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How can I transmit my current location to someone else's phone?

My partner and are are sometimes in the position of trying to find each other in a large or crowded space (like a convention center, or if one of us is driving to pick up the other somewhere). We ...

3 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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net::ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR for a single user when using an Angular + ASP.NET Core application

Note: I am posting this here because I think this is more related to some configuration issue rather than a programming problem I have deployed an Angular (SPA) + ASP.NET Core application in a k8s...

0 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by Alexei‭

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What technical steps can I take to reduce Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) and discomfort from heavy computer use?

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...

2 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by Alexei‭

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How do I check email without depending on a mail client?

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 5mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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HTML and Markdown aren't right for me. What other text markup types are around?

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 6mo ago by Bianca_Railway‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Fit page content to paper format in LibreOffice Writer

I have a docx file in A3 format here consisting of one page. Using LibreOffice Writer, I'd like to scale it down to A4 without breaking the layout. Eventually, I want to print the document on an A...

0 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Matthias Braun‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by Wicket‭

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Browser video sometimes stops working; how can I figure out why?

I leave my Mac (Mini, not laptop) running all the time, only rebooting when something forces me to (like a software update). My uptimes are usually measured in weeks, sometimes months. Occasional...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by Mustafaalbazy‭

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Preventing MediaWiki from serving webpages with index.php and its query string/s, not from webserver

By default, MediaWiki serves webpages with index.php and at least one query string but I want to prevent this so to have "short URLs" (my URLs are already quite long due to the site being in Hebrew...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 5mo ago by Wicket‭

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I can't turn on cellular data for postpaid sim card

I was trying to start mobile cellular data. It's been a year I can't turn it on. Usually, I am currently using Postpaid sim card. When I was using Prepaid sim card than, I could turn mobile cellula...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Anonymous‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Wicket‭

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Why can't I play a YouTube video embedded on a website, in YouTube itself?

I usually see the Youtube logo in the embedded video, but not the fully functional video clip near the bottom at http://ceritacinta407.blogspot.com/2017/09/stella-kim-on-make-it-last-article.html. ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by Wicket‭

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How do I stop my laptop from freezing when I stream a game?

My problem is mostly on dealing with OBS and Minecraft. I stream Minecraft using OBS and whenever the stream reaches 15 minutes or more, it starts to slowly freeze bit by bit, until it starts free...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by Wicket‭

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How can I click inside a gnarled window?

I need to install BCUninstaller. But I can't click to pick the options inside, OR the maximize button on the upper right that's greyed out. No other window is gnarled like this on my desktop, which...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by jimbobmcgee‭

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Get supported resolutions of scanner in Linux

How can I find out the different image resolutions in DPI that my scanner supports? I'd prefer to use a command line tool to get the supported resolutions.

1 answer  ·  posted 7mo ago by Matthias Braun‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by Wicket‭

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Permanently disable motivational messages and animations on duolingo.com

I'm using firefox to access duolingo. The website offers settings to disable motivational messages and animations. However the settings frequently turn themselves back on automatically. Is there...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by Wicket‭

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In Word, how do I readily sort a string of numbers separated by commas?

My string of numbers is 32, 29, 10, 30, 40, 39, 48, 12, 42, 41, 38, 18. How can I sort this from smallest to largest most readily? I clicked OK as pictured below, but nothing happened. Then I pick...

2 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Wicket‭

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How to disable email grouping (in conversation) in Gmail web mail for certain senders?

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Wicket‭

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Hide server name tooltip on discord

If one hovers over a server name in discord, a speech bubble with the server name pops up: Is there any way to avoid this tooltip? Maybe a userscript or a user style? As this element is only vis...

0 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by samcarter‭

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Why did Windows automatically open 1 Word document, but not 2 others, in the same folder?

Call the 3 Word documents in the same folder 1.docx, 2.docx, 3.docx. I followed Allen Wyatt's instructions for "Opening a Word Document when Starting the Computer" that is encapsulated by Microsoft...

0 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by TextKit‭

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Launching hidden application at login under macOS 13 Ventura

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?

2 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by samcarter‭

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How to update log diff buffer with cursor

MWE Using magit: Open log buffer: ll. Open a commit diff: ENT. Go back to log buffer without closing diff: window-other. Question Starting from the MWE above, is there a way to have the d...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by mcp‭

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Circulate through spaces on macOS 11

Back in the days of OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard, one could circulate from the last space to the first space, e.g. if one was on the last space and used the keyboard shortcut to go to the next space, it w...

2 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by samcarter‭

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Programmatically changing the keyboard illumination in small steps

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by samcarter‭

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Vim: Can a different style be applied to a vim-terminal?

I often open an terminal within vim via: :vert term. The terminal opens on the right side with the same style (background and foreground colors) as my vim style. Is it possible to change the styl...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by CodeFarmer‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by Quasímodo‭

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Change indent width in scad-mode

MWE translate() square(); Problem I'd like to set the number of spaces per indent in scad-mode to 2. When I press tab on the second line in the MWE, it should result in: translate() ...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by mcp‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by mcp‭

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How to make background transparent and trim to content

Question Is there a way in grafx2 to make the background transparent and trim to content? This could be done during save. My process now when making images for documents is: Make image in gra...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by mcp‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by samcarter‭

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How can I record merely heads in a video call?

To save Hard Drive space, how can I record merely the green rectangles below containing the heads of my family? I waste bytes if I record the areas crossed out in orange, like the backgrounds and ...

0 answers  ·  posted 12mo ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 12mo ago by TextKit‭

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Adding option to pandoc call from RStudio

If ones uses RStudio to convert a rmarkdown file to pdf, RStudio will call pandoc with arguments like this: /opt/homebrew/bin/pandoc +RTS -K512m -RTS Untitled.knit.md --to beamer --from markdown+a...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Canina‭

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Why doesn't permanently deleting emails dwindle the .ost's size, absent new emails?

My old backup email account never receives incoming emails. In Microsoft Outlook, I deleted at least 50 emails in the Inbox and Sent Items, then emptied "Deleted Items", but the .ost for this email...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 1y ago by TextKit‭

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Native Folder Synchronization on Android

What technically (or contractually) prevents cloud storage providers from implementing native support for folder synchronization in their Android apps?

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by AZeed‭  ·  reopened 1y ago by samcarter‭

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How to make selection and overwrite from register all from ex mode

MWE line 1 line 2 line 3 line 4 line 5 line 6 line 7 Go to "line 4": /line 4 ENT. Delete into register: dd. Replace everything with register using only ex mode. (Non-ex equivalent: gg...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by mcp‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Quasímodo‭

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How to copy files preserving one directory up

Have mkdir -p d1/d1_sd1/ d2/d2_sd1/ touch d1/d1_sd1/f1.txt d2/d2_sd1/f1.txt . ├── d1 │   └── d1_sd1 │   └── f1.txt └── d2 └── d2_sd1 └── f1.txt 4 directories, 2 files ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by mcp‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by mcp‭

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How to redraw screen putting specific line at top without moving cursor

MWE 5 4 3 2 1 0 Go to the end of the file: G. Question Using spacemacs, how do I put the line with 3 at the top of the screen without moving the cursor? With moving the cursor that wou...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by mcp‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by mcp‭

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Setting a cookie with a userscript

Background: I'm using a websites which uses a pin code locally stored in a cookie for login. As firefox does not recognise the field to input the pin as a password field, it won't store the passwo...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by samcarter‭

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How do I make Xbox stop telling me that I have a free game pass on Windows 10?

On my Lenovo Legion, every single time I boot up Windows 10, I get confronted by an Xbox app popping up and telling me that I have a free game pass or something and to log in to claim it. Every tim...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Mithical‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Outlook on the Web - Remove bold 'sender' heading row

While using Outlook on the web, when I sort mail by sender, my Inbox shows a heading row containing just the sender name in bold, with any emails from that sender below. How do I turn off those he...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by mcalex‭

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Is a fanless PC good? [closed]

I would like to buy a fanless PC. Is a fanless PC good?

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by mccoy.rameer‭  ·  closed 1y ago by Canina‭

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Measure distance in pixels on screen

I'd like to draw a rectangle on the screen and get the dimensions in pixels of that rectangle. A bit like a ruler in order to measure the distance on screen. I'm using Sway version 1.8 on Arch Lin...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Matthias Braun‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Matthias Braun‭

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Windows 11 ─ how to change default UAC shield icon

I want to manage the customization of the small icon in the right of any shortcut started with admin privilegies I already know how to change the arrow in shortcut: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by TOVOT‭

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Commenting on multiple selections in Google Docs

How can one add one comment to two or more selections in Google Docs? It is clearly technically possible, since when you copy a section with a comment, any pasted text will link to the same commen...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by qohelet‭

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Free Windows 10 software for trimming videos (e.g. .mp4) from 2-10 GB?

Can you please recommend free software for my Windows 10 laptop, to trim videos from 2 to 10 GB? I've tried Lightworks, ShotCut. But they keep freezing after I apply my trim, and I must force-clos...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by mcalex‭

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How to make git push/pull work again?

I have a bunch of GIT repositories on my laptop, which have their "origin" set to repositories on GitHub. After a commit in a local repository, I do git push -u origin master to update the remot...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Moshi‭

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Move folder one level up on Thunderbird

I accidentally moved folder De under folder Laun in Thunderbird's folder side bar: How can I move De back to the same level as Laun and Archive? If I drag it and release it just between the oth...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Canina‭

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In Word, how can I set 'Header Position from Top' and 'Footer Position from Bottom' simultaneously for all pages?

I don't have time to set, or change, the 'Header Position from Top' and 'Footer Position from Bottom' for each page individually and manually! How can I set them all at once, in one fell swoop? Pl...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 1y ago by TextKit‭

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How to jump to original mark after overwriting

MWE In Vim: mm. o ESC mm (by accident, meant mn). Question How do I jump to the original mark m set in action 1.? Edit I'm sorry, what I meant was you issue mm when you meant 'm. (It al...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by mcp‭  ·  edited 1y ago by mcp‭

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How to track down target atom for svg to pass to xclip

Background The xclip manual mentions use of targets: -t, -target specify a particular data format using the given target atom. With -o the special target atom name "TARGETS" can be used t...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by mcp‭

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What in the HTML is preventing CutyCapt from capturing Altair output

Question I am using Altair to generate plots using python and pandas. What is preventing CutyCapt from capturing the plot in the html output? CutyCapt writes a blank png. MWE I am outputting ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by mcp‭  ·  edited 1y ago by mcp‭

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What is the magit equivalent of git switch branch?

What is the magit equivalent of git switch branch? I'm particularly interested in the situation where you cloned a repo, and want to checkout a remote branch locally. From the commandline that u...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by mcp‭  ·  edited 1y ago by mcp‭

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How to add vertical line in the middle of two marks on image

Have This .png image of a plot: Want To add vertcal lines between the groupings: (0, 1, 2) LINE (3, 4, 5) LINE (6, 7, 8) I want to place the lines exactly in the middle of the grouping boun...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by mcp‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by samcarter‭

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How to blockquote region in Emacs

Question Is there a command in emacs for "email quoting" an autofilled paragraph? Have Nullam eu ante vel est convallis dignissim. Fusce suscipit, wisi nec facilisis facilisis, est dui fermentu...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by mcp‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by mcp‭

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How can I see old photos, so far down a Facebook page that scrolling down freezes the browser?

One relative has taken so many photos, that scrolling down to his pictures before 2020 takes too much time and effort. But once scrolling reaches his pictures uploaded in 2020, my browser froze. I ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 1y ago by TextKit‭