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  1. Comment on Five browser extensions to make every website more useful in ~tech

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    This is just one of those exchanges on the internet where one person has one experience and another a totally different one. I haven’t had any issues with Orion as a daily driver (on iOS or...

    This is just one of those exchanges on the internet where one person has one experience and another a totally different one. I haven’t had any issues with Orion as a daily driver (on iOS or MacOS).

    I guess now that I think about it, YouTube would sometimes not allow for scrolling. But I don’t think I’ve had that issue for a bit.

  2. Comment on Five browser extensions to make every website more useful in ~tech

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    You could also switch to the kagi browser Orion. But I’m assuming you are aware of that. Since it’s built atop Safari it’s a pretty easy switch. That’s where I’m at.

    You could also switch to the kagi browser Orion. But I’m assuming you are aware of that. Since it’s built atop Safari it’s a pretty easy switch. That’s where I’m at.

  3. Comment on How to get into camping/hiking again? in ~hobbies

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    My wife and I camped a few times a year for several years before we got married. Enjoyable, but it was on our wedding trip (which was camping in the BWCA with friends) where it really went to...

    My wife and I camped a few times a year for several years before we got married. Enjoyable, but it was on our wedding trip (which was camping in the BWCA with friends) where it really went to another level of enjoyment. One friend with us (the least-well-acquainted in the group of eight) packed in a yeti cooler unbeknownst to us for 3 days. On the 3rd day, it was revealed that not only had he carried in this super heavy cooler, but that it was filled with bacon-wrapped beefsteaks, cheeses, butter, heavy cream for coffee, grapes, etc. He also had in the same pack fresh veggies, root veggies, oranges...Not only that, he was an excellent fisherman and caught a handful of walleye for our wedding dinner.

    And he showed us how to really cook. He had Lodge cast iron skillets and real knives. The food was so good after 3 days of paddling to a remote interior campsite. From then on, our camping trips followed the same sort of idea: get out and eat well. It means we carry much more weight than when we were bringing just dried food pouches and the lightest pots and pans. But it's so worth it.

    Now we basically do one camping trip to the BWCA a year, and we alternate between going by ourselves (now with kids), and with a big group of friends. We change the friend group up as well. We have gone with people for their first time a few times, and I'm not sure we've had anyone really not like it. I'm sure there is some selection bias here. But not everyone is enjoying it for the same reasons. Sometimes you might think someone won't like it because of x, but it turns out they would actually really like it because y.

    Tie your interest in camping with another interest, too. It could be "camping + cooking", or "camping + reading", "camping + knitting", "camping + smokin' dope", "camping + fishing", "camping + astrophotography", etc. It's time spent away from distractions, so you can finally get into that other hobby without being pulled away.

    1 vote

  4. Comment on I can't describe it, but I know it when I see it in ~life

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    I had a lot longer response, but I think the crux of it was: He's 5. He doesn't need unbounded access to an enormous library of content. If it were me (and i have a 4.5yo), I'd just say "nope, we...

    I had a lot longer response, but I think the crux of it was: He's 5. He doesn't need unbounded access to an enormous library of content. If it were me (and i have a 4.5yo), I'd just say "nope, we pick what we watch before we bring out the phone" and skip the recommendations. In fact, I just confirmed you can use ublock origin to erase the recommendation list on the side of videos (or on your homescreen if you really want) to prevent going down rabbit holes.

    But really, if possible and there is a good selection, the benefit of having a DVD player and getting your media from the library is that the choices are deliberated in advance, you know the media is going to fall into certain standards, and it has to be returned within a couple of weeks and they aren't just watching the same thing over and over. And just a note, that if like me you live near the border of multiple library systems, you can check if you can have accounts in each and have them linked together (in the Twin Cities there are I believe 7 library systems that do this).

    16 votes

  5. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Maybe in the spring, have the snow melt and reveal things like shovels, mittens, rotted Halloween pumpkins….. THEN, flowers. Probably getting a little ahead of the cart here though.

