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Firefox: v132 OS: Linux Debian my laptop lost power last night and when I restarted this morning, session was lost. I went to about:sessions but nothing concrete. I’m actually using Firefox Sync so maybe it is recoverable somehow but hence, I didn’t find it. is it definitely lost? thank you […]

Is there any way in Explorer on Windows 11 [23 H2] build 22631.4890 to configure the sorting of folders and files to be mixed up, rather than files and folders separately? For example, in Windows 7 it was possible to do this.

You can simulate the behaviour of ffplay with ffmpeg by using the xv output device like so. ffmpeg -re -f lavfi -i 'color=red [red]; color=blue [blue]; [blue][red]xfade=duration=5s, format=yuv420p, trim=duration=5s' -f xv '' This has certain uses since ffmpeg can do more things than ffplay – for example it can take […]

I have an Epson L1250 printer and a Raspberry Pi 4 server running Debian 12, and I want to connect the printer to the server through USB, and let CUPS on the server offer the printer to other computers on the local network. I managed to make this work[*], but […]

This is my current complex modification { "description": "Double Tab to accept zsh-autosuggestions", "manipulators": [ { "conditions": [ { "name": "double_tab", "type": "variable_if", "value": 1 } ], "from": { "key_code": "tab" }, "to": [{ "key_code": "right_arrow" }], "type": "basic" }, { "from": { "key_code": "tab" }, "to": [ { "set_variable": […]

I’ve noticed that some ffmpeg filters omit the name of parameters for certain parameters. For example, you can write: ffplay -f lavfi -i 'color=red' rather than using color=color=red; or ffplay -f lavfi -i 'color=white:size=1024x512, drawtext=hello, scale=500x300' How do I tell which parameter is the “default parameter”?