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  • ChromeOS Flex on Dell XPS 9310 2N1

    Issues Display doesn’t auto-rotate b/c isAutoRotationAllowed: false which might be because hasAccelerometerSupport: false Occasional soft freezes, where the UI becomes unresponsive until what appears to be a watchdog restarts the display server.

  • Star Slinger – Choose Yourself

    If you can’t walk away from a negotiationThen you’re not negotiatingYou’re just working out the terms of your slavery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADobcQEhrzQ

  • USB Apple SuperDrive with Linux

    Had access to one of these, but couldn’t get it to accept a DVD when plugged into my Ubuntu laptop. Turns out…the drive needs to be “told” to wake up before it will accept a disc: # Debian/Ubuntu/etc – Linux SCSI generic driver sudo apt install sg3-utils -y # tell the external DVD player/burner to…

  • Today in WTF-UX

    “Read on” Just kidding.

  • How is it?

    2020 and I only just now listened to http://pjharvey.net/music/stories-from-the-city-stories-from-the-sea/ in full.

  • Make it work

    I <3 the simple “legend” used here to indicate which bands are supporting each date on this tour. There’s a minor coding mistake- do you see it?-, but the technique is simple and it works so well.

  • Context matters

  • Tods Law

    Each thing you do spawns new things to be done. my Theorem of doing stuff

  • Several People Are Typing

    Dad, what was work like before Slack? Formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. Dad! Stop it. Seriously what was it like? Less hurried. More thoughtful. That sounds nice. Can we go back to that? No. We only go forward.

  • How I use ChromeOS’s linux containers

    When you enable “Linux” on ChromeOS, a default Virtual Machine is created (and a default linux container). VM’s are the layer above containers- each VM can house multiple containers. The default VM is named “termina” and once it exists, you can interact with it from crosh (The Chromium OS Shell) using the vmc command. The…