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| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #291203 |
Just WireGuard to the good one and use it all the time. (Haha. I know: latency, etc.) (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288810 |
I have a family member who meticulously maintains their [giant trackball](https://forum.trackballs.eu/viewtopic.php?t=6) that Logitech doesn't make anymore. If you know a good substitute, I'd be interested. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #291098 |
Suggested edit: Natural language link (more) |
declined | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290915 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Question | — |
Vim horizontal scrollbind skips first scroll if it's the very first interaction I have a custom spreadsheet viewer in Vim that splits the headers into a top pane and the rest into a bottom pane. I bind horizontal scrolling so that scrolling right keeps the headers above the content. The problem is that if the very first thing I do is scroll to the right, the header in the top... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290886 |
With a membrane keyboard, wouldn't you just replace the whole thing? The question makes sense to me for a mechanical keyboard with individually-extractable keys, but I'm not sure how a diagnostic program helps you in your circumstances. The question is fine and interesting, but I'm curious what you'd... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290686 |
Post edited: Label is offscreen. Add a hint. =) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #290686 |
Suggested edit: Label is offscreen. Add a hint. =) (more) |
helpful | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290664 |
You may be right that there isn't enough data in the form of formal studies yet. I thought that maybe there would be by now, since I have a 5-year-old headset and there were VR devices a few years earlier than that. I suppose it'd be hard to get unbiased study funding for a hypothetical problem when ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290664 |
You definitely sent me down a rabbit hole with the first paragraph. It's a little weird to hear that we don't have a lock on what causes myopia even though it's demonstrably more common in developed economies. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288523 |
[Inconsistent tagged question counts](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/290623) (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290624 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Question | — |
Are there consequences for going VR for primary computer display? Is there research into the effects of replacing physical monitors with virtual reality "monitors" for daily use? I imagine that VR is not great for one's eyes, but is it worse than a monitor 50cm from your face? If so, how much worse? (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290524 |
Post edited: Mention more triggers requested by original Asker |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290035 |
Post edited: Move the relevant version number up to the first line. |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290524 |
Post edited: Crib the features list |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290524 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Practical wireguard VPN on Android There's a new WireGuard app on F-Droid called [WG Tunnel][], probably owing to dissatisfaction with the official app. It claims to sport a quick toggle in the drawer, and you can split-tunnel by application. It's not clear to me whether you can set time-of-day triggers to use the tunnel(s), but th... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290035 |
Post edited: Stress the version in the footnote, too. |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290035 |
Post edited: All the links! |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290105 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Automated Git bisect Inspired by this comment thread, is there a way to automate `git bisect` with a new test (and a known good state)? The way things usually work for me is… - Oh no! Reproducible bug is found. - (Manually) find a release where it wasn't present. - `git bisect` and flag the identified startin... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #281836 |
Post edited: Fix typo in tag |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290069 |
Post edited: Commentary |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290098 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Tag hierarchies What is the tag hierarchy vision for Power User? I see nested OS versions under a main tag, but I was curious whether any of these made sense to nest as well: - `web-browsers` + `firefox`, `microsoft-edge`, etc. - Some new tag for MS Office + `microsoft-word`, `microsoft-excel`, etc. ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #281836 |
Suggested edit: Fix typo in tag (more) |
helpful | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290069 |
Post edited: Link David's answer |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290069 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Determine encoding of text If your goal is to fix your files like David Cary's `iconv`ing does, but you can't tell the mis-encodings that transpired to create your text, you can use a little Python and the `ftfy` library[^1] as found in PyPI to undo the mess. > ## Some quick examples > Here are some examples (found in the ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290035 |
I have 055a. I added the version to the main post, but the edit was after I replied to your comment. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290035 |
Post edited: UI steps as list |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290035 |
Post edited: Link Pi-hole |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290035 |
Post edited: Footnote "VPN" behavior |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290035 |
Post edited: Add version |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290035 |
I don't have images, but I've written out the place to get to the right UI. I think for "VPN," they mean OpenVPN. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290035 |
Post edited: Added some UI commentary |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290035 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Practical wireguard VPN on Android [RethinkDNS][] includes a WireGuard option since [v0.5.5][]. The development team was sponsored in 2020 by Mozilla's now-defunct "Builders Program." Rethink was originally an on-device "VPN"[^1] with a DNS filter and app firewall, basically a [Pi-Hole][] analogue for your Android device, but the s... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
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