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Where to view my support requests / ticket numbers for Microsoft Support (For Business)? I found this which contains an alias or an old URL. Source, thank you Ilaria C.
My hard drive is making a screeching/scraping/scratching sound. Is this bad? Will it explode? What I do? How do I figure out which hard drive is doing it, if I have multiple?
I am trying to handle the digital affairs of a departed family member. The person had an iCloud account, which I am able to log into (I have the password and the 2FA device). There's about 40G of...
How to change user language for Microsoft 365/Sharepoint Online? I found this https://support.microsoft.com/en-US/office/change-sharepoint-online-language-settings-0f6a477a-dcab-4462-9d0c-e3b53d13...
How to clear specific cookies in Brave Browser? Found this https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360048833872-How-Do-I-Clear-Cookies-And-Site-Data-In-Brave at Brave and it was almost correct.
What is the easiest way to set up a mailing list? The goal is to send an email to one address, and it gets automatically re-sent to everyone who is currently subscribed to that list. Ideally, the ...
I'm using the note taking app obsidian. In one of my notes I have a mermaid/gantt diagram which looks like this: Source code: ```mermaid gantt tickInterval 1day axisFormat %d %b dateFormat...
Are there US stock brokers that allow programmatic access for retail investing? I would like to be able to connect to my broker's API to check my stock portfolio and place trades. I'm not looking ...
One of the new features of macOS 14 Sonoma are Safari web apps which allow to treat webpages like an application. Is there a way to set the zoom level persistently in such apps? I can zoom in and ...
Suppose I want to use some functionality on foo.com which requires associating my activity with me specifically - for example, posting on a forum, or playing some games and having the site keep tra...
How to add minimize and maximize buttons to top right corner on Gnome windows for Debian 12?
I am new to DokuWiki and have done the basic setup for a private wiki. I want to use it as an alternative to a spreadsheet I've been using to track my ratings and other notes for a category of pro...
The default icon of the Tunnelbear Firefox extension looks like this: I would like to hide the "Off" badge so that it looks like this: Following a similar process as in the answer https://pow...
As far as I know, Apple iCloud does not offer much of a straightforward way to store a massive photo/video library in the cloud, and offload it from devices. iCloud backup features an "optimize st...
I'm a very-long-time Windows user that has lots of experience with that OS and its predecessor (MS-DOS). I can't call myself exactly a Windows system programmer, although I know some of the APIs a...
This is a small call center with maybe 20 employees. I do not know how many calls it is taking per day, how many field agents it is remotely dispatching, or how many customers it has, but you can e...
Facebook app is showing the badge counter for Messenger wrongly, I have no unread messages, how do I remove the unread message badge? I tried looking for how to clear cache but that wasn't so easy...
I have some text files which think they are encoded in utf8: file test.txt test.txt: Unicode text, UTF-8 text, with CRLF line terminators (https://github.com/samcarter/shared/blob/main/test.tx...
We have a repository hosted on GitHub. I'm trying to track down a bug and have narrowed the date range for when it could have been introduced. I would like to easily review commits in that date r...
I have a custom spreadsheet viewer in Vim that splits the headers into a top pane and the rest into a bottom pane. I bind horizontal scrolling so that scrolling right keeps the headers above the co...
Since my Ubuntu system is currently fried, and running a live boot was encountering problems, I am forced to resort to attempting to clone a Git repository on a Windows 10 system. I installed Git f...
I use metric units in some projects, imperial in others. It's annoying having to keep switching global units every time. Is there a way in FreeCAD to set the units per-document? When I open a docu...
The blues screen of death appears whenever I attempt to boot into Windows. The information displayed says "kmode_exception_not_handled." I am tech savvy however I have not been able to find a solut...
Running the WAVE browser extension on a site, I'm getting an "Empty button" error on a search submit box: A <button> element is present that contains no text content (or alternative text...
