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I upload a 150 MB file via PowerShell to a JFrog Artifactory server as follows: $FilePath = "dataset.tar.gz" $URL = "https://artifactory.somesite.com/artifactory/project1/dataset.tar.gz" $ARTIFA...
I have LibreOffice on KDE/Wayland. I have several monitors with different aspect ratios, pixel density, etc. For some reason, Writer only looks right on the highest-DPI screen (with the smallest ph...
I'm switching over to Firefox from Google Chrome now that Chrome is trying to kill uBlock Origin and similar extensions. So far I've managed to import my bookmarks, passwords, and userscripts over ...
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 bulk download pictures from a website, like Instagram, with WF Downloader to a folder. then I delete some of these pictures. Two months later, this Instagram uploads many new pics. I bulk downlo...
Disk Cleanup is useless! It failed to delete CrashDumps. For detail, see C:\Users\User Name\AppData\Local\CrashDumps. I tried the command C:\dumps\procdump.exe -mp -i C:\dumps, but this didn't...
My technician just found old family home videos that I accidentally moved to C drive, and hogged up 500 GB on C drive. He moved them to my D Drive. What programs can detect files like these that a...
I'm using Microsoft Word v16.9.3 on macOS Sonoma 14.6.1. I need to use Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition for a paper, and this calls for the footnotes being in 12 point font and the footnote num...
Is there a way to make an arbitrary app immersive in Android? That is, fullscreen with the status and navigation bars hidden. A temporary solution would be the best. I'm thinking about a situation...
In a previous browser, when I clicked on a link that was to a PDF file, the file opened automatically in Acrobat. That was what I wanted, until MS forced using Edge. How do I get this same behavi...
In MS Edge, how to clear autofill data?
Since macOS 15, the right-click context menu for removable volumes has an entry "Erase Disk..." right next to the "Eject" entry: Is there any way to remove the erase option from the context menu...
In previous versions of macOS, the battery indicator in the menu bar was coloured in either black or white (depending in the wallpaper): In macOS 15 Sequoia, the battery indicator changes colour...
I have to use Windows for work. I am trying to start the Rancher Desktop application from Powershell, and keep it open after I close Powershell. My Powershell command looks like this: Start-Proces...
I would like to change the vertical position of subtitles in videos downloaded with yt-dlp. If I use yt-dlp -f 160 --write-subs --write-auto-subs --sub-langs en --embed-subs "https://www.youtube....
I've worked for a while with OpenSCAD as a nice tool to quickly build pieces to then export for 3D printing. In a new use case, I'd like the object to include a human-like arm or head. Think in t...
I am subscribed to several Google Groups (email lists). I want to change the address where I receive that email, preferably without having to unsubscribe and resubscribe for each list. (Some list...
I'm about to build a desktop PC first time in many years and I was confused by the following discrepancy related to memory speeds: Zen5 CPUs "natively" support DDR5-5600 RAM (for example 9600X) ...
Why does the default SSH client behavior for MacOS send LANG and LC_* environment variables to the server? If I consult man ssh_config, it says SendEnv […] The default is not to send any enviro...
As of Unicode 13.0 (released in March 2020), the character set has included glyphs representing Creative Commons licenses. 1F16D - The Creative Commons logo (🅭) 1F10D - CC0, the public domain d...
We use Gmail with Google Workspace (G Suite) or whatever it's called. We have a group, say info@example.com. Some of our members and aliases in that group are not receiving emails and I have no ide...
Where do I go to change keyboard shortcuts in Firefox? I've been in the settings section and used their setting search, both for "keyb" and for "shortc" and nothing likely-looking comes up. Is the...
Whenever I boot up Windows on my laptop, the clock is set to UTC time. This happened no matter what timezone I was located in at the time. However, when I boot up Ubuntu on the same device, I got t...
