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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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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 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Using "Print using system dialogue" as default in Firefox

Good news! With Firefox Nightly 102.0a1 there is now an option in about:config called print.prefer_system_dialog If this is set to true, the system print dialogue will be used automatically.

posted 3y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A How to track down target atom for svg to pass to xclip

Background The xclip manual mentions use of targets: -t, -target specify a particular data format using the given target atom. With -o the special target atom name "TARGETS" can be used t...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by mcp‭

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Q&A Move folder one level up on Thunderbird

You can drag & drop the folder into the parent folder:

posted 3y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A How to make selection and overwrite from register all from ex mode

MWE line 1 line 2 line 3 line 4 line 5 line 6 line 7 Go to "line 4": /line 4 ENT. Delete into register: dd. Replace everything with register using only ex mode. (Non-ex equivalent: gg...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by mcp‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A Measure distance in pixels on screen

One way to do this is using slurp and its -d option. Here's an example of slurp -d on Sway:

posted 2y ago by Matthias Braun‭

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Q&A Setting a cookie with a userscript

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Greasemonkey will let you do this, at least not directly. Per GreaseSpot's description of @run-at document-start, that value maps to when document.readyState ==...

posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Adding option to pandoc call from RStudio

This is admittedly rather ugly, but you could move the PANDOC program to elsewhere, and replace it with your own script. That script can add command line arguments, then run the real PANDOC. One ...

posted 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Change indent width in scad-mode

MWE translate() square(); Problem I'd like to set the number of spaces per indent in scad-mode to 2. When I press tab on the second line in the MWE, it should result in: translate() ...

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

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Q&A Vim: Can a different style be applied to a vim-terminal?

I often open an terminal within vim via: :vert term. The terminal opens on the right side with the same style (background and foreground colors) as my vim style. Is it possible to change the styl...

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

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Meta Do we want an update for our logo?

This is what the current logo looks like on a phone screen in portrait mode: Instead of a single line of text, would it be worth considering a logo over two lines, similar to the Meta logo? A...

posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A How to update log diff buffer with cursor

MWE Using magit: Open log buffer: ll. Open a commit diff: ENT. Go back to log buffer without closing diff: window-other. Question Starting from the MWE above, is there a way to have the d...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by mcp‭

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Meta How can we grow this community?

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 ...

posted 2y ago by Wicket‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Wicket‭

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

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Bianca_Railway‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A In Word, how do I readily sort a string of numbers separated by commas?

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...

posted 2y ago by Wicket‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Wicket‭

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Meta Add [windows-11] as a child of [windows] and add tag usage guidance

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Wicket‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Meta Applications for "Edit Tags Ability"

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....

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Wicket‭

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Meta Tagging questions about crossplatform software

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-...

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

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Meta Tagging questions about crossplatform software

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 ...

posted 2y ago by Wicket‭

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Meta Why searching two terms the results page includes posts not including one of the terms?

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Wicket‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Find and close last opened tab in Safari

Finding and opening the last open tab in Safari, is usually straightforward; just look in the user interface. However, that's not an option, because every time the browser is started, it opens ever...

1 answer  ·  posted 22d ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭  ·  last activity 22d ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭

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Q&A How to install PWAