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Welcome to the Power Users community on Codidact!

Power Users is a Q&A site for questions about the usage of computer software and hardware. We are still a small site and would like to grow, so please consider joining our community. We are looking forward to your questions and answers; they are the building blocks of a repository of knowledge we are building together.

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Meta Should we use more specific version tags for software?

Some questions, like my own In Windows 10 21H1, how do I remove the weather report in the task bar?, are specific to a given version of a product. Other questions are more generic, or apply to prod...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Is it possible to run the same version of MySQL on two servers, but use MySQL Community on one and MySQL Enterprise on the other?

Yes, you can do this. Remember that Oracle will eventually ask every person in the company "How many MySQL servers do you have?" Also remember that Oracle may make changes in their enterprise ver...

posted 3y ago by dsr‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A How to setup Octoprint as a Windows Service?

I have Octoprint on a dedicated Windows 10 computer for monitoring a Ender 5, the only thing is that if the computer shuts down I currently have to open a command line and manually restart Octoprin...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A How to stop all automatic Windows Update restarts on a Windows 10 Pro machine?

You can pause updates for a while, which should be good enough for your use case. The following looks like it'll work on at least Windows 10 21H1 Pro. Go into Settings -> Windows Update, and se...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A How to stop all automatic Windows Update restarts on a Windows 10 Pro machine?

Windows 10 allows you to set "office hours" during which it won't automatically reboot. Unfortunately, it doesn't allow you to set the entire day as office hours. So the trick is to change your off...

posted 3y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Meta Office suites category

There seems to be consensus on a few things: These questions are off-topic on Software Dev and on-topic here. A lot of questions were asked (and some closed) on Software Dev before this communi...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Is there any way to delete a comment in Word without deleting its replies?

I'm responsible for combining edits to a document from a number of coauthors, accepting or rejecting any changes (and deleting any comments) that don't require further discussion, and recirculating...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Chris Henry‭

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Meta Would questions about software systems design limitations be on-topic here?

If it is possible that someone who isn't a developer of that software (or such software) can objectively answer the question, then I think it would be on-topic. If answers involve speculation abou...

posted 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A What's the pattern for how on/off sliders work?

Okay, this is driving me nuts with modern UIs. Back in the old days, it was easy: Checkboxes were either checked, crossed, starred, filled in, or whatever glyph the particular environment used for...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Why is Firefox performing so poorly on my Android?

Firefox is my preferred browser when using a PC. I've also always found it to be one of the faster no matter computer. However, whenever I try to use Firefox on my Android phone (Samsung S8), it g...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Meta Are non power users questions welcome in Power Users?

I think the way to interpret the site name is not "this site is for power users only", but rather "this site is for any aspiring power user". It doesn't really matter if you're not an expert, and ...

posted 11mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Does Wireless receiver increase internet speed?

There is much confusion in this question. What you call "wireless driver" is apparently the built-in WiFi transceiver in your computer. If so, this has nothing to do with a driver. Whatever devi...

posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Meta Software Recommendations Category

On the original proposal for Power User, there was talk about allowing software recommendations on the site. Now that the site is up and running, I'd like to bring that request over to this Meta. ...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Wicket‭

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Meta Why did samcarter delete my post, simply because later other websites cross posted it?

I deleted the post because it was verbatim the same post as on several other sites, in particular it has been cross posted on https://www.reddit.com/r/teamviewer/comments/xr2row/after_disabling_...

posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Using "Print using system dialogue" as default in Firefox

Good news! With Firefox Nightly 102.0a1 there is now an option in about:config called print.prefer_system_dialog If this is set to true, the system print dialogue will be used automatically.

posted 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A 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 2y ago by mcp‭

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Q&A Move folder one level up on Thunderbird

You can drag & drop the folder into the parent folder:

posted 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A 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 2y ago by mcp‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A Measure distance in pixels on screen

One way to do this is using slurp and its -d option. Here's an example of slurp -d on Sway:

posted 2y ago by Matthias Braun‭

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Q&A Setting a cookie with a userscript

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Greasemonkey will let you do this, at least not directly. Per GreaseSpot's description of @run-at document-start, that value maps to when document.readyState ==...

posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Adding option to pandoc call from RStudio

This is admittedly rather ugly, but you could move the PANDOC program to elsewhere, and replace it with your own script. That script can add command line arguments, then run the real PANDOC. One ...

posted 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A 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 2y ago by mcp‭  ·  edited 2y ago by mcp‭

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Q&A 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 2y ago by CodeFarmer‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Meta Do we want an update for our logo?

This is what the current logo looks like on a phone screen in portrait mode: Instead of a single line of text, would it be worth considering a logo over two lines, similar to the Meta logo? A...

posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A 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 2y ago by mcp‭

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