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Recent Comments

New comment on The deafening problem with the FreeStyle Libre 3 app for Android:

Alan

Have you tried xDrip+? It is way better than the Dexcom app for me and I think it works for the freestyle sensors too.

New comment on Split key­boards give your hands a break but reduce typing flex­ibility:

Anonymous

Just get the ZSA Voyager or Moonlander and you can customize the keys and put them wherever you want.

New comment on A Sony Headphones app feature kills your phone’s battery life:

Valentyn Parkhomenko

It is true, ive noticed 30% battery drain within 24 hours simply staying at home where my location is actually saved and has functions disabled. Thats a disaster. I had to disable all of these nice to have feature and considering now to buy something different like sonos.

New comment on PCMag’s VPN review-ratings compared to sales commissions:

DexLab

Some of the chart's lines in dark mode are white and makes the text look almost invisible.

New comment on Devices that speak in the night:

DexLab

My Eufy RoboVac doesn't come with network capabilities but, for reasons that I don't know, randomly beeps every once in a while on the charger, and this happens even when the main power switch is set to off! Does it want to be let out and walked?

New comment on How to remove the Adobe Acrobat Update service:

Kena

Thanks! I additionally also deleted another left-over, a scheduled task "Adobe Acrobat Update Task". This task tries to start AdobeARM.exe at logon of any user and 8:00 each day. Open "Task Scheduler" and you should be able to delete or disable it there.

New comment on How to change the keyboard layout on the MacOS login screen:

Steven

"In Sonoma, you can click the keyboard layout indicator in the top right of the screen on the login screen and make adjustments there. The keyboard settings made there will persist directly from that screen if you login immediately after applying the changes."

I found this post after searching for help. I had US and Latin Am keyboards and at some time my system changed to booting with LA keyboard layout. When I figured out what was happening on my log in attempts. But it doesn't stick. Every reboot resets it back to Latin Am. I finally deleted the layout after seeing that the suggestion here [what I was already doing] makes no difference. I only had it for attempting Spanish lessons, which I'm not doing right now.

New comment on Everything you need to know about Night mode in Samsung Internet:

Anonymous

Years later, and we're still in the same place. The Samsung blog recommendation concerning the color-scheme tag does not work.

You can however detect when this mode is on:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/79012781/9316077

But as for taking counter measures... good luck in finding color combinations thie browser won't make unreadable!

New comment on What is Lenovo Wi-Fi Security and should you enable or ignore it?:

Anonymous

Thanks for the research, it's really useful.

New comment on New font with Unicode-compatible Creative Commons license symbols:

Annette

Thank you very much! This was very much needed!