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I tried to use my Wireguard VPN on Android, and, it sucks! I installed https://f-droid.org/packages/com.wireguard.android/ thinking that would be "the" wireguard app. I configured it with my conne...
I run a self built router setup, running Kea as a DHCP server, firewalld for managing the firewall, and dns hosted elsewhere. Its currently running in a test configuration behind a known good netwo...
I tend to use a keyboard and a video capture card - I run a ~5 dollar one off aliexpress that looks a little like this. HDMI goes into one end, you plug it into an available USB port, and it act...
Cloning is fine provided you do a proper clone. Something I used to do with Win7 is to actually clone the partition with a partition manager, and then boot from the new one. After everything is fin...
Please, correct me if you think I'm wrong! What you're asking is at cross purposes with the Linux movement. Linux is fundamentally different from Windows because its development model is diffe...
I regularly use two computers with the same keyboard and monitor(s) with a KVM switch. With one button press, the KVM switch can transfer both the video output (monitors) and input (keyboard and mo...
I think the knowledge requirement is roughly: The poster should have some experience working with the technology the question is about. The poster should have some experience working computers ...
The benefits of allowing "easy" questions The Software site already had an analogous discussion and the consensus came out fairly strongly in favour of accepting and answering beginner-level quest...
Understanding question closure The main point I want to make here applies to Codidact as a whole, and possibly even to every Q&A site like it, even theoretically. Closure and deletion, followi...
It's better to start in the shallow end Even the "friendliest" Linux distributions usually don't get in your way very much, or try to force you to do things in a specific way to the extent that Wi...
OK, I was messing with the configs and removing the fprintd lines auth sufficient pam_unix.so try_first_pass likeauth nullok auth sufficient pam_fprintd.so And the offending file wa...
I have a Manjaro machine with mostly default programs in the background. I recently found out that when signing in to the other tty's (the ones you go to by pressing CTRL+ALT+F#), it logs in withou...
Distro TL;DR: Mint is good for you. There are many choices and many of them are good. As long as it is somewhat popular and not a specialized distro it should be good enough. Don't worry about it...
Is there a way to set a dynamic font size for text boxes in LibreOffice Draw? I want it to change the font size based on the amount of text entered. For example: versus (Images taken from th...
if someone else has been able to answer to the asker's satisfaction, it is patently false that the question is unclear. That is actually a flawed premise. The question "what is the price of b...
quick fix I agree with Canina that you need to do two translations to fix this problem. Fortunately, it appears that you can recover the original text without loss. Try this: # first convert f...
I don't know any type of document like that, but I've been using both for 10 years now. I'm by no means a poweruser at windows, maybe in linux. The best advice I can give you is, that the flow is ...
Let's take a look at what WAVE is telling us. A <button> element is present that contains no text content (or alternative text), or an <input type="submit">, <input type="button...
Running the WAVE browser extension on a site, I'm getting an "Empty button" error on a search submit box: A <button> element is present that contains no text content (or alternative text...
No you can't do that on a project file basis with the current FreeCAD version. See also the FreeCAD discussion about this topic. But honestly, using non-metric units is a stupid idea anyway, don't...
Determining the encoding of binary data representing text is a notoriously difficult problem, which basically comes down to probabilities. UTF-8 is one of the few exceptions that I know of, becaus...
I have some text files which think they are encoded in utf8: file test.txt test.txt: Unicode text, UTF-8 text, with CRLF line terminators (https://github.com/samcarter/shared/blob/main/test.tx...
Since my Ubuntu system is currently fried, and running a live boot was encountering problems, I am forced to resort to attempting to clone a Git repository on a Windows 10 system. I installed Git f...
I have just noticed that Outlook is displaying a strange item generated in a folder named EventCheckPoint and also displaying <This item contains active content.. Hovering the folder name it in...
Over time, the Windows folder keeps gathering crap and grow. Therefore, a fresh installation of Windows is bliss - it is the only 100% working way to get rid of all waste files that it picks up ove...
