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Comment #49020618
Based on the product spec sheet[1] it appears that the Framework Desktop motherboard is mini-ITX, and that the chassis is[2] as well. It’s fully possible that I’ve missed something…
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Comment #47930168
Oh wow, thank you!
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Comment #47905680
Excellent article. If I could offer one correction, it would be that SBU (as specified by the USB 3.0 Promoter Group[1]) means "Sideband Use" rather than "Secondary Bus". On some d…
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Comment #47870665
There was a project a while back that attempted to do this, named “Dotsies”. https://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/dotsies.htm (original site https://www.dotsies.org , which has a ca…
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Comment #47690896
Three lines of text in 12-point font in the corner which can be covered by a window is hardly “the entire screen.”
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Comment #47117074
!! Thank you!
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Comment #47113680
.git-blame-ignore-revs, while great, unfortunately belongs in the “Other Conventions” section. If you configure your git client to use it, git blame will fail in any repository in …
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Comment #46389051
It appears to be in the fourth paragraph. https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/medical-device-recalls-a... > As of November 14, 2025, Abbott has reported 736 serious injuries, and s…
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Comment #46250197
I had always wondered if that happened because of a proliferation in folks named EionMusk.
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Comment #46177927
tar.exe, however, beats both of those in terms of archive format support and speed.
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Comment #45807701
It comes with Windows, and has since 2022! Alas, if you mean Windows 10 then you can use some DISM magic to add it to an install image.
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Comment #45327376
The author of the post indicated that they are releasing an update to an existing game, which we can presume has the same executable filename.
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Comment #44760420
I’ve noticed most of the replies to your comment address the first half, and none (as of right now) address the second: > So the question that comes to my mind is whether this is y…
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Comment #44687275
If you can turn the port off and then back on remotely, perhaps you can skip the unplugging part completely? I know that some managed PoE switches even offer a button to power cycl…
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Comment #43901899
Have you come by your certainty that they have not asked because you were a contributor?
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Comment #43317339
The advice in the 2014 talk applies to exporting specific types of errors as part of a package’s public API surface. The article, on the other hand, advocates for local variables s…
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Comment #42751779
systemd services are named "foo.service", and you do not need to specify the ".service" in almost any case.