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nebul

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    Comment #44616664

    I think France is a bit of an exception because there's the CB network[1]. Most cards here are either CB/Mastercard or CB/Visa and a lot of stuff uses CB by default if I understand…

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    Comment #33368855

    Well, maybe HTC was five years too early with the U12+[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_U12%2B

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    Comment #33085215

    Sorry, I was indeed talking about Unicode email addresses but I worded it poorly. Thanks for the precision!

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    Comment #33084052

    In my experience Punycode support in browsers varies greatly depending on the phishing[1] mitigations in place, making them quite unreliable in practice unfortunately. I'm pleasant…

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    Comment #33078709

    My first name contains an accented e, and what the computer will spit out is a crapshoot: é, e, é, é or just a plain blank square. It makes me want to buy an internationali…

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    Comment #33001999

    The official announcement was scattered across several tweets, so here is an unofficial summary of the specifications by u/Adaoh_.

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    Comment #32794332

    > mobile-optimized reddit without audio ads I don't know if you've tried it already, but https://i.reddit.com might fit the bill.

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    Comment #32624047

    The hard thing with taste is that it's usually the sum of many quantitative traits, each one being governed by several genes which can be located on different chromosomes, as seen …

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    Comment #32622372

    For anyone wanting to learn more about this breeding technique, it's called backcrossing[1]. It's also used for agricultural crops, but requires many generations. [1] https://en.wi…

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    Comment #32287056

    For creative applications, it's still missing support for colour management. Work is underway to implement it but it's a complex topic. Edit: I still use Wayland whenever I can des…

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    Comment #32286990

    > Wayland has solved more problems for me than it caused, but I'm bummed our that I can't use my laptop's external screen because of nvidia shenanigans (had to mess with some udev …

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    Comment #30366021

    Of course! But when you're using an application with a fairly busy header bar (like Nautilus or Epiphany, which don't have any labels) it can be useful to just point at the first p…

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    Comment #30365656

    Yeah, clicking and holding on a header bar button will still allow you to grab the window without firing any action. It's quite handy, especially with a touch pad.

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    Comment #29466838

    Well, I'm a few days late but I'm going to leave this here if it can help someone else. If Ubuntu works like Fedora in this regard, it probably switched from Wayland to Xorg when y…