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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 Fonts That Support the Creative Commons Unicode Symbols

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/...

posted 6mo ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Linux task app with support for CalDAV sync

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. ...

posted 6mo ago by Zoe‭

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Q&A How can I get Windows 10 to stop displaying the wrong time on bootup?

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...

posted 6mo ago by Iizuki‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by Iizuki‭

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Q&A Fonts That Support the Creative Commons Unicode Symbols

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...

posted 6mo ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A How do I make a test call in Microsoft Teams in Browser?

How do I make a test call in Microsoft Teams in Browser?

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by propatience‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A How do I change to a new email address for Google Groups subscriptions?

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...

posted 5mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Turning a Makehuman Surface into a Solid

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...

0 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by John C‭

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Q&A Change position of subtitles in yt-dlp

I would like to change the vertical position of subtitles in videos downloaded with yt-dlp. If I use yt-dlp -f 160 --write-subs --write-auto-subs --sub-langs en --embed-subs "https://www.youtube....

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A start an application in PowerShell, and keep it open after closing PowerShell

I have to use Windows for work. I am trying to start the Rancher Desktop application from Powershell, and keep it open after I close Powershell. My Powershell command looks like this: Start-Proces...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by Trevor‭

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Q&A Remove "Erase Disk..." option from right-click context menu in macOS 15

Since macOS 15, the right-click context menu for removable volumes has an entry "Erase Disk..." right next to the "Eject" entry: Is there any way to remove the erase option from the context menu...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A LibreOffice Writer UI zooms in on other monitors

It's icky, but the generally accepted practice until this bug is fixed seems to be disabling Wayland when launching LibreOffice: WAYLAND_DISPLAY= SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=kf5 /usr/bin/libreoffice

posted 23d ago by Michael‭

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Q&A Adding a period after footnote numbers in Microsoft Word on macOS

I'm using Microsoft Word v16.9.3 on macOS Sonoma 14.6.1. I need to use Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition for a paper, and this calls for the footnotes being in 12 point font and the footnote num...

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by qohelet‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by qohelet‭

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Q&A How to dump a MariaDB while mariadb.service is stopped, to move the database to a different server?

You may try looking for the command mariadb-dump. As I can see from the documentation, this is a standalone command that generates the necessary SQL DDL statements to recreate and populate existin...

posted 2mo ago by aura-lsprog-86‭

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Q&A What's up with the .co.uk domain?

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...

posted 7mo ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by Michael‭

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Q&A Can I "multi-etch" boot media?

A couple of years ago when I installed Linux, I followed some instructions to get an "etching" tool to load an ISO onto removable media for a live boot - in my case, a 4GB microSD card. It worked f...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Understanding integrated/low-end GPU performance for budget upgrades

I'm a big believer in benchmark vs. cost, so I would suggest the following approach: Determine "current power" of the hardware you currently have. Do some representative task on it and measure p...

posted 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Why might I be failing to connect to the eduroam network on Ubuntu 22.04?

My university, like many others, offers a connection to the eduroam infrastructure. I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 (LTS); unfortunately, the instructions provided by the institution for connecting to the...

0 answers  ·  posted 20h ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A In VS Code, can you display an inline diff of unstaged changes?

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Michael‭

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Q&A How to enable `Alt + .` in bash with Vim bindings

Want I want Alt-. get the last argument to the last command, as it does in a default bash terminal, when Vim bindings are enabled. Similar to this SO post, but with a bash terminal, not zsh. MW...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by mcp‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A Understanding integrated/low-end GPU performance for budget upgrades

You're in a bit of a period of transition - and it's a little more complicated than one would assume. A decade is a very long time, and both 'big' CPU makers are transitioning towards much more cap...

posted 8mo ago by Journeymangeek ‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Michael‭

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Q&A Reddit: How to get around "whoa there, pardner!"

For the last year or so, when I go to old.reddit.com I get the "whoa there, pardner" message with some garbage about scripts. reddit.com says "You've been blocked by network security.". I do use a...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Turning a Samsung smart screen into a dumb computer monitor

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A How to enable `Alt + .` in bash with Vim bindings

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 ...

posted 8mo ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A Issues with excluding specific sub-directories with Borg patterns

I'm using Borg to create backups of my home directory. I'm having trouble with excluding specific sub-directories when using a PATTERNSFILE with --patterns-from. I have the following (simplified) ...

1 answer  ·  posted 9d ago by ɯıpɐʌ‭  ·  last activity 9d ago by ɯıpɐʌ‭

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Q&A Is it safe to simply insert more disks into my motherboard?

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...

posted 8mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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