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June 22

Android app

Is there a rootless app or USB cable to use one of your Android smartphones as an in-out device/terminal for another of your Android smartphones when they're next to each other? Only one is new USB. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 18:49, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Can you explain what you mean by "in-out device/terminal"? Do you mean that you want to copy data from one phone to the other? CodeTalker (talk) 07:20, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Remote desktop except phones instead of PCs. Should I trust such apps? (if from the Play store) Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 21:23, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Does Chrome Remote Desktop work for you? Dja1979 (talk) 14:29, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

June 25

MTVNews.com archives gone

Now that the MTVNews.com archives are gone, and there are quite a few links to it, do we ask the InternetArchiveBot people to run their bot on all pages that contain that url? How does that work? Polygnotus (talk) 06:20, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

Either someone already did so or no one ever cited it to begin with. 2603:8001:4542:28FB:8DF1:8D96:7CF0:D084 (talk) 14:11, 25 June 2024 (UTC) (Send talk messages here)

I believe so. Otherwise, you need to try to salvage broken links yourself. Outside of Internet Archive there is also archive(dot)is/archive(dot)today as well, which could be worth a try. Hanoi2020 (talk) 17:05, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

June 28

Dragging a map without mouse

On Google maps the displayed map can be dragged in any direction by the mouse held with left button down. To do this in a script I hope to use this HotKeys command:

MouseClickDrag Clicks and holds the specified mouse button, moves the mouse to the destination coordinates, then releases the button.

MouseClickDrag, WhichButton, X1, Y1, X2, Y2 [, Speed, R]

On testing the mouse does move to the expected positions (x1,Y1) and (x2,Y2) but the map fails to move. Can someone say what I need to do to drag the map without mouse?

Comment: Attempting to slow the auto mouse by inserting 100 for Speed did not help. I also tried this sleepwalking version with 1-second waits between operations:

Sleep, 1000      ;sleep 1 second
MouseMove, 451, 314 ;map top left
Sleep, 1000
Send, {LButton Down}
Sleep, 1000
MouseMove, 691, 474 ;This where I want the map to be dropped
Sleep, 1000
Send, {LButton Up}

As before, the mouse moves as expected but the map fails to drag. Note: this is on Windows 10. MouseClickDrag works ok for drawing lines in PAINT.exe. Philvoids (talk) 18:44, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

My first assumption is that you need two left button presses. Google Maps already has key bindings to the cursor keys to move it up, down, right, left. But, when you initially open Maps, it has focus on the search box. You have to click on the map once to put focus on the map. Then, the cursor keys and + and - work. So, your key bindings may not work without first clicking on the map, which I assume you can script, and then click-dragging. But, in my mind, this would be a cute project to work out how many cursor key presses it takes to move to a specific point and interleaving them so it appears to move diagonal instead of left to a point and then down to the final point. 12.116.29.106 (talk) 11:34, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

I invoke Google maps from a Wikipedia geographic location so it displays with the Search box already filled. Just a single left-mouse-press is enough to start a drag. Thank you for the tip about the up/down/left/right arrow keys - they drag in large steps while the left mouse key is held down. Yes, you have the seed of a cute useful project for extracting wide-area high resolution maps from Google. Unfortunately the arrow keys do not work on this scan of an old map so this will not help the "Download image from website" question above. Philvoids (talk) 12:19, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

July 4

Using the free VPN feature of the Opera browser

Is there a way to choose a specific country (where the connection appears to come from) when one uses the free VPN feature of the Opera browser? I installed Opera and when I tried to choose the country it only gave me the option between several regions of the world (Europe, Asia, North America, ...) but not how to pick a specific country in those regions. The explanation of their Help Chatbot was either unintelligible or false. Has anyone here used Opera and their free VPN and can they tell me if what I want to do is possible? Or is that a feature of their pro VPN? How about other free VPNs (like ProtonVPN): do they allow the free choice of the country or is that a premium feature that only paying VPNs allow? 178.51.74.75 (talk) 06:51, 4 July 2024 (UTC)