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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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Q&A Anti-Twin's Byte by Byte“ vs. ”Compare images (pixels)"

I never heard of Anti-Twin. So I went to the web site and quickly found the answer: http://www.joerg-rosenthal.com/en/antitwin/similar.html As expected, "byte by byte" will look for an exact matc...

posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭

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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 4y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 4y 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 4y 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 4y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 4y 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 4y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 4y 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 4y 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 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 4y 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 4y ago by Chris Henry‭

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Q&A How do I cut out a section of audio from a larger one, with VLC?

The answer is pretty straightforward, just a few arguments: nvlc -I dummy input_file.mp3 --start-time 30 --stop-time 35 --sout file/mp3:output_file.mp3 vlc://quit where input_file.mp3 and output_...

posted 3y ago by JesseW‭  ·  edited 3y ago by JesseW‭

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Q&A Why does my external Hard Drive keep squealing?

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by elgonzo‭

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Meta What should our take be on software recommendation questions?

My opinion is: They do no harm and should be allowed. These are the reasons why I disagree with Olin Lathrop. The answers go out of date fast. They become useless, even damaging, to the long te...

posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Meta "No associated Stack Exchange site from which to transfer your content?"

We have now removed that section on the profile edit page on communities that don't use imported posts. You should now see it only if you could successfully add a link.

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How effortlessly can universities check where you logged in? What other IT details can they determine?

Accessing any server involves sending from a particular IP address to a particular IP address; the exchange of packets includes the sender so that the recipient can send packets back. An IP addres...

posted 3y ago by dsr‭

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Q&A How can I, most effortlessly, whiten or white out yellow or brown Tint?

What you want to adjust is called the white balance. That's a very common issue, so I expect just about any image editing software has a feature to manipulate the white balance. I'm not familiar ...

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

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Q&A Paid Windows 10 software for trimming videos (e.g. .mp4) from 2-10 GB?

I use Videopad. It works for me with Intel i5 10th generation (codename ice lake) and 8GB RAM. I have an integrated graphics card (not dedicated). My brother uses Vegas.

posted 3y ago by desbest‭  ·  edited 3y ago by desbest‭

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

Try using Kden Live which is made by KDE.

posted 3y ago by desbest‭

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Q&A How do I cut out a section of audio from a larger one, with VLC?

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.

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by JesseW‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by JesseW‭

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Meta Who should the temporary moderators be?

As we have set up communities here on the Codidact network we've been appointing temporary moderators. Ultimately, of course, we want each community to choose its own moderators; we've been doing ...

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

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Q&A Why does Google Search Console shows data two days prior?

TL;DR TANSTAAFL Google is in business. They give a lot of stuff away for free. But much of that is in order to get things that people pay for, either directly (paid accounts for G Suite or whateve...

posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Meta Unable to gave an upvote to Q or A

It's a failed YouTube embed. The site has a script to create YouTube embeds from youtube.com links, but fails on the link https://www.youtube.com/embed/?autohide=1&enablecastapi=0&html5=1&...

posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Moved to a new OS version, didn't change project source, and now Datenstrom Yellow project won't build -- how do I debug this?

I've been using Datenstrom Yellow on a Mac running 0S 10.12.6 (Sierra) to build a personal web site (mostly a blog). The self-hosted test site (runs directly from source) and the build (generated s...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A A term that describes frontend redirects

You can certainly send the user to a different page from the front end with a bit of JavaScript: location.href = 'https://example.com/new-page';

posted 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Maximise instead of full screen window

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Simple text editor for Linux with support for coloring individual words

I'm looking for a text processor that can color specific words, just like Microsoft Wordpad can (select a word -> click the color button -> choose a color), but for a GNU/Linux system. I hav...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A How to unhide folder with macOS 11.5

One of the folders in my home folder, Music, appears to be hidden. In the finder it appears slightly greyed out and it won't appear if I try to open files from applications which don't show hidd...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by samcarter‭

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