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  Fixing a stubborn application?
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  Thanks, everybody. It's given me some ideas and insights. It's a daunting task, but I now have a clearer picture of what I should be focussing on.
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  So what do people know about implementing SSO/OAUTH?
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  @Benjamin-Hall said in So what do people know about implementing SSO/OAUTH?: not in academia any more. Thankfully. In this case, it's academia as in “complex federation of organizations that have to collaborate and cross-authenticate to get something that everyone wants without really trusting each other”. A lot of people assume that all of academia is just dumb-ass subject wanking and backstabbing; while that's mostly true, there's a core of university IT that has some intensely complex problems that are rarely found in industry. Industry tends to go with “my way or the highway” for virtually everything, but academia can't get away with that simplification. (From time to time an IT department tries the industrial approach. And then promptly gets defunded when the professoriate finally agrees on a common enemy.)
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  Potentially Useful Spelling Clarifications
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  Anyone know much about photo work?
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  I got a sticker, but the background is white and the surfaces I want to put it on are black. What's the safest way to render the white substrate transparent? I still need it to stick to things after.
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  Who's in charge here?
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  @boomzilla the ball bearings in the nodes or whatever.
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  RAM Substitution
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  I decided that these guys deserved to pay some extra shipping for their fuck up. Got an RMA# and just dropped it off the the FedEx store.
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  Releasing dotnet and sql packages
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  @dkf To know it has found all the parts correctly it needs the version in the built packages, and in the dependency references (where you can have a range, though we tend to always have fixed versions). But it could read the version of the package being built from some other where. But it can't. There is a git commit id plugin that can fill the git version in a bunch of places, but it does not reliably work for the package version. @Kamil-Podlesak said in Releasing dotnet and sql packages: @Bulb said in Releasing dotnet and sql packages: Just for the record - this is definitely not needed with gradle, which can load version from anywhere (I am constructing it from git hash in some projects; edit: only for rc and release builds, even). Something something about habit and iron shirts. The main java developer knows gradle would be better, but he created the projects using the maven template and the warthog has been kneeling ever since.
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  Funny or interesting logging stories
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  @dkf said in Funny or interesting logging stories: @Kamil-Podlesak You want the health check to go to the real service that you're monitoring, and not some proxy that can report something else unhelpful (e.g., I've seen machines where the OS kernel responded to ping but all user processes were dead because /etc/init was unwell). You probably need to make sure that you've got a really cheap operation that they can do without lots of authentication, but which is nonetheless served by the service. You can have infrastructure monitoring as well but it tells a subtly different story to service monitoring. Yeah, the same service of course, but not the same endpoint (ie, not the same path in the url). And yes, even that by itself just means that the HTTP server is up - that's where the internal monitoring part is important. Also, I assume that the HTTP server is part of the service process, not a proxy.
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  There is no process associated with the object. But why?</ryanreynolds>
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  @JBert I've since moved the try-catch to inside the lock, leaving no exceptions uncatched, but thanks for bringing that up anyway. I've also changed it to use a temp variable during initialization to be extra cautious. I'm using a "Global\" mutex in the main method of the auxiliary process as well. This whole code shouldn't actually require reentrancy 99.99% of the time, since it's either triggered once a day off working hours or, in very special cases, by just one not-trigger-happy person during working hours. It's in fact quite a mystery how it's failing. I think I'll need to rewrite this thing soon anyway, since it doesn't account for auxiliary processes which might have started running before the calling application (re)started.
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  Trademark infringement
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  @Gąska said in Trademark infringement: @boomzilla said in Trademark infringement: buying stuff there "buying" stuff there Also given that the item is no longer available, it's possible that people clicked through and actually bought something.
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  Remote desktop sharing for support
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  @SirTwist said in Remote desktop sharing for support: If you had Windows and a Microsoft account, you could just use Quick Assist, which is just part of Win10. Yeah, that's cool, but also right out for being convenient for me to use.
