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Joseg99

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    Joseg99 reacted to Dissitesuxba11s in Looking for a vertical monitor for coding   
    Check this monitor out: https://de.pcpartpicker.com/product/wTBrxr/viewsonic-monitor-vg2439smh
    I just picked PC Part Picker Germany as a reference point since I don't know where you are located. Ideally you would want to get an IPS panel so that when you set it to vertical, the viewing angle doesn't look weird.
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    Joseg99 reacted to YaBoiWill in Looking for a vertical monitor for coding   
    I don't want to sound sarcastic, but most mentors support swivel, or something like this
     https://www.amazon.co.uk/VonHaus-Assisted-Ergonomic-Rotation-Dimensions/dp/B076SYCJJB/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1550072218&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=vonhaus+monitor+arm&psc=1
    That way you can take your existing monitor and mount it to it to get swivel 
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    Joseg99 reacted to buzzinkeegs in Choose Which OS to Boot From   
    if its trying to boot windows all the time set the grub as default instead of win boot manager u should get a small window of choise then
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    Joseg99 reacted to DeScruff in Chrome may soon break Ad-Blockers   
    Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/22/google_chrome_browser_ad_content_block_change/
     
    Its probably unrelated... But anyone remember in 2013 when there were reports that Google payed Adblock Plus to not black ads?
    If I recall this led many people to uBlock Origin. Speaking of which:
    TLDR:
    This new API would let Google Chrome (And Chromium) bypass extensions that the user installed in relation to web traffic. All in the name of 'Privacy'.
    This has the potential to affect many kinds of extensions. Adblockers, are certainly the most commonly sited one, but other privacy oriented extensions, or those that block everything like No-Script could be affected.
    Ad-Block Plus doesn't seem to be affected due to the way it works, but Ad-Block Plus is known to let Ads through if they get payed.

    EDIT: If you want to read more Here is uBlockOrigin's GitHub page about this: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338
    Or you can read the bug report here: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897&desc=2#c23
    There are people there who certainly understand more then I do. This is not exactly my field.

    Update! Jan 23 2019
    ABP is affected, just not as hard.

    My personal thoughts:
    Recall that recently Microsoft announced Edge is being rebuilt with Chromium, and that makes Chrome based browsers a very large majority.
    I am not quite sure I trust Google when they say they are doing something for 'Privacy'. The two don't exactly go hand in hand...
    And since Google is often the provider of these ads, there certainly is a profit motive to have chrome bypass ad blockers, specially since 26% of Desktop users turn on ad blockers. There is a lot of money to be had.  And that is suuuuure tempting beautiful shiny, jolly candy like button to press. - Something tells me they would press it.

    The story is fairly new, and not a lot of developers have commented on it yet, but I am sure this kind of change would affect more then just Ad-Blockers.
    I do have to question how the browser determines when it should handle something, and when the extension should. I can imagine just like with Anti-Viruses there can be false positives which may cause issues with more obscure extensions, and webpages.

    Maybe it's time for you guys to give Firefox another try eh. ?
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    Joseg99 reacted to Uttamattamakin in Windows 10 May Reserve Another 7GB For Updates.   
    https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-windows-10-to-grab-7gb-of-your-storage-so-big-updates-dont-fail/
     
     
     
    OK, if I was one of the people who bought one of the inexpensive windows machines with 32GB of Flash storage I would be very angry about this.  This is going to be really annoying.  It is better now that windows 10 more readily supports keeping files in the cloud and downloading them as needed while still keeping them visible in the file structure.  On a machine like that up to now 12-16 of the 32 GB was the OS.  Now 19-23 GB of the storage will be the OS.   Can one even install MS office, the one thing such devices have that chromebook doesn't, in what is left?  About one GB for anything else. 
     
    In my humble opinion this will make the 32GB inexpensive windows computer obsolete.   
     
    Which is very bad for a lot of people.  A lot of students are only able to afford a very cheap computer.  There are some things that just cannot be done on a computer belonging to a school or a library.  There are some things that just cannot be done on a phone.   Why not just give people the option of downloading the updates to a USB then installing it from there?  
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