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While I identify myself as a "power user", the site name "POWER USER" appeals to a very narrow audience, probably limited to people of certain ages and backgrounds. I don't recall having ever read ...
Hello, power users! I am trying to make a personal wiki/zettelkasten/card index sorta thing to organise my fictional world as well as the rest of my daily life. I chose Joplin, which is software I...
The Sort Text function shown in the snapshot is intended to sort lists. In Microsoft Word, a list has each element member in a new line (paragraph). Considering this: Convert the numbers separat...
I wonder if adding [windows-11] as a child of [windows] might be possible as [windows] already has [windows-10] as a child. Also, considering that the term "windows" in the context of personal com...
At the moment it is not yet possible to gain the "Edits Tags Ability" naturally (making suggested edits, which is a requirement to gain this ability, has not yet been implemented, see https://meta....
This is a follow-up to Should we use more specific version tags for software? The referred question is about tagging software, more specifically software versions and presents the case of windows-...
Adapting @samcarter proposal shared in a comment to the question Use two tags One tag for the software, i.e., microsoft-word One tag for the platform windows or the corresponding child tag ...
I searched computer illiterate because I think I have seen some posts including these words and would like to copy the link to them to ask a question. Later I will provide more details on the quest...
With overclocking, it's probably just the standard caveats: It might damage your hardware (although this seems unlikely for merely changing memory speeds) Your software might become unstable (B...
How do I make a test call in Microsoft Teams in Browser?
I am editing a Word document stored on Box cloud service, using the Microsoft Word Online, so that I can make edits from my browser. The instructions I've found online seem to indicate that it sho...
Managed to find one; mrvladus/Errands. It's Linux-only, and it's mostly consistent with how tasks.org does stuff[1]. It supports CalDAV, though non-NextCloud providers aren't guaranteed to work. ...
What's happening The operating systems are using the hardware clock in different ways. Linux uses UTC while widows uses localtime (dubious I know). So when you boot the other OS, it's gonna see th...
You can use the command line tool albatross (https://gitlab.com/islandoftex/albatross/) to find out which of the fonts you already have on your system, contain a given symbol. For example, on my s...
You could use the site https://www.fileformat.info to find fonts which contain a specific character. For example for the creative commons logo: https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1F16D/...
You can't edit it in settings, but I do know where those come from. It's in language-configuration.json, under comments: Comment toggling VS Code offers two commands for comment toggling. Toggl...
Generally, anyone who owns a domain at any level can make up whatever rules he or she desires to apply to its subdomains. If you own ponies.example.com, you could for example sell access to subdoma...
Many UK based websites' domain names are under the .co.uk second-level domain. I.e. site.co.uk. Most other countries (and other top-level domains too) seem to just forgo the in-between domain leve...
Do I first have to somehow connect it with my Google account (how?) and then Groups will know about it That turned out to be the key. After a lot of poking around, I went to "Manage your Goog...
I've worked for a while with OpenSCAD as a nice tool to quickly build pieces to then export for 3D printing. In a new use case, I'd like the object to include a human-like arm or head. Think in t...
It seems like many smart TVs use firmware/OS based on Linux or Android. I would guess that by now somebody must have tried putting their own software (mainstream Linux distro or custom OS) on one o...
It should be safe. You might have to do a little troubleshooting for the first boot with the new drive. The risks that I can see are: When your motherboard detects that a new drive is added, it...
When there is unstaged change in the file I'm editing, VS code shows little red triangles and colored bars (green/blue) in the left margin. If I click on these, a popup opens showing a diff of that...
You just need to add "\e.":yank-last-arg to $HOME/.inputrc. From man 3 readline: yank-last-arg (M-., M-_) Insert the last argument to the previous command (the last word ...
I recently acquired a Samsung "gaming" screen (Samsung 28" Odyssey G7 4K 28BG700) to be the monitor for my desktop. Unfortunately, it seems to want to be everything but a simple monitor for my comp...
