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Posts by matthewsnyder
The obvious risk is probably developing myopia due to prolonged focusing on a near object. This is similar to the idea that being on the computer too much exacerbates myopia (and perhaps also the i...
With overclocking, it's probably just the standard caveats: It might damage your hardware (although this seems unlikely for merely changing memory speeds) Your software might become unstable (B...
It seems like many smart TVs use firmware/OS based on Linux or Android. I would guess that by now somebody must have tried putting their own software (mainstream Linux distro or custom OS) on one o...
It should be safe. You might have to do a little troubleshooting for the first boot with the new drive. The risks that I can see are: When your motherboard detects that a new drive is added, it...
For the last year or so, when I go to old.reddit.com I get the "whoa there, pardner" message with some garbage about scripts. reddit.com says "You've been blocked by network security.". I do use a...
I'm a big believer in benchmark vs. cost, so I would suggest the following approach: Determine "current power" of the hardware you currently have. Do some representative task on it and measure p...
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 1...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
The URL https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/1?cid=abc123 is not the right format for the From URL field. https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/1?cid=abc123 goes to a website showing the calend...
I have created a Google calendar in Google account A. In the calendar's settings, under Access permissions for events, I have left Make available to public unchecked. When I click Get shareable lin...
How do you unlock about:config settings which are locked? How do you set them despite being locked? As an example, Librewolf disables the password manager, which I find silly. However, they also d...
I tried to use my Wireguard VPN on Android, and, it sucks! I installed https://f-droid.org/packages/com.wireguard.android/ thinking that would be "the" wireguard app. I configured it with my conne...
I know three options: Blender - generic 3D modeling software. Very powerful, with many features and large community. A few years ago it used to be notorious for its steep learning curve. It is p...
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.
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 t...
Google SketchUp used to be very popular among amateur "builders" - people would use it to design woodworking projects, 3D printer models, house renovations and so forth. The main strength was that ...
When I receive a call with Google Voice open in a browser on my desktop, it only rings briefly in the browser (about 2 seconds). After that, my phone starts ringing. When I'm at my computer, I wan...
It seems possible to do this with unlockPref. unlockPref("signon.rememberSignons"); This technically only "unlocks" the setting, but in my case when unlocked it changes to true on its own in ab...
Brave The Brave project was started by Brendan Eich, one of the key figures in original Firefox, after he left the Mozilla foundation due to political reasons. From this, one could presume that it...
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 ...
I want to use a local folder in the Maildir format with Thunderbird. I have other programs set up that bring mail to this folder, I just need Thunderbird to view and sort them. I found https://sup...
I don't believe this addresses the question at all, because the question is asking about threat to the user. I personally suspect that adopting 3rd party authentication is often not driven by threa...
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 bloa...
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