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Fixing a Broken Prompt Theme After an Update
A prompt showing broken characters or startup errors after a theme update — how to isolate whether it's a font, config, or version issue.
#fix#prompt#zsh
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Fixing 'Command Not Found' Right After Installing Something
A tool you just installed is definitely on disk, but the shell insists it doesn't exist — almost always a PATH problem, with only a few actual explanations.
#fix#path#troubleshooting
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Fixing SSH Sessions That Don't Know the Terminal's Actual Size
TUI apps render clipped over SSH, or the terminal doesn't rewrap after resizing — the remote shell has a stale idea of the terminal's actual dimensions.
#fix#ssh#terminal
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Fixing tmux Keybinding Conflicts With Your Terminal or Shell
A shortcut that works outside tmux does something different, or nothing, inside a session — how the prefix key and keybinding layers interact.
#fix#tmux#keybindings
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No, Bill Gates Never Said '640K Ought to Be Enough for Anyone'
The famous '640K ought to be enough' line has no verified source, and Gates denied it on the record. What the paper trail actually shows.
#fix#myth#bill-gates
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No, Al Gore Never Said He 'Invented the Internet' — Here's the Actual Quote
Gore never said 'I invented the internet.' The exact 1999 sentence, how it mutated within days, and what Cerf and Kahn say his record shows.
#fix#myth#internet
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Correcting the Record: ENIAC Wasn't Legally the 'First' Computer
ENIAC is taught as the first electronic computer, but 1973's Honeywell v. Sperry Rand invalidated its patent — partly over a 1941 visit to Atanasoff.
#fix#myth#history
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Correcting the Record on Who Actually 'Invented' Email
Ray Tomlinson deserves credit for one specific breakthrough: networked email. Same-machine electronic mail existed years before he touched it.
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No, Apple Didn't Invent the Personal Computer
The Apple I and II are often credited as the birth of personal computing. The Altair 8800 beat them to market by more than a year.
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Fixing Windows Activation Errors
Windows reports it isn't activated, or shows a specific error code after a hardware change or reinstall — read the code and apply the right fix.
#fix#activation#licensing
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