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  IdentityServer and Blazor
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  So, I added a second Client to the server so that a 2nd app could auth against it (which was the whole point of that exercise to begin with!). Seemed easy enough: The configuration takes an List<Client> which I interpreted as "simply add another entry to it for another client". Did so, gave the 2nd app different client ids, passwords and redirect URIs as it should be and everything worked fine. Then I put the client into production and everything was not fine. For some reason, and I have no clue as to why, the Identity Server says upon an auth attempt: Hey, you gave me the credentials for App2 and the id for App2 but I get the redirect URI of App1? No auth for you! Tried a lot of things but in the end I resorted to a hack which for some godforsaken reason actually works: I simply plonked the redirect URI of App2 into the list of allowed redir-Uris of App1 and that worked. The only difference between the ID-server in dev and prod is that whole https-debacle - but that has nothing to do with the actual content of the requests. And yes, I already checked, the creds for App1 are referenced nowhere in App2.
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  MacBook CPU throttling problem
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  @Ante-Dujić said in MacBook CPU throttling problem: I’m a noob to this stuff, so please don’t mind if i use wrong terms and stuff I don't mind at all. I write code for the most part, but I've had a few bits of dodgy hardware in the past and can remember some of the details.
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  Direct arbitrary-arity currying in java
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  @bobjanova said in Direct arbitrary-arity currying in java: Yeah, if you're happy with the Function<A,B> family. It's really about the semantics of what you're doing with the functions. Writing a functional interface is extremely easy (any interface with just one method in it to implement will do) but writing the code to consume that and do something useful can be… more work, possibly a lot more. It depends on what's going on really. Passing an absolutely arbitrary method isn't so easy, but that's because the semantics of that make it exceptionally difficult to use in any meaningful way.
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  Playing a card game on an online meeting
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  Reminded me of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaXo_i3ktwM There's also at least one followup video on the same channel, but my initial google didn't turn it up.
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  Monitor Recommendations
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  That seems very expensive for a monitor stand. I bought this one https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B07KBXH3N6?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title Which looks pretty similar and has been perfect for me
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  Linux /w KDE Neon: yep I am that adventurous :-D
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  @iKnowItsLame said in Linux /w KDE Neon: yep I am that adventurous :-D: PS: don't ask why the screenshots have a different heigth/width It's resizing your images to a max width of 600px. Viewing the images on their own shows they're (approximately) the same height
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  Weird svn merge
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  @JBert said in Weird svn merge: The trick is then to get the right final state. In git that's relatively easy to do by cherry-picking into a temp branch, in SVN it's slightly more of a mess. One can replay commits on a local git to solve a merge and put it back on svn
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  Hacking the scammers
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  @HardwareGeek said in Hacking the scammers: @Gurth said in Hacking the scammers: Most of them are working from a script and if the victim deviates from that too much, the scammer will just keep trying to follow the script rather than play along and improvise. So they're not too dumb to do first-line tech support after all? I didn't say they are too dumb though.
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  Which Dell laptop line isn't crap?
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  @nerd4sale I've had nothing but problems with insporons to the point where I swore off them. Of particular note was the TouchPad not working properly on one with no remedy.
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  Should I migrate a installer away from NSIS if rewriting a large part of it?
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  @sockpuppet7 said in Should I migrate a installer away from NSIS if rewriting a large part of it?: @ender It downloads files and data, do some network checks, and talks to serial ports to check if some hardware is present. I think we can move some of this stuff out of the installer It sounds like a lot of that stuff probably doesn't belong in an installer. Installation and configuration are really 2 separate things. Many people try to do both in an installer. That makes installers complicated (and harder to maintain)! (Installing drivers is an entirely different story. That's just simply complicated.)
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  My snake is 'ard
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  @remi said in My snake is 'ard: no idea whether that's an Arduino-specific name or a generic electronics one? It's Arduino-specific. Shields are designed to be more-or-less plug and play, they usually come with instructions and sample code you can use to experiment with. And there are plenty of different ones on the market, featuring almost all kinds of extra hardware you may think of. Based on what you said about your nephew, I don't think he'd have much trouble getting them working.
