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agret

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    Comment #41111459

    No mention in the page if it's compatible with Winamp skins?

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    Comment #41111386

    Wow believe it or not I was thinking about that program about 2 weeks ago but thought I'd never be able to remember the name of it. You've made my week. I used to use the Bdog87101…

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    Comment #36304074

    Just have to right click the task bar and change the news settings to 'reduce updates' & turn off open on hover. Turning on 'reduce updates' just has the taskbar display the weathe…

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    Comment #36041668

    If you read the article it was not a firmware issue, it was one of the security features it has downloaded an invalid config due to ASUS staff errors, the config caused the router …

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    Comment #34049909

    Shared passwords is a hard one, they've got you by the gonads there. I moved to Bitwarden and all I did was export my password database as a csv then import it into Bitwarden and i…

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    Comment #34049903

    I use Spotify in my car over Bluetooth and for the past couple months it has this super annoying bug where you get in, start it playing and it finishes off what song you were liste…

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    Comment #32134037

    On MacOS Mojave before Catalina ended support for 32 bit binaries I was surprised how many Steam titles were downloadable as Mac native. I'd say almost 20% of my library was downlo…

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    Comment #32134018

    Not just optimizations to blame, MacOS shipped with an extremely outdated OpenGL and Apple refused to update it. This caused many projects to drop support for MacOS entirely.

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    Comment #32134004

    Apple have made it clear they don't want games on MacOS. They have not updated the OpenGL for way too long and it's missing any of the modern extensions. There is MoltenVK thankful…

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    Comment #29337926

    Mumble is pretty great for low-latency audio. TeamSpeak3 too.

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    Comment #29147239

    What currency is that in?

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    Comment #29147222

    EB Games Australia have just announced that people on the pre-order list for PS5 won't receive their consoles until some time in 2022. You massively underestimate the high demand/l…

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    Comment #28335970

    I use LastPass for password sync and Authy for 2FA. Feels a bit safer having them seperate.

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    Comment #26298478

    Then when you want to actually do an activity like a deathmatch you have to wait for matchmaking and then the loading - takes forever. Once you are finally in a match it's okay but…

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    Comment #26150411

    > This happens on a device with no apps installed, with no apps running. No Apple ID. Fresh install. On a fresh install you have Software Update, News, Safari, iTunes Store, App St…

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    Comment #26139396

    LibreOffice also has a tray icon pre-loader you can enable on slower machines.

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    Comment #26098258

    Modern game consoles have a lot of common library / OS system calls that instead of emulating you re-create those calls and make your own implementation with the expected return va…

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    Comment #26096099

    Should read the article before you comment next time ;) There is a screenshot in there showing it is directly parsing the Signal sqlite database. I am guessing on his device he had…

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    Comment #21303894

    The author bemoans the notch on the iPhone saying we'd all like to be rid of it and that edge to edge screens are frustrating. He then goes on to complain that the Samsung has beze…

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    Comment #21303864

    I assume the Facebook message is through a Facebook bot running embedded on the website. It won't automatically collect your data until you interact with it and that falls under th…

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    Comment #21287965

    Interesting article but needs a bit more depth, for instance it mentions incredibly briefly the MX record > The PTR (or reverse) record query is used to validate that the IP addres…

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    Comment #21199277

    It really says a lot that he has no provision for comments on his posts.

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    Comment #21199009

    > I wrote a review on the product condemning this practice and Amazon removed the review as "not about the product". Quite frustrating - seems Amazon just doesn't care about custom…

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    Comment #21198979

    Looking at the feed you should see if it's possible to exclude any tweets that begin with "RT" (retweets) or the "@" (replies). This way only posts you write should show in the fee…

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    Comment #21198942

    In the case of the Chrome web browser the Chrome UI is the UI Chrome though? What other UI elements are there not included in the dark theme?