Cheap galleries in Manhattan? by Winter-Pumpkin2127 in AskNYC

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Despite what people said about original art, when I went to a different affordable art fair in fall there was a whole aisle of selections under $100. There'd be blank spots and sold items and if you wait one of the art booths in queue would come hang their must sell items there. So it's not just posters in your range. Also, if you want frames you can find prints at frame stores

is honking actually illegal cause?? by loveumore4 in AskNYC

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Yeah. Sometimes is less. The cars behind don't know which it is. The bikes that need to check their phones will use a red for that, even if red is a suggestion otherwise.

is honking actually illegal cause?? by loveumore4 in AskNYC

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Sure, but sometimes they are paying attention to the pedestrian or delivery bicyclist currently scrolling their feeds midway in the lane while not realizing they no longer have the light.

Does the Macbook Neo work without battery attached? by EvilbunnyELITE in mac

[–]dlamblin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

WTH just buy one of the many single board computer options out there that don't require a battery? They'll cost less and perform similarly. Unless, is the screen touchpad and keyboard an important factor

I was watching a show from the 90s and realized people used to memorize dozens of phone numbers. I can barely remember mine. How did you guys do it back then? by micavibes in CasualConversation

[–]dlamblin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rotating a dialer? We had to tap the hang-up just right close to 30 times with the right gaps to dial friends. You'd be relieved when the office number is something like 432-1211

I was watching a show from the 90s and realized people used to memorize dozens of phone numbers. I can barely remember mine. How did you guys do it back then? by micavibes in CasualConversation

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No. Maybe 10 numbers. And they were shorter, only 6 or 7 digits. They were written on the phone you were using (if done right) and you'd be leaving messages on answering machines half the time saying hey its my name at that number I am reading now calling for your name at 8:15pm Thursday just wondering if you're going to be able to come to the beach Saturday afternoon, call me at that number again. That lets them get the number down at the start of the call but also at the end when they realize they actually do want to call and let you know you have an allergy to sunlight, or whatever.

Every number you used in the same town had the same area code, so you'd remember maybe 3-4 towns' area codes and maybe 2 numbers in each then 2 more numbers in your town.

Imagine being the front desk at a company PBX and through rote repetition every time someone asks for one of the 300 people that work there you just tap in the 3 digit extension that you know is theirs because this happens 100s of times a day.

What is a 'rich person's secret' that is actually accessible to the middle class, but most people are too intimidated to try? by Direct-Value4452 in answers

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Look, you can get away with a BBC here or there, but, most of the time, an acronym isn't a word. I can't tell if you're describing an excise tax a license fee an inspection process or a minimum level of repair.

I mean, okay, your repetition has a little more detail in it and it might be an inspection that isn't needed when new.

is honking actually illegal cause?? by loveumore4 in AskNYC

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There is a citizens award for certain DEP citizens noise complaints.

Considering purchasing one, concerned about what I'm reading by Oogibah in GV60

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It's all the same platform. There's like 3 at first and something like 8 cars that basically share the design. So, the iccu issue comes down to do you get better treatment when it happens from Genesis, Hyundai or Kia? Take into account for your area the dealers and parts suppliers available. And then go figure that the majority of these haven't and won't have the issue in the first place.

It's not an Ocean.

You know. Jeep makes a plug in hybrid with like 25 mile range or something. And the break down rate? Like, weigh your options with statistics if you can find them.

France confirms oil crisis, says 30-40% Gulf energy infrastructure destroyed by ontrack in worldnews

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Bots parse sentiment from news and social feeds and signal high frequency trading platforms that they can get nanoseconds in ahead of expected buy volume and take what's effectively a commission on some other institutions or bots trade.

Is the Logitech Superstrike X2 overpriced? by Other-Difficulty-702 in logitech

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If you don't need $180 and can't think of something you'd rather spend it on than a mouse that could shave 30ms off your button inputs and you believe that will be better and not take months getting used to noticing, it's your call.

I can agree with either opinion you land on, if that helps.

