point. Also, Google Assistant doesn’t get enough credit. Lately, when I walk in the door the lights come on and the AC kicks in, that’s been in full swing for about 5 years now.

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I don’t care who you are, watching out a window as the plane takes off never gets old. www.reddit.com/r/gaming/…
I like how in other desktops expose (windows push apart effect) is coupled with the app menu and activities… Gnome 40 seems like it has a good setup here and KDE could easily follow suit. www.reddit.com/r/kde/com…
The further you get into TNG the better it gets www.reddit.com/r/startre…
MB is a bad character and feels out of place in Star Trek because she’s the exact kind of character we never needed before. It’s obvious why the actor was hired, she’s incredible and has a wide range of emotion. I think they thought that her talent would carry the show, and on some level it does, but kung-fu, crying theatrics, and the need for one hero to solve every situation - these just aren’t suppoed to be Trek tropes.

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Type-C charging requires a power adapter that supports the USB-PD (Power Delivery) protocol, you can’t just charge your laptop with your phone’s charger. The upside is you can charge your phone with a PD charger, so that charger can be a common charger for all your Type-C devices. Unfortunately, it seems that your laptop does not support it https://www.reddit.com/r/System76/comments/8i1j7m/galago_pro_can_you_charge_it_over_usb_c/ www.reddit.com/r/linux_d…
I would not buy a Pentium, an i5 seems OK but in 2021 you’re probably going to do better price/performance-wise by looking at Rysen systems. The saving grace of the first system you linked to was USB-C charging, which typically I say is a hard requirement. I guess if your extremely budget-conscious then maybe you look past it, but personally, I’d rather dig through used laptops and try to find something last generation with decent specs and perhaps thunderbolt if you really plan on using the thing full-time.

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