    Maybe in the spring, have the snow melt and reveal things like shovels, mittens, rotted Halloween pumpkins….. THEN, flowers.

    Probably getting a little ahead of the cart here though.

    2 votes

  6. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I think the snowman should get buried over time, rather than rising to the top. But really, I just liked it. Good work

    I think the snowman should get buried over time, rather than rising to the top. But really, I just liked it. Good work

    3 votes

  7. Comment on Have you ever designed/created a spaceship for fiction, RPGs, etc? How did you do it? in ~creative

  8. Comment on The woman on a mission to photograph every species of hummingbird in the world in ~hobbies

  9. Comment on US President Donald Trump rolls back tariffs on dozens of food products in ~society

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    Currently, yes. I'd say beef is the exception to the list, anyway, though. But yeah, we don't produce enough because the market was getting outsourced to those other countries, bringing the prices...

    Currently, yes. I'd say beef is the exception to the list, anyway, though. But yeah, we don't produce enough because the market was getting outsourced to those other countries, bringing the prices down to where US producers couldn't keep up. They culled their herds as a response to lean times. Then the tariffs went into place suddenly which restricts supply, but US producers can't just suddenly ramp up production on livestock immediately-- it takes time to raise large quantities of calves.

    It's probably one of the industries where it'd actually be good to have some tariffs if you prefer more local food production (not to mention higher meat costs/less consumption). Of course, economic sense doesn't factor into this administration.

    HEre is the full list, by the way: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/annex.pdf

    7 votes

  10. Comment on US President Donald Trump rolls back tariffs on dozens of food products in ~society

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    From the list you gave, and from the description i've read elsewhere, it's mostly stuff not really producible in the US. So that might tip you off in terms of the impact for you-- if you are...

    From the list you gave, and from the description i've read elsewhere, it's mostly stuff not really producible in the US. So that might tip you off in terms of the impact for you-- if you are buying stuff that generally is only producible outside the country, you'll be in luck.

    However, we'll see if producers/wholesalers/retailers actually drop the prices, or just pocket the difference for as long as they can.

    4 votes

  11. Comment on Do you recommend any website to host a free sub-forum in Portuguese? Not Reddit. in ~tech

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    Miraheze is a wiki host. You can do forum-like things with it,like really roughly. Think “Talk” pages. I’ve used Zulip but not for a couple years. Part of me wants to say that it might have gone...

    Miraheze is a wiki host. You can do forum-like things with it,like really roughly. Think “Talk” pages.

    I’ve used Zulip but not for a couple years. Part of me wants to say that it might have gone under or is no longer free or maintained? We just had issues getting any sort of migration to it (we were trying to move off Facebook Groups).

    2 votes

  12. Comment on Amtrak steadily continues upgrading Wisconsin stations for level boarding - improving access and travel time in ~transport

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    I think sometimes it’s a bit of an Apple to oranges comparison between US and other countries even talking about transit times— STP to Virginia is a long long way. Obviously high speed trains and...

    I think sometimes it’s a bit of an Apple to oranges comparison between US and other countries even talking about transit times— STP to Virginia is a long long way. Obviously high speed trains and network would make it faster and more bearable, but a plane is always going to be faster at that distance (I’m sure a theoretical train could do it faster but just never in this timeline). Travel times in Germany are great, because the greatest distance for an intra-Germany train is equivalent to STP to Columbus OH.

    Unrelated, but I did CT to STP back in college and not only did I just have a coach seat, I actually spent 98% of the trip in the observation car, awake and chatting with other passengers. That’s not going to work for families, but it was a good time back then.

    2 votes

  13. Comment on Any chance we can get a shorthand for the <details> tag? in ~tildes

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    It's not really revelant to the original topic, but since we are talking about flavors of markdown.... An open source project i contribute to is a markdown + css editor that provides a live...

    It's not really revelant to the original topic, but since we are talking about flavors of markdown....

