If you're an Arch user who uses paru as your AUR helper and pacman wrapper, you may not know about a really useful opt-in feature it has

Go edit ~/.config/paru/paru.conf and uncomment a line containing `NewsOnUpgrade`

When enabled, paru will automatically check for news on archlinux.org on every system update – which is a really useful thing to have to avoid installing (very rare) breaking changes requiring manual intervention or to know about policy / infrastructure changes, etc.

#TechTip for those who are creating a BitWarden account.

There is the ability to create a bitwarden.eu account, so the server is hosted in the EU and has all the benefits associated with that.

You have to select this at creation point, help link is here.

If you're hoping to copy a Google Doc and retain the suggested edits and comments (just like Word does FFS), here's a quick and easy way, as per Reddit:

"Copy the document's URL and paste into a new browser tab but don't hit Enter. Replace "edit" in the URL with "copy?copyComments=true" and hit Enter. This should make a copy of the doc with comments & suggestions."

I'm not sure where it *put* that copy, but I just used "Move" from within the document itself to put it where I needed it.

In today's #retro #techtip: did you know that #NTSC stands for "Never Twice the Same Color"?

When color television was invented engineers really wanted to break with the dreary black and white. So never the same color again!

Follow for more quality #retrocomputing tech tips.

I like my tech. I've had all sorts but the only tech that has made me want to smash it against the wall is the Fire Cube 3rd gen. I actually think something in the manufacturing process is goosed. It bricked almost instantly. I have persisted - because that's what you do - to no avail. Avoid.

Some of you may need to hear this.

If you have a label printer or any other kind of tape-fed thermal transfer printer that you use for silly purposes

BE REAL CAREFUL THROWING CARTRIDGES AWAY

The cartridge contains an ink ribbon with impressions of *everything* you printed with it

You may want to discard of that separately in a much more considerate manner

#TechTip you can enable manual adding of search engines in #Firefox by adding this variable in about:config:

`browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh` as `true`

Then in the search settings on about:preferences#search a new "Add" button will appear

You know the annoying "Sign in with google" pop-up that seems to happen everywhere now?Apparently you can turn it off:

https://myaccount.google.com/connections/settings and uncheck "Allow Google to display a sign-in prompt where it’s supported by third-party apps and services"

I guess every random website out there is using it to try and get your email. So doubly annoying and very bad web/product design, imo.

Did you know? Windows Magnifier can assist vision impaired users. Press Win + '+' to zoom in, and Win + '-' to zoom out. Use Win + Esc to exit. Customize it in Settings > Ease of Access > Magnifier for a better view! #TechTip #Accessibility #TechTipTuesday

Pro tip: when authoring system configurations, make sure you use the appropriate comment decorator. Not all configs use "#"!

It definitely didn't take me an hour to realize why my polkit rules were erroring on compilation...

For Ansible folk, don't forget about the "comment" filter that has a few predefined decorators. For example:

---
{{ ansible_managed | ansible.builtin.comment("c") }}
---

Tip Tuesday! On iPhone and iPad you can create a shortcut that automatically expands into your email address. Go to Settings → General → Keyboard → Text Replacement and tap the +. Enter your email as the phrase and a shortcut like "@@" (make it easy to type).

Tip Tuesday! You can go to a specific slide by typing the slide number and pressing Enter or Return when in Slideshow/Present mode in Google Slides, PowerPoint, or Keynote. You could write down a list of key slide numbers as a reference before presenting.

Le #TechTip du jour avec #Firefox v108 que je viens de mettre à jour :
The shift + esc keyboard shortcut now opens the Process Manager

On voit la conso mémoire et CPU onglet par onglet Pratique pour savoir ce qui nous pompe toutes les ressources....

C'est tout, bonne journée !