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trissylegs··on Your Phone Is Your Castle
They also get VERY HOT. I can't hold my phone after using it as a webcam while it's on a wireless charing pixel stand (which is somewhat less than a USB Quickcharge, but more than regular Wireless charging)
trissylegs··on Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS
On gnome, if you open Gnome Tweak Tool there's a keyboard theme setting, select "Emacs" and all GTK applications will use Emacs keyboard shortcuts. (Including M-b M-f, which is a differnt combo on macOS).

It's propbably a dconf setting but I haven't checked which one. It tends to avoid running into issues on <input type="text" /> boxes in Firefox. But not more advanced things like Google Docs or embedded text editors. (eg Rust playground)

trissylegs··on How I built a keyboard/video/mouse switch for my two 4k monitors
Thanks for this. I was thinking about doing something like this. Because:

1. I have 4k 144hz monitor. Not many devices or even display protocals can handle that (I won't be able to even fully utilize it until I upgrade my desktops graphics card).

2. The amount of cambes I have for my current KVM swicth (for my second, 1080p, monitor). Is getting unweildy.

trissylegs··on Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs
At some point Nvidia crippled their drivers if you didn't have a Quadro on Linux. Eg: No multi-monitor. Not sure how of that they do now. So some guy resoldered some resistors on a GTX 690 (at the time the highest spec card they sold). To make it identify as the Quado with same specs.

https://hackaday.com/2013/03/18/hack-removes-firmware-crippl...

trissylegs··on Apple expands independent repair program to Mac after US antitrust investigation
Now that i've check it seems Enterpise get's the feature sof Pro for Workstations. https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/windowsforbusiness/compare
trissylegs··on Apple expands independent repair program to Mac after US antitrust investigation
I have both pro (Home desktop) and enterprise (Work laptop). I don't notice a difference. But we don't really take advantage of the group policy very much.
trissylegs··on Headphones are collecting too much personal data (2019)
This was raised when Australia rolled out its' Contract tracing app. On Android if you need bluetooth access you have to ask for locat ion access, because it's possible to derive location from bluetooth data. (Like wifi data).
trissylegs··on One company's plan to build a search engine Google can't beat
Just recently I was googling nftables (A replacment for iptables in Linux). Google decided iptables was a synonym and all the results were for iptables. (As it's older and more common)
trissylegs··on Trump administration establishes $75M quantum computing centers
I think Australia has invested at least that over the past 12 years. Last year UNSW's Quantum Computer lab got a $25 million grant extension.
trissylegs··on What’s New in Thunderbird 78
All of them use some sort of Webbrowser underneath. Thunderbird is using Firefox/Gecko, Geary is using GTKWebkit, macOS Mail is probably using Webkit. Note sure what Windows Mail is using. (Similar to outlook in my experice)

Outlook... is using Microsoft Word. (I mean technical it's just Offices' document rendering engine, but for meail it's equivalent as opening a HTML file in MS Word) (Also sends RTF mail for addresses on the same Exchange server)

Although I'd note that they strip down the HTML avialible. Emails can't execute Javascript. CSS is stripped down and must be in file. (Or completely inlined)

You limited to some very old Web technology in email. (Unless Google somehow managed to convince anyone else to support AMP 4 Email)

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