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jbj

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    Comment #49171916

    I was recently surprised to see that AOE2DE captures my microphone on ubuntu even when I toggle the in-game settings to not do so.

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    Comment #48361941

    What made it awful? I have been using a Surface Pro with fedora as my main portable device for the last 2 years and enjoyed it.

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    Comment #37384455

    you are correct. however this allows you to keep touch pad scrolling separate from mousewheel scrolling that will otherwise be tied together

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    Comment #37383874

    disable mouse acceleration and install unnatural scroll wheel to flip scrolling direction https://github.com/ther0n/UnnaturalScrollWheels

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    Comment #35899509

    no pun intended, actual typo caught in the wild ;)

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    Comment #35898800

    Especially on my phone I have actively disabeled all spelling control, and successively suggestive typing. writing a sentence while making it, I feel too much the words are being f…

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    Comment #35775183

    if you have an old surface tablet, this is really great with linux surface kernel [ https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface ]

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    Comment #35672288

    I am pretty sure you can use the sports tracking functions in garmin without an account, if not, at least without connecting the watch to a phone. You just need to connect with usb…

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    Comment #35588718

    I am a long time Garmin user, and sync to runalyze, when paired with a hear rate chest strap, they also calculate a breathing rate

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    Comment #35588709

    dont you need to hold both hands on the watch to get this from apple?

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    Comment #35584940

    Not KeePassDX which is in F-Droid?

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    Comment #35518287

    there is always a good moment to 'curl wttr.in'

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    Comment #35518260

    https://yr.no works great for northern europe

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    Comment #35479538

    there is an interesting interview with Federico Faggin from Synaptics explaining how they created their touchpad in this youtube video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SonkKtxZx8w

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    Comment #35445504

    If you are on an android phone what supports shelter[1], I can recommend installing "social" apps inside the shelter, and just sleep the apps when you don't use them. In regards to…

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    Comment #35268248

    not only uracil and niacin, also other molecules: '''revealing that a wide range of organic compounds such as racemic non-protein type amino acids, alkylamines, carboxylic acids, p…

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    Comment #35058380

    this comments reminds me about owning a mac and installing a github repo to allow mouse scrolling direction to not be tied to touch pad scrolling [edit] just following up, it was U…

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    Comment #35049810

    just a few days late to get me to use outlook ... just last friday I was installing outlook to open a .msg file with attachments, the hassle of having to setup an account was enoug…

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    Comment #34549554

    OsmAnd worked great with multitouch on my old ms surface (fedora+waydroid) but now it crashes after a few seconds. I hope to get it up and running, it is amazing for offline maps o…

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    Comment #34252163

    I hope they will be as creative as in Michigan once they find a machine powerful enough: https://www.michigan.gov/mdot/travel/safety/road-users/winte...

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    Comment #33943846

    My favorite mod is something simple as renumbering the windows/tabs to range starting at 1, rather than being zero indexed, this way they align with the digits on my keyboard.