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I interrupted a computer shutdown and as a result the mouse cursor is moving much more slowly and the cursor has become smaller. I assume some mouse-related programs got closed: how can I find them...
I can't run a Python file in PyCharm: why? The run icon is greyed out: I went to Run → Edit Configurations… to make sure the correct Python interpreter is selected. Debug, coverage, and profile...
I can see the number of elements a field contain in a JSON file opened with PyCharm 2024.2.3: How can I view the same within Notepad++? Crossposts: https://qr.ae/pAAs1z https://superuser....
I've logged into the Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI) via az login: how can I see when it'll sign me out? I.e., how can I see when when my authentication will expire? Crossposts: https://qr...
I use a token obtained with az account get-access-token to deploy finetuned GPTs on Azure, update them (e.g., changing their max hit rate) or remove them. I read on https://learn.microsoft.com/en...
The OMEMO encryption ecosystem for XMPP (Jabber) is split into distinct, incompatible versions. Unfortunately there are different versions of OMEMO encryption existing, that are incompatible to ...
I am deploying a GPT instance in Azure and see: When you create this deployment, the resource change you've made will persist throughout Azure AI Foundry. What does the warning "When you cr...
I use GPT o1 in Azure playground. Typically it works fine: But I got a the following error on a long prompt about code editing: unsupported_value: Unsupported value: 'stream' does not support...
I have an iPhone running iOS 15. When I upload a larger video on some website, iOS spends a while "preparing" the video. What does this step do, and why is it necessary?
I use the ChatGPT application on my Android phone. How can I copy the answer as Markdown? I have a Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra running Android 13. Crossposts: https://redd.it/1jyhw5m https://r...
When running a query with ChatGPT with search enabled, can I restrict the search to only certain domain(s)? For example, only search https://genai.stackexchange.com/ Crossposts: https://qr.a...
I saw on https://youtu.be/2OpHbyN4vEM?t=219: Gemini 2.0 Flash achieves 24x higher intelligence per dollar than anyone in the market How did Google get that x24 number? The given source is ...
Perplexity.AI used to be very useful as it was amongst the first solutions to combine search engines and LLMs. Now that GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek have search, what's the point of using Perplexi...
When I go to https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/studio/multimodal?model=gemini-2.5-pro-preview-03-25&invt=[redacted]&project=[project-name], no regions are available for Gemini Pro...
I maintain a personal website, created through Google Sites, which is primarily used to host samples of my writing. The site has a custom domain. Aside from just having a writing archive, though, ...
I have a domain and now use it for my primary email address. In addition to depositing mail in that mailbox, this address also currently forwards to my Gmail account. (Yes I know, and I want to r...
Inspired by this comment thread, is there a way to automate git bisect with a new test (and a known good state)? The way things usually work for me is… Oh no! Reproducible bug is found. (Manual...
I'm far from an expert GIT user. I'm usually the only one working in a repository at a time, and know how to do the basics like committing snapshots. I still have to look up how to create and mer...
I have some text files which think they are encoded in UTF-8: file test.txt test.txt: Unicode text, UTF-8 text, with CRLF line terminators However if I look at their content, I think they migh...
What are the main differences, if any, between Gemini Gems compare against custom GPTs? Or are they basically the same feature? Crossposts: https://redd.it/1jrta7h https://redd.it/1jrtafv h...
My university, like many others, offers a connection to the eduroam infrastructure. I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 (LTS); unfortunately, the instructions provided by the institution for connecting to the...
How can I see the email of a participant in an MS Teams meeting on iPad during the meeting? I don't see where to find it: Crossposts: https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/479373/20338 https:...
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I'm using Borg to create backups of my home directory. I'm having trouble with excluding specific sub-directories when using a PATTERNSFILE with --patterns-from. I have the following (simplified) ...
When I copy an image in Chrome: and paste it into MS Paint, the quality is reduced: Why, and how can I prevent that? I use Windows 11 24H2 Pro, Paint 11.2412.311.0 and a MSI GS76 Stealth 11U...
Why does Windows Task manager shows 100% for the GPU utilization for one process but shows 1% for the overall GPU utilization? I use Windows 11 24H2 Pro, Python 3.12 and a MSI GS76 Stealth 11UH la...
I upload a 150 MB file via PowerShell to a JFrog Artifactory server as follows: $FilePath = "dataset.tar.gz" $URL = "https://artifactory.somesite.com/artifactory/project1/dataset.tar.gz" $ARTIFA...
I have LibreOffice on KDE/Wayland. I have several monitors with different aspect ratios, pixel density, etc. For some reason, Writer only looks right on the highest-DPI screen (with the smallest ph...
I'm switching over to Firefox from Google Chrome now that Chrome is trying to kill uBlock Origin and similar extensions. So far I've managed to import my bookmarks, passwords, and userscripts over ...
A MariaDB server is installed on a Linux server. The MariaDB service is currently stopped, so no client can connect to it. How to create a SQL-dump of all databases without starting the service? T...
I bulk download pictures from a website, like Instagram, with WF Downloader to a folder. then I delete some of these pictures. Two months later, this Instagram uploads many new pics. I bulk downlo...
Disk Cleanup is useless! It failed to delete CrashDumps. For detail, see C:\Users\User Name\AppData\Local\CrashDumps. I tried the command C:\dumps\procdump.exe -mp -i C:\dumps, but this didn't...
My technician just found old family home videos that I accidentally moved to C drive, and hogged up 500 GB on C drive. He moved them to my D Drive. What programs can detect files like these that a...
I'm using Microsoft Word v16.9.3 on macOS Sonoma 14.6.1. I need to use Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition for a paper, and this calls for the footnotes being in 12 point font and the footnote num...
Is there a way to make an arbitrary app immersive in Android? That is, fullscreen with the status and navigation bars hidden. A temporary solution would be the best. I'm thinking about a situation...
In a previous browser, when I clicked on a link that was to a PDF file, the file opened automatically in Acrobat. That was what I wanted, until MS forced using Edge. How do I get this same behavi...
In MS Edge, how to clear autofill data?
Since macOS 15, the right-click context menu for removable volumes has an entry "Erase Disk..." right next to the "Eject" entry: Is there any way to remove the erase option from the context menu...
In previous versions of macOS, the battery indicator in the menu bar was coloured in either black or white (depending in the wallpaper): In macOS 15 Sequoia, the battery indicator changes colour...
I have to use Windows for work. I am trying to start the Rancher Desktop application from Powershell, and keep it open after I close Powershell. My Powershell command looks like this: Start-Proces...
I would like to change the vertical position of subtitles in videos downloaded with yt-dlp. If I use yt-dlp -f 160 --write-subs --write-auto-subs --sub-langs en --embed-subs "https://www.youtube....
I've worked for a while with OpenSCAD as a nice tool to quickly build pieces to then export for 3D printing. In a new use case, I'd like the object to include a human-like arm or head. Think in t...
I am subscribed to several Google Groups (email lists). I want to change the address where I receive that email, preferably without having to unsubscribe and resubscribe for each list. (Some list...
I'm about to build a desktop PC first time in many years and I was confused by the following discrepancy related to memory speeds: Zen5 CPUs "natively" support DDR5-5600 RAM (for example 9600X) ...
Why does the default SSH client behavior for MacOS send LANG and LC_* environment variables to the server? If I consult man ssh_config, it says SendEnv […] The default is not to send any enviro...
As of Unicode 13.0 (released in March 2020), the character set has included glyphs representing Creative Commons licenses. 1F16D - The Creative Commons logo (🅭) 1F10D - CC0, the public domain d...
We use Gmail with Google Workspace (G Suite) or whatever it's called. We have a group, say [email protected]. Some of our members and aliases in that group are not receiving emails and I have no ide...
Where do I go to change keyboard shortcuts in Firefox? I've been in the settings section and used their setting search, both for "keyb" and for "shortc" and nothing likely-looking comes up. Is the...
Whenever I boot up Windows on my laptop, the clock is set to UTC time. This happened no matter what timezone I was located in at the time. However, when I boot up Ubuntu on the same device, I got t...
I have a backup of a Linux Mint install circa 2016. Individual files were copied using Ubuntu to an NTFS drive. Now I'm tar-ing and archiving the files, and trying to delete what's left. I made th...