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  Banks in Germany
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  I'd like to thank everyone for your suggestions. My friend tells me she was really unfortunate to go to the Deutsche Bank first because it sounded like $default_bank for her. She'll try to move her account to Commerzbank or Sparkasse.
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  Windows 7 Enterprise activation - what's the real story?
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  IIRC outside of KMS activation the rules are the same as other editions, so worst case you might need to use the telephone activation if it's still allowed for 7.
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  How to set up ICS from tethered phone to wifi
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  @djls45 said in How to set up ICS from tethered phone to wifi: @dkf There are also apps that can do the bridging themselves, like PdaNet+, which prevents the OS from being able to track the tethering/hotspot data separately from other (i.e. app) data usage. Oh, I remember using that way back when! Thanks for that blast from the past.
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  Help me set up my new mini pc
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  @Tsaukpaetra said in Help me set up my new mini pc: You'll be hard-pressed to do anything more than Nintendo 64 era stuff. I was suprised of how much games worked just fine on this pc with integraded intel graphics. I played XCOM 2, civilization 6, the sims 4, factorio and lego games in this thing with no problem. Its the intel hd graphics 520 on an old i5 (I think it's the 6th generation of i5) (with graphics on the lowest setting, but still good IMO)
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  Need some kind of KVM or something
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  I use an ATEN 4-way dual-DVI KVM switch, for which I paid several hundred euros. In my workflow though I don't switch very frequently; it's really about saving desk space. It works fine except when I need to full-reboot my work laptop, as mcafee disk encryption relies on the bios keyboard detection and the bios doesn't like USB hubs. I'll probably have to replace it with a display port model when I eventually end up replacing my current monitors, but I'm not in a rush.
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  No external monitor on Ubuntu laptop
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  @HardwareGeek OK, well, I'd start by looking at dmesg, lspci (for sanity, make sure the PC can see the card's pci interface), and /var/log/boot.log.
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  Removing Smoke
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  @Karla said in Removing Smoke: That's always been the most likely entry point. I recall when not working from home, smoke smell, then it would dissipate in by the end of an hour. Those times, I assumed a group was smoking outside and then left. It is far more frequent than that, and the couple times we went outside and checked under and around our window and didn't see anything. Maybe you should put a no smoking sign under your window. If the super doesn't take it down, it might actually work.
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  Unix makefile help
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  @cvi said in Unix makefile help: @dcon said in Unix makefile help: Now I have pages and pages of undefined linkage errors. When linking against the .a, you probably need to pull in additional dependencies that the .a has. (That's probably what curl-config returns in addition, and what causes the "cannot find" errors.) I don't have a static build of libcurl here; looking at the dynamic library (via ldd), it additionally depends on libnghttp2, libssl, and so on. You would have to pass those to the linker as well. I put the curl-config cmd into the makefile. That generated many 'cannot find' errors for various libs. Maybe if I wade thru them, I can apt install some other packages, but right now, - too much magic involved.
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  USB C or Thunderbolt 3 hub/dock
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  @mikehurley this lenovo dock seems to meet all your requirements at around 170$
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  Kekekeke
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  @remi Yeah, definitely. I think white walls typically reflect IR. This is easily tested by taking your TV remote, pointing it at the wall opposite the TV, pressing the on/off button, and seeing what happens. And then in 3 years you repaint your living room and wonder why this doesn't work anymore.
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  Anyone with 3rd gen Ryzen to borrow?
