ReallyOldLurker

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by ReallyOldLurker 4mo ago
"My experience getting older relatives to use Mint has not gone well. The most common is their reliance on Microsoft Office" I was asked by an older friend to put Linx on their computer because they were too frusterated with MS Wi
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by ReallyOldLurker 8mo ago
For now, you can get a copy at https://archive.org/details/CIA-World-Factbook-collection
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by ReallyOldLurker 9mo ago
My scrollbar changes in Debian: 1. as root, edit /etc/environment and add: GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0 2. in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css add: .scrollbar.vertical slider, scrollbar.vertical slider {min-width: 10px;}
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by ReallyOldLurker 9mo ago
Here is a reference regarding window borders: https://mxlinux.org/wiki/xfce/changing-border-size-with-xfce...
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by ReallyOldLurker 9mo ago
> Only one thing I wish I could set, allow windows to cover the 'bar'. Yes, I can make the bar auto-hide, but I cannot have a portion of it covered by a window. If I understand your comment correctly, right click on the Panel -
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by ReallyOldLurker 10mo ago
OK, here you go: US Dept of Homeland Defence: https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-cybe... US Congressman Ron Wyden to FTC: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/09/sen
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by ReallyOldLurker 2y ago
"I always assumed emails are case sensitive" Wikipedia has a good summary on what is valid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address From the second paragraph: Although the standard requires the local-part
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by ReallyOldLurker 2y ago
I was allowed to go down two short tunnels, one led to part of the underground drainage (the end of it was blocked so I didn't get to look at the drainage itself). Overall it seems the same. From the top of the pyramids in the back, we
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by ReallyOldLurker 2y ago
Wow! That sure brings back memories. I've been there twice, 2011 & 2012. Congratulations. I'm very impressed.
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by ReallyOldLurker 3y ago
RE: The only states in the US where that is the case are Wyoming and Montana That is absolutely incorrect. In Oregon, from the town that I live in, it is at least 45 minutes to the next one, regardless of the type of car or the road travele
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by ReallyOldLurker 3y ago
I'm not surprised at the rise in homeschooling. When you have anti-education groups like the Oregon Department of Education [1] running the public school system, any parent that cares and can make the effort should remove their child f
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by ReallyOldLurker 3y ago
Agreed. I prefer proper packaging and a clean system. I remove any flatpak services that get installed. So far there is a total of two AppImages that I've ever needed to use and those ran inside a firejail sandbox.
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by ReallyOldLurker 3y ago
No, the reason (in my case) was because the public schools prioritize social agendas over academic quality. My kids can do advanced math. My neighbor's kids estimate or guess. I hope the public schools in my area get de-funded. They ar
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by ReallyOldLurker 3y ago
I use the nearly the same. - Zim-Wiki for items or procedures that I refer to or repeat often. Zim-Wiki is mostly plain text and transportable, but handles embedding small screenshots. I keep another Zim-Wiki notebook for small projects or
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by ReallyOldLurker 3y ago
I suggest using the ESR version rather than the rapid release version: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-e... I suggest learning about policies to manage the above mentioned annoyance
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by ReallyOldLurker 3y ago
You think it is good to "throw Taiwan under the bus" all for the sake of some organization being able to monitor a disease? Sad. Following your logic, would it would be OK to "throw Canada under the bus" if it allowed so
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by ReallyOldLurker 4y ago
Awesome - I went to Project Gutenberg, picked a title that I was curious about but for which the Bibliographic Record does not have a description. Gave the Kagi Summarizer the URL to the HTML version of the book and got a good description.
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by ReallyOldLurker 4y ago
Just started reading the article, it looks nice! In this sentence: It’s a 7 bits codes, allowing to send bigger messages than with the Baudot (or the Murray) code, even including the luxe of lowercase and uppercase letters. I think "lu
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by ReallyOldLurker 4y ago
The Dalles, Oregon is a real city.
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by ReallyOldLurker 4y ago
>> ... multiple devices, that alone... A big assumption. POP3 works perfectly fine and is preferable in my situation.
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by ReallyOldLurker 4y ago
> Where does one find other parents who are homeschooling their children? I suggest starting with your state resources (assuming you are in the USA). Here are a couple for Oregon: - http://www.ohen.org/ - https:/&#
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by ReallyOldLurker 4y ago
>> `network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy` to 1 in Firefox Thanks! Just checked and it is at zero for the default. Reviewed https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Referrer and learned something new.
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by ReallyOldLurker 5y ago
The advantage of a computer and flexible web page designs are to make search results easy to view and understand. In the 2'x4' piece of birch plywood example above, I saw a mix of results and only items 2 & 3 on the first row
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by ReallyOldLurker 5y ago
Others commenting about sanctions are correct. Chase did what was expected. Your experience was your fault. Hopefully your account isn't frozen (happened once to a friend where they accidentally doodled a sanctioned country's name
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by ReallyOldLurker 5y ago
Keep both. Don't hook them up. Tear them apart and see what DYI project arises or parts can be used for your other projects. There is no obligation to Google or Amazon to use them the way they want you to.
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by ReallyOldLurker 5y ago
> not all who are vaccinated think that the vaccination policies are sensible, and criticizing vaccination policy is not the same as being anti-vaxxer Agreed. I am vaccinated, but I think that most of the Federal and Oregon state policy
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by ReallyOldLurker 5y ago
I've been using Zim Wiki since late 2016. I like that all of the pages are physically text files and are fairly readable without the Zim software. That's been handy a couple of times where I threw them onto a thumb drive while on
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by ReallyOldLurker 5y ago
What is your take on cfengine? Just curious...
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by ReallyOldLurker 5y ago
Personal anecdote: my brother was robbed in Mexico of everything including shoes. He went to the embassy for assistance. He was give some McDonalds coupons and told to use them when he got across the border. He even asked them to check agai
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by ReallyOldLurker 6y ago
Instead of proceeding with blinders on, like many other aspects of systemd, please don't ignore your out of focus items. Sure, don't implement for them, but do some investigative plan for dealing with them eventually if should be

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