matthewsnyder‭

What is a good browser suitable for every-day use that respects user privacy and freedom? This browser should: Respect user privacy. Ideally no telemetry, or at least opt-in telemetry. Does not...

4 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

I use computers heavily, both for work and out of personal habits. It's probably typical for me to spend ~60 hours a week at a computer (how depressing, I know). Over the years, this has caused so...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Alexei‭

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...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Journeymangeek ‭

I use email frequently, for many things, some of them important (banks, work). From what I've seen, all the offline mail clients (like Thunderbird, Evolution, Kmail) suck for a power user - mail fi...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭

I think there are two aspects to this: Modifying your choice of hardware and software for various tasks, and improving quality of ergonomics in the chosen *ware. In sum, for me it comes down to avo...

posted 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭

I use metric units in some projects, imperial in others. It's annoying having to keep switching global units every time. Is there a way in FreeCAD to set the units per-document? When I open a docu...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by H_H‭

Firefox family browsers. These have good compatibility because Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari are the browsers most commonly tested by web developers. With more obscure browsers, many commercial...

posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 1y ago by mcp‭

A lot of sites these days use OTP. I'm not very familiar with this, but you normally install an app like Google Authenticator on your phone. The app serves an OTP code on demand which you enter alo...

2 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Zoe‭

I think the way to interpret the site name is not "this site is for power users only", but rather "this site is for any aspiring power user". It doesn't really matter if you're not an expert, and ...

posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

qutebrowser Qutebrowser is a small, independent project that is not a fork of any major browser. It is notable in being designed for keyboard-only navigation, inspired by the Vimium extension, whi...

posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

LLMs (AI) have limited context windows which makes it challenging to include all necessary context in the prompt. A common solution is a memory book. The memory book stores arbitrarily large amoun...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Zer0‭

My hard drive is making a screeching/scraping/scratching sound. Is this bad? Will it explode? What I do? How do I figure out which hard drive is doing it, if I have multiple?

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Lundin‭

Firefox is apparently able to automatically import all that: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switching-chrome-firefox I personally don't use these auto-imports. I find that browser migration ...

posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

When I type HTML in VS Code, it adds linebreaks to the content of the tag when it is over a certain length. How can I disable this? I tried setting html.format.wrapAttributes to preserve and html....

0 answers  ·  posted 12mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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...

0 answers  ·  posted 6d ago by matthewsnyder‭