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  • 12:20 pm on April 16, 2021 Permalink | Reply  

    yesterday I started having this strange behavior on my Google Docs files where my cursor seemed stuck on the left side of the line, even though typing was possble (letters kept getting added to the right of the cursor as I typed). Also, cursor movement both on keyboard and mouse was invisible, and selecting any text was impossible.

    This is a new bug where the latest version of Google Chrome acts weird with Adblockers on. More info on: https://piunikaweb.com/2021/04/15/google-docs-cursor-stuck-on-left-not-moving-formatting-issues/

    I solved it by disabling Adblock for the Google Docs website

    even more strangely, I only have this problem on my Google Workspace account’s Google Drive files, not on my personal gmail chrome session’s google docs files (personal also has Adblock enabled, and it doesn’t exclude Google Docs domains)

     
  • 7:09 pm on April 8, 2021 Permalink | Reply  

    > Sweden’s Pandemic Experiment: When the coronavirus arrived, the country decided not to implement lockdowns or recommend masks. How has it fared? – The New Yorker

    Interesting. It’s a mixed bag, but Sweden got similar death rates to the European average (although higher than its Scandinavian neighbors), with less stress about strict restrictions. Also, deaths in elder facilities seem to have skewed death tolls up, which is a very specific portion of the policy.

    Maybe just giving general common sense advice and let people figure things out worked? “Preferably stay apart from others, and eh don’t trust masks to be magic; staying apart is the real failproof measure. But if you sometimes want meet up with people, that’s okay but be safe.. and if you *have* to stay with people, okay then wear masks”

    It’s possible that policies too strict just caused sectors of the population to revolt and go crazy and make things worse. Also, allowing for occasional, safer gathering for mental sanity could have helped – some health issues for some people seem related to the isolation and not to coronavirus per se.

     
  • 4:19 pm on March 21, 2021 Permalink | Reply  

    After starting to show symptoms over the past year, my Surface Pro 4 (bought used on eBay in 2017) finally died. The battery bloated out to the point of curving the screen and rupturing the screen adhesives.

    At first around August 2020, when turned on for a long time (like 5+ hours), the screen would violently flicker, and it would get back to normal after some rest, and it would repeat.

    Then in December 2020 a big spot would start showing up on the left side of the screen:

    And finally today I noticed that the battery was bulging.

    Oh well.

     
  • 11:35 am on March 11, 2021 Permalink | Reply  

    It baffles me how online chatters who consider themselves progressive or leftists seen to show an inordinate interest in the upper threshold of the stimulus check – the fact that it cuts at $75k, and how it phases out between 75k and 80k.

    To me, there is a clear set of priorities on which criteria we should care about:

    1. The fact that people making under a certain amount do not get anything – under 20k? something like that. I haven’t looked into this, but this is how it was set up in the 2020 Stimulus checks, so it’s probably something similar.

    2. The fact that it’s merely a one-time $1,400 for those who qualify

    3. The upper threshold

    #1 stems from the fact that definitionally this check is not free money – “an economic stimulus”, but instead, a flat tax break. That’s why people under a certain income threshold don’t get anything. And that’s a big problem. How are we not talking enough about this?

    It bugs me how people obsess over the upper threshold so much that they go on to calculate that “over the $75k threshold, every $100 you make, you get $28 less in stimulus.”.

    The amount of attention that should be devoted to #1 vs #3 should be in a proportion of 1:9 but it seems that it’s the reverse online.

     
    • Yongho Kim 12:18 pm on April 18, 2021 Permalink | Reply

      maybe it wasn’t progressives. it was just people on chat in hasanabi’s twitch stream. Which I’d assume are progressives, but this is Twitch after all.

  • 1:02 pm on February 13, 2021 Permalink | Reply  

    clearing up my discord direct message logs found this little gem

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  • 5:30 pm on February 3, 2021 Permalink | Reply  

    A few weeks ago, Google Chrome (Official Build, ver 88.x 64 bit) started hiding the full URL from the address bar. Very annoying, and very troublesome. Some argue this is all part of Google taking the web to a Google-centric closed web, and they aren’t wrong. The address bar only shows the main domain. Sure, it looks “cleaner”, but that extra space to the right of the domain is sitting there being useless. Well, I guess for smaller screens it gives more room for Chrome extensions to be on active state. However, extensions are also being hidden on a “smart” way, only showing an extension that is being interacted with, which is pretty useful.

