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I looked into lean-ctx and decided not to use it. It has a very specific use case, and it's good when your interaction with the repository is read-only. When you want to edit, then the model has to read the whole file anyway. It's a cool tool, but it has a very narrow use case where it delivers the performance it claims.

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You can install Whatsapp on up to four or five devices. There one main device, and the rest are "clients", exactly like the desktop apps. But they can send and receive messages even when the main device is offline.

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Thanks for mentioning this. I did not know it existed, and it looks very interesting. I might try to "upgrade" my 7-year-old vacuum robot.

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I think they also try to provide their own content, blending your library with what they can license for you. It would be cool if they combined your library with a catalogue similar to Netflix in one app.

My pet peeve is that they focus too much on that side of the business (adding new content) while ignoring the streaming experience. There are feature requests on the forum that are being ignored. For example, I would like music artwork per song instead of per album so kids can find their songs more easily. I would also like offline content to be available in the standard catalogue without going through "Downloads". The device that plays the content should prefer that downloaded copy instead of fetching it again via a network when you play it. And so on...

As someone already said, this is probably intended to squeeze some money from the illegal content streaming farms before they close them. They are probably forced to suspend anything suspicious by the legal departments, and this way, they get a bit out of it.

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Thanks for pointing this out. I wasn't aware of this feature.

I enabled Firefox sync and lost all my history. It was a user error: I should have disabled configuration sync (clear history when you close the browser).

After this incident, I decided I had enough, so I uninstalled LibreWolf. I recovered my lost history from different instances, but I don't want to spend my time making this browser work.

LibreWolf is a decent browser with annoying default settings, which made me lose more time than I wanted to make it work.

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I can confirm that. I switched to using LibreWolf as a work-dedicated browser parallel to Firefox Developer Edition.

In two weeks of using it, I got annoyed by the following: - no automatic dark-mode (against fingerprinting, some websites don't have a setting to switch it on - not sure if you can turn it off) - timezone is always UTC (can be worked-around with an extension, messed up my time tracking app and some log viewer) - login on some websites/tools is broken altogether by the strict privacy settings (did not even bother to debug, I switched to Firefox) - WebGL off by default (you can turn it on via config flag)

I switched from Firefox to Chrome and back and never had to debug and work-around so many issues. It's a decent browser, but I'm not sure the value it brings justifies the costs of time spent debugging and the inconveniences.

I will continue to use it for work, but I will not switch entirely from Firefox because I want my history available across devices.

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> A small application running on the host computer extracts USB information from the operating system and sends it to the Hub over USB.

I guess they have an "agent" running on the OS.

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I've been using eSIMs for a few years, and my experience is similar to yours. I'm an expat living abroad, and I want to keep my old phone number (from my home country) and my new phone number (from the country I currently live in).

After two days, my first phone with an eSIM died, so I had to go to a telecommunication provider's physical store to install a new eSIM on the replacement phone.

Now, I try to keep my main SIM physical and the secondary (less important) one as an eSIM. In my case, my native country's phone number is now an eSIM.

You can ask your provider for a blank physical SIM, and in case you lose your eSIM, you can usually call them, go through the identification process, and they can move your number back to the physical SIM you have as a backup based on the serial number on the SIM. I do have blank physical SIMs for my eSIM. I never had to use them, but my girlfriend did (she's using the same setup). Once you're back to physical SIM, you can usually change to eSIM via the app. Be aware that some companies charge this switch between SIM and eSIM.

Having the secondary number as an eSIM makes it easier to use virtual SIM providers like Airolo when travelling since I don't have an issue disconnecting that number for the duration of the holidays.

If you have just one number, I'll suggest to keep it as a physical SIM.

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