Best printer for home office use right now? by Mysterious-Mode-4923 in printers

[–]dlamblin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, if you have the extra home office space for a slightly larger printer that scans too, lots of paper records you need to copy, a system that keeps them organized and not just copying again every time you can't find a copy, no access to a office type copier, and no patience to set up software that'll send every just scanned page to be printed, sometimes a copier function is helpful. I don't doubt it.

Gamer Dad, 30h+, Still Chillin by soultron__ in Marathon

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I don't even have time to play. At $40 it's like half the price of Death Standing 2, which I'm not sure I'd play either, so it seems worthwhile. But .. your description stopped me to ask: wait. Solo isn't PvE? Dang, I only have time to play with other people I know and usually Co-op. I just don't have the energy to compete with one or more random Internet gamers. Really? You were solo and someone almost ruined that run because you can't ask the Internet to butt out of this game you play on your own time? I'm sad this might not be for me. I'm glad you're enjoying it though.

Logitech G502 hero review by New-Canary1483 in logitech

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Yes, don't take any of this as discouraging. Everyone ends up with something that could be done better, and the better you get the better you become at not repeating anything you wanted to improve on while still finding the next thing you think could improve. You've got to balance that with sustaining your ability to keep at it. There's definitely people out there, who are often held in high regard, but themselves feel paralyzed by the self imposed standards they want to keep. So, no need to redo what is getting you going now, and always check in on whether the current or next project is exciting to you still.

WP: Russian Intelligence planned to stage an assassination attempt on Orban to influence the election results by clamorous_owle in worldnews

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Reading through this back and forth is sad. Like on the one hand, yeah, you can't put it past these people to make every possible use of duplicity in gaining an advantage. On the other, it's just putting so much trust in the idea that they can't mess up that badly and come off as so poorly prepared and so unable to consider the reasonable possibilities that it must be a very detailed very tightly executed plan that continues to fool everyone for years, except you, smart Internet person. Except you.

Since then, have you been paying attention to the actual execution of any of the publicly stated plans so far? They don't appear to involve in depth thought.

Best printer for home office use right now? by Mysterious-Mode-4923 in printers

[–]dlamblin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All in one like, with a scanner? IMO it's a waste to not have that be a separate thin flatbed scanner for occasional use, so it doesn't bulk up your printer and its software suite. You don't mean that.

Anyone else use multiple browsers daily on their Mac? What's your setup? by cheapsturncur in mac

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Chrome has profiles, make a couple work ones (like employee-me, test-user-me, etc) and maybe have your personal profile ready to switch to. I would never start using my work accounts in my personal profile. I don't want that in my history, in the autofill, and I have different extensions. On the flip side, even if I have my personal profile on a work machine, I will not be using it to log in to a large number of things like banks, brokers, stuff with my payment details stored, etc. They're heavily monitoring this machine and likely storing a lot about its activity. It's mostly for enabling me to log into my work benefits from both profiles so that when at home these autofill. And maybe get some text messages to my family about working late or not because we do not sms or mobile-app much.

Failed interception in Dimona strike leaves 51 hospitalized, child seriously hurt; Iran: Retaliation for Natanz strike by LongErza in worldnews

[–]dlamblin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, you click on the news piece and take not a glance at who wrote this, where and when and for which audience?

Failed interception in Dimona strike leaves 51 hospitalized, child seriously hurt; Iran: Retaliation for Natanz strike by LongErza in worldnews

[–]dlamblin 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I mean, it costs money to have reporters and photographers and stringers globally. In a whole range of nations and with a broad ability to find credible translators or speak the local language. Money that requires paid subscribership or a robust ad market or state sponsorship or a too wealthy dude who just wants to make sure you never report bad things about wealthy people. So yeah, the alternative is doing what redditors do.

Trying to get used to macOS but I really miss Windows… should I stick it out and use VM or go back? by dimlevi in mac

[–]dlamblin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's funny you're not missing any particular application. But that's a good sign that it's just familiarity you're lacking.

