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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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Meta Closing "unclear" questions

Understanding question closure The main point I want to make here applies to Codidact as a whole, and possibly even to every Q&A site like it, even theoretically. Closure and deletion, followi...

posted 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A HTML and Markdown aren't right for me. What other text markup types are around?

There is always a trade off between ease of writing and reading. HTML, Latex, rich text (docx/rtf) have excellent readability if prepared right, but writing in them is difficult. Plaintext is easy ...

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

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Q&A How to set the default time format in Linux Debian.

How to set the default time format in Linux? For example to set the format the date command outputs when run with no parameters.

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

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Q&A How to unlock/set locked preferences in Firefox-family browsers?

How do you unlock about:config settings which are locked? How do you set them despite being locked? As an example, Librewolf disables the password manager, which I find silly. However, they also d...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Browser video sometimes stops working; how can I figure out why?

I noticed a random lagginess and/or freezing in my browsers from time to time. After carefully switching off and on all plugins and things related to the network I found out it was the Apple Privat...

posted 1y ago by Mustafaalbazy‭

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Q&A Strange item in an Outlook folder called EventCheckPoint

I have just noticed that Outlook is displaying a strange item generated in a folder named EventCheckPoint and also displaying <This item contains active content.. Hovering the folder name it in...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A RAM disk in macOS Ventura

How to create a RAM drive in macOS Ventura? The Apple App Store lists only a single app for creating a RAM disk. And apparently that app does not actually work, per review comments.

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by basil.work‭  ·  edited 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A net::ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR for a single user when using an Angular + ASP.NET Core application

Note: I am posting this here because I think this is more related to some configuration issue rather than a programming problem I have deployed an Angular (SPA) + ASP.NET Core application in a k8s...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A MS Teams - How to remove/hide "Welcome to the team! Here are some things to get going..." message?

How to remove or hide Welcome to the team! Here are some things to get going... message from Teams's Teams Channel? This one: Steps to reproduce: In the left side bar click on "Teams" (i...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Vanity Slug ❤️‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Vanity Slug ❤️‭

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Q&A How can I transmit my current location to someone else's phone?

On Android in Google Maps (Googled to get this, but tested and it works): Touch and hold an area of the map that isn't labeled to drop a red pin. In the search box, you can find the coordinates...

posted 1y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Alternative to Google SketchUp for quick sketches?

I know three options: Blender - generic 3D modeling software. Very powerful, with many features and large community. A few years ago it used to be notorious for its steep learning curve. It is p...

posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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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 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 3y 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 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 3y 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 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 3y ago by Alexei‭

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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 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y 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 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 1y 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 3y 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 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Lundin‭

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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?

I have two servers with identical hardware for running MySQL one is the development environment and the other is production. Currently, we are considering upgrading from MySQL Community (free) to M...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A Show the command argument in Tmux status-line

This is the relevant fragment of my Tmux configuration file. set -g automatic-rename on set -g automatic-rename-format "#{pane_current_command}" set -g window-status-for...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A Preventing Cura from connecting to a 3D printer?

I have Cura on a Windows Computer and an Ender 5 that I print to with Octoprint connected via USB. The problem I am currently running into is that if I open Cura before I start Octoprint, Cura will...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭

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Q&A Data transfer between computer system ports, as unidirectional or bidirectional

I understand that with computer systems (non virtual or virtual), data between the network of two or more computer systems can come in via a port and can come out via a port. Is it common to filte...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 3y ago by deleted user

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Q&A What is the main reason for some website hosting companies to change ports?

Many automated scanners will attempts brute forcing SSH servers running on port 22 using common username+password pairs. This is relatively easy. You just have to pick an IP range and you have as m...

posted 3y ago by gronostaj‭

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Q&A What free, offline software for Windows 10 converts math in PDFs To MathJax?

This is not a direct answer, but you can just copy the pixels. Scale the PDF so that the equation you want is nicely readable on your screen at a size appropriate for the Math site. Do a screen c...

posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A I can't turn on cellular data for postpaid sim card

I was trying to start mobile cellular data. It's been a year I can't turn it on. Usually, I am currently using Postpaid sim card. When I was using Prepaid sim card than, I could turn mobile cellula...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Anonymous‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Wicket‭