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Activity for Andreas witnessed the end of the world today
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #292751 |
A historical mistake needed to comply with, or a benefit in certain situations? (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292751 |
Well, that's unfortunate. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292445 |
@#36377 You're talking to the undisputed NLN comment deleter champion on SO! :P
Correction: Undisputed _2nd_ champion, apparently. Here I am, spreading misinformation... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292284 |
> obtrusive malware
It's not correct to label it malware; that's a misuse of the term.
Many monitors, even dumb ones, have come with an OS, or firmware on the motherboard, for colour calibration, etc. This one just takes it to an extreme, and is more or less designed around "your monitor is yo... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292284 |
@#36377 It's not about downgrading, merely getting rid of annoying features. Getting rid of the entire OS may do that, but it would be sufficient if there are controls in the OS that let you remove the noisy parts. Quite honestly, this hasn't been on top of my list of things to get done, so I haven't... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292329 |
Two drawbacks with this approach:
1. It will instantly rescale every webpage, making you lose existing settings, which is unfortunate. I don't want every webpage at 80%, just most of them. Some I keep at 100%, while others at 90%.
2. It provides far less options than when scrolling with the mouse... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292328 |
Aha! It's that simple! Thanks. You should post that as an answer. "Default zoom" is just "Skalering" in my language, though, but I guess covering translations in user interfaces is outside the scope here. That said, we do need a discussion about it elsewhere (not this comment section), because I freq... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292328 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Question | — |
Set a default zoom level for all websites How do I tell Firefox to default to 80% for every new web page it opens? 100% is too big, and the system doesn't support fractional scaling well, so every time I land on a new domain name, I have to hold down `Ctrl` and scroll the mouse wheel to see web pages comfortably. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292288 |
It's a home desktop computer for game playing, and the motherboard supports it. I'm quite certain I was able to configure it in the UEFI before I installed the OS. I did not, but I could have. Anyway, RAID has use cases for home users as well, so I think it's a fair question to ask if you have enable... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292284 |
It was on sale, and effectively the cheapest 4K monitor I was able to get. I had a budget, and this was the only viable monitor within that budget. Replacing it with another monitor would therefore not be an option. My eyes were getting seriously worn out due to a 17" 1920x1080 screen. Even with 2K, ... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292288 |
Post edited: The OS should not be a necessary component of the question. |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292288 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Question | — |
Is it safe to simply insert more disks into my motherboard? I currently have a single disk in my computer, containing the boot partition, as well as all my data. I also have one or more secondary disks that I'd like to insert into the motherboard (either NVMe M.2 or SATA). These already contain data that I'd like to keep and have accessible from my user accou... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292284 |
Post edited: Sorry, had to. Roll back if the humour was misplaced. :P |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292284 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Question | — |
Turning a Samsung smart screen into a dumb computer monitor I recently acquired a Samsung "gaming" screen (Samsung 28" Odyssey G7 4K 28BG700) to be the monitor for my desktop. Unfortunately, it seems to want to be everything but a simple monitor for my computer. It really wants to be a computer and multimedia hub of its own, resulting in quite a bit of noise ... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290081 |
Doesn't this belong on the Software Development site? It's strongly programming related, to the best of my knowledge. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |