General Q&A about software and hardware usage
Update, after Olin Lathrop's answer. I phoned Lenovo Technical Support to ask why the "Battery Charge Threshold" in Olin Lathrop's answer doesn't appear in my Lenovo Vantage. Their engineer acces...
In most recent Firefox versions I find it hard to distinguish the current tab at a glance, especially if the screen is set at low brightness. That is because the colors used for the current and oth...
It has been reported that, if on a dark theme in KDE, Firefox automatically renders some websites that support it (e.g. Duckduckgo does, but Codidact doesn't) in dark mode. How can I better contro...
How can I get a list of all file types for which a certain application is the default program? I know that I can get a list of all file types an application is capable of opening from the info.pli...
I use Windows 10. How do I add the yellow partition to the red one, to increase the size of red? Green (833 GB) must be left alone, and must not be changed or moved.
I'm starting a small site with some online tools. Tried to include Google Adsense but I initially got rejected because the site was still on construction. Yet I've seen in the forums that they are...
I have been using my 10-year-old small Samsung compact camera until recently. Whenever I plug that one into a Windows laptop, it shows up as a regular mass storage device just providing files, no-...
I would like to get a list of all the files in a git repository which I modified. Take for example the repository https://github.com/josephwright/beamer . I tried the command git whatchanged --au...
I'm using a zsh shell with zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'm:{a-z}={A-Za-z}' autoload -Uz compinit && compinit to allow tab completion regardless of capitalisation, e.g. cd desk w...
In macOS 11.6, I can go to System Preferences->General and activate the Prefer tabs when opening documents option so that new windows are opened as new tabs. This setting will influence many app...
I want the scrollbar to wrap to the pointer location when I click in an empty space (a.k.a. the trough or track) of it. What happens instead is that the scrollbar thumb just displaces the equivale...
I seek a FOSS content management system agnostic page builder for webpage layout automation with drag-and-drop GUI. A program that would let me create responsive HTML webpages which can also be sa...
Please read mrserge's answer and the question there before reading this question. mrserge answered What we will do: convert everything to CMYK, then replace specific CMYK value with other and we...
Whenever I copy and paste URLs from my browser, they end up being percent-encoded and completely unreadable. For example, the homepage URL of the Japanese version of Wikipedia, https://ja.wikipedi...
I've used Firefox for approximately 10 years, but I've never seen this before! Please see below. I was working under the premise (very unlikely true, but still) that interacting with that ico...
The markings for search results in the firefox scrollbar are pink by default (requires "Highlight All" to be selected): Is there any code I can plug into a userChrome.css file or similar to chan...
By default, the new tab page in Firefox has a lot of clutter in private mode. How to remove all this clutter?
Is a local "web" server such as a local Apache installed on Windows with WAMP/XAMPP really a "web server"? (is it a "pseudo web server")? What would be a reasonable term to use to describe not the...
I seek a recommendation for a native RSS program which is: Installable on Windows 10 Allows stacking: Putting all notifications in one place (for example, if I get feeds from two websites, I ca...
Background story: I would like to have a button in my touch bar which changes the illumination of the keyboard in small steps (what you normally get from pressing Illumination(up/down)+option+shif...
Whenever I click on an URL in Skype, Windows opens up Google Chrome straightaway with the webpage. How do I halt this, so that Windows stays focussed on Skype? I like to click and open URL's — tha...
How can I Google to see all titles on a public library, like Toronto's, that have ≥ n copies? n is a natural number and UNBOUNDED. I see no relevant operator here. What must I input along with sit...
Are there any free (and preferably open source) methods to make the green window button maximise the window instead of going full screen? (I know BetterTouchTools can do that, but this is no lon...
I am in Xubuntu. Sometimes, when I use Android Studio and suddenly change my "activity". I meant whenever I visit Android Studio to Chrome using alt+tab then my screen automatically zoom. Here how ...
I once again (thanks Covid!) have a weekly gathering that has moved from in-person to virtual, using Zoom. I am an attendee, not the host. I need to be able to join the meeting up to about 18 hou...