I have a backup of a Linux Mint install circa 2016. Individual files were copied using Ubuntu to an NTFS drive. Now I'm tar-ing and archiving the files, and trying to delete what's left. I made th...
I'm looking for a Linux task app that syncs tasks with an existing CalDAV server. I already have a CalDAV server set up (Baikal), and the relevant calendars have been set up with task support, so ...
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 ...
I am editing a Word document stored on Box cloud service, using the Microsoft Word Online, so that I can make edits from my browser. The instructions I've found online seem to indicate that it sho...
A lot of sites these days use OTP. I'm not very familiar with this, but you normally install an app like Google Authenticator on your phone. The app serves an OTP code on demand which you enter alo...
When I set a file's language as "INI" in VS Code, and use the "comment" command, it uses ; as the comment character. Is there a way to make it use # instead?
Are there any free video recording apps for the iPhone which have a pause function? I want to be able to pause and resume my recording, so that the footage before and after the pause becomes part ...
What technically (or contractually) prevents cloud storage providers from implementing native support for folder synchronization in their Android apps?
Many UK based websites' domain names are under the .co.uk second-level domain. I.e. site.co.uk. Most other countries (and other top-level domains too) seem to just forgo the in-between domain leve...
How do I tell Firefox to default to 80% for every new web page it opens? 100% is too big, and the system doesn't support fractional scaling well, so every time I land on a new domain name, I have t...
It seems like many smart TVs use firmware/OS based on Linux or Android. I would guess that by now somebody must have tried putting their own software (mainstream Linux distro or custom OS) on one o...
I recently acquired a Samsung "gaming" screen (Samsung 28" Odyssey G7 4K 28BG700) to be the monitor for my desktop. Unfortunately, it seems to want to be everything but a simple monitor for my comp...
I currently have a single disk in my computer, containing the boot partition, as well as all my data. I also have one or more secondary disks that I'd like to insert into the motherboard (either NV...
Want I want Alt-. get the last argument to the last command, as it does in a default bash terminal, when Vim bindings are enabled. Similar to this SO post, but with a bash terminal, not zsh. MW...
It seems like Cloudflare Captcha (which appears to be using Google reCaptcha) shows two types of challenge: One where it's a single image broken up into tiles, and one where every tile comes from a...
For the last year or so, when I go to old.reddit.com I get the "whoa there, pardner" message with some garbage about scripts. reddit.com says "You've been blocked by network security.". I do use a...
My current computer is about 10 years old. It suits my current needs well enough, but in the future I'd like to do a bit more, so I'm think about some budget upgrades for CPU, motherboard and memor...
Problem Wrapping comments in Neovim gets messed up in the presence of parentheses. This happens with both auto wrapping and manual wrapping (gw). MWE This is what happens in a Python file (file...
Problem I would like to trim trailing whitespace on save in all files except .diffs using Neovim. Have vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd({ "BufWritePre" }, { pattern = { "*" }, command = [[%s/\s...
When there is unstaged change in the file I'm editing, VS code shows little red triangles and colored bars (green/blue) in the left margin. If I click on these, a popup opens showing a diff of that...
I need software to convert math in lengthy PDFs to MathJax, in order to copy and paste the MathJax to websites like math.stackexchange.com and math.codidact.com. Recommendations must Be unqual...
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...
Is it possible to record both audio in and out with Audacity? I am imagining that after configuring it somehow, I would end up with two concurrent audio tracks: One for what the microphone heard, ...
How to change "Master Password" of KeePassXC Database? I Googled "keepasxc change password for database" but only found outdated results.
I face this same problem. Why is "Remove" grayed out? How do I delete?
A couple of years ago when I installed Linux, I followed some instructions to get an "etching" tool to load an ISO onto removable media for a live boot - in my case, a 4GB microSD card. It worked f...
I have a graph in TikZ which I would like to use multiple times, with variations. As a simple example, say I have the following set of nodes \begin{tikzpicture} \node (a) at (0, 0) [circle,draw...
