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by efreak 10mo ago
Isn't that what the web archive is for?
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by efreak 10mo ago
Email newsletters are easy until you want to self-host and between Gmail, live, etc only 2/3 of providers will receive your messages at all and this one guy uses a corporate email address for everything for some reason and their anti
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by efreak 10mo ago
My monitor works fine with HDMI It worked fine with VGA and DVI as well (it has all four, but my current PC doesn't have DVI or VGA outputs). It works fine with Displayport...until I turn it off, and then it won't go back on. I co
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by efreak 10mo ago
So the US government can't punish you for speaking, and they can't punish someone else for speaking on your behalf. They can, however, punish you for speaking in exchange for money, speaking words you don't believe (advertisi
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by efreak 11mo ago
Read the notes on the repository itself: > Basic Information on the Contents of This Repository > > It is mostly important to note that there is currently no known way to compile the source code in this repository into a final &qu
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by efreak 11mo ago
I tried to read this page, but it keeps refreshing itself and resetting the scroll position to the very top. Since I'm on mobile, I can't do anything about this easily and it's worse because it takes longer to figure out wher
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by efreak 11mo ago
There's other issues as well: occasionally a service will not allow using their service name in your email address. My usual response to this is to misspell it and use an address cursing them instead. (Since these accounts are usually
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by efreak 11mo ago
There's no solution to a non-problem. Precisely 3 of the hundreds of the generated email addresses I've given out over the past ~12 years have needed replies. When this happens, I simply reply from an address that actually does ex
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by efreak 11mo ago
Check other comments, this was explained here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45937453
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by efreak 11mo ago
I've seen a number of websites that don't like being in windowed mode on desktop, and the very occasional website that doesn't like my tablet (which has a custom width/dp size set). I always assumed they were related to
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by efreak 11mo ago
There's still epub and tons of other standards built on xml and xhtml. Ironically, the last epub file I downloaded, a comic book from humble bundle, had a 16mb css file composed entirely of duplicate definitions of the same two styles,
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by efreak 11mo ago
It's not an overlay, it just gets mounted separately from root - there's an overlay for /etc and possibly a few other directories, this is to allow user changes to configuration to be kept after upgrades Changes get wiped b
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by efreak 11mo ago
Advertising landing page full of CPI ads?
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by efreak 11mo ago
Why can't I lock my computer and have Windows turn off my displayport monitor without having it turn itself on and off every few minutes until I log back in? Why can't I turn off the power button on my monitor and then turn it bac
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by efreak 11mo ago
Chrome no longer has the ability to run a number of extensions I like, and Firefox has abysmal performance at some bulk indexeddb operations. Safari isn't available outside Apple, and Opera and Microsoft are stuck following Google (alo
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by efreak 1y ago
I've seen deb files that do everything in a post-install script. There's no way to identify this before downloading them (they came from a hosted repo, were signed). Some of these download files based on an internal manifest, othe
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by efreak 1y ago
Scrolling is broken on mobile, it scrolls right past entire sections, like there's too much inertia. The last section is also wider than the screen and horizontal scrolling disabled.
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by efreak 1y ago
Ironically, the Google link there suffers from delayed loading of the toc at top: I tapped to play the video as it moved down.
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by efreak 1y ago
osmAnd allows you to use a number of different sources, though their business listings are inferior (in Los Angeles/San Diego) no matter what source you use (admittedly this might be partly due to new businesses opening, I've neve
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by efreak 1y ago
Get better VPS then. Openvz and other kernel paravirtualization have limits, go for Xen or KVM instead (Xen has paravirtualization as well, but I'm not sure how much it's actually used). Full virtualization (implemented by Xen and
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by efreak 1y ago
What are you paying for? I see no mention of paid features anywhere (play store, GitHub readme, website, in-app settings). If the app isn't entirely free, this send pretty misleading...
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by efreak 1y ago
I assume Authy is fairly high use. I use Aegis usually, but I likely it has very little usage share.
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by efreak 1y ago
It's the case for Google itself. I use Google voice for voicemail, not my carrier, and it's not possible to get voicemail in the phone app.
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by efreak 1y ago
This is interesting, but the image thing that caught my eye is their use of the Apple app store logo (being on a slow connection, the video at top didn't load very fast)
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by efreak 1y ago
You already have a cell plan. It doesn't have to be attached to the same device.
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by efreak 1y ago
Visual studio community edition doesn't require an account, or even an email address. You can even download it through winget.
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by efreak 1y ago
Gitlab. Codeberg. Neocities. Nekoweb. Wasmer. Surge. Digital Ocean. Freehostia. Awardspace. 000webhost. Static.run. Kinsta. Cloudflare Pages. Render. Hostinger. Ionos. Bluehost. Firebase. Netlify. Orbiter. Heliohost. There's probably
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by efreak 1y ago
Then you would limit the number of times the feature can be turned on , not turned off. Turned off uses less resources, while turned on potentially continues using their resources. Also I doubt if they actually remove data that requires
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by efreak 1y ago
This is a link to reply to a post that cannot be used by anyone who doesn't have an account. For anyone else browsing without being logged in (or using a client that can't parse the link), the post URL is https://news.y
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by efreak 1y ago
> flashing the GPU's bios is apparently the only solution Wouldn't disconnecting the fan and plugging it into the motherboard instead also work?

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