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by d2wa 5y ago
I've also had no luck getting Google to delete an unused Developer Account. They suggest I stop using my Google account and create a new one; abandoning all services in the process.
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by d2wa 5y ago
Tox and Jami depends on DHT bootstrapping nodes. That’s easily overcome by storing long-lived peers between sessions. https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/cache-p2p-connections.html Very few clients has implemented this, unfort
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by d2wa 5y ago
> What's wrong with full-screen applications in multiple virtual desktops like macOS? Sometimes you need to look at two–three windows at a time. Maybe four (a terminal) that can live sort of to the side of the main two–three windows
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by d2wa 5y ago
It’s not unlike what Android and iOS does in their app switchers. This just gets rid of the app switcher.
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by d2wa 5y ago
That’s the actual experience. There’s open bugs about it in Cardboard.
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by d2wa 5y ago
This is a getting started/101 introduction; it also talks about and recommends systemd-analyze security. There’s a link to part two at the bottom of the article that goes deeper into things.
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by d2wa 5y ago
The Register asked the US Justice Department to comment on this. https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/11/latest_windows_11_bui...
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by d2wa 5y ago
You can rename EdgeDeflector.exe to msedge.exe and it works as-is. However, it will cause other problems with your system. The Edge background update system will also reverse the change within a day or so.
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by d2wa 5y ago
It’s not Edge that makes the decision on what program to use. It’s the Windows shell itself. I’m not aware of any third-party alternatives to OpenWith.exe.
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by d2wa 5y ago
You can do that. But programs like EdgeDeflector can’t be distributed doing changes like that. Every antivirus vendor including Microsoft SmartScreen will rightly block it for doing destructive changes.
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by d2wa 5y ago
> Get more tracking data via Edge? This is probably it.
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by d2wa 5y ago
Side effects like addiction and _feeling suicidal_ makes doctors quite conservative.
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by d2wa 5y ago
The author is a type 1.
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by d2wa 5y ago
That’s what the article argues for.
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by d2wa 5y ago
Disk caching is still a thing. Kids watch the same videos on repeat for hours on end, so maybe almost-indiscriminately caching the entirety of the last watched video would be a good idea.
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by d2wa 5y ago
> What about addressing the problem from the HTTP-side of things: have a simple video tag (just defining the viewport and an endpoint) and a host response providing options, which may be selected by the browser situationally? HTTP Client
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by d2wa 5y ago
Most video editing software does provide nice presets you can use. Then there’s always the FFMPEG wiki.
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by d2wa 5y ago
> I want audio sources to support media queries, so that you can present dark and ominous music in dark mode and light and bouncy music in light mode You’ll love what they’ve done in Windows 11.
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by d2wa 5y ago
> The <video> element does have some usages which are underutilized, though: short, perhaps looping video, which can be used instead of animated GIFs. But then you still want to serve a small video file (320px wide) for mobile and
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by d2wa 5y ago
Not true. Few people — if anyone — wants their entire mobile data plan consumed by a single 4K video. Especially if it’s just a short clip.
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by d2wa 5y ago
> I came up with a technique that makes this work a while back. It may work, but … ugh. This is a spec issue.
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by d2wa 5y ago
551.87 KB https://vjs.zencdn.net/7.15.4/video.min.js plus 56.14 KB https://vjs.zencdn.net/7.15.4/video-js.css
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by d2wa 5y ago
It’s not just small websites, though. Government information websites use YouTube too. Even activist websites criticizing the tech monopolies host with YouTube embeds. Even the distributed web/P2P platform IPFS hosts videos on YouTube
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by d2wa 5y ago
Twitch is free and quite popular. Everyone hangs out on Daily Motion, Vimeo, Cinnamon, D.Tube, and PeerTube all the time. Right?
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by d2wa 5y ago
It wasn’t really relevant in this context. It’s similar to what the browsers do by default, however.
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by d2wa 5y ago
> Does the server get the viewport size as part of the request? It can, yes. The response header `Accept-CH: Viewport-Width` suggest to the client that future request should transmit a `Viewport-Width: 320` header. Chrome only as the oth
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by d2wa 5y ago
> First, different browsers break text at different points. If the screen resolution and scaling is the same, and the operating system is the same, then you should get very consistent results across operating systems. They use the same a
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by d2wa 5y ago
Adobe has made a proposal for a new CSS attribute, but no browser has implemented it. This is discussed in the article.
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by d2wa 5y ago
News and Interest (taskbar thingy in recent Win10), Widgets (samw thing in Win 11), the Settings app, help links scattered around the OS, Your Phone app, links sent from Android to your PC (Microsoft Phone Companion and Samsung Windows inte
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by d2wa 5y ago
If I remember correctly, then your specific issue was supposedly fixed in one of the recent Insider builds. Windows Search is heavily cloud-dependent, and yes it’s performance suffers under poor network conditions.

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