noisem4ker
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Comment · 17 days ago
Possibly something similar to GitHub Monaspace's "texture healing" [1], i.e. variable-width characters individually centered on a fixed grid, for which e.g. an "m" is wider when placed next to an "i"?
...or maybe something much less sophisticated: it just keeps the appearance of the main fixed-width variant you'd use for code, but it's a slightly-variable width variant for plain text, where vertical alignment isn't important.
Comment · 20 days ago
It's not Firefox, it's the server. Edit and resend the request with header "Accept: image/jpeg" only and you'll most likely get a JPEG file.
Comment · 23 days ago
If web browsers were able to take care of that, as it is their job, it would be a glorious throw back to a brighter past.
Comment · 1 month ago
Any random thread with "Microsoft" in the title from the last few years is likely to include a decently representative library of reasons. Seriously: it's always the same, trite talking points being brought up, most often hijacking the subject of discussion.
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Comment · 1 month ago
I couldn't find any information about that. Do you have something to back it up (news articles, changelog entries), or was it just your subjective experience?
Comment · 2 months ago
There's no way the typically included 30-day trial of an antivirus or Office costs 50€. It must've been a full yearly subscription of one or the other, that managed to sneak in right before checkout without being de-selected.
Comment · 2 months ago
I'd even describe these as some of the most gullible and less ethically principled people at that.
Comment · 2 months ago
Fractional scaling is now supported by major toolkits and compositors.
https://wayland.app/protocols/fractional-scale-v1
Also, I wouldn't hold the rendering quality of macOS as a high standard at all, since all it does is render at a multiple and then downsample, wasting energy and introducing blurriness.
Comment · 2 months ago
On Windows, by default, files are moved if dragged between folders on the same volume, and copied if dragged between volumes.
You can force moving by pressing Shift, or copying by pressing Control as a modifier.
You can make a context menu appear giving you an explicit choice by dragging with the right mouse button.
On KDE Plasma, the default is to give you the context menu.
Comment · 3 months ago
Yes. The PCR state after booting won't match that of the regular system, so the TPM will refuse to give up the key.
Comment · 3 months ago
I briefly researched the matter recently, and I found these:
1. Browser Tamer: https://github.com/aloneguid/bt
2. Browsers (what a stupid name): https://github.com/Browsers-software/browsers
3. Switchyard: https://github.com/alyraffauf/switchyard
Comment · 3 months ago
> Why can't I just drag a shortcut to the desktop.
You can...? I tried dragging from Dolphin, Kickoff and the Task Manager onto my desktop, and in all three cases it worked.
Granted, there's a moment of confusion having to choose between copying or linking, as offered by the context menu that pops up, but...
Comment · 3 months ago
> how do you type in an en dash instead?
By pressing the "-" key for half a second and choosing the exact dash character I am looking for in the pop-up that shows near the caret.
KDE Plasma: Press-and-Hold for Alternative Characters https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/14/this-week-in-plasma-press-a...
Comment · 3 months ago
Same goes for the Italian "imposta". It's a direct translation of "set up", but not a verb anyone would use to mean "setting up a program", and I've never seen an installer named "Imposta.exe". Maybe they had an example of such a poorly translated program, though, which warranted adding a special case to the list. The correct verb would be "installa", which was already covered by "inst".
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