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April 10[edit]

Finding Spotify Account[edit]

I had an individual account with Spotify, and had created two playlists, and could use them when I was driving. There was no problem for a few years. Then I lost the mobile device, and have bought a new mobile device, which is a Samsung Galaxy A15 5G. I have installed the free version of Spotify. It offers to upgrade to an individual premium account, but I already have an individual premium account, that I am being billed $11.65 a month for. If I log on to Spotify on my desktop computer, it shows my playlists. What I want to do is to log in to my existing account from a new device, and find my playlists. I don't want to set up an individual premium account on the new device for two reasons. First, I would probably then pay $23.30 a month. Second, I wouldn't have the existing playlist, but would have to create it again. Yes, I can see it on my desktop computer and can copy everything from it on my new mobile device, but that would be stupidly duplicative. Does anyone know how I can log on to my existing Spotify account, that I am already being billed for?

I see an 877 phone number on the line on my Visa bill for the recurring charge. Should I call the 877 number for assistance? Is there some other way to log on to my existing account and access my playlist? Robert McClenon (talk) 15:16, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Robert McClenon Do you know your username? thetechie@wikimedia: ~/talk/ $ 15:22, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You should probably sign out of your new account, and sign into your old account. Let me know if I am misunderstanding. thetechie@wikimedia: ~/talk/ $ 15:25, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, User:TheTechie. I think that you understand. The problem is that I click on the icon for Spotify and get into a Spotify screen that doesn't seem to have a Login or Logout. It wants me to upgrade to a premium account. I don't want a new premium account. You are correct that I want to log in to my existing premium account. Should I uninstall Spotify from my mobile device and start over? I don't see a way to Login or Logout. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:16, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Robert McClenon Here's how I sign out on iOS (this may work on Android):

I click "home" on the bottom left.
I click my profile picture on the top left.
I click "Settings and Privacy" on the left.
I scroll down.
I click "Log out".

I would not recommend uninstalling in this case, as sometimes if you reinstall, it'll sign you back in (in my testing).

Best, thetechie@wikimedia: ~/talk/ $ 17:03, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, User:TheTechie. There wasn't a profile picture at the top left, but there was a circle with a letter R in it. Clicking on it allowed me to scroll down to Settings and Privacy, and then to log out. Then I had to set up Facebook on the new mobile device by entering my Facebook password. Then I was able to log into Spotify as Continue with Facebook, and it now shows my playlist. So thank you. The problem is that Login and Logout are in an out-of-the-way place. That worked. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:45, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Robert McClenon Anytime! thetechie@wikimedia: ~/talk/ $ 20:48, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I tried calling the 877 number, which looks like a proper 10-digit phone number, and my phone service says that the number cannot be dialed. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:19, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting...you'd think credit card companies would do a better job in maintaining their services.
If you have a phone with another carrier, try calling it if you can. If it doesn't work then, well, blame Visa I guess? thetechie@wikimedia: ~/talk/ $ 17:07, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

When I get the next monthly bill from the Visa card issuing bank, I will send them a letter stating that the 877 number doesn't work. I don't have a basis to contest the charge, since I am now getting the service that I wanted, but I will ask them to follow up with Spotify about the bad phone number. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:45, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

April 12[edit]

Firefox bookmarks sidebar[edit]

After Firefox on my Fedora Linux system updated to Firefox 120.0.1, the "bookmarks sidebar" button suddenly changed to "sidebars". When I click it I get a sidebar with multiple options, such as "history" and "bookmarks". This is otherwise all OK, but it always opens with "history" as the default. How can I make it open with "bookmarks" as the default? JIP | Talk 17:18, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Web Applications[edit]

I want to categorize types of Web Applications based upon what framework and architecture might be best suited for making a type of site as effective as possible.

By effective, I mean nondeveloper content creation, SEO, community experience, rapid development, load time, responsiveness, ease of deployment, etc.

So far I have a loose list:

brochure - such as https://valleyendodontic.com/ notice, no sign in… no portal

subscription - medium.com, NetFlix, etc notice “subscribe to read more” prompts or sign up to watch whatever you want

store - chewy.com where you can do almost everything as a guest but can also sign in for user specific resources

community - facebook, etc where experience is distinctly different and more diverse for a member compared to a guest

community generated content - wikipedia, the community is mostly focused on creating content for guest visitors

portal - has user tracking but not much interacting and members are generally siloed to their own data

Anybody got any other suggestions for something I might have missed? Usulix (talk) 23:33, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This does not appear an easy exercise, both because the diversity is large and because many web apps combine a mix of functionalities. The distinction between web apps and web sites is nebulous. Although in practice there is a correlation, from a logical viewpoint there is in most cases no necessary connection between the functionalities offered and possibly attendant requirements for accessing these, such as having subscribed or registered.

Here are a few types to consider:

In what category should we place news apps (some of which require paying, others merely registration, while yet others are freely accessible)?
I also don't know where Q&A sits, categorywise. In some case this is a side function (like Wikipedia's Reference desk), in other cases (Quora, Stack Exchange) it is the core function.
Then there is groupware, ideally an integrated collection of online tools for managing collaborative projects. They can be designed with "group" as the central concept, where a group (e.g. a corporation) can have many projects, or with "project" as the central concept. In a sense, Wikipedia, Wiktionary, etc., are instances of the latter; it is not uncommon to speak of Wikipedia as a project. In the Wikimedia examples the generated content is also meant to be consumed by users, but this is not in general the case for online collaborative projects – more often than not they are inaccessible to outsiders.
What about educationware, apps through which users can follow courses, do exercises, etc.? How does that fit?

