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A: How can I get my browser to block a specific SVG (Discord server icon)? One possibility is to use an ad-blocker that can hide HTML elements based on a filter expression. I haven't used AdBlock for many years, so i can't say whether AdBlock can do it. However, uBlock Origin (also an ad-blocker) can do this. uBlock Origin can filter out unwanted HTML elements based on ... (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) |
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A: How to add a partition of Disk 1, to another partition of Disk 0? If you ask strictly about partitions, then you can't... One partition is on one disk, the other partition is on another disk. Therefore, you cannot combine/merge both partitions. One part(ition) of a disk cannot be at the same time also be a part(ition) of a separate disk. (That is, unless you... (more) |
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A: Why does my external Hard Drive keep squealing? Nobody can tell with 100% certainty, but better be safe than sorry: If this is your only backup, then get another HDD for backup. I would suggest to get yourself some diagnostic tool that can read S.M.A.R.T. information (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.) from the HDD, for example CrystalDi... (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 |
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helpful | 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 |
| Suggested Edit | Post #284602 |
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helpful | 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 |
| Comment | Post #282961 |
I don't know for sure, but somewhere in the OS settings (or perhaps somewhere in some Lenovo utility program) there could perhaps be an option to configure the 3.5 mm jack as either headset, line-in, microphone, line-out, headphone, whatever port. If there is no such setting to be found, try a 3.5 mm... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282365 |
Okay, well, if the Wikipedia article says that data is units of information and that's what you are asking about, then the answer is simple: Your ISO contains units of information. Even after turning off the VM, your ISO is still fully intact, containing still all the units of information it had orig... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282365 |
Edit your question then so that the question makes it clear what kind of data your question is concerned about :-) (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282365 |
You need to be more specific about what kind of data you are referring to. Generally, if data is stored on some RAM disk (whether it's in the VM or on the host side), then the data is gone when the OS is shut down/restarted or the VM/host is turned off. Note that VirtualBox also has support for "immu... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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