zwayhowder (u/zwayhowder)

zwayhowder commented on Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google mozillapetition.com/... · Posted by u/notpushkin

bdangubic · 6 months ago

just curious - why not use browser profiles available in Chrome/Brave…?

zwayhowder · 6 months ago

It's not even on the same level. Container tabs as the name implies are all in the same window, and you can program them, for example always open up google.com domains in my Google container, while opening amazon.com in my shopping container.

This keeps the cookies separate and means you are tracked less. Yes you can manually do this with Chrome profiles, but before this feature was introduced into Firefox I had a dozen or more Chrome profiles to keep all my work, community and personal Google/Microsoft logins separate.

zwayhowder commented on Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life johnnydecimal.com... · Posted by u/debone

Beestie · 6 months ago

Its a beautiful system but where my head explodes (and has been exploding for 4 decades) is over the following scenario.

So in Johnny's system, I assign 21 to automobiles. My VW van gets 21.1, my Citron is 21.2, etc. and the insurance for each car gets a .8 so 21.1.8, 21.2.8, etc.

And I assign 13 to Money. Insurance belongs under money so 13.5 is insurance and life insurance gets 13.5.1, E&O insurance gets 13.5.2, etc.

I also need a top folder for Medical for doc visits, vaxes, ER visits, Surgeries, the kids' allergies and stuff.

So where all this is going is two months later, where is the health insurance policy? Is it under medical or under money? Is the car insurance under Automobiles or Insurance under Money?

Back to my head exploding - this is my issue - I can never remember which branch of the tree to find a specific leaf? Does my annual car tax belong with the Money or with the Auto branch? If I want to see the tax for all the cars at the same time, I put it under Money - Taxes - Auto but when I need to know the last time I paid the tax on the VW, I will assume its filed under Auto-VW-Car Tax.

This is why I can never find anything. All due respect to Johnny but I'm too retarded to use it properly.

zwayhowder · 6 months ago

I have been toying with the idea of introducing something like JD to my system using tags though so something can be both.

I use Paperless to catalog all my PDFs, Obsidian for notes and Gmail for email, Todoist for tasks and Cloze for CRM, all of which support tags.

zwayhowder commented on Thoughts on Daylight Computer jon.bo/posts/daylight-com... · Posted by u/3r7j6qzi9jvnve

tombert · 6 months ago

I did not realize that. I don't think I want that then.

Maybe I should try out the remarkable.

zwayhowder · 6 months ago

I use a Boox Note 2 almost daily for reading and regularly with a bluetooth keyboard for writing. It has a stylus, and the OCR is good enough for even my terrible handwriting (I should have been a doctor apparently) and I use that to scribble in the margin of PDFs etc.

My setup uses Autosync [1] to synchronise a folder from my desktop to the device. On my desktop I have Zotero (a Citation library) and Calibre both configured to export to that folder (in subfolders). With two way sync my notes are back on my PC almost instantly which is fantastic.

I also run Readwise and Obsidian on the Boox.

1: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ttxapps.au...

zwayhowder commented on Ask HN: Tingling in my wrist. Carpal tunnel? What did you do that helped? · Posted by u/lemonberry

zwayhowder · 7 months ago

I switched to vertical typing. It was a challenge at first, but now I can type almost as well vertically as I can on a normal horizontal keyboard with significantly less pain in my arms and shoulders.

I already owned a Moonlander keyboard with the tripod mounts, so a little playing around with Small Rig mount and I have my vertical keyboard, affectionately known as the Type Fighter.

To get to vertical I started with desk mounts that I could adjust and progressively increased the angle of the tilt. Eventually I joined the two halves with a 300mm straight rod. But I don't have the photos of that handy.

