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A: Trouble Running Diablo 2 resurrected on Windows 10 Home How sad. I remember playing Diablo 2 as a wee lad, I think my computer at the time was a Celeron with an S3 Savage video card with 8 MB of memory. And then we have this "remake", probably with bloatware frameworks stacked on bloatware frameworks... God only knows where the horsepower is going. I f... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #288894 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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A: How can I transmit my current location to someone else's phone? Surely there is a more elegant way, but I simply take a screenshot of the map (with a pip showing my location) and send it to the other person. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #288810 |
This is kind of a broad topic. I tried to frame it as more of an overview and starting point for deep dives into each individual aspect, but my answer has still ended up quite long. I'm happy to consider breaking this up into multiple posts, if anyone thinks it would be useful.
Of course, if we po... (more) |
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A: What technical steps can I take to reduce Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) and discomfort from heavy computer use? 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 avoiding the mouse as much as possible and getting an ergonomic keyboard. Choice of hardware and software... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #288808 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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What technical steps can I take to reduce Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) and discomfort from heavy computer use? 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 some issues for me like wrist pain (repetitive strain injury/carpal tunnel syndrome) and back pain. Wh... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #288807 |
I obviously did not ask the question for my own benefit, but to share some knowledge that took me a lot of time and effort to grok, and which is not well explained elsewhere on the internet. I tried to make this clear with a preface to the answer. Given that, I'm happy to accept substantial rewrites ... (more) |
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A: How do I check email without depending on a mail client? 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 explore each one in more detail. The solution here is to separate the mail synchronization (receivin... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #288806 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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How do I check email without depending on a mail client? 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 filters are always some arcane, hard to use scheme that is difficult to version in a dotfiles repo, the pr... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #288804 |
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| Comment | Post #288492 |
Are you looking for a better *language*, and are okay with figuring out what programs you will use to write and read it? Or are you more concerned with the software, rather than the specifics of the language (so long as it's not markdown)? I think these are two separate questions, and it would be bet... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #288492 |
Btw, I say this because there are two ways to answer your question: By taking everything you said at face value and just mechanically picking the closest thing (requirements), or by trying to read between the lines and figure out what it is you *actually* want (the context). When most people ask ques... (more) |
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A: HTML and Markdown aren't right for me. What other text markup types are around? There is always a trade off between ease of writing and reading. HTML, Latex, rich text (docx/rtf) have excellent readability if prepared right, but writing in them is difficult. Plaintext is easy to write, but limited formatting can hamper readability. Which do you pick? It depends on how much you w... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #288492 |
There are two aspects to your question: The background/context for what issues you've had with Markdown and so on, and the requirements you have for what you want instead. IMO the latter is more important, although the first part does add color and helps interpret the requirements where they may be v... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #288492 |
IMO the *problem* in this question is a perfect example of Q&A at its best - real questions like this about real use cases were always the most useful thing about Stack* sites, they drove traffic and promoted the most effective community collaboration. The later obsession with completely objective tr... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #288803 |
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Hardware for occasional direct control of personal server 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 control it with SSH. There are occasional times when SSH is not possible. For example, when the server... (more) |
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