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Re:As the Priest Said to the Nun on Monday June 05, 2023 @06:45AM (#36194621)
I was curious to see the full text of the translated poem. Here it is via google books preview of the book in question:

Oh man, think long

before talk escapes your mouth.

Speak thoughtfully, without anger and hatred,

thus you will succeed all the better.

Listening quickly and answering slowly,

considering things carefully, that is how wise men live.

Through talk many have been overcome,

in silence few have been found dishonourable.

There is no better protection from dishonour

than being the master of your tongue.

It's more like a steam controller + mini laptop. It runs things directly. The specs are at https://www.steamdeck.com/en/tech/
Re:How Likely Is Losing a Google Account? on Monday January 30, 2023 @12:17PM (#34582994)
There's another way to "lose" accounts that's a bit more likely depending on your circumstances. I had set up a google account for my kid, so we could lock down the old tablet we let him poke at. I was happy that I had managed to get him his firstname.lastname gmail address in the process.

However recently the family moved to a new country. This basically isn't something google lets you do with a family group, and until you change your play store country, your play store won't have the local variants of a lot of apps, so you can't install them. You have to delete your family group, change country then recreate it. But you can't delete a family group with a child account. The only thing you can do is delete the child account. The help docs mention being able to restore it, but that didn't work, it just said it couldn't be restored. And since google doesn't allow an email address to ever be recycled once it's deleted, I forever locked my kid out of possibly having his firstname.lastname gmail address. Very frustrating.

Re:What travel insurance really means on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @11:06AM (#17550167)
Warning for anyone who's squeamish: there are some fairly gruesome photos of an injury in the article.
Re:GitLab Pages Security Issue Notification on Monday February 12, 2018 @12:36PM (#16360254)
It involves using "certbot certonly -a manual" with a bunch of other flags on the command line (well in a script really), create the file it asks for and let it generate a new key.

Gitlab pages only lets you add cert/key details at the point you add the domain (afaik anyway), so you need to delete it and re-add it with the renewed key. It's tedious enough, but it's really only the last step that needs to be done manually.

Re:GitLab Pages Security Issue Notification on Monday February 12, 2018 @11:38AM (#16359763)
I have a website hosted there, and manually renew a let's encrypt cert for custom domain pointing to it every few months. Unfortunately this involves removing and re-adding the custom domain.

I got a notification the cert was going to expire soon so I went through my usual renewal process, only to get redirected to the linked post from the new domain button immediately after deleting the custom domain. So the custom domain now 404s which is the last thing I would have wanted.

I'd strongly suggest a warning get attached to the delete domain custom domain button, or something similar, until this is fixed.

Re:Happy hiring: The firm that recruits Mr Men characters on Monday April 24, 2017 @12:12PM (#14185445)
I would expect the additional step of

> "If they tick all the right boxes then we put them in the shop for half the day."

is also very important.

I think rather than overriding your control key, it's overriding scrolling. It loads up some smoothscroll javascript, and there's likely a bug someplace that's interfering with the ability to zoom. Holding control and pressing +/- to zoom in/out should still work.