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In Device Manager, there's an item "USB Mass Storage Device" that appears under "Universal Serial Bus controllers" only when an external drive is plugged in, and right-clicking it and clicking Properties produces a dialog box with a tab labeled "Power Management" with an option for "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power". It was checked. I unchecked it. Now it no longer turns itself off after a while.
So, in conclusion, it seems it was the computer turning it off, not it turning itself off.
However, the twist is that this Power Management tab only appears here on Windows 10. For some reason, it is absent in Windows 8.1.
Lubuntu's documentation pages are down.
e.g. https://docs.lubuntu.net
I doubt I'll manage to get this to work but it's worth a try I guess.
I've spoken in support of portrait-mode monitors before, repeatedly, I think, to not waste space on the sides of screens when reading and writing documents, among other applications.
[9:42 PM] Glenn Magus Harvey (FL-23): https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/why-financial-confessionals-viral/600358/
[9:43 PM] Glenn Magus Harvey (FL-23): oh it's a post by [person A] in #policy
[9:43 PM] Glenn Magus Harvey (FL-23): seriously why does it not show up when i do a search for theatlantic
[9:43 PM] Glenn Magus Harvey (FL-23): does the stupid search box not actually look at plaintext?
[9:43 PM] Glenn Magus Harvey (FL-23): why do apps these days hate plaintext so much
[9:53 PM] [person B] (NM-01): Probably because it's one full word, you need to actually search for "https://www.theatlantic.com/"
[9:53 PM] Glenn Magus Harvey (FL-23): that's just stupid
[9:54 PM] Glenn Magus Harvey (FL-23): it's literally surrounded by punctuation
[9:54 PM] Glenn Magus Harvey (FL-23): anyway
[9:54 PM] [person B] (NM-01): actually it's even worse than that, you can't search past the period lol
[9:54 PM] [person B] (NM-01): you just have to search for everything before the first period :elmo~1:
[9:56 PM] Glenn Magus Harvey (FL-23):
> actually it's even worse than that, you can't search past the period lol
see
if this were IRC, where everything is processed, displayed, and stored in plaintext, this would not be a problem
I noticed my coding speed went up after I started being more conscious of the PgUp/Dn keys. The F keys thing is weird though, those are always useful.
On the other hand, this is the situation on my current computer...
Well, yes, it was not that old. I meant it in the sense of assuming that a modern computer in a given price range will just happen to have good enough graphics card without me having to consciously check for it. Which, as I was appalled to discover, was not a well-founded assumption. Last time I bought a new one it kinda worked, but it was a few years younger the games I wanted to play back then, so I guess I kinda lucked out on that.
I guess it's better than not being able to save without overwriting, but I wish it had been clear on what it was going to do so that I wouldn't skip on saving fodder for the images thread only because it was called something like "image.png".
I think I opened it up once and then closed it back up without fixing anything.
I also don't really have the tools for this. Like, I don't even have a voltmeter for detecting electrical connectivity. Nor do I have the experience.
It's like a magazine quiz suddenly.
If you were thinking in the direction of recent political relevance, I wasn't; I was just thinking of how red is stereotypically associated with fire and aggression, whereas blue is stereotypically associated with water and serenity.
That said, it would be amusing if it was just a randomly-assigned set of six descriptors.
Sidenote: I haven't used actual Firefox in years. IIRC at first it was because mainline Firefox didn't let me manually choose what cookies to accept or decline, and later it might have also been that doesn't even let me choose to default to keeping cookies only for the session.
I was thinking about communism.
I would have quit using Firefox during the 64 debacle when they broke all the add-ons, but then I got over it and kept using it. It'd feel weird to be to do otherwise, even though Mozilla the company has long lost it's mind (and relevance).
I'm just glad they haven't turned it into a Chrome-knockoff yet.
Feels like the sort of thing that would be the clue in a mystery story.
edit: I mean, I understand I could do it by fiddling with system settings, but that sounds like something I could mess up my system with a bit too easily.
Try LeechBlock
If what you need is to turn off the 'net as a whole instead of just for your browser, there's a good chance your router has settings to do so (probably under parental controls).
Turns out there's a whole browser-based Wojak generator, for all your Wojak compass production needs.