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  @PleegWat said in Anyone with 3rd gen Ryzen to borrow?: @Tsaukpaetra said in Anyone with 3rd gen Ryzen to borrow?: @topspin said in Anyone with 3rd gen Ryzen to borrow?: @Tsaukpaetra said in Anyone with 3rd gen Ryzen to borrow?: @topspin said in Anyone with 3rd gen Ryzen to borrow?: @cvi how many shaders are we typically talking about, and how large/complicated are they? On a clean (ie first time building and cooking the game on this machine) there are typically about a half million shaders to compile. Most aren't that complicated, but, for example, it can compile some dozen or so for each game object depending on expected card features and whether dynamic lighting is being used or not (to name a few situations). I assume nobody wrote half a million shaders. Why does every single object have its own shader? I thought the same shader(s) gets used for many objects. I don't think a single shader was actually written (read: coded with shader language). They're generated by the engine. I assume it later comes around and unique-ifies them, but until they're compiled I guess it can't tell what object might be using the same shader? I don't write game engines, I just hack inside their guts. Also due to SIMD they probably don't parametrise very well. Oh that's another thing, in order to make the material allow parameterization the whole thing has to be modified and some things don't like that. I can't remember what happens but every time I need to add a parameter the whole thing has to rejigger itself for all the shaders it uses...
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  How to blacklist a device by hardware path on Windows? (was: Tried Dell docking station on Acer laptop, now the laptop continuously fails to install USB driver even after disconnecting)
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  @El_Heffe I'm not giving any spoilers!
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  Setting up a roaming local network
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  @Kian said in Setting up a roaming local network: @Rhywden I did have a concern about those, but could the "something" connecting to it be able to accept the terms or interact in whichever way the portal requires, and then share the connection? At this point I'm thinking of a pi or similar, smart enough to run a beefy networking suite. Maybe I could RDP to it, open a browser, and click through. In the configuration I described, since your router's IP would be what is presented to the guest wifi, any client should be able to see the portal page and click through, by the magic of NAT. Well, the first one at least, if their captive portal is doing cookie shenanigans or the like. I do this often at hotels and it's pretty consistently workable.
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  Started Developer career amidst pandemic, way forward?
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  @Sameeh-Abdul said in Started Developer career amidst pandemic, way forward?: I could use some help in terms of how do I proceed for a good iOS developer career? Looking at Dice, Indeed, or any of the other online job boards might be a good start. Otherwise, this is a pretty broad question. Should I choose a product or a service company next? You should choose a company where: no laws are broken in the course of carrying out your assigned duties the paychecks clear Everything else is a nice-to-have. Would I now get if not a job at least an internship at FAANG? lolno. Given that those companies tend to offer the highest salaries, they have never-ending pools of applicants. Some of those applicants have been sitting in front of a computer since they were children. The environment at those companies can be very competitive and toxic. Some people thrive at those companies, but I wouldn't want to work 80 hours a week somewhere where if boss didn't like what I was doing, he had 15 resumes come in that day and could replace me tomorrow. Instead, I would recommend you find an obscure, boring company that makes boring software that it sells to other boring institutions. It won't be FAANG money, but you'll likely make enough to eke out a comfortable existence. and yeah overall any other advice after reading the whole story would be appreciated :')) There are still plenty of businesses that are hiring. I switched jobs several months ago and recruiters still reach out to me. Keep hunting and hopefully you'll find something. Here's my LinkedIn as a reference. Big mistake. Now you can't shitpost on this account.
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  DNS weirdness just with browsers
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  @Rhywden said in DNS weirdness just with browsers: and a ping from the CLI shows it as well. Oh I missed that. What the fuck??
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  War of the Jarls
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  @Unperverted-Vixen said in War of the Jarls: @Parody said in War of the Jarls: Back in Junior High and High School I kept a Mac Disk Ejector handy. I'll give you the //gs, but I didn't think the //e supported 3.5" disks? All of the Apple ][s can use 3.5" drives if they have a controller that supports them, any needed ROM updates, and enough RAM. The IIc and IIgs lines came with compatible hardware. Your typical school IIe with the 80 column card and 128k of RAM should be fine once it gets a controller. At that time my high school only had IIes and IIgses along with a couple of Macs in the Library. All of the IIgses (and the Macs) had 3.5" drives, but only some of the IIes scattered around had them. I put together a bootable AppleWorks 3.5" floppy with some extra add-ons I'd gathered from the teachers and the other computer geeks; I used it for writing papers on the IIes. We also did a brisk trade in IIgs games since we were allowed to use the lab after school.
