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> You can make it narrow enough to only just fit the date at the bottom, without third-party utilities, which seems small enough. Not sure about your system but on both of mine by default it's over double the thickness of the horizo
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Vertical has always been much wider than the horizontal layout is tall, at least when using the small taskbar icons setting. However the third-party utility 7+ Taskbar Tweaker allows narrower vertical taskbars, which actually makes the vert
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I've been keeping a directory of screenshots of poor DDG results for the past couple years and there have been many conspicuously broken results. It's a damn shame since 2+ years ago DDG was better. Some examples: - Double quoted
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> When it comes to making money, the SublimeText developers can offer the core version of SublimeText for free, while they can sell a pro version with more advanced features targeted towards more advanced users and developers. Sublime
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After that post on HN months ago[1] where users discovered OAuth permissions for unrelated things being used/abused to star projects without their knowledge this news of buying stars didn't come as a surprise. It's unfortunat
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Apart from the glyphs (the character shapes) there's also the unique kerning data, ligatures/sequences of characters that produce other outputs, hinting data (for monitor displays) and such.
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This was one of the motivations for ITC's founding decades ago (as per my recollection of one of Herb Lubalin's old U&lc magazine pieces) since font reproductions under different names was rampant as it was increasingly easier
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> I don't need those files to stick around forever as part of the chat history, my primary use case is to show someone something. No one will come back to that file ever again. I'd suggest uguu.se for this. Hosts up to 134MB
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Surprised I hadn't heard of SVGator before, since I've posted about a lack of SVG native animation authoring tools in the past. Appears to have an option to use either CSS-based animations or JS-based (curious it appears to lack a
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Ah, just re-checked that community and apparently they must have phone-gated it recently, as I haven't seen Blender use that before. Perhaps they got hit with spam, which I know is the reason some add the requirement, even temporarily
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>every discord is locked behind a email+cell phone barrier Unless it's changed recently users can enter Discord communities without an email via an invite link*, just choosing a username. It's what made onboarding so easy and
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> Discord is filled with people under the mistaken impression they have documented anything by having a chat with a search feature... when the "rules" are in fact buried, no longer accessible, or just hidden in a wall of confl
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> Unless i'm missing something, its native search doesn't have any kind of fuzziness. For the past couple years it's returned variations of words, eg: `installer` will return `installers`, `installed`, `installs`, `install
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What began as effectively an IRC-like alternative + file hosting and voice support is now being used as a replacement for forums and I think that's where the issue is. IRC isn't publicly searchable either unless someone was loggin
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> They’re obviously doing recommendations based on IP address eBay uses IPs showing content, too. I see 'items you've viewed recently' show items I've never looked at, since when on a mobile connection my IP changes
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It's why I've looked to LineageOS and which brands tend to get the longest support. There are apparently devotees to the Google Pixel line, with the Pixel 2 (2017) being one of the longest currently supported, receiving the latest
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> It has vertical tab support out of the box (is this even possible in chrome? Vivaldi browser[1] has supported native vertical tabs for many years (possibly since its introduction in 2015), though sadly it doesn't get as much cover
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Yes, theirs is a custom fork. Only commented about flashing to vanilla OpenWRT in relation to your comment about being spying concerns (and since some, including myself, aren't that comfortable with their remote cloud service built int
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Pi-Hole or the adblock package for OpenWRT are probably better examples. GL.Inet routers are already natively supported by OpenWRT (since their firmware are just custom forks) so one can flash them.
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Scroll down to where the gradient has already overlapped the text, then right-click above the text and use inspect element and it should be the correct element (was for me). Then uncheck the background-image property to disable the gradie
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For anyone else needing to view via this link (eg: those who block cookies by default) the article implemented a gradient overlay that progressively fades to white, obscuring the latter half of the article. Can disable the linear-gradient v
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They previously also used Yandex for results when the region setting was switched to Russia. Was sometimes useful for seeing what other results were available, as DDG/Bing's results aren't always fruitful particularly with fi
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From what I've read Firefox for Android Nightly doesn't restrict which addons are allowed to be installed[1] but does require a really byzantine method to get them installed, by first creating a Mozilla account, creating a collect
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4y ago
Seems like a decent project, which has come up before. The sibling commenter ramraj07 would likely be interested in what seems like a new feature listed to automatically save pages once loaded, which according to that link works on Firefox
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There are some 'save everything' programs/extensions I seen mentioned in the past (and in this topic) but have wondered how users deal with the signal-to-noise ratio, later filtering for desired content, or whether the users
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I save everything I consider useful as an MHTML file (HTML/CSS/images in one file), which is native to Chromium browsers. This has the benefit of the page not being split into separate files as the normal save page does, doesn
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Apparently one can't quip without a point being missed entirely.
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It's a little ironic that 20 years ago Jobs promoted their desktop UI as 'lickable' and now there's pushback over whether desktop displays should even be touchable :p
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It's interesting reading how streaming has mitigated the mundanity of digitization by the concept of having others watch/engage. From an audience perspective there is a certain appeal to feeling like others are tuned into the same
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Fwiw, Sony's current mid-to-high end a7 line of mirrorless cameras (eg: the a7 IV) don't have this video recording limit. They also handle long recordings fine assuming it's on a tripod and screen is in the flipped out positi
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