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Isthatablackgsd

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    Comment #48056861

    > That is, until they try to stop you from leaving the store with your property until you show them a receipt. The accountholder is required to show it, It is in Costco's terms and…

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    Comment #39384089

    I recommend Phind if you want to sources.

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    Comment #39306579

    Opening a terminal in admin window which means any commands you put in that windows will always have admin privilege, no matter what. What does Sudo is to only provide the root/adm…

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    Comment #38550808

    You can boot usb from UEFI. The only tool that I found is best to handle is Rufus. I used it to clean install my Windows through UEFI. Even Linux Live USB works. BalenaEtcher gives…

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    Comment #38439957

    There are both side of the coin when it comes to at-will employments with layoff. They can use it to get rid of high paying employees to hire lowest quality of employee for little …

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    Comment #38432680

    I found Edge to be useful for Enterprise/Business environment. My previous job uses Office 365 E3 (and their email server) and entrenched with them for various external services su…

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    Comment #38432384

    If I pay for the storage, then it is my drive and my data. The article didn't say anything about the free or paid GDrive accounts. If it is a free account, then that is up for deba…

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    Comment #38381653

    > I blame Windows Defender (anti-virus). It would be nice if Windows Defender tone down their on-the-fly aggressive scanning for anything I/O related. For any I/O activity, it regu…

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    Comment #38355969

    It don't? That's weird because I am able to use microtype package with XeLaTeX. Ohhh I see, I look it up. Apparently, it support specific feature[0] of microtype in XeLaTeX. [0] ht…

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    Comment #38335908

    YouTube will re-encode videos to optimize their playback experience. Which means there will be a generational loss in the re-encoding. YT have maximum requirements for their playba…

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    Comment #38335477

    This is neat thing! Is there similar site for non-profit organizations or private sectors?

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    Comment #38292732

    My issue with online ordering is that I will be missing higher degree of customizability, options and allergies for some case. Online ordering does not cover edge cases. If I like …

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    Comment #38263997

    Really? That sucks. I guess it would be better to get a custom keypad with rotary encoders that would expose itself. I found it interesting how companies invest heavy in hardware a…

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    Comment #38253841

    Could it help if the driver have those axes assigned to a different key to allow AHK to pick that up and AHK can change it as axes? I done that with my XP-PEN AC-19, I assigned the…

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    Comment #38245489

    Would it help with scripting macro software such as AutoHotKey? I imagine it wouldn't pick up some inputs due to proprietary driver. It have the same issue for my Logitech G600 tha…

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    Comment #38205338

    Apple is well known for their extremely optimized software due to their tight integration with hardware and software. This would make sense to keep it 8GB for Apple-only software i…

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    Comment #38192768

    Me too. For past few weeks, I had been working on my AHK scripting with Phind. It produced working code consistently and provided excellent command line for various software. Also …

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    Comment #38170408

    Winget is great package manager. I am staying with Chocoately due to WinGet have less software in their catalogue. WinGet are missing software that I regularly use in my Windows th…

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    Comment #38167951

    My issue with updates/downloading is the lack of software manager to updates software in Windows. It was a pain to go to various websites to download a package and install/upgrade …

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    Comment #38155414

    You can view pure HTTP website through VPN. It basically encrypted tunnel between you and VPN server through your ISP. So your ISP couldn't try to interject the encrypted connectio…

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    Comment #38155358

    One of the reasons is to prevent ISP and other to intercept the page and interject the codes before it arrives to the users. It a common method to put the payload in the http. I be…

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    Comment #38142963

    I recently discover Plind [0], it is a ChatGPT that specialized in programming. It managed to get me a specific code that actually work with keycombo that ChatGPT struggling to pro…

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    Comment #38142269

    That's why I uses Ditto Clipboard Manager in Windows. I have it set to use paste without formatting (paste in plain text) as default. I recalled Windows can do it by using Ctrl+Shi…

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    Comment #38141775

    ChatGPT relies on examples to get the idea of what to do. Likely that ChatGPT don't have enough samplings across the web to know how to convert it. Even through there are documenta…

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    Comment #38137918

    It is a state-run department that provides various services related to employment such as unemployment benefits, career development, job coaching, networking, job classes, certific…