Also in the picture, my left handed trackball (Elecom) and my Logitech MX Vertical. I alternate the mousing hand regularly. (Trackball for big movements, mouse for fine detail and gaming).

https://imgur.com/a/TdV502g

zwayhowder commented on Things to know about the Great Wave artic.edu/articles/1139/1... · Posted by u/msephton

teo_zero · a year ago

> If not the most famous artwork in the world

Wait, what?? Am I the only one who thinks this sentence is off by an order of magnitude? I'd bet that the Great Wave is not even one of the 10 most famous. Unfortunately I have no evidence to support my statement...

zwayhowder · a year ago

One thing that I fully internalised only recently - despite learning Asian languages for literally decades. The things western people take for granted as ubiquitous in our culture are often unknown to Asian cultures.

As an example recently talking to a Japanese friend who is the same age as me we realised she had seen less than 10% of the movies that "everyone born in the early 80's has seen". She didn't know who OJ Simpson was, nor is she familiar with Henry VIII and his 6 wives. She knew the Backstreet Boys & One Direction, but not Take That nor East 17.

Traveling in China a few years ago I was surprised to see many Hokusai images used on clothing and shop decorations.

The Mona Lisa might be the western world's most famous artwork, but you rarely see it on a T-shirt unless you're meeting a tourist near the Louvre. I suspect that if both were in still trademarked that Hokusai would be making orders of magnitude more on royalties than Da Vinci...

zwayhowder commented on Underscores are stupid? Get a Japanese keyboard (2012) daveperrett.com/articles/... · Posted by u/lelf

zwayhowder · a year ago

I briefly flirted with a Japanese keyboard just to get the extra keys that they have (next to the space bar which is much smaller) I then remapped those keys to other more useful commands.

I then discovered VIA/QMK keyboards and now I have keycaps I can't even see on my vertically mounted split-key keyboard and more programmability than I know what to do with. But in 2012, a Japanese Keyboard was much cheaper than a Kinesis and to me the only option.

zwayhowder commented on The Star Destroyer and Imperial Military Doctrine acoup.blog/2024/05/10/fir... · Posted by u/throwup238

robertclaus · a year ago

Maybe just my nostalgia for old star wars lore, but I found this to be a surprisingly pleasant read. It felt like a conversation with old friends at 3 in the morning.

zwayhowder · a year ago

I grew up playing 1/72nd tabletop wargames with my dad and his friends - Napoleonic to WW2 usually. Often with Star Wars/Trek or Babylon 5 on the TV.

This was our 3am conversations.

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zwayhowder · a year ago

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zwayhowder commented on Home insurers are dropping customers based on aerial images wsj.com/real-estate/home-... · Posted by u/traviswingo

londons_explore · a year ago

> If your roof is 20 years old and one hailstorm is going to take it off,

It amazes me that people in the US would even consider installing a roof that would only last 20 years.

In the UK, you wouldn't consider reroofing anything that your grandparents remember being installed. Ie. Stuff doesn't get reroofed till it's 100 years old. Even then, you'll normally inspect and only replace the damaged bits.

My 350 year old house still has part of its original roof and slate tiles etc.

zwayhowder · a year ago

My house is about 100 years old and still has the original concrete tile roof, with a stack of spare tiles under the house ready if needed.

An extension that was done in the 1980s has had to have its roof replaced once already due to what I have to assume was poor workmanship by the builder.

zwayhowder commented on Tiny Undervalued Hardware Companions vermaden.wordpress.com/20... · Posted by u/stacktrust

readingnews · a year ago

Of all the things on the list, the third item

    RJ45 Join Adapters

Is one that has saved me (and others I work for) so many times. How many times have I been in some building/area without my network tool bag with two male RJ45s looking at one another and I am going, "hrmm I have to connect these".

I _literally_ just used one this morning... cable too short, no network bag in sight, but my laptop bag always has an RJ45 join adapter (not sure if that is the real name).

zwayhowder · a year ago

I used to work backstage at concerts assisting my dad who was a sound engineer. We had my favourite cable of all time, a 30cm extension cord that was affectionately known as the "you've got to be #&$@ing me" cord. You'd run a 40m extension cord up and around the stage and get to the light you needed to plug in and you'd always be just short.

When I went into IT I quickly made myself some 30cm long Ethernet cables with a keystone on one end for just such an occasion.