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I really wish I could use Firefox! But I gave up after trying repeatedly, and unsuccessfully, to force-enable hardware acceleration and bypass their 'video card blacklist'. From wh…

Not in my experience. With 4 GB ram, Chrome will happily give ~2GB to any tab that requests it in a couple of seconds, leaving me with an unresponsive Windows aggressively paging m…

> Measuring memory usage is hard ... Exactly, I usually find that chrome is eating a little more than what it's displayed in task manager in windows ;) I have no idea how it can ac…

Funny thing, most if not all 'client-side failover' strategies you might find through google or the likes won't work either. This is because the loaded resource will 'fail' anywher…

And that's why I moved most of my website registrations to a name@mydomain.com address and host the server myself on a $4/mo VPS. Still, my domain name is tied to my gmail address.…

I'm actually planning on renting a VPS soon to use as a personal VPN, dedicated IP, hopefully dedicated bandwidth etc. I don't have even the smallest idea how to configure one or w…

This is actually not just about Tor. Their definition of "suspicious" is quite liberal and naive to be honest. As an anecdote, I get ~1 captcha per month because I live in Eastern …

I believe it's wrong to say that users don't care. Rather, users, don't really have a choice. From personal experience, linux is still far from actually being user-friendly. And it…

Speaking as a past student I'm really glad I started with C. In the beginning, the fear of getting some random Segmentation fault out of nowhere actually taught me more than any te…

At least for me the change log is one of the first items I read when looking to try new software. It often tells quite a lot about how involved the developers are, what direction t…

I would like to see more control options for the end users. Let users chose if their account can be recovered through a password reset form, let users leave 'secret memos' for supp…

In my experience it was the other way around. I signed up with gitlab only because they offer free private repos. Now since I already have an account with them and I don't have to …

Not accept, but adapt and learn to live with it. I'm saying this because I don't see any solution. Our data can be sold. Our data can be 'shared' by our less educated friends,etc. …

If history serves right, I upgraded to Windows 7 around 2-3 years after it was released, and I still had occasional blue screens or hiccups. About one year later it finally started…

In my case, I want a stable OS. Also there's a high chance the Windows 10 video driver for my 4 year old Dell laptop is broken, just like the last 3 versions Dell released for Win7…

Just like some people mentioned in the comments on the previous article. I have every important update installed. And every optional/recommended update hidden. I can't replicate th…

From personal experience, yes. I've got an older dell laptop that came with Ubuntu 12, bought in 2013. I assume everything worked back then, but I needed Windows for school. Some m…

I find it infuriating how much traction this whole anti ad/tracking war is getting. People mention there's no choice anymore. Wrong! It's still there, just like it was 10 or 15 yea…

Anybody else getting a 'Forbidden' error? Tried some isitdown services, they told me the site returns 200... I'm getting a 403 response. First it was cloudflare with their captchas…

I setup my own server recently and could share my experience. Using postfix + dovecot(imap) + thunderbird. 1 user, set to check mail every 9 minutes. Not even sure if I have IDLE o…

> This isn't how the internet is supposed to work. As we continue to consolidate on a few big mail services, it's only going to become more difficult to start new servers. And this…

Sorry I'm dying here... I opened the site, saw two identical boxes of text with some ascii in the middle, read the first paragraphs.. then scrolled down and saw some license thrown…

What if he's using an Android phone? Most third party apps on the Google Play store have access to both your location and accounts. I even remember seeing back in the day questions…