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Use Google Pay contactless payments with unsupported cards

All these years I’m a really big fan of all the Google projects that are around. The problem is that leaving in a country (Greece), that isn’t in a big priority all these projects can postpone all these benefits. One feature that I’m excited about is Google Pay contactless payments.

Bitcoin trading strategy – 4EMA for Metatrader 4 (Download)

Having started forex trading (for fun, not a pro) I’m always curious about finding the best strategies to use. Even though I read a lot of times that BTC trading is risky, I took my chance to try it out (as we are talking for small lot sizes).

Move Messenger’s plugin chat position on WordPress

If you installed Messenger’s official plugin for WordPress, you will see that after the initial setup it’s not customizable… For example, I would like to put some bottom margin so that it doesn’t overlap the footer’s social icons, but there was no way of doing it through the plugin settings.

Lightsail SFTP permissions denied

If you ever setup a Lightsail instance (Linux) and you’ll try to access it by SFTP client (Filezilla in this case) you will come with this error:

Quick fix!? “dpkg: error: dpkg frontend is locked by another process”

Tried to install a .deb package but I was always getting:

dpkg: error: dpkg frontend is locked by another process
Code language: HTTP (http)

I couldn’t find any answers after Googling and no process was using dpkg.

Gnome Screensaver Language Switch simple workaround

After installing Budgie desktop on my Debian machine I am unable to switch between languages using Alt+Shift Key on the lock screen. The Keys combination works perfectly on the Desktop environment but if I lock my device with the wrong Language (Greek/English Layouts) I get locked out of.

Custom Password on Google Passwords

I am using Chrome’s password manager for quite a long time, so my password list is huge. Well anyway, I have them stored in safe hands (i hope). But what about password let’s say of an app or something that doesn’t have a web server? Well, here is a pretty little trick.

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Partitioning: Life-saver

Well, I had some trouble the last days with my pc, after trying to fresh install Windows 10 for some university projects. I don’t know exactly what happened (maybe was my mistake 😋) but the results were my Ubuntu partition to be completely erased.

Boost WiFi signal by increasing Tx power

From the beginning of the September, I am an owner of Xiaomi MI4C which was one of the best options for its money. All features are great and by far the best for its price range. Anyway!
I was in a lot of situations where there was a wifi