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buccal

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    Comment #48922915

    Adobe provides PDF viewer that is embedded in Edge...

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    Comment #48092444

    Microsoft leaves mitigation of this known and quite powerful phishing vector behind additional licensing requirements. You cannot reliably block Microsoft Entra device code flow wi…

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    Comment #48045385

    In EU: Violators of GDPR (personal data) may be fined up to €20 million, or up to 4% of the annual worldwide turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever is greater. Under N…

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    Comment #47830426

    Teams works similarly in browser tab and "natively". Slack was similar if I remember correctly.

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    Comment #47788567

    You should try MS Copilot which uses open source Python libraries to interact with Office file formats. The libraries themselves are OK, but MS uses them stupidly. If you want to f…

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    Comment #47776548

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    Comment #47539578

    Well there is https://www.crowdsupply.com/eevengers/thunderscope With USB4/TB you can get quite far in both latency and throughput. Actually there are network adapters with TB conn…

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    Comment #47507463

    You should not have to hack Explorer to make it usable.

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    Comment #47507431

    Now you have "rounded edges" in Edge that add a content area limiting margins to all sides. Also, they took an open source browser and do not provide the source for Edge. So much f…

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    Comment #47263345

    One shop network used blue paper here but changed to white some time ago. Contrast was not great but I guess the price was the reason for the change.

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    Comment #46994668

    I'm trying paid tier Gemini and it doesn't allow to keep have personal chat history when you disable training on your data, on reload of the page your chat is gone. Even free tier …

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    Comment #46480964

    Without unofficial bypasses of MS online account requirements you would not come to a point where activation is a concern. No internet access is not enough of a reason for MS let y…

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    Comment #46473442

    Still in some cases you have to wait a few minutes to get working Start menu search or menu itself on a new not low-end device.

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    Comment #46447794

    You ran unverified debloat scripts (that could break in unexpected ways) on a clean "Pro" system to make it usable. It is and should be unacceptable. By the way, Home version does …

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    Comment #46411746

    Olimex does provide both open source hardware and open source software for example: https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/STMP1/STMP157-OLin...

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    Comment #46204145

    Speaking of online use please see: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/ https://www.collaboraonline.com/collabora-online/ https://www.onlyoffice.com/docs

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    Comment #46161971

    > I really wish the people who put so much effort into software like OpenWRT would put some of that effort into managing multiple devices in a nice, unified manner. The tooling cou…

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    Comment #45897222

    For me real grain looks much better than digital smoothness. That is important for big prints.

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    Comment #45744968

    It does support calculation: https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/swriter/guide...

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    Comment #45665155

    240V AC and 5V DC manage to live close in a charger without problems. Problems with quality does not depend on voltage. I love the concept of PoE with one exception that it require…

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    Comment #45602625

    > * A microsoft account is only needed for Windows 11 Home. A "semi-power user" is hopefully not using that edition of Windows... Both Home and Pro require Microsoft account to ins…

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    Comment #45518076

    What should be noted, a cost effective M365 backup solution "Synology Active Backup for Microsoft 365" has an external server requirement for OAUTH: https://kb.synology.com/en-af/D…

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    Comment #45386356

    Yes it is not perfect. At least in Lithuania you can use government issued personal ID to sign PDFs that pass Adobe/Foxit checks of signature authenticity. Trusted timestamp is par…