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After a software update maybe a month or two ago, contacts are displayed differently on my Android phone. The most annoying difference is that they are now sorted by first name. Under Settings &g...
My Synology DS220+ died and I decided that the successor will be a DIY system. Now I'm trying to access the data from the disks that were used in the NAS. Every tutorial, blog post, forum post I f...
I recently hit an issue on Windows where an application was not able to bind to a specific port (1883 for RabbitMQ MQTT). I followed the normal steps of using Resource Monitor to check for ports th...
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 ...
meta.discourse.org/t/388327 contains a PNG example of what it describes. The example was converted from an .eml file (because the .eml file is > 100 000 characters, and Discourse doesn't permit ...
As was originally posted at community.spiceworks.com/t/1226828: [1] I want something that is as versatile as Open Camera for AOSP: [2] it allows me to configure the aperture, ISO, grain reductio...
I'm trying to change the view for a specific folder in finder from the command line. Specifically, I want to switch to icon view and set the icon size to 512 pixel. Currently, my approach is to us...
Similarly to posts/294844: I've recently installed the Windows 11 Enterprise 25H2 Insider Preview Canary .ISO. [1] After registering my webcam: ...I expected it to operate. However, althou...
Context/Rationale I've recently installed the Windows 11 Enterprise 25H2 Insider Preview Canary .ISO. [1] During its OOBE (its initial configuration process), I was asked to authenticate with my M...
I'm looking for a free (and if possible opensource) tool to search through the content of PDFs. Requirements: search full text of all PDFs in one folder (the PDFs are "plain text", not scans) ...
Downloading an image and encoding it into base64: curl -o output.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/USA-San_Jose-De_Anza_Hotel-3.jpg/500px-USA-San_Jose-De_Anza_Hotel-3.j...
In Outlook 365 I have a search folder. It only has From... criteria on the Messages tab. There are multiple from addresses there to match, separated by semicolons: [email protected]; [email protected]...
When running a finder quick action, a cute little cog wheel is shown in the menu bar while the task is still running: Is there a way to make a similar icon appear in the menu bar while a shell s...
Problem Wrapping comments in Neovim gets messed up in the presence of parentheses. This happens with both auto wrapping and manual wrapping (gw). MWE This is what happens in a Python file (file...
Is there a functional benefit to using a 4k computer monitor over a 2k one, or is it just a luxury (ie. looks nicer etc).
Avidemux doesn't appear to be in the standard package repository for Debian. What are my options for installing Avidemux on Debian 12? Is there a relatively safe package repository that I can use...
I've been trying to set up campfire to test - I'm mostly following the guide given on the git repo , and trying to fill in the missing bits. I'm using this script to try to start the basecamp dock...
I recently switched from DuckDuckGo to startpage as my primary search engine. I was using the firefox addon duckduck-go-google to add a google link to the DuckDuckGo search results - just in case i...
What are best practices for keeping my blog in version control? In particular, I hear that many people use git to version control a Wordpress blog. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) (i) (j) That wa...
I'm trying to set up 2FAuth on a local server (old Raspberry Pi, Debian), alongside some other services. Following the self-hosting directions, I believe that I managed to get the code running, an...
I sent an email to a friend's work address. The email had an attachment, not a lot of text, and was signed (not encrypted) with my PGP signature. They briefly received the email before it ...
I've resurrected my Linux phone hardware, set to try it again as a defense against the further subversion of Android as a platform you own in any way. I figured I'd install Plasma Mobile, as I use...
I've just installed Thunderbird on MacOS 14.2.1. I've run through all the settings I could find related to fonts and sizes, but nothing I change affects the message list, meaning the list of sende...
I have repositories on GitHub, and have been using a user name and password to access them. All was working great. I could use various GIT commands on the command line, and GIT would automaticall...
Sorry if the title is weird, please feel free to suggest a rephrase. I have a personal server in my closet. I host various software on this for my family's use. The vast majority of the time I con...
