Sorry for the title gore. But it's the only way to let people know that all four of these laptops are identical. These laptops come with an HDMI port and a Mini DisplayPort. Here's how to get both working simultaneously so you can have three screens. Enter the Dragon BIOS Restart your laptop. Press the F2 key when the manufacturer logo displays. You're now in the BIOS. The screens may look different from mine. Enter the Setup Utility Select Advanced In "Advanced Chipset Control" go to…
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Back in 2014, I released a year's worth of solar generation data. I was enormously proud to recently discover that the data were cited in a couple of academic papers: Colantuono, Giuseppe & Kor, Ah-Lian & Pattinson, Colin & Gorse, Christopher PV with multiple storage as function of geolocation (2018) page: 217-232. Elsevier BV. Solar Energy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2018.03.020 Shukhobodskiy, Alexander Alexandrovich & Colantuono, Giuseppe RED WoLF: Combining a battery and thermal…
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Philosophy of Race: An Introduction provides plainly written access to a new subfield that has been in the background of philosophy since Plato and Aristotle. Part I provides an overview of ideas of race and ethnicity in the philosophical canon, egalitarian traditions, race in biology, and race in American and Continental Philosophy. Part II addresses race as it operates in life through colonialism and development, social constructions and institutions, racism, political philosophy, and…
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As part of my quest to become an internationally renounced fashion vlogger (shut up! It could happen!) I've been sent a ring light to review. If you've ever wondered why all your favourite YouChubers are so well lit - this style of light is the reason why. They provide a constant, shadow-free, evenly spread light. So, what's this £40 light like? This is made by Jiangxi based OldShark. Perhaps the most important thing with these sort of lights is to get it at exactly face level. This has a …
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Given a social media user's username, how do you get a picture of their avatar? I always used avatars.io - but sadly that service has bitten the dust. So I've switched to unavatar. It's dead easy to use. https://unavatar.now.sh/twitter/edent will return @edent's avatar. You can use GitHub, Facebook, Gravatar, Instagram, Telegram, YouTube, SoundCloud, and a couple of other providers. Simple to use, and easy to embed in an <img> element. It's also open source and looks pretty easy to deploy …
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I'm playing through the itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality. You can follow along with all my game reviews. I've never played a dating simulator before. I'd heard of them, and their weird parodies like Hatoful Boyfriend, but this is my first time playing one. And, I'm delighted to say, Arcade Spirits is delightful. The game looks gorgeous, the voice acting is top notch, and the sound design is just perfect. It's also really, really funny. I don't think I've laughed like this at a…
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We're exactly halfway through 2020. Fuck. It feels like I've spent two-thousand-and-twenty days living through the year 2020. I know how lucky I am to be employed and to be shacked up with a loving spouse. I'm festooned with privilege, but it's emotionally tough. Liz and I have spent the best part of four months without leaving our home. We have a small garden, and enough exercise equipment at home to stave off utter madness. I always wondered how I'd cope on a mission to Mars. Turns out,…
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