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Priorities!

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I feel like this is legitimately more true than a lot of people think. Say what you want about the average end user, but UX is a HUGE driver with regard to adoption and user uptake. You can have the best of everything else in your application, but if the UX sucks, folks just aren't going to use it

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I need to buy laptop

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Be careful with the Intel laptop chips and make sure you understand what you're getting. My work laptop has an i7 with 12 "cores" but it's 10 of the low powered e-cores and 2 of the hyperthreaded p- cores, so for heavy applications (like compiling) it's a glorified dual core i3.

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Should I put my samples on a separate physical drive?

From a basic tech perspective, yes. Offloading working data from the primary drive frees up capacity elsewhere in the system. From a more practical standpoint, it depends on the speed of the new drive, how the pcie lanes are divided on the chip set (a wifi slot might share bandwidth with the primary disk) and a whole host of other minor items (power draw, thermals, etc) that might aggregate into you not noticing any difference at all. That said, it's generally a good idea to keep working files not only backed up, but on different physical media so that having to format your OS drive because of some wacky error doesn't cost you what you've been working on. It's far easier to swap a nvme drive to a different laptop than it is to try recovering the data if your disk controller fails

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Is anyone else enjoying the slower pace of content?

I feel like the Fedverse has the same problem that IRC has. There's (by design) no easy way to discover communities outside of your instance. You can search, and to an extent get relevant results, but there's no cross-instance (and cross- service) /r/all equivalent to help new users find communities they're interested in. Seems like if that piece could be figured out, the entire thing would be in a better place. You might end up with the endless scrolling issue again, but with enough visibly into communities, you might just be able to keep focused only on the ones you're truly interested in

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What to use as DHCP server?

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OP already said that their current DHCP solution (the router) can't push multiple DNS servers. Having a good secondary can be really helpful for things like power blips, maintenance windows, and cats pulling power cables. There are a few solutions that also do ad blocking that can make good secondaries

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what's your experience with paperless?

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Sounds like maybe you ran it as a container and didn't mount the document archive externally then updated the container. That would have likely blown away the actual ingested documents but left the Metadata (including the OCR data) where it was, assuming the database was either its own container or mounted externally

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Unhopped ale

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This is an amazing bit of advice that every home brewer needs to understand. IBU only tells part of the story, and you have to understand that there are other factors that go into perceived bitterness. Many of your darker beers have higher IBU values, but the non-fermentable sugar and the other roast flavors counter the hop bitterness. Adjuncts like lactose can also smooth out some of the sharper hop notes (again, non-fermentable sugars). I found a guide that shows ibu ranges for a bunch of styles and you can see that a lot of heavier beers are rather high in IBU even though you'd never call the style "bitter" or "hoppy"