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DHowett

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    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.