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What "we applied $0.00 to your monthly plan" means to Verizon

This is just a brief note that will (hopefully) help someone in the future. When Verizon sends you a text message that says: Verizon Msg: There is a credit on your account. We applied $0.00 to your monthly plan. Your card was not charged. What it actually means is “Six months ago your credit card expired and we’re now no longer able to charge it, so we have shut off your account....

September 17, 2024

Disable mouse interactions in gnome-terminal on Debian-based systems

gnome-terminal, the default terminal on Gnome desktops, has an annoying featurebug where mouse interactions are relayed to applications running inside the terminal (e.g., vim, htop), and there’s no way to disable it. I don’t know about you, but I think this is a mistake. Based on the discussion on Gnome’s gitlab instance (Add option to disable mouse handling in gnome-terminal) it looks like there’s no intention to disable this featurebug, leaving us with only one option: rebuild from source....

July 30, 2024

UE5 blueprint tools: Enabling Blueprint Assist for PaperZD

Step-by-step guide to get two useful UE5 plugins (Blueprint Assist and PaperZD) to work together.