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Activity for elgonzo
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| Comment | Post #286203 |
Hey VLDR/NNOX/User/Este, just copy the affected regions from the original unmodified image and paste them into your modified image...
(And lets just hope that the image of the woman is either a stock image, or that the woman has actually granted permission to post pictures of her across the interw... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284259 |
@#53696 no, they do _not_ merely resemble your original question, they **ARE** your original question. Welcome to reality! (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284259 |
The answer to the updated question is still the first paragraph of the answer Olin Lathrop provided six months ago. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286102 |
Solveforum scrapes questions from superuser.com. (And yes, VLDR x-posted their question both on powerusers.codidact.com as well as [superuser.com](https://superuser.com/questions/1677167/how-can-i-command-my-lenovo-laptop-to-stop-charging-the-battery-at-a-maximum-cap).)
But either way, why are we ... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285953 |
@#36377 No problemo. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285914 |
P.S.: I have no deeper insight into zsh, nor am i an experienced zsh user. My comment is entirely based on looking at the latex completion definition file in zsh's git repository -- so the confidence level of my comment is at best only average. I don't really know in which folder you would find that ... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285914 |
> Is there any way to make the tab completion independent of capitalisation while still getting suggested all files?
zsh should come with completion definitions for a number of popular programs, among them latex. `autoload -Uz compinit && compinit` is basically just a way to load these completion ... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285790 |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UZWfMgjqAs (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285699 |
> "_All you dweebs are going to keep giving me what I want no matter how much you protest_"
No, not all us dweebs. But there will always be one who is on a mission to help humanity and who doesn't mind being sucked dry by a help vampire. And one is more than enough...
(And, to play the devils a... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285265 |
And finally, if the drivers don't report any issues and seem to be working, you should be good to go... (and cross fingers that the crapfest that is Windows 10 doesn't screw it up anywhere else...) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285265 |
@#36363 looks good. As said previously, the TB controller built into the Dell Latitude 5580 is a TB 3 controller, and if neither the BIOS or the drivers explicitly specify any other TB version i would go with what the spec sheet says.
You can also distinguish between TB 1, 2 and 3 by looking at th... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285513 |
See comment topic title.
Not sure exactly what you mean by saying "_feeds popping up on the screen directly_". I don't know whether you really want to be interrupted by some window popping up and occluding the desktop (and potentially stealing input focus) while you are typing something, mouse-dra... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285408 |
> This fails to answer my question.
Lets not pretend otherwise, it only fails to answer your **edited** question -- an edit which came about three days **after** this answer was posted.
(more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285408 |
"_Dangerous_" 🤣 🤣
This is indisputably the funniest thing i have ever seen on this site... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285412 |
Not to take away from your answer, just a mention of the quite expansive CustomCSSforFx project (https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx) which provides a host of different options for custom styling of the Firefox UI. (Provided it just as a comment here, because if the goal is solely and exclusive... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285353 |
If you must do this often, and you really must have a single action, you might wanto to think about whether it would be worth it for you to invest time into turning this process into a [Gimp macro](https://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Automate_Editing_in_GIMP/#an-introduction-to-macros) or [Scheme script](... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285353 |
I am not a Gimp user, but perhaps look into how you could copy the alpha channel (or transparency layer/mask, or whatever it might be called in Gimp) to a new image. The idea/rough process i am thinking of is this: Create a new image of the same size as your original png, and fill it entirely with wh... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285270 |
You could try it with an [attribute selector](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Attribute_selectors). I have expanded my answer with an example using an attribute selector (my example combined an attribute selector with an `:is()` selector).
You don't need to specify a visibility ch... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285270 |
You could use a CSS attribute selector that matches against a value of a chosen attribute. However, regardless of whether you match against some attribute, some ID or some class, you will have to first find something that distinguishes the unwanted <svg> element from similar <svg> element... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285265 |
(2/2) I would not trust Dell to not f*ck up, and print the thunder symbol on all Dell Latitude 5580 cases regardless of whether a particular model has a TB3 controller inside or not.
How would you like it if you were to buy an external GPU, and then only afterwards figure out that your laptop does... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285265 |
@#36363, as far as i can tell from the spec sheet for the laptop, the Tunderbolt option for the Dell Latitude 5580 is a Thunderbolt 3 controller. (https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-us/latitude-15-5580-laptop/late5580_om_pub/port-and-connector-specifications?guid=guid-540bdb3a-05b6-45b7-955b-630... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285265 |
Note that there are variants of the Dell Latitude 5580 with Tunderbolt 3, and there are Dell Latitude 5580 variants _without_ Thunderbolt 3. If your particular laptop model does not possess a Thunderbolt 3 controller, you can forget about external GPU... ;-) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285253 |
There is a [Linux feature/sandbox in Chrome OS](https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9145439?hl=en) supported by a number of devices ([check the list](https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/chrome-os-systems-supporting-linux)). Assuming yours is one of the supported devices, ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285182 |
I further suggest, that if people cross-post without references/links to the other cross-posts should be reminded to include such references/links. Only if the user exhibits a pattern of repeatedly ignoring such reminders, the user should be disciplined. (Which i think is more or less the 2nd and 4th... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285182 |
I suggest to let people ask questions regardless of whatever else they are doing on the web. A site that presents itself as a place for people to ask their questions should not claim some monopoly over the questions asked.
