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| Edit | Post #291203 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
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How to configure custom DNS for only one Wifi network? One of the Wifi networks I connect to has a DNS server on it, which is better than public ones. This DNS server is not available when connected to other networks. When I'm on this network, I want my phone to use eg. `192.168.1.2` as the DNS. When on other networks, it should use the default automa... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #288810 |
I don't have as much experience with trackballs, but it seems like https://old.reddit.com/r/Trackballs/ has a bunch of useful information. (more) |
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A: How can I make moving from Chrome to Firefox as simple as possible? 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 is an opportunity for spring cleaning and decluttering my config. You can exports bookmarks to HTML, a... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291141 |
Indeed! But it's not an SSD. I thought "hard drive" already meant spinny drive. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291141 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
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My hard drive is screeching, now what? 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? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291066 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
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A: Is there a memory book for humans? Not a real answer, but may be interesting: Silly Tavern includes a memory book Of course, Silly Tavern is a frontend for talking to AIs. So passages from the memory book will be shown to the AI, not you. There are various ways you could see them anyway (view full prompt, ask AI to repeat them) but... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291065 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
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Is there a memory book for humans? 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 amounts of text (typically past conversations as well as reference material like wikipedia articles), segme... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #290986 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
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A: Browser video sometimes stops working; how can I figure out why? Does the Mac Mini have a GPU? This sounds like something that could happen due to a graphics driver issue. AFAIK Youtube relies on the HTML5 `video` element. If it freezes in all browsers, it's probably not a browser problem. Nevertheless, most browsers (eg. Firefox) have a "Safe Mode" which start... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #290980 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
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A: What are the security or privacy implications of browser clipboard events? It's hard to comment definitively on this because both attack vectors and countermeasures evolve rapidly. My guess would be that Firefox would not allow tab X to see that you copied something on tab Y. It's a DOM method so presumably it is specific to that page. This would also be the only logical... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #290639 |
Post edited: Cleaned up tangents, made the question fit the site style a bit more. |
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| Edit | Post #290886 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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Is there a program for systematically testing keyboard function? My keyboard is getting old and occasionally I notice the key presses don't quite register. This keyboard uses membrane switches so I can see how they would wear out after a while and not be as responsive. I haven't been able to take careful note of which keys exactly are failing and how often. ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #290826 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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A: Best practices for small, internet-critical company's ISP for maximal uptime Your only real option here is redundancy. Besides what manassehkatz explained already, you can also open a second office in a different location. It seems unlikely that internet would fail in two different cities at once, and this will work even when there is an ISP monopoly in each area. (more) |
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A: Recommended way to back up large photo/video library on iOS device I believe the recommended solution by Apple would be to buy a more expensive phone with more storage. This is usually not a very good deal financially. For example, currently the iPhone 15 has a 128GB model for $800, while the 512GB model is $1100, so they want you to pay $300 more. Meanwhile a 50... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #290718 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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How can I separate a home LAN to isolate resources? 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 by Ethernet, while other devices connect to the WiFi. All computers can see each other. I want to ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290709 |
Good luck! Once you get past some boilerplate it has, it actually has a pretty intuitive API (compared to others like beautifulsoup which are themselves considered "easy"). Glancing at their docs, also, I think it's gotten a little bit easier since I last used it.
When finding the elements, I find... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290694 |
Ah, got it. So it really comes down to figuring out a way to bulk import into DW at this point.
I tried searching a bit when I saw this question, and I was very surprised that DW docs don't have a whole section explaining how exactly to import markdown. They do discuss importing from other wikis, ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #290711 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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A: Alternative to Cheese that allows custom capture directory? After posting this, I realized that I could simply replace `/Pictures/Webcam` with a symlink. Perhaps this is what the devs intended, in some Zen/Koan way... I would still like to know if there is a good alternative that provides this obvious feature directly. Also, with the symlink it's harder to... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #290710 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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A: Are non power users questions welcome in Power Users? 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 there isn't much of a bar for a question being too simple. If it's so simple, then it should take a mi... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #290709 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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A: How can I do a one-time data import to DokuWiki to create many pages? While I was writing the answer, I realized that actually Selenium can be used to do this without any need for Dokuwiki plugins that support your specific use case. Selenium is an automated Chrome, where you can have a Python script open Chrome, go to a URL, find a link, click it, fill out some forms,... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290694 |
Also, if DW is not cooperating on imports, you have two more "nuclear options":
1. Export a backup of DW. Change it to contain pages you want. "Restore" the backup. This assumes you won't hit the metadata problem again.
2. When submitting a DW page, have inspector view open and capture the HTTP r... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290694 |
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4. Lastly it sounds like there are some cases where multiple records are actually the same beer but different dates etc and need to be combined in a single page. This is trickier. If there's not too many such cases it would be easier to do it manually. If there's a lot, I think you would prob... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290694 |
I think there's several things being asked here. Or at least it seems like any solution will almost certainly have to decompose the problem:
1. Iterate over the records in a spreadsheet, one at a time. You probably want to export to something simple like CSV or JSON if the original spreadsheet is ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290639 |
I agree that the apps in the links are the obvious answer. I feel like the best outcome here is that either the apps in the reddit thread can be posted here as an answer and accepted, or OP should edit the question to clearly state what additional requirement they have that makes those apps not work.... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290639 |
I agree that the question is not well written. However, it's a new user and what they're asking is a useful question (if rewritten). It's also something that SX unreasonably bans ("recommendation") so it's an opportunity to demonstrate why CD is better. So I tried to do an edit that improves it, and ... (more) |
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