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When labeling cables with an asset id, one normally wants to label both ends, each with a wraparound label that's the same on both sides.  So the asset id appears 4 times in total: 2 on each wraparound. The Brother pt7600 can do this with a combination of Number and Copies.  Their current equivalents, such as the PT-E550WSP, can not do this. It's best to just print them in a long strip without any cutting.  Then, at the time of applying, use scissors to cut off the two adjacent pairs of ids to make the two wraparound labels.  * prepare labeller: insert 9mm black on white tape, power on, ensure barcode PROTOCOL is set to CODE128  * press Code then Z to enter settings, and select CUT 2 using up and down, and hit return  * clear text with code, backspace, enter  * press "Bar Code" (confirm again it says CODE128)  * enter first id in sequence, for example "wibble1234", press return  * press Code -> Label Type  * it says Copies 1.  Pr...

I ordered a Thinkpad X12 Detachable gen 2 with mobile data.  It comes with Windows.  My plan was to confirm operation of the mobile data with Windows, and then get it working with linux. I went through the long Windows setup process.  I got to a point where I had a desktop session.  Various Lenovo shitwares were still popping up.   In the bottom-right were a panoply of little boxes giving conflicting advice on whether restarts were required or forbidden.  The consensus seemed to be that restarts were required.  But a box apparently related to mobile data, the feature of interest, disagreed. Eventually I did reboot it, and Windows spent around half an hour doing "updates".  How do product managers think this is acceptable? When it came back I inserted a (nano) SIM via the side tray.  Windows detected it, and put up an encouraging message saying it was setting it up.  This had a progress bar which increased slowly.  At the end, n...

Blogger (authoring) and Blogspot (distributing) between them can’t offer up prev / next links on articles. If someone makes something better than Trello, they presumably get more than a billion. If someone makes something better than substack / blogger, they presumably get half a beelion. Why is no one doing this?

Listened to a Tucker Carlson interview with a gold expert [1] .  It's the usual derping around why is valuable, "instrinsic" use, whatever.  The remarkable thing is, they don't mention, at all, the scarcity of it.  As far as Carlson's concerned, it's completely arbitrary, might as well be anything (from memory, Harari makes similar mistake, "could just as well still be sea shells". No, you can farm sea shells).  They do talk about cost of mining gold, which is related, but not about just how scarce it is.  To a first approximation, it is a fixed quantity, increasing perhaps by 1% a year, and yes that is a function of price, but that's roughly it. [1] < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxWZO0FEQ1g > Then looked at this reading [2] recommended by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America for the third Friday of Lent.  Isaiah 13:12 starts " I will make men more rare than fine gold [..]".  This is apparently a reference to the scarci...

 Recaptcha on a logged-in account (to create an additional publication).  Mega-fail, Substack:

I tried to create under-paragraph notes showing URLs, rather than relying on it being rendered as hypertext. Couldn't make the text small. I wondered about doing it as a footnote instead. Couldn't find anything about footnotes. Substack's document model is limited. Maybe that's a strength.  Seems too limited to me.