I suspect that there are many more types. --Lambiam 22:34, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

April 16[edit]

Spectrum 2[edit]

When will be released Adobe Spectrum 2? 93.47.36.196 (talk) 15:22, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@93.47.36.196: I don't know, as Adobe has only announced it in a press release. thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 22:50, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

April 17[edit]

I want to upload some files to common but first I need to print them out as small images in Word to easily identify them.[edit]

As many as I can to a page so that I can identify where I was when I took them - it's an archaeological site where I took many similar photos. I can of course print them out now but one to a page would use my my ink! Thanks. Doug Weller talk 18:59, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Doug Weller So you want to upload files to commons, but you say you need to print them? Why print them? I'm not understanding. thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 19:01, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@TheTechie I want to print several on a page so I can compare with other photos I've found on the web and Commons to see if I have better ones than those and try to identify the archaeological features by comparing mine with images that already identify the features. Doug Weller talk 19:11, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In Word you simply need to create four separate frames on one page and paste one photo in each. Shantavira|^{feed me} 19:39, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. That’s something I didn’t know I could do. Very useful. Doug Weller talk 20:26, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

April 20[edit]

Replacing LVM drives with larger drives on Linux[edit]

My question here is rather complicated.

My current computer has three internal SATA drive bays, all of which are filled. Two of them have a 6 TB drive each, running the EXT4 file system and combined with LVM into a single logical 12 TB volume. One of the partitions on the logical drive alone spans 11 TB, i.e. more than one of the physical drives. The remaining drive bay has a 1 TB drive running the NTFS file system with Windows 10 installed, which I rarely if ever use.

I am running out of space on the LVM EXT4 drives in a couple of years. I'd like to replace them with larger ones, but how do I go about this? I'd like a similar set-up as I currently have but with bigger drives, such as two 16 TB drives combined into one 32 TB logical volume. I don't have enough drive bays to connect four physical drives at once, and I think to be able to use a LVM volume at all, I need to have both of the physical drives it consists of connected at the same time. Is it somehow possible to put the old drives into some sort of USB cases and connect them as external drives via my computer's USB ports or something? JIP | Talk 16:23, 20 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've used SABRENT 2.5" drive enclosures with great success. They are about £10 (or 13.7 USD/11.24 EUR) from Amazon. SABRENT also do multi-disk docking station and 3.5" cases, but obviously that is a little more expensive. I've no connection with either Amazon or SABRENT other than as a satisfied customer. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 18:05, 20 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What I did both times I upgraded my LVM was remove the drives completely. Put in new drives. Upgrade to the latest version of Redhat, which is what I was using on the server. Connected the old drives using a USB adapter. There are many options. The one I use plugs into the SATA connector on the drive and has both power and USB coming out of it. It is not enclosed. The drive sits on my desk and hums. Once connected, I used pvscan to check the drives to make sure they were OK. They were. My plan was to swap the drives back if not. Then, I used vgs to see the volume ID on the old drives. Then, with lvs, I could see the mounting point for the logical volumne and mount it to a directory on my new drives. I pulled over the files I wanted to keep where I wanted them (and a lot went into a temporary "old junk" directory). When finished, I unmounted and unplugged the old drives and put them in my file cabinet in case I ever need them in the future. 12.116.29.106 (talk) 16:02, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good Open Source CMS with Open Source Themes/Templates?[edit]

I'm still writing HTML and CSS by hand (and by Python script), but a friend is "just trying to build a website", and is shopping around for a content management system. They are aplenty, and most are Open Source. But it seems to be quite hard to find decent free themes and templates - a far as I can tell not because they don't exist, but because the internet is flooded with commercial subscription offers (of various and often dubious quality). Are there some good community sites to find good free stuff? --Stephan Schulz (talk) 18:16, 20 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You haven't specified for which CMS. I would recommend Wordpress. Free themes can be found over at https://wordpress.org/themes/ Polygnotus (talk) 08:27, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the availability of good themes one of the criteria to choosing a CMS. He has settled on Joomla now, and has found out how to hack it himself to some degree. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 14:58, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Stephan Schulz: You can use Google Trends to get an idea of the relative popularity of Wordpress vs Joomla. Or you can look at something like w3techs. I would not recommend learning or using Joomla in 2024. Note that this contains 12,118 free themes. Polygnotus (talk) 15:11, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I'll pass it on! --Stephan Schulz (talk) 15:15, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting detail on the Google Trends page: The vast majority of frequent Joomla queries is German (7 of the top 10, with the others hard to determine). It may be much more popular on this side of the pond.--Stephan Schulz (talk) 15:22, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Stephan Schulz: Here are the results for Germany. But if you go further back in time you see that around 2011 Wordpress overtook Joomla in Germany. Joomla used to be pretty popular in Germany, 14 years ago. Polygnotus (talk) 15:24, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

April 21[edit]

Photoshop[edit]

Hi, what is Photoshop? HovigTheEditor 17:50, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is not only a community Q&A site but also an encyclopedia. See Photoshop and your question will be answered. --Lambiam 18:58, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. HovigTheEditor 19:07, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

April 23[edit]