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  I need a new-ish phone
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  @dfdub said in I need a new-ish phone: there's not much software in them The Internet of Thread is
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  Fried cheap chips
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  @Applied-Mediocrity said in Fried cheap chips: Go to ebay or some sort of yard sale, find 1050 Ti 4 GB with some remaining warranty. Should be around or a small bit over 100 eurodollars. If 570/580 ran well for you, it will last you for quite some time. That's actually a good suggestion. I'm not too confident about buying second hand electronics, but the worst that can happen is that I'm loosing that money, and it's not a huge amount. A quick glance on some French classified ads site shows at least one 1050 (2 GB only though) for 40 EUR, that's an amount that I can risk. (edit: 4 GB ones start at around 75 EUR, which is still cheaper than the new ones I was looking at above, and it looks from this discussion like a 1050 4 GB rather than a 1030 2 GB would be a good bargain?)
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  how do you negotiate your wage on a new job?
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  @Mason_Wheeler "we plan to offer between $60K and $120K, depending on the candidate's experience and qualifications, which we'll learn through the interview process. We ask for salary requirements early on to help set expectations. If a candidate said their requirements were $120K, the bar would be set as high as it can go, and they'd need to score near perfect and then deliver; if it was $60K, then the bar would be much lower, and there'd be a lot more growth and learning opportunities on the job. So that said, what are your salary requirements and expectations? " ** YOUR MOVE **
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  Lap mouse
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  @Gąska said in Lap mouse: @Parody said in Lap mouse: it seems very strange to do so That's 2000 video games for you. Remember how Q/E used to be commonly used for rotating left/right? I do.
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  Are these laptop key replacement sites legit?
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  @Gąska said in Are these laptop key replacement sites legit?: @magnusmaster the worst that can happen is you lose 5 bucks. I'd say go for it. I saw some on ebay for <$1.
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  How to ignore Discord @here and @everyone notifications?
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  @ChaosTheEternal Ah, thank you. I think that's what I was looking for.
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  Local e-mail clients?
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  Last local client I used was Opera M2. It was great, but when development ended it started to fall behind. I tried Thunderbird, Eudora, Claws, The Bat, Sylpheed, Mailbird, EM and Postbox. All of them were terrible in different ways. I can't recommend anything in good conscience. But now I'm tempted to go back to M2.
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  New lab PC
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  @Captain certainly. And when I still ran parallel fluid analysis workloads the xeon came in handy. Nowadays that all runs "in the cloud", so my local workloads are much reduced. For lighter workloads the newer processors are just better. Or at least, I hope so. Maybe I just want to believe technology has profressed in this area, please let me keep my delusions...
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  WLAN for my school, how to proceed best?
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  @Rhywden said in WLAN for my school, how to proceed best?: like every 10 seconds or so. Ouch yeah that's not that great... In theory they should settle once they decide which channel is best. I know in the last I've had to stick my APs still because shitty firmware, but APs shouldn't be trying to emulate Bluetooth Lol...
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  Recommendations for 14-15in dev and gaming laptop
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  I might be a bit late on this but Gigabyte is a great company and I'd recommend looking at whatever they're currently selling. This laptop was a steal when I bought it, and when every other gaming laptop seemed to have something wrong with it like high heat or no HDD or un-upgradable RAM or no numpad on its keyboard, Gigabyte's did not. (In case you were wondering mine is the P55 Wr7.) So not really a tech recommendation but a brand recommendation.
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  No usable event timer
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  @DogsB said in No usable event timer: I'm never sure if @Tsaukpaetra is talking about himself or a computer. I'm not sure if he's sure either.