Wordpress - Can't Add Blocks with Gutenberg Editor

I came across an issue with the Gutenberg editor, wherein the blocks interface was visible, but I was unable to add anything (the option to do so was disabled) As noted by this Wordpress SE answer by emat, the fix was to go to Users -> Profile, and under Personal Options check Disable the visual editor when writing save uncheck Disable the visual editor when writing save You may only need to do steps 3 and 4; I had to check then uncheck; I presume it sets/resets the appropriate flag i...
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Boycott Nestlé

By all accounts, Nestlé is a pretty awful company. This is a (non-exhaustive) list of their subsidiaries and owned properties. udpate: someone made an easy-to-use website that serves the same purpose as this note! It's a little NSFW, given the name - https://www.fucknestle.art/ food & drink Aero After eights Boost bars Buxton Cheerios Del Monte Dolce gusto Haagen dasz Honestly Good Maggi Matchmakers Merrick Müller Ovaltine Perrier Polo mints Princes Gate Quality street Rowntrees San pell...
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Blender People I Watch or Recommend

I'll split them up into what they're mostly/primarily geared towards, but it's worth noting that I've learned a lot of the shortcut-y ways of doing things, and general "oh, that's neat" stuff through watching videos that aren't necessarily targetted towards "you will learn these blender tricks!" or "this is how to do X"; they just come out as parts of the people's normal workflows. General / All-round Blender Guru The guy most blender users start with. Pronounced (maybe still pronounces) ve...
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Adding Bulk "Not Interested" Buttons to Enhancer for YouTube

YouTube wants to be clean, and show me as many videos as it can. I get it. Doesn't mean I have to like it, though. Sometimes my feed gets so full of videos I know I'll never watch and it bums me out. Where are the videos I actually want to watch? Where's your algorithmic genius at, YouTube? This is a short, hastily-written script to make it easier to get rid of multiple videos from my feed, without needing to click so much stuff. It adds a button to the YouTube header bar. When you click that...
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Soft Sci-Fi Recommendations

⭐-> max of 10 Alien Earth - Megan Lindholm single-book novel 8⭐ From goodreads: Over successive generations the Conservancy has re-adjusted man to make him so environmentally-friendly that he no longer breeds or leaves any trace of his existence. However a depleted gene-pool now means that a dying Earth has to be repopulated, quickly. Somewhat heavy-handed on the "don't fuck up the world, you idiots!" at times and has a couple of obvious easily-seen-coming tropes, but overall a good re...
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Affinity Photo: Enhanced Waves Procedural Texture

After watching this video from Texturelabs I wanted to see if I could recreate the "Magic Texture Creates an Engraved Money" effect in Affinity Photo. As there isn't (or, I couldn't find) a wave distort effect in Affinity Photo 1.9, I set about seeing if there was another way I might be able to do it. Cue my first adventure with procedural textures! The Idea The idea was to mimic the effect Texturelabs got from "creating a gradient-pattern grid and then applying a Wave filter to it" by creati...
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Devins

Devin Townsend Ocean Machine The Death Of Music (live in plovdiv 2017) Terria Deep peace Nobody's Here Infinity Bad Devil Processional War Ants Empath Singularity Why Genesis Hear Me This is your Life King The Retinal Circus Detox Love? Effervescent/Due North -> Lucky Animals Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution Storm (devin townsend band, but the 2020 streamed version i prefer) Synchestra Vampira# Devin Townsend Project Devin Townsend Project Transcendence...
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Fixing Windows 10 OS error 07xe

On 2021 02 06 I had an application refuse to run, presenting with the error "Can't load protection component, OS error 0x7e". What followed was... Somewhat on an infuriating goose-chase. Honk. The Fix The short-story version is: I had to reinstall the vc_redist.x64.exe obtained from Microsoft's latest supported Visual C++ downloads page. As for how I found that out... Getting to the Fix Fault of... Neural? The application presenting the 0x7e original was Neural DSP's fantastic Archetype Goj...
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Free Windows Stuff

What is? List of freely available (mostly FOSS) software for Windows that makes using it a little nicer. Some are available for other platforms. Some tools in this list require more setting up than just install-and-go. These are denoted with an asterisk (*) by their names. Many tools are donationware. Please consider supporting development if you end up using any of these tools a lot, or if they make your life better. shareX* link Screenshot, screen recording, color picker, among other thin...
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