    An open source project i contribute to is a markdown + css editor that provides a live preview of an html document, geared towards TTRPG homebrew content-- called Homebrewery / github. We've done a lot with extending markdown ourselves (oh yay, another non-standard variant!). So with ours it's easy to create div and span tags, add style attributes along with pretty much any other attribute etc. There is syntax for variables and other stuff, too.

    Here is a link that covers the div tags.

    But it's always tricky to come up with new syntax that still feels markdown-like, meaning it's readable as just plain text as well. Lots and lots of discussion about that.

    1 vote

  14. Comment on Any chance we can get a shorthand for the <details> tag? in ~tildes

  15. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Does this stuff have to be secret from your partner until you die? Otherwise, as xk3 suggests, just print it out and put it somewhere in the house. A document safe is good enough, unless you are...

    Does this stuff have to be secret from your partner until you die? Otherwise, as xk3 suggests, just print it out and put it somewhere in the house. A document safe is good enough, unless you are jason bourne or something. Or set up a Proton Mail account or something and email it to them. Or find a decent bank that has a safe deposit box.

    The bigger issue than death is what happens in the long lead-up to your death, where you slow slide into dementia/alzheimers yet you and everyone you resists confronting that truth until it's too late, and you completely forget about your big setup, and they need that information now, yet you are not dead. And how do you separate the stuff that is important at one pre-death event from the stuff that is only important post-death?

    Seems like it's just easier to talk to your partner about this stuff now. Or at least most of it. Keep one or two things for the grave.

    4 votes

  16. Comment on US Federal Aviation Administration reducing air traffic by 10% across forty ‘high-volume’ markets during government shutdown in ~transport

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    isn't 2-3 hours early been the standard since like...forever? Or is that just my family? Growing up it was always 2 hours minimum, but nowadays my parents get there about 4 hours early. I just did...

    isn't 2-3 hours early been the standard since like...forever? Or is that just my family? Growing up it was always 2 hours minimum, but nowadays my parents get there about 4 hours early. I just did a trip last week with my kids and we did 3 hours early, and packed a lunch of PB&Js and other snacks from home to tide us over until snacks on the plane.

    3 votes

  17. Comment on What I think of whenever I see the news reports about US President Donald Trump destroying the East Wing in ~society

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    I think if the Tan Suit, which I believe the Daily Show has a similar video on.

    I think if the Tan Suit, which I believe the Daily Show has a similar video on.

    5 votes

  18. Comment on Donald Trump AI advisor David Sacks says ‘no federal bailout for AI’ after OpenAI CFO’s suggestion of US federal government backstop in ~tech

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    Nothing anyone says matters unless it’s Trump, because they’ll never ever contradict him. And regarding Trump, it just depends on his cut.

    Nothing anyone says matters unless it’s Trump, because they’ll never ever contradict him. And regarding Trump, it just depends on his cut.

    12 votes

  19. Comment on US Federal Aviation Administration reducing air traffic by 10% across forty ‘high-volume’ markets during government shutdown in ~transport

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    I would rather it shutdown— I’m not sure why it’d be good to privatize ATC and gut a unionized federal workforce that has to work in unison across the entire country. If each airport is paying...

    I would rather it shutdown— I’m not sure why it’d be good to privatize ATC and gut a unionized federal workforce that has to work in unison across the entire country. If each airport is paying their ATC privately it’ll be a piecemeal thing.

    11 votes

  20. Comment on US Federal Aviation Administration reducing air traffic by 10% across forty ‘high-volume’ markets during government shutdown in ~transport

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    I’m fine with net even workload for ATC. If they are at a reduced coverage, they should pare down the workload. This isn’t a position on why coverage is low, just that it makes sense that they...

    I’m fine with net even workload for ATC. If they are at a reduced coverage, they should pare down the workload. This isn’t a position on why coverage is low, just that it makes sense that they shouldn’t be over worked (more than they traditionally have been).

    And as other commenter noted, you can’t just cut economy seats here. Regarding smaller regional flights: my assumption is that regional flyers are likely more rural residents and business which lines up traditionally with conservative voters.

    5 votes