I have a MediaWiki server set up on WSL 2 with CirrusSearch and its dependencies. Everything is working fine, except searching inside of PDFs. I can search for filenames, but not PDF content. The P...
A few days ago Avast Premium Security installed itself in my win10Vm without permission. I have repeatedly tried uninstalling it with the windows add/remove programs feature, and with the 1st party...
I (well, my spam trap) received email that I know is a scam, but I'm trying to understand how it works. The message contains a URL of the following form: https:/example.com:2096/?goto_app=Somethi...
I want to start moving away from using Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers, and instead move to Firefox. Firefox is an open-source web browser run by a non-profit, as well as the only major c...
A MariaDB server is installed on a Linux server. How can a dump of the complete database be made, how it is at a single point in time, while preventing write access to the database during the dump...
Is there research into the effects of replacing physical monitors with virtual reality "monitors" for daily use? I imagine that VR is not great for one's eyes, but is it worse than a monitor 50cm f...
A MariaDB server is installed on a Linux server. The MariaDB service is currently stopped, so no client can connect to it. How to create a SQL-dump of all databases without starting the service? T...
I use offlineimap to synchronize my mail, and I have the directory set up as a local folder in KMail. Currently, I open KMail and also run offlineimap to synchronize my mail. Is there a way to mak...
When I use my Firefox-family browser to connect to Google Meet: Update your browser to use visual effects You're using an older browser version that doesn't work with Meet's visual effects I...
I use Cheese to take photos with my webcam. The photos get saved under ~/Pictures/Webcam which I don't like. I want them somewhere else. In typical, presumptuous Gnome fashion, there is no UI in C...
One of the Wifi networks I connect to has a DNS server on it, which is better than public ones. This DNS server is not available when connected to other networks. When I'm on this network, I want ...
Google SketchUp used to be very popular among amateur "builders" - people would use it to design woodworking projects, 3D printer models, house renovations and so forth. The main strength was that ...
I will often send tabs to other devices for later viewing and sometimes these tabs get lost between power-ons or swiped away if I don't open them immediately. Is there a place where I can view t...
Hello, power users! I am trying to make a personal wiki/zettelkasten/card index sorta thing to organise my fictional world as well as the rest of my daily life. I chose Joplin, which is software I...
I have a moderately large ISO image (>5 GB)[1] to which I want to add a single file[2], and I want to do that on Linux (preferably using only software which is available in Debian's main and con...
When using Discord in a web browser, on a server where I have admin privileges, I sometimes find that I've accidentally moved a channel, which affects everyone on the server and can affect channel ...
I run a self built router setup, running Kea as a DHCP server, firewalld for managing the firewall, and dns hosted elsewhere. Its currently running in a test configuration behind a known good netwo...
I use email frequently, for many things, some of them important (banks, work). From what I've seen, all the offline mail clients (like Thunderbird, Evolution, Kmail) suck for a power user - mail fi...
Apple removed the hide option for login items in macOS 13 Ventura. Are there any alternative ways to launch an application at login without opening a window?
Let's assume one has a Quarto document which does not compile because of an error in the latex code, e.g. here a simply typo in a macro name: --- format: pdf --- test\newlin test Quarto...
I use computers heavily, both for work and out of personal habits. It's probably typical for me to spend ~60 hours a week at a computer (how depressing, I know). Over the years, this has caused so...
I tried to use my Wireguard VPN on Android, and, it sucks! I installed https://f-droid.org/packages/com.wireguard.android/ thinking that would be "the" wireguard app. I configured it with my conne...
How to remove or hide Welcome to the team! Here are some things to get going... message from Teams's Teams Channel? This one: Steps to reproduce: In the left side bar click on "Teams" (i...
I regularly use two computers with the same keyboard and monitor(s) with a KVM switch. With one button press, the KVM switch can transfer both the video output (monitors) and input (keyboard and mo...
LLMs (AI) have limited context windows which makes it challenging to include all necessary context in the prompt. A common solution is a memory book. The memory book stores arbitrarily large amoun...
