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Ruben Schade ☛ Navidrome: “Failed to get executable path” error
I was importing a new song into Navidrome, when I got this error: [...]
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ID Root ☛ How To Install Plotly on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
A fresh Ubuntu 26.04 box looks like the easy case: Python is already there, pip is a command away, and the install should take thirty seconds.
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CubicleNate ☛ Install VMware Remote Console on openSUSE Tumbleweed
VMware Remote Console (VMRC) is a client for managing virtual machines on ESXi or vSphere, offering features like USB redirection. Installing VMRC on openSUSE Tumbleweed involves using a .bundle file, which requires root access. Despite the complexities, VMRC enhances efficiency for users, particularly within non-native GNU/Linux environments.
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Ronalds Vilciņš ☛ CSS Calculations With sibling-index() and sibling-count()
Giving every item a hand-written index just to stagger an animation feels like bookkeeping the browser could do. That’s what I like about CSS sibling-index() : it supplies the item’s position as a number, so the stylesheet can calculate the delay.
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DT ☛ Perform an action when an interface is connected - dt.iki.fi
Therefore I can create a condition to start a service when a certain network interface becomes available.
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Declan Chidlow ☛ Quirks and Vintage Uses of CSS Table Display | Vale.Rocks
I’ve long found the ability to use layouts of table elements with CSS rather odd. In addition to well known and loved values of CSS’ display property, like block, inline, flex, and grid, there are values like table and table-cell. What do these values do and why would they be used?
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Ahmad Alfy ☛ A select should tell you something
There are multiple articles about appearance: base-select and how you can use it. We finally can style a select. The bigger change is what an option can hold. Until now, an option was one line of plain text, so everything a person needed to decide had to fit in a label or be left out. Now an option can carry the thing people actually decide with: a preview, a number, a job title, a warning. They stop reading and working things out, and start recognising.
Below are five selects, each shown before and after. The before is what most forms do today. The after is the same
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Brennen Puth ☛ Websites Should Be Printable
I read a lot of printed papers these days. While I enjoy reading on a laptop as much as the next guy, marking up a printed document engages me better. Also, there's something about sitting with a whiteboard and a printed document that makes me rightly feel like I'm doing something important. So I've been thinking about how to best allow others to enjoy this medium for content that I write.