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The default icon of the Tunnelbear Firefox extension looks like this: I would like to hide the "Off" badge so that it looks like this: Following a similar process as in the answer https://pow...
Does the Mac Mini have a GPU? This sounds like something that could happen due to a graphics driver issue. AFAIK Youtube relies on the HTML5 video element. If it freezes in all browsers, it's prob...
How to change user language for Microsoft 365/Sharepoint Online? I found this https://support.microsoft.com/en-US/office/change-sharepoint-online-language-settings-0f6a477a-dcab-4462-9d0c-e3b53d13...
I found this, thanks to Zelphir Kaltstal, and it worked! gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout appmenu:minimize,maximize,close Found at Add minimize and maximize buttons ...
I use offlineimap to synchronize my mail, and I have the directory set up as a local folder in KMail. Currently, I open KMail and also run offlineimap to synchronize my mail. Is there a way to mak...
Brave The Brave project was started by Brendan Eich, one of the key figures in original Firefox, after he left the Mozilla foundation due to political reasons. From this, one could presume that it...
It seems possible to do this with unlockPref. unlockPref("signon.rememberSignons"); This technically only "unlocks" the setting, but in my case when unlocked it changes to true on its own in ab...
In ranger, I am often copying a bunch of files from one folder to another. Currently I do it like this: Select files with Space Cut with F6 Navigate to the destination folder Paste with pp ...
Still don't know how to do this, but bookmarks kind of accomplish it. You can do m1 too bookmark a folder as "1". Then move to another folder and bookmark with m2. Now, to switch use: `1 `2 #...
RethinkDNS includes a WireGuard option since v0.5.5. The development team was sponsored in 2020 by Mozilla's now-defunct "Builders Program." Rethink was originally an on-device "VPN"[1] with a DNS...
My keyboard is getting old and occasionally I notice the key presses don't quite register. This keyboard uses membrane switches so I can see how they would wear out after a while and not be as resp...
M-x kill-local-variable RET c-basic-offset seems to work, but only temporarily. If I save, and close Emacs, and revisit the file, the changes do not persist. I that in an affected directory, each ...
On my work laptop, I have realized that I have a rather low disk space on the system drive. I have run a disk usage application (Run as Admin) to try to understand what is taking so much space and ...
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?
When I receive a call with Google Voice open in a browser on my desktop, it only rings briefly in the browser (about 2 seconds). After that, my phone starts ringing. When I'm at my computer, I wan...
I use Cheese to take photos with my webcam. The photos get saved under ~/Pictures/Webcam which I don't like. I want them somewhere else. In typical, presumptuous Gnome fashion, there is no UI in C...
There's a new WireGuard app on F-Droid called WG Tunnel, probably owing to dissatisfaction with the official app. It claims to sport a quick toggle in the drawer, and you can split-tunnel by appli...
As far as I know, Apple iCloud does not offer much of a straightforward way to store a massive photo/video library in the cloud, and offload it from devices. iCloud backup features an "optimize st...
I'm using the note taking app obsidian. In one of my notes I have a mermaid/gantt diagram which looks like this: Source code: ```mermaid gantt tickInterval 1day axisFormat %d %b dateFormat...
Before March 22 2021, AOL synced with my desktop Microsoft Outlook software swimmingly! Since then, Outlook updated itself. But I changed NOTHING for both my AOL or Outlook. Outlook keeps sending ...
I have an HP ZBook laptop running Windows 10. This is a work machine with a corporate-controlled OS image, but I have some admin rights on the machine.[1] The machine was issued to me about 20 mo...
If you print out ls than you will see disks. You have to check which have your Linux. One by one you have to try following commands. set boot=(hd0,msdosN) #N is number is disk. set prefix=(h...
This is a guess, but it looks like the paragraph starting with "36" just fits on the page when there is no space above it. When you add the blank line, it doesn't fit anymore. There is probably a...
In the Control Panel go to the Credential Manager. Control Panel\User Accounts\Credential Manager Find the credential for the Remote Computer under the Windows Credentials section and...
When the ssh daemon starts up, it reads the config file for the interfaces it should bind to (listen on) and the port number(s). The default interface is "all" and the default port number is 22. T...
