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My computer makes a very annoying high pitched noise under medium loads. I have been chasing this problem for a few days now and would appreciate any input you might have. System details: OS: Lub...
Welcome to the Power Users community on Codidact, where computer enthusiasts (power users) ask and answer questions about software and hardware usage! We're glad you're here and we're excited to s...
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 have Octoprint on a Windows 10 computer to print to an Ender 5, it's fairly often that prints will go overnight and around 15-16 hours. If Windows Updates plus a restart were to happen during th...
That Wikipedia quote is correct, yet somewhat wrong or at the very least misleading. A key term to understand is the window size (sometimes called the block size) of a data compression flow. By n...
Codidact's communities have a lot of great content that is helping people on the Internet. Our communities are small, though, and sustainable communities depend on having lots of active, engaged p...
I recommend Sage. It is an open-source general purpose mathematics software based on Python. You can install it from the link above, or for quick computations, you can also just use their free serv...
Questions that specifically seek software recommendations (as opposed to asking how to accomplish a specified task) come with their own challenges that are to some extent different from those of ot...
Windows 10 version 21H1 added a weather report to the task bar, next to the system tray area. Since I can just look out the window instead and get accurate, up-to-the-second weather information, I...
Follow following steps : Right-click on the taskbar. Go down to the "News and interests" option In the small menu that pops up to the side click the "Turn Off" option.
On main meta, someone suggested to look into the possibility to merge our Power Users community with the community for Linux Systems to increase activity. (see https://meta.codidact.com/posts/28512...
Personally I think this would be an excellent idea and we would benefit in many ways. as the post on main meta already mentions, both communities would benefit from more activity looking ...
This is from a meta-stable oscillation of one of the switching power supplies. The switching speed is almost certainly much higher than this, which is why you don't hear it most of the time. Unde...
The font element is depreciated An easy way to do it is to use span elements. That page has a good example of what you want. Simply do something like <p>Blah blah <span class="special"&g...
I'm posting the same answer on both sites, because the questions are basically the same. Personally, I am in favor of merging Linux Systems Codidact and Power Users Codidact, ideally by transferri...
Plagiarism isn't something that we want to encourage. By "fixing" the post and having someone else add the required attribution, it sends the message to the OP that copying content from elsewhere i...
That video is not uploaded to YouTube. It is uploaded to Blogger, another service provided by Google. Although Google uses the YouTube player for both, you can't access Blogger videos from YouTube....
Sometimes I accidentally enter a command with a typo in Vim, e.g. :e!fil instead of :e!file. As a consequence, the incorrect command clutters the history until it is evicted from the binary .vi...
Fault isolation You need to take some basic steps to isolate where the problem actually lies. So far, it seems that you have tried with: one means of connecting to the Internet (presumably you...
What is a good browser suitable for every-day use that respects user privacy and freedom? This browser should: Respect user privacy. Ideally no telemetry, or at least opt-in telemetry. Does not...
I have repositories on GitHub, and have been using a user name and password to access them. All was working great. I could use various GIT commands on the command line, and GIT would automaticall...
You are looking for a TRRS Headset Adapter The Lenovo Y700 has a Combo Audio Jack designed for headsets that contain their own microphone. That means that the jack can handle both audio output and...
If you're on Windows 10, you really should be on the latest version of Windows 10. Therefore, I believe it's not necessary to tag version numbers. Version tags will near immediately become irrelev...
Right click on the task bar/the ugly icon Pick "Search" Uncheck "Show search highlights"
"Why an update?" you might ask. The current logo looks nice, but there are a couple of problems which could be solved with an updated logo: Is the site name "Power User" or "Power Users"? Is th...