I commanded Free Video to JPG converter to convert every frame of some .mp4 into JPGs. One .mp4 of 131 MB got converted into pictures totalling 700 MB! Another .mp4 of 377 MB got converted into pic...
How do **Data rate **and Total bitrate differ? I am untutored in computer science — please explain like I am 9 years old. See below pls. David Vanderschel PhD in Mathematics & Physics from Ri...
These steps from UC Davis don't picture or mention the number pad on the far right hand side of computer keyboards. If Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator can't edit numeric keypads, please recommen...
I have a transparent-backgrounded colorful raster-image (.png). I want everything in the image to just become White (besides the background, which should stay transparent). Is there any single ac...
I have a raster logo image with transparent background which I edit with GIMP and which is comprised of two primary elements: A drawing A text under the drawing The text is "justified" under...
I have just realized that I have overlooked some important e-mails due to Gmail's automatic e-mail grouping in conversations. Typically, this is a pretty useful feature to reduce the count, but so...
I marked an image element with magic wand in GIMP and then used bucket fill to dye it in another color. For some elements it worked well, but other elements were damaged (became more "aliased" or ...
How can I ssh to a remote server from my Chromebook? A lot of the work I do involves ssh'ing to a remote web server, running software on that remote command shell, and testing things using a web...
If IP address is a unique identifier of a computing device in a network (LAN and/or WAN) and MAC is a unique identifier for a network card and/or modem, what would be a unique identifier for a comp...
Screen shot of PDF below. Do not ask me to manually change the gray color in each heading and subheading individually — too much time and work! I hanker change to #4DFFFF — CMYK = 70, 0, 0, 0. I ...
I am on several Discord servers. One of them has, as its server logo, an image I would rather not see every time I use Discord. I had previously used AdBlock to suppress it, but it came back rece...
Dell Latitude 5580 (laptop) Intel Core i7-7820HQ 16GB DDR4 Nvidia Gforce 940MX 512GB SSD Windows 10 Home Surprisingly, I am having trouble running Diablo 2 Resurrected with pretty much the...
I have two servers with identical hardware for running MySQL one is the development environment and the other is production. Currently, we are considering upgrading from MySQL Community (free) to M...
For example: 2+2 ans = 4 10-5 It takes 10-20 seconds before I get the result (ans=...). Why it is taking so long to return the answer to such a simple calculation? The system require...
When directly quoting somebody, I would like to quote them verbatim, and their writing style often clashes with Word's style/grammar checker. While I can manually ignore them, the squiggly lines al...
My corporation has a discussion forum that uses HTML. I'm uncertain if this is HTML5, and if it also uses CSS. <font color="red">Color this red.</font> failed, probably because "The ...
I tried 4 different sets of definitions below, but they're still too abstruse! English ISN'T my first language. You don't have to read any thing below this line...I'm just showing all my work like ...
I installed Teams on my desktop. Whenever I click it, this error message appears. Why? We're sorry—we've run into an issue. Error code - caa70004 There's a more permanent way to sign in to Mic...
As soon as I plug in the USB cable to my desktop's USB port, and the external Hard Drive starts spinning, it keeps scritching. Please listen to my audio file. I bought it in 2015, but I plug it i...
Is it possible to switch to an admin user from a regular user within a PowerShell SSH session (similar to Linux's su <user>) without even connecting to a remote desktop session and open Power...
I read Scott's explanation, but Slug still feels redundant to me. Because Bleed < Slug, then whenever you cut the paper at Bleed, you will have cut off the Slug inescapably, simultaneously...
I use Windows 10 Home. I need to install a WhatsApp client on my desktop computer but WhatsApp requires me to have a WhatsApp client installed on my smartphone to do so; Installing WhatsApp on my ...
I'm looking for a reliable and easy backup and restore system for the OS on a Windows 7 laptop (more details below). If I were to boot it to an external drive and back up all the files on the hard...
How do I cut out/trim/split a section of audio (or video) from a larger one, with VLC? I'm not trying to transcode, just extract a piece, ideally from the command-line.
Recently, I noticed there's some problem with my Wireless Driver. I had discussed with a computer technician (whom I call Engineer) he said that it will cost too much to replace Wireless driver. So...
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