If you have an email ending in @hotmail.com, @live.com or @outlook.com (or any other Microsoft-related domain), please consider changing it to another email provider; Microsoft decided to instantly block the server's IP, so emails can't be sent to these addresses.
If you use an @yahoo.com email or any related Yahoo services, they have blocked us also due to "user complaints"
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(How does one do the html code block thing?)
How to use: put that in a .py file in a folder with your data file and nothing else (other stuff might get overwritten), run the .py file and enter the filename (including the .txt or whatever). While we're at it you probably should back up the data file just in case.
I owe you an Internet, looks like.
There are some parts that I'll have to trim to make it fit the text format and some stuff like that, but I guess I'll be able to pull it off on my own now that I have a ready code to play with. In any case I'll ask again. Thanks mate.
> can't actually look inside it before borrowing it, so i can't check whether it's what i want
> borrow
> i can now download it
> download a tiny .acsm file
> turns out it's basically a file that (1) can only be opened by Adobe Digital Editions, and (2) downloads a DRM-laden ebook file
> choose web view
> find out it's not a book that i want
> can't even return it; it's stuck on my loans list until october
I downloaded something that on second thought probably shouldn't have. Hopefully it's nothing. Internet last words.
http://www.askvg.com/tip-how-to-show-file-extensions-of-shortcuts-lnk-url-pif-in-windows-explorer/
Especially the part about showing extensions like .url, .lnk, and such.
Edit: Huh. I can't seem to find them in that form in Windows 8.1.
I tend to have one finger on the touchpad and one finger on the button at the same time. This makes this awkward.
And occasionally my cursor flies to the bottom of the screen because of the timing of my fingers.
That's just a shame. It's an actually useful thing.
And what do they replace it with? Another way to see your bookmarks. Ctrl+b already does that. But now Ctrl+b AND Ctrl+i do that.
Why?
(Fortunately there's this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/page-info-button/ )
Edit: Apparently it's just never been there. But I remember easily accessing it before. Maybe I was using the menus, so I checked the menus...and it's not there either. Huh. What happened to it?
> no custom directory option
Well, you're going to get unceremoniously dumped for the same reason that Discord got unceremoniously dumped.
But I am going to send a feature suggestion message.
"This is in fact an old legacy bug, apparently from the times of Windows XP": https://superuser.com/questions/327479/ctrl-space-always-toggles-chinese-ime-windows-7
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/929bbe77-1a98-4bbc-b201-c813a8499d22/windows-81-is-forgetting-ctrl12345-shortcuts-designated-for-keyboard-layout-switching-after?forum=w8itproinstall
this is a very old bug and it's STILL around
https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1261058-windows-81-is-forgetting-ctrl12345-shortcuts-designated-for-keyboard-layout-switching-after-wa/
apparently i might need to dive into the registry??? i don't know which of the numbers go with which languages and what settings...
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-desktop/custom-hotkeys-to-change-input-language-disappear/66d1d89d-e5dc-41e1-a8b3-48d596ab8e11?page=4&tm=1391057416056#LastReply
this may be able to solve it without having to registry-dive
i have left shift + alt + 1 => US International
but if i open up my language hot key settings, that hot key is not set
HOWEVER
if i go and set it
it disables it
wtf windows?????
incidentally i am getting the sense that a number of weird features about the way windows is set up has to do with it presuming that there are multiple users on a computer and then trying to find ways to compartmentalize the settings and preserve a sort of default neutral territory to load first before changing the settings to a customized version after login
I recently wrestled with Windows 8.1 doing something very similar to this but with hotkeys for switching keyboard layout (as I frequently us€ sú©h çìgñs ænd sÿµßø£s) but it would keep resetting, and it turned out that this was a bug that stretched back to WinXP or Win7 days in which it'd switch back to default Region settings every time the computer was logged off, and then it wouldn't switch back on -- despite the display saying that it remembered my hotkeys. Oddly, sometimes it'd remember one hotkeys but not another.
I'm aware that my touchpad ALSO does something similar -- tap-to-click is re-enabled and edge scrolling is re-disabled when I'm not logged in, and even for a little while after I am, before it loads the mouse settings.
So if there's a way for you to change the default settings, that might be the answer.
A misunderstanding about Windows Update was what caused me to factory reset my computer last month.
Apparently it can be really, really, really slow to show any visual signs of progress. I didn't understand this and I mistook it for hanging, and I ended up troubleshooting it, trying to apply fixes, downloading possible fixes from Microsoft, calling Microsoft tech support, and doing things left and right to try to reset settings and clear caches and whatnot.
Eventually uninstalled everything, broke the OS in weird ways, and went for a factory reset.
Like, why isn't every reply treated equally like every non-reply, all in one giant feed?
Okay, yeah, i can figure out the answer, because this allows message threading and allows for people to have conversations.
But I'd prefer it differently. I'd prefer it to be like a giant worldwide chat room where people kept track of their conversations using temporary hashtags as search terms and kept their NON-TWITTER-WEBSITE THIRD PARTY CLIENTS (which will always be better than Twitter's own website, because web apps always suck due to requiring use of browsers which become increasingly bloated due to having to accommodate this) constantly refreshed.
ITP: GMH proposes that Twitter become IRC.
Of course, the "change font" thing also disappeared.
I can use it for stuff that doesn't require use of the drive continuously, as long as I am willing to possibly have to wait for the thing to reconnect (or just pull it and plug it back in). And honestly it's got a huge amount of storage and I need that space. But sometimes this makes it inconvenient to do some things that typically require continuous drive activity.
I have one other drive but it's "just" 160 GB. I guess I could use that partly.