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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 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

Question user-interface-controls
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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

Question discussion feature-request category
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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 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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Q&A How can I force new Chrome tabs to the end of the list?

That extension is hobbled, but @Moshi linked to a different one, Tab Position Customizer - Modified in a comment, and this option has been working fine for me for more than a week. The extension a...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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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 3y 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 3y ago by Canina‭

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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 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 3y ago by deleted user

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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 3y ago by Anonymous‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Trilarion‭

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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 3y ago by samcarter‭

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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 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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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 3y ago by Anonymous‭  ·  edited 3y 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 3y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

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

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Q&A Why can't I play a YouTube video embedded on a website, in YouTube itself?

I usually see the Youtube logo in the embedded video, but not the fully functional video clip near the bottom at http://ceritacinta407.blogspot.com/2017/09/stella-kim-on-make-it-last-article.html. ...

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

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Q&A Why can't I type text above a table?

I'm trying to insert text above a table that's at the top of the first page. Kindly see the screenshot beneath. Note that Table 'Text wrapping' is set to None.

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Moshi‭

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

A user suggested that Why most hosting providers support ticket systems allow text only (no formatting)? might be on-topic here. It is quite clear that it is offtopic on Software Development. It i...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Grub rescue error

I was using Linux mint and Windows 10 together (in different partitions). Few months I was using it freely. Today I got a message in Windows 10 (new updates available or shutdown and update) then, ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 4y ago by Alexei‭

Question windows linux grub boot
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Meta Can we ask hacking related question?

Hacking tools are execute from terminal. While Powerusers is for OS's Q&A. Some sample of Linux system's question is included below : How to turn on night light in terminal? How to create u...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Preventing MediaWiki from serving webpages with index.php and its query string/s, not from webserver

By default, MediaWiki serves webpages with index.php and at least one query string but I want to prevent this so to have "short URLs" (my URLs are already quite long due to the site being in Hebrew...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 2y ago by Wicket‭

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

Images can be compressed to take up less space; most image formats automatically include this feature. There are two general categories of image compression. A lossless method is guaranteed to pro...

posted 4y ago by dsr‭

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Q&A Hot keys with AltGr for Windows 10

Short of finding some program that does this, Windows has the built-in "alt codes". By pressing the Alt key and holding it while typing 4 digits, you can type symbols. The regular Alt, not AltGR. ...

posted 4y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Lundin‭

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