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my new SAMSUNG Galaxy A14 – its fingerprint sensor, …
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKqNvarW_O4&ab_channel=HardReset.Info – I had no idea, where to find the fingerprint sensor, before I watched this video
Can you imagine, how much I like this “simple” A14 (4G) as addition to my iPhone11? I got it 2 days ago – after postponing the purchase for months. I did not prepare the action at all. I just asked a clerk at the Saturn shop nearby for his recommendation.
“Cloning” my “old” Huawei smartphone to my A14 wasn’t as complete as I would have liked. That cloning process does not consider “desktop folders” at all – that is a “PITA”.
I prefer listening to my favourite radio station on my A14 over listening to it on my FRITZ!Fon, which I have been using at home for that purpose so far.
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artificial intelligence and hallucination
An AI hallucination is a confident response by an AI that cannot be grounded in any of its training data.
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WhatsApp: editing messages after sending them
WhatsApp recently introduced editable messages, at least in the desktop app. In other words: within the desktop app on my MacBook I can change messages after sending them – but that’s a modern feature – and if the communication partner does not have the “right version” of WhatsApp, then the change will not make it to the other side.
Telegram has had this feature for years – when I started using Telegram, this was its biggest plus.
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how to know whether Wayland or X11 is being used?
- https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/202891/how-to-know-whether-wayland-or-x11-is-being-used#325972
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(protocol) – has been on my wikipedia watchlist for quite some time
I have never used Wayland so far, I only heard of it. With my new job it is sort of the enforced work environment together with ubuntu 22.x. It means quite a challenge.
- mouse pointer focus policy
- GNU Emacs and the caret, that dired uses for dired-up-directory – “find the parent directory”
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gnome desktop: how to split desktop into four parts (like PowerToys FancyZones)
- https://askubuntu.com/questions/1374443/how-to-split-window-in-ubuntu-20-04-into-four-parts
- https://itsfoss.com/gnome-shell-extensions/ – great source to understand how gnome-shell and its extensions work
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/powertoys/fancyzones – the “prototype” on Windows
“extensions” and “tweaks” are searchable on the desktop after the suggested installations.
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Linux equivalent of Windows ctrl to show mouse pointer
I am on Ubuntu 22.04, and this works for me:
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface locate-pointer true