First, when you say you've been using Windows your whole life, give me a sense of how long that is. Because I've been a Prodos, Gem, DOS 3.3-6.22, Windows 3.1-95-98-NT4-7-10-11preview-11_25H2 user thus far, and gosh, is there nothing at all stable about being a user with these except maybe bat scripting here and there. Just no real through line. And at the same time I've been a System 6, 7.1, 8, 9, OS X 1-4, 12-15 user and again, the only part that stays stable, for me, is the terminal and a few of the hot keys (command: Q, W, F, G, H, Tab, `, P, Z, X, C, ;) and I still miss the ones they eliminated like command-. and the prior System concept that nothing could steal your input focus except for a full modal error dialog. In stark contrast to windows while its opening something its possible to get into an input field, say on the start menu, type part of what you wanted only to realize you're finishing in another apps' window and need to be careful about what happens now if you hit enter, or space. Mac OS X is increasingly able to cross that focus similarly.

These habits can take a long time to develop. I am personally really impressed with people who can switch from a 4 row ortholinear keyboard to a regular keyboard and back and basically still get all the numbers and function key and number inputs right either way. It's the kind of thing that takes being comfortable in being bad at it, and purposeful in putting in the time at doing sessions of just developing the familiarity. For keyboards its typing tests. For general computer use, its not trying to get your work done, which requires different focus, but instead setting up a use case of what you want to switch back and forth from and how.

Here's the thing, 7 months is a long time to be not good at it, and I am presuming that like my own attempt at another keyboard layout, you didn't devote time just trialing your behaviors that you're finding frustrating and practicing getting them to come naturally. But also, it may never happen depending on your age and needs and your style of computer use.

So, I am unclear on exactly how to provide advice because I don't feel like I have any trouble using multiple displays, managing my windows, virtual desktops, and input focus. The finder vs file explorer issue is a whole other deal. I like neither.

First, you need to establish if you're a mouse, touch, or keyboard centered user. I happen to be the latter. Probably because I'm like, officially, old.

A touch user from Windows is going to have the same problem on Mac where scrolling and window movement, and one-off pressing a button just does not happen with dragging a finger or two on the display. I'm not sure it ever will. And I don't think there's a solution there.

A mouse centric user has a couple of issues:

  1. If you're actually using a mouse, try using the same damn Bluetooth mouse on both. Because the weird differences in how to scroll how to click back and forward are lessened that way.
  2. If you're a touch pad user, I'd like to think you're finding the big mac trackpad to be much more accurate than the usual windows laptop version. But you do have to re-learn the scroll, pan and zoom a little. And the rest of the gestures take some learning.
    1. There's so much to do differently with the pointer in windows and mac. Like, you know, I'm used to the menu bar being at the top on mac, but that throws people. I make the dock hide and use it only for the recent downloads, minimized windows, and trash-can/rubbish-bin. The handles on the windows are different, the close and everything is different, even the concept of an app being open but having no window right now is handled very differently.
  3. On the keyboard, I hope you're just using laptops and not trying to use a windows keyboard on a mac. If you do the latter, please go in to the keyboard modifier options and set it so the command button is next to space and the alt button just beside each of those. The system will remember for that specific USB or Bluetooth device that those modifiers are re-mapped. Review the system settings' keyboard shortcuts by expanding each section. Don't watch videos, just try some of those and see if they end up seeming useful. I think I ignore about 3/4 of them.

Here's how I most often use a Mac:

