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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 Avoid font colour change in macOS 11 menu bar

(Caution: This method will not only influence the menu bar, but also the appearance of the dock etc.) A bit more drastic way is to switch off the transparency via System Preferences->Accessibil...

posted 3y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A For the HP LaserJet Pro MFP M426fdn printer, is ProRes 1200 higher quality than FastRes 1200?

I use a HP LaserJet Pro MFP M426fdn printer at work. It offers 4 settings for Print Quality: ProRes 1200 (132 lpi) ProRes 1200 (180 lpi) FastRes 1200 600 dpi Is ProRes 1200 higher qual...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A How do I color — some but NOT all — text in a sentence, in HTML5?

My corporation has a discussion forum that uses HTML. I'm uncertain if this is HTML5, and if it also uses CSS. <font color="red">Color this red.</font> failed, probably because "The ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 2y ago by TextKit‭

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Q&A How can I get my browser to block a specific SVG (Discord server icon)?

The selector may be something like: #<idname> { visibility: hidden; } This should leave the space allocated but hide the content. Note: I added this in the comments but putting here as wel...

posted 2y ago by CodeFarmer‭  ·  edited 2y ago by CodeFarmer‭

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Q&A How can I get my browser to block a specific SVG (Discord server icon)?

One possibility is to use an ad-blocker that can hide HTML elements based on a filter expression. I haven't used AdBlock for many years, so i can't say whether AdBlock can do it. However, uBlock Or...

posted 2y ago by elgonzo‭  ·  edited 2y ago by elgonzo‭

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Q&A How to concurrently, productively change all gray color in all headings and subheadings in this PDF?

TL;DR You can't, at least not easily. Generally speaking, PDFs are read only documents. That is deliberate, as it helps with use of PDFs as a replacement for paper documents. What you see is what ...

posted 2y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A How to dye all elements of an image (besides the transparent background) White?

I have a transparent-backgrounded colorful raster-image (.png). I want everything in the image to just become White (besides the background, which should stay transparent). Is there any single ac...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 2y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A What is the correct way to change the color of an element in GIMP?

I marked an image element with magic wand in GIMP and then used bucket fill to dye it in another color. For some elements it worked well, but other elements were damaged (became more "aliased" or ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 2y ago by deleted user

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Q&A Automatically restore a dropped Zoom connection?

I once again (thanks Covid!) have a weekly gathering that has moved from in-person to virtual, using Zoom. I am an attendee, not the host. I need to be able to join the meeting up to about 18 hou...

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

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Q&A RSS feed client for Windows 10 which allows stacking and popups

I seek a recommendation for a native RSS program which is: Installable on Windows 10 Allows stacking: Putting all notifications in one place (for example, if I get feeds from two websites, I ca...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 2y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Camera USB device in file explorer - why so slow?

This is a function of how the device presents itself over the USB, and also possibly what file format it stores pictures in. Some modern cameras can be switched between being a "camera" or "file s...

posted 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Get unique list of all files in a git repository, which I modified

You could take the list you have, then sort it and remove redundant lines. Sorting programs come with the OS nowadays. I've had to do such things occasionally, so I created a program to eliminate...

posted 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Why's "Merge Layers" faded greyed out? Then how can I merge or combine these 3 colored areas?

You only have the single "Color Fill 2" layer selected. You have to select all the layers you want to merge at the same time. Hold the Ctrl key and click all three layers to select all three at the...

posted 2y ago by Ullallulloo‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Ullallulloo‭

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Q&A Block certain namespace webpages for anonymous users (non registered users) with some Information Security method

Per each general audience webpage (i.e. any main-namespace page such as an article page or Category: page), the MediaWiki content management system creates about 10 or 100 or 1,000 if not more webp...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user

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Q&A 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...

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

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Q&A Why scrollbar always doesn't show when using Dark Reader?

I was using Dark Reader for long time. I saw that sometimes my scroll bar goes away. When I use two finger scrolling way in touch-pad then, I see that scroll bar appears. But, why my scroll bar som...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Anonymous‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Anonymous‭

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Q&A Make left-click warp the scrollbar thumb position instead of paging down/up

I want the scrollbar to wrap to the pointer location when I click in an empty space (a.k.a. the trough or track) of it. What happens instead is that the scrollbar thumb just displaces the equivale...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A How to truncate all MediaWiki logs?

I need to truncate all logs whatsoever (available under "example.com/Special:logs" path pattern) in my MediaWiki website (1.35.2). In the logs webpage, I didn't find any way to do that; I can only...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 2y ago by deleted user

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

There's no set pattern for this, which is down to the fact that they're not a native control, unlike checkboxes. Each application is able to define and design its own sliders. As far as I can tell,...

posted 2y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A How to unhide folder with macOS 11.5

Thanks a lot at @Quasímodo‭ for pushing me in the right direction. The problem turned out to be an extended attribute set for this folder. To see if there are extended attributes, one can use xa...

posted 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Why do simple calculations take such a long time in Matlab 2020 on my computer?

For example: 2+2 ans = 4 10-5 It takes 10-20 seconds before I get the result (ans=...). Why it is taking so long to return the answer to such a simple calculation? The system require...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Anonymous‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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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?

Based on Datenstrom - Troubleshooting, it looks like to turn on debugging, you need to edit system/extensions/core.php such that it says <?php define("DEBUG", 1); (The <?php may or may no...

posted 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Remapping backspace with Karabiner Elements

It does look like you have a syntax error in the JSON data. Specifically, you have a comma after the last element of a list on line 11: "from": { "key_code": "delete_or_backspace", <---- he...

posted 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A How do I clear a sticky "missed call" notification (older Android phone)?

My (older) phone is running Android 7.1.1. (In case it matters, the phone is a ZTE Axon 7.) I use the phone app that it came bundled with, "Dialer" v 4.2.001. (That's a really generic name, I k...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Anonymous‭

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Meta Unable to gave an upvote to Q or A

The answer pointing to the YouTube embed is correct. I don't know why it fails in that way, but while we wait for someone to put some extra guardrails around YT embeds, I've edited the post to rem...

posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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