linuxdaemon

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by linuxdaemon 10mo ago
I've been using this unofficial client for years, so it's been a while since I tried the PWA version. In my use, this client brings 2 things missing from PWA: notification count in the tray area, and respecting default browser fo
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by linuxdaemon 1y ago
Semi-related: Why do sites grab search keystrokes (like '/' on github) to force me to use their crappy search when I'm trying to find content on the page I'm currently on?
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by linuxdaemon 2y ago
As someone who administers DNS servers, I'm going to guess this is due to DNS being the first thing that gets blamed when something goes wrong; and it is almost never DNS.
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by linuxdaemon 3y ago
Skyglobe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyglobe It didn't run speedily on the 286 IBM clone that we had, but it was pretty amazing to me at the time (ca. 1993)
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by linuxdaemon 3y ago
Bitwarden's help pages state storage is in Azure cloud: https://bitwarden.com/help/data-storage/#on-bitwarden-server... So if there is an observation of an issue, it's reasonable to connect those dots, p
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by linuxdaemon 3y ago
I had been using Swiftkey on my iPhone and in the middle of typing something, my keys disappear and is replaced with, what is effectively, an ad to use "Microsoft Speech Recognition". Extremely annoying to be in the middle of typ
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by linuxdaemon 4y ago
Question privacy concerns with CloudFlare stating "giving up security for convenience", and then have comments for your blog post on Disqus.
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by linuxdaemon 4y ago
Google Reader gives a good example of why one may want to host an RSS reader on their own.
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by linuxdaemon 4y ago
https://cactus.chat/ exists to do just that.
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by linuxdaemon 4y ago
It looks like after 3 more minutes of testing, it's a me problem. There is one particular file that goes bonkers, which just so happened to be the one I had up. If I start a new file in that project, or work on an existing file in a
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by linuxdaemon 4y ago
I'm definitely for any alternative to an MS solution (especially one where I have to give them actual money to use it), but I had kind of the same experience. Not extensive testing, and I'm using it in PyCharm, so I don't kn
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by linuxdaemon 4y ago
Yes, remote is actually "killer": https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/26...
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by linuxdaemon 4y ago
I thought "yes", but just tested and turns out it's more like "kinda". It doesn't do a full sync on shutdown, but if something is modified it sends a sync push , and that change will get picked up after a few
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by linuxdaemon 4y ago
DisplayName @username Do I want to read a full length article in bite size chunks? That are sometimes arbitrarily 1/4 DisplayName @username Split across a bunch of little cards with a number to piece them together at the bottom? 2&#x2F
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by linuxdaemon 4y ago
Just like on the Disney channel they don't have ads, they have programs "brought to you by our proud sponsor"
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by linuxdaemon 4y ago
Thanks. I'll have to keep an eye on that.
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by linuxdaemon 4y ago
I want an open source competitor to airtable. I use airtable very minimally, but what I do is on my phone, and makes use of barcode reading via the camera. I don't think any of the open alternatives support mobile, and I'm fairl
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by linuxdaemon 4y ago
Specifically I am forced to use the horrible disaster that is MS Teams for work. So far, screensharing on Wayland with electron-based apps doesn't work.
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by linuxdaemon 4y ago
I have used gnome pretty much since Fedora/RedHat started packaging it. For the past 2 years or so, I have been using Material Shell ( https://material-shell.com/ ) which gives Gnome tiling functionality and I have been
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by linuxdaemon 4y ago
As a person who administers servers I absolutely HATE that vscode does this. I don't know much about the specifics of remote deployment, but I feel like having vscode do this is just the wrong approach. I would say it probably needs t
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by linuxdaemon 4y ago
It would make sense that it would if the formatting was specified (though MS rarely makes much sense). I can't test this myself. I only have access to word online, and (unless I'm blind) there is no way to specify background on
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by linuxdaemon 4y ago
It seems most of my posts here end up being a complaint about MS Teams. So here is another. Teams will happily take the formatting of "black text" from copying from Word for example. But anyone who is using a dark theme on Team
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by linuxdaemon 4y ago
"Unencrypted" by reading English-based text with his eyeballs :)
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by linuxdaemon 4y ago
Missouri governor accused a journalist of "hacking" a government site for viewing the HTML source and discovering that a bunch of teachers' social security numbers were embedded in the page. Instead of thanking him for findin
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by linuxdaemon 5y ago
I self hosted things before google and Facebook existed to harvest all the information, because at the time there weren't many choices. When google in particular began offering great alternatives, I switched. The death of Reader was t
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by linuxdaemon 5y ago
In gnome, I'm using the "nothing-to-say" extension for this: https://github.com/wbolster/nothing-to-say
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by linuxdaemon 5y ago
When I am in a video chat, glances reports teams taking between 120% and 140% of the CPU. that's when I'm passive participant not even sharing my camera.
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by linuxdaemon 6y ago
Oh good. More bloat to confuse interactions and add to the jumbled up mess that is teams.
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by linuxdaemon 6y ago
I am forced to use ms teams for work. Every time I attempted to share my desktop, teams would crash. I thought it was just because teams sucks. As it turns out, it seems to be that running under wayland was actually causing it. Everything w
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by linuxdaemon 6y ago
Just this week I started using kitty as my terminal. Overall I have liked it and I really love the icat kitten so I can "cat" image files directly in my terminal. I haven't yet figured out how to change my font color from whi

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