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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 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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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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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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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 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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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 4y ago by Lundin‭

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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 4y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Wicket‭

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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 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 3y 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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