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Archive for January 31st, 2025

keirf/greaseweazle: Tools for accessing a floppy drive at the raw flux level

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/31

[Wayback/Archive] keirf/greaseweazle: Tools for accessing a floppy drive at the raw flux level

Interesting drive: [Wayback/Archive] BTC BCO 4816IA 48x 7-in-1 Card Reader CDRW/DVD Combo Drive ODD Computer Laufwerk

More on Greaseweazle:

Via this project allowing many kinds of media to be grabbed:

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Insightful video on arm movements via Chris Kavanagh on X: “Found this in Reddit seems like it might be useful for some people.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/31

Cleaning up my open tabs, I found the below insightful video on arm movements via [WaybackSave/Archive] Chris Kavanagh on X: “Found this in Reddit seems like it might be useful for some people.”

Poster on the right, video below the signature, if WordPress now finally decides to embed them properly, from:

[Wayback/Archive] B_Q5gPTwsZVw7nS5.jpg (720×788)

[Wayback/Archive] Tweet JSON

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Chrome on Windows: Keyboard – Move focus to the shortcuts bar – Google Chrome Community

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/31

[Wayback/Archive] Keyboard – Move focus to the shortcuts bar – Google Chrome Community was a great question that I had myself for a long time.

TL;DR: On Windows, you can either cycle focus using F6, Alt + Shift + b to use the keyboard for getting focus to the bookmarks bar.

This is not officially documented for Windows/Linux at [Wayback/Archive] Chrome keyboard shortcuts – Computer – Google Chrome Help:

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Posted in Chrome, Google, Hardware, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, KVM keyboard/video/mouse, Power User | Leave a Comment »