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I have a bunch of folders in the “Bookmarks Toolbar”. Every day I drag and drop a number of tabs into one of these in order to create a bookmark for later reading/viewing. For example, I might drag and drop a tab playing a YouTube video into my “YouTube” folder. […]

I know I can use gpg --symmetric to encrypt a file using a passphrase, but I also know that it does in two steps as explainded here: gpg symmetric encryption creates a random symmetric key and encrypts that key using the passphrase along with a random salt. The random symmetric […]

I’m trying to set up virtual env for pytest using pycharm which is using powershell for the terminal and the activate.bat is not recognized and neither is the .activate.bat it suggests

I am trying to get Chromium to save my passwords. I’m on Lubuntu 25, which installs Chromium Version 141.0.7390.54 (Official Build) snap (64-bit). When I go to chrome://password-manager/passwords, it’s completely empty — but I’m 100% sure passwords are saved, because when I log in to sites like TradingView, Chromium auto-fills […]

New here!! “Format a number with optional decimal places in Excel” answered most of my question Blockquote This seems to be the simplest way to have a Decimal shown when there are fractional numbers – and No Decimal shown for whole numbers: =TEXT(ROUND(Base_Number,Max_Decimal_Places),”general”) or with cell references: =TEXT(ROUND(A1,2),”general”) Gives 15 […]