If you truly and sincerely worry about people asking all across the interne... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285182 |
A user being forced or encourage by some "exclusivity clause" to keep their question posted solely and exclusively on codidact for a defined amount of time before reaching out to other sites reads to me like a warning to potential askers: "_Better think whether you want to post on codidact or rather ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284876 |
What's the point of your point 1? Immediately after posing this question, you proceed to include a quote from Scott's answer that precisely describes the difference between "bleed" and "slug". (o.O)??? ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284851 |
@#36363 you misread. I did not write "_in the long term_". I wrote "_in the **short** term_". The key here is long vs. short. Nobody here can make reasonable long term predictions... ;-) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284851 |
While i can't offer another crystal ball in case you have misplaced your own crystal ball, perhaps a [Magic 8-Ball](https://magic-8ball.com/) could help you answer this question? (In earnest, how should anyone except the companies/developers offering such products be able to answer such a question? E... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284840 |
Don't use file copy for such a task. A file copy normally neither preserves file/folder permissions nor accounts for symbolic links and junctions a Windows installation might use for whatever purposes. But even if you have a copy utility/method that accounts for these things, there is then still the ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284793 |
You might try the suggestions and troubleshooting tips given here: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/377783-matlab-process-is-too-slow (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284792 |
That's pointless and nonsensical. That means nothing. Connect your Wifi to the same slow internet connection, and then make a point about Wifi not being faster/slower than ethernet in your case because the bottleneck is the speed of your internet connection, or due to differences in the two different... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284792 |
Lol no. Absolutely no. Your screenshot is not showing ethernet speed. It's showing the speed of your **internet** connection (internet is not the same as ethernet -- the two words mean and describe two entirely different things). Even the ancient 100 Mb/s ethernet from 1995 is obviously faster than t... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284792 |
"_So my opinion is, receiver is much much more better than Ethernet_" I am really curious, how _exactly_ do you think is this receiver better than Ethernet? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284689 |
The bandwidth/speed of Wifi adapters as specified include protocol/communication overhead. Naturally, due to this overhead, the usable speed/bandwidth will be somewhat slower than that. If you get near/close to 2 Mb/s usable on a 2 Mb/s connection, then it is as good as it can be. You will never get ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284581 |
...or did you just used an incorrect text encoding when attempting to edit the file? As you already noted, the documentation explicitly mentions that this file can be edited manually. This, while not being hard proof, is a strong indication of .viminfo being a text file... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284577 |
@#53919, aside from directly editing .viminfo (which shouldn't be too difficult, as it is a text file; just make sure to use the proper text encoding vim used for saving this file when editing it), there is also the vim script function `histdel` which allows deleting entries from the command history ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284308 |
"_How do i play this video in YouTube_" It seems you can't, as it seems to be a "leftover" of ye olde GoogleVideo service (perhaps there is some service out there that is able to translate old GoogleVideo urls to youtube urls that would play the video inside the YouTube UI; i don't know, though...). ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284144 |
@JohnDoea "_so I seek a few (say, up to five) very plausible reasons_" Roll a dice 5 times. After every roll, take the item at the position the dice indicates from the list of possible culprits Canina has identified. There, you got your five plausible fault scenarios. Hope this helps... ;-P (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283845 |
@#36377, there are also a number of online JSON validators out there that help in checking the syntactic correctness of some json text... ;-) (There is even one integrated in duckduckgo; you get it by searching for something like "json validator" in duckduckgo.) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283232 |
@VLDR that screenshot also cryptically talks about total line counts of 9 and 8, respectively. Nothing in that screenshot makes obvious sense. Perhaps the book chapter from which you took the screenshot provides meaningful context to what is being claimed in the screenshot, but since you are the one ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283241 |
With respect to the Windows logs, as far as i know it's still using the event log, which you should be able to inspect with the Windows Event Viewer. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283241 |
First figure out the kind of "turning off" you are dealing with. Is it a regular shutdown by the OS, or a BSOD (in the case of a BSOD, i would normally not expect the system powering off but rather restarting or staying in the BSOD, but who knows...), or is it just the hardware unceremoniously turnin... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283232 |
Did you actually count the actual characters, or is your question just a hot take? In my _justified_ opinion, the assumption your question is based on is completely and totally false. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283159 |
While the Pixel 1, released in 2016, only supports up to Android 10, the Pixel 2 (released in 2017) is still supported by Android 11. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283159 |
For their own phones, Google can at least come close to what Apple does. Like Apple, Google is in the position of controlling the OS as well as the hardware (Google's phones, i mean) the OS is running on. One thing Apple does actually rather well is supporting older models of their products (occasion... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283153 |
Why do you think the claim stated by the phone are _false_? For all i can tell, what the phone tells appears to be _truthful_. It's a 7 years old phone model, so basically Android 4.x.x is (sadly) to be expected "_up-to-date_" with respect to the support and SW update policy given by its manufacturer... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282977 |
@VLDR a mic of a quality similar to the Zalman ZM-MIC1 doesn't cost anywhere near USD 90. Lol... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282961 |
(A side note: I don't want to ask how/why you would think there are two 3.5 mm jacks -- but no, on the photo you drew the big fat green arrows on it is very clearly visible that there is only a single 3.5 mm jack...) (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282961 |
If you don't like spending the four or five bucks these things cost, there is also the option of measuring the length of the contacts on a 3.5 mm headset plug (if you have a headset with such a plug), and trying to tape off the areas of the microphone plug that would overlap the headphone contacts on... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |