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4y ago
It's actually been there for a long time. It's a separate tab in "Users & Groups" pre-Ventura.
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It's not. It's an open source project (aka owned by no one) that started at Microsoft. The person who created WiX left Microsoft to create Firegiant, which is the primary contributor to its continued development and maintenance.
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4y ago
> any application running under your user almost certainly has write access to your entire $HOME, including the ability to tamper with your shell configuration, edit your $PATH, and do all manner of nasty subversive shit. Not that I'
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4y ago
I like WeMod[0], which is a unified GUI for trainers. It supports a lot of games, handles a lot of the heavy lifting (e.g. starting the game in offline-only mode for multiplayer games), shows any extra steps that you might have to take for
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4y ago
Why be so condescending? Also, they could use Firefox on mobile to keep their history and bookmarks in sync across devices in addition to some extensions they find useful, like uBlock Origin as they mentioned. Just because the number of ext
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4y ago
Perhaps, but that's how one would hold a handstand for the duration closer to what a gymnast would. Attempting to keep balance with one's fingers is only going to get you so far with a very limited range.
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4y ago
It's tension created from the shoulder muscles, upper back, and pecs. Think about when you're doing a sit up: your hip muscles, lower back, and core help you sit up and slow going back down. It's these same muscles that keep
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4y ago
The trick is to use your shoulders and wrists (and elbows to a less extent) for balance, like your hips, ankles, and knees respectively. Fingers help, but they're not the main contributors to balance. Source: gymnast for over a decade
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4y ago
You do realize that a lot of women have to deal with creepy behavior daily, right?
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Ok, but IE continued to be pre-installed and set as default. Now, it's Edge. It was that IE was set as default AND Microsoft restricted the API for third-party browsers.
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4y ago
> No idea if Windows comes with a calendar. Windows does come with a calendar, but it's not great.
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As far as I know, if you just have the files as "Keep local" or whatever, Dropbox will still delete them locally if it's removed from Dropbox. The only exception is if you're also using the backup feature to backup certa
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4y ago
Sorry, I should have been more clear. By iOS-ifying, I meant in terms of aesthetic (e.g. flat design), not necessarily in terms of workflow. I think that the flat, iOS-like design is worse for UX in a desktop context; just not to the point
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Agreed, I'm not a huge fan either because something's gotta give and in my opinion, it's macOS in this case with how they've been iOS-ifying it year after year. With that said, I do see the benefit if you primarily devel
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That quoted bit seems more like, IMO, that they're just unifying their HIG since the design across macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS are converging, partly due to the unified developer process for all of these platforms. It doesn't se
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I've lived in decently spaced suburban neighborhoods, tiny towns, rural areas, and big cities like SF, SJ, and NY. Given the option, I'll take anything other than the big cities every time, even though I enjoyed the ability to uti
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Spectre wasn't discovered until ~5 years after in 2018.
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This is a good point in a general sense, but I don't think it would be a problem in this particular case for the date some imported OSM data was sourced, which is similar to the "date accessed" for a website in a bibliography
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4y ago
I don't understand why addresses are being used to begin with. They're not needed. You simply choose the route/zip code and the mailer will be dropped off at every mailbox on the route, hence the name "Every Door Direct
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I think they were just exaggerating. Of course, companies can focus on UX rather than GX if they wanted to, but many prefer to optimize for growth than user experience.
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USPS EDDM requires that you only put the area information (city, state, and zip code) and the EDDM label. The fact that this included actual addresses, much less names, is off. The only actual addresses that should be included are Do Not De
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4y ago
I feel that the main appeal of a cruise liner is that the trip is also part of the vacation. You can enjoy comedy shows, play in the pool, relax in the sun, drink, gamble, etc. It's like a mini Las Vegas that moves. Where as I feel thi
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I'm not the parent, but not necessarily. You can have this same exact "GUI" implemented as a TUI, using something like Bubble Tea[0], Textual[1], or by hand. You'd get a similar experience without having to go back and f
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4y ago
I'm a little late replying to this, sorry. To preface, I'm not super familiar with the underpinnings of blockchains or CRDTs, so the below is just my current understanding. I wish I had more time to dig into them further. Blockcha
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4y ago
Thank you for all the helpful information!
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Even as a relatively young person that has grown up with the internet, I'm not a fan of how much thin clients have eclipsed thick clients. I long for the days where offline, local-first was the norm. I long even more for when this (hop
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I....don't see how that applies here.
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I'm not super familiar with systemd or any of the lower level stuff like init systems in general, but I was under the impression that it's just an umbrella for many individual modules/binaries, like journald, etc, and not act
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4y ago
Although the discussion around Blender add-ons and the GPL is interesting, this isn't an add-on and doesn't apply. It's a .blend scene, thus isn't bound by the GPL since it's an output from Blender. This is ultimate
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4y ago
For at least Netflix, there's no way to stream above 720p since Widevine only allows security level 2 on Linux.
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