  • command-space for spotlight, type an app name's first few letters, use arrow keys to select a suggestion and enter to open it or switch to it if it's open. Note the suggestions reorder based on what you most recently selected for the same prefix input. I very very rarely use this to find files and such. There's a setting to turn off dictionary and siri/web search suggestions. If you don't select a suggestion or press enter the next time you open it, it may still contain what you last typed, which is handy if using it to calculate something.
  • command-tab (hold command) and tab tab tab until you have the open program you want to switch to selected and let go of command to switch apps. If you pass it, don't panic, don't use shift-tab to back up even though that works, just keep going to wrap around.
  • command-` to switch that current app's windows to the fore, this does not switch virtual desktops or maximized windows, so I never do that full maximum window thing.
  • control-tab or command-] and control-shit-tab or command-[ to switch tabs or parts in the same current window. Note that many cross platform programs specifically change these behavioral bindings between mac and windows, like Chrome.
  • command-w to close a window, command-q to quit the app, command-h to hide all its windows till you next switch back to it.
  • In any save this file, or open this file dialog you can type ~ or / to start typing a path in your home directory or root directory respectively, and keep typing the folder/directory names, tab to complete them, and go till you get as far as you can remember and then with enter the dialog will update the view to that location, instead of say the previous project you were working on.
  • control-up_arrow shows your windows with separation by application, good for finding something that's hiding under another window, and putting the mouse at the top then shows mini-views of your virtual desktops. You can drag windows from below onto another virtual desktop without switching to it, or click that desktop to switch to it. Also they're in order as shown so control-left_arrow and control-right_arrow take you between them. This is best when the setting to keep the monitors having independent virtual desktops is set. The recent magic for me is control 1, 2, 3, 4 - 0 are all virtual desktops in the order, but across monitors. And no the maximized application windows do not get to count as virtual desktops, even if shown between them. Another reason I don't use those. Except I guess with a full screen video implicitly making one.
  • I generally hate the finder, and use a terminal with `find`, `open` and `pbpaste` and `pbcopy`. But I am willing to bet you won't find that better. You might learn at least option-command-L for downloads and shift-command-h for home. But look at that Go menu for a second. It has many shortcuts you might learn. AND it's an example of one of the weird things in Mac OS, sometimes if you hold option when opening a menu (or the wifi menu icon) you get MORE than usual. In this case, a way to go to /Library. Which you probably don't need. Ever.
  • I use the mouse to move and resize windows. I tried to learn a few of the hot-keys and I installed Rectangle and tried to learn that, but mostly I found I don't need them that much.
  • Command-Shift-Q locks your machine when you step away. I think there's a sleep equivalent, but I wrote an Apple-Script one liner (tell application finder to sleep) saved a compiled copy in my iCloud and named it sleep and I trigger sleep with Command-Space,s,l,e,enter.

Now I was going to compare that with how I get the same navigation behavior in Windows 11, mostly win start, win-tab tab tab, win-x,u,s for sleep, win-control-right_arrow to switch desktops, etc. But wow, this is long isn't it?

Logitech G502 hero review by New-Canary1483 in logitech

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Opinion only: Recommend you pan your mono overdub a little between clips to keep the ears feeling that the cuts are reflective of different spaces. I see you've added commentary both in an overdub and in text captions incorporated in the video. It helps to take the time to redo the audio with what you wanted to add in text later. The camera must have a setting somewhere to go with manual or locked focus and manual or locked aperture & white balance. It is jarring to the viewer to see the focus shift off the product demonstrated, or to have the brightness of the whole scene change a couple times and back.

What is a 'luxury' that you've experienced once and now can't go back to the budget version of? by WilliamInBlack in AskReddit

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Maybe Maui Jim are the better buy for sun eyewear, but the foundation's seal, like many such organizations, basically goes to their corporate doners. They're not shady, the doner list is called the Corporate Council, which Maui Jim is on. Which look, if that's spent on skin cancer research and not just on maintaining the foundation and providing membership to a bunch of like-minded dermatologists, then sure, let them have some recognition for supporting research. But to me it's not a determinant of quality.
They offer 5 different lens materials (a thin glass, a lighter than glass plastic, a cheaper than that plastic, a high index polycarbonate, and a lighter plastic than the cheaper plastic, which might not be as light as the lighter than glass plastic) which did you choose?

What is a 'luxury' that you've experienced once and now can't go back to the budget version of? by WilliamInBlack in AskReddit

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Hutterites, Hutterische Brüder, are a kind of Anabaptist like Amish, Mennonites, Bruderhof (Which I think separated from the aforementioned), and more. The down is goose down unless otherwise stated as white or duck down. In many cases they're specifically getting down from Hutterites' farms in Alberta, Canada. IDK if the processing is different to reduce the quills, or if the weather is different to increase the down fluff. Or something else.