I'm running a self built machine with a MATX-CS612 motherboard. It runs ubuntu server 24.04 with a ZFS root. The machine tends to reboot under a very specific workload (Running a selenium workflow ...
On iPhone and iPad I can delete Facebook (and thus all its data, per storage info in Settings) and reinstall it and it still remembers my login. Privacy violation/bug?
We have a repository hosted on GitHub. I'm trying to track down a bug and have narrowed the date range for when it could have been introduced. I would like to easily review commits in that date r...
I included a link to my github profile in my mastodon profile. How can I verify the link? I've already tried adding a link to mastodon in the social accounts fields on my github profile adding...
"Website NFC Tag" Got this alert which I've never seen before popping up over and over on my iPhone. I'm not seeing a way to see the whole URL without opening it, so I'm not opening it. It seems i...
Recently, I've seen a number of mastodon toots which show code with a special markup, e.g. a light font on a red background. One example can be found at https://wetdry.world/@jessienab/114857900769...
I have been finding a web based discord client which is not the official once since it's full of tracking and it doesn't provide any feature that other alternative clients do. one of the best thin...
The Android Gmail app recently (I have version 2025.06.15.773123224.Release) added sticky reply buttons (reply, reply all, forward) to the bottom of the screen when viewing an individual message. ...
I want to have a list of top consumption in a range of time, or at least when the total CPU consumption is over a threshold. In many task managers, sorting the processes by CPU only shows which one...
I would like to convert a pdf file into an animated png with a specific number of frames per second using ImageMagick . The example pdf file used below can be downloaded from https://mirrors.ctan....
i am facing the same difficulty as https://superuser.com/questions/1896861/how-can-i-use-power-query-to-import-many-monthly-excel-files-into-1-excel-file?noredirect=1&lq=1. as it got wrongly cl...
I work in the travel industry. To get inspiration and ideas, I use https://sssinstagram.com to download pictures from public instagrams of restaurants, travel websites, destinations, photographers....
I use AllDup to find and delete duplicate or similar pictures. To keep my question simple, suppose I am searching two folders. I own both Asus and Lenovo computers, but their technicians gave oppos...
I'm trying to get tmux to pass through extended keys to my terminal. In particular Shift+Enter and Ctrl+Enter. I'm attempting to utilize this in Vim by mapping the two key combinations. My termina...
If I have two layers, how do I convert one of them back and forth between a normal layer and as a layer mask for the other layer?
I have an image which I want a number of identical tiles on top of, arranged such that the tiles start at an offset, then duplicate x number of times in the horizontal direction, and y number of ti...
If I have a layer or selection, how do I stack it horizontally and/or vertically such that it draws into the layer beneath (or current layer in the case of a selection)? I have a tile that I'd lik...
How can I block all network requests that look like telemetry at the network level? I realize that "looks like telemetry" is a nebulous definition - it would probably involve a lot of custom logic...
You're supposed to be able to "install" PWAs to your device directly from web browser. How is it done? It should result in a launchable icon that takes you to the web app without showing the brows...
For context, suppose I ask (on Linux) a process to report to me about the exact bytes I send it - say, with xxd -. I press the right arrow key on my keyboard, then Enter, then Ctrl-D (to signal the...
Finding and opening the last open tab in Safari, is usually straightforward; just look in the user interface. However, that's not an option, because every time the browser is started, it opens ever...
Due to unfortunate circumstances (my own shortcomings), I have managed to back up only ~/Library/Saved Application State/com.apple.Safari.savedState/windows.plist before making changes to that file...
My new company has this IT policy for emailing attachments. Does it make sense? The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) claims that sending attachments in a follow-up email is safer than sending a sing...
I got invited to some Slack channel. Slack asks me to select an account to be able to accept the invitation and join the channel: However, when I select an account, it just tells me: Shared c...
I wonder if posting the same content on multiple sites hurt their rankings in search engines. I found 2 old related Q&A: The lone answer on https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/q/93286/1307...