    I was working with CiviCRM today, and not being able to see entity IDs finally got to me. I searched and found this:

    https://superuser.com/questions/799275/how-to-restore-the-url-in-google-chromes-omnibox-i-e-always-show-it-without-r

    The original instructions above tell me to open chrome://flags/#origin-chip-in-omnibox, which is supposed to open the flags settings page and jump to the relevant section, but this is from 2017 and already the flag name has changed, so the bookmark jump doesn’t work. After some digging in the chrome://flags/ page, I finally found the below three settings, and changed them from “Default” to “Disabled”. I’m not exactly sure what each does, but they look related to my problem. After changing them, and closing all Chrome windows and restarting Chrome, I can see the full URLs again.

    Omnibox UI Sometimes Hide Steady-State URL Subdomains Beyond Registrable Domain
    In the omnibox, occasionally hide subdomains as well as path, query and ref from steady state displayed URLs, depending on heuristics. Has no effect unless at least one of #omnibox-ui-reveal-steady-state-url-path-query-and-ref-on-hover or #omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-path-query-and-ref-on-interaction is enabled. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
    #omnibox-ui-sometimes-elide-to-registrable-domain

    Omnibox UI Reveal Steady-State URL Path, Query, and Ref On Hover
    In the omnibox, reveal the path, query and ref from steady state displayed URLs on hover. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
    #omnibox-ui-reveal-steady-state-url-path-query-and-ref-on-hover

    Omnibox UI Hide Steady-State URL Path, Query, and Ref On Interaction
    In the omnibox, hide the path, query and ref from steady state displayed URLs when the user interacts with the page. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
    #omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-path-query-and-ref-on-interaction

    This other similar question below is not what I was looking for, but I think if someone implemented this, it would be super helpful in working with CiviCRM pages, because for me also the last parameter (usually the CID parameter) is the one that I keep watching to ensure I’m editing the correct contribution page or contact entry.

    https://superuser.com/questions/827069/how-to-make-chrome-show-beginning-and-end-of-long-urls-in-the-url-bar

     
  • 5:39 pm on January 21, 2021 Permalink | Reply  

    i think these boys don’t have enough brain processing power to understand that there are core parts in their own socioeconomic world-view that are in diametric opposition to each other

     
  • 4:39 pm on January 16, 2021 Permalink | Reply  

    ugh what is this compatibility nightmare

     
    • Yongho Kim 3:36 pm on January 20, 2021 Permalink | Reply

      none of these adapters worked out in connecting the hose to either the spare kitchen tube nor the toilet tube. i decided to wash the balcony by repurposing two trash bins as water buckets. the balcony cleaned completely after about 4 buckets. I then returned everything

  • 12:36 am on January 7, 2021 Permalink | Reply  

    my conspiracy theory on today’s amateur coup attempt is that the Republican leadership moved key messengers to convince Trump that he could disrupt an d somehow cancel? the congressional certification of the electoral college if he brought his ragtag mob into capitol, and being the dumb piece of shit Trump ate it wholesale. And what the Republicans sought through this was to give themselves an excuse to finally jump from Ship Trump, while minimizing the political blowback they would get from Trump supporters. “But President Trump went too far! I had no other choice but to renounce him for now if we want to have another chance!” They now can tell Trumpers in this summer’s town hall meetings.

     
  • 8:13 pm on January 5, 2021 Permalink | Reply  

    so my bluetooth adapter doesn’t work fully (can’t add new devices, connects with previously paired headset but doesn’t play music when the USB3 hub I have it plugged to is plugged to the USB 3.1 Gen2 port of my MSI X470 Gaming Plus Max, but it works when I switch it to the USB 3.1 Gen1 port.

     
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