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 7mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 7mo 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 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 10mo 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 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 7mo 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 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 10mo 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 10mo 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 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 8mo 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 7mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by mcp‭

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 3mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

This is a broad topic, and I can't address all the details fully in one post. Instead, I will post an overview with enough keywords in each area, and leave it to the reader (and other questions) to...

posted 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 10mo 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 7mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

SVG apparently has an <animate> tag which can do this. The thing you would animate is the offset of the points/dashes on the line. This is called <stroke-dashoffset>. It sounds like y...

posted 6mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

I would handle this with git bisect. Assuming you have a known good old commit C_GOOD (this would be your "since") and a known bad new commit C_BAD (this would be your "until"), git bisect start C_...

posted 6mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

What is the easiest way to set up a mailing list? The goal is to send an email to one address, and it gets automatically re-sent to everyone who is currently subscribed to that list. Ideally, the ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by manassehkatz‭

Are there US stock brokers that allow programmatic access for retail investing? I would like to be able to connect to my broker's API to check my stock portfolio and place trades. I'm not looking ...

0 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

I have a home network, including a server (not on public internet) that runs various services. For example, a Nextcloud instance with family photos. Currently, the server is connected to my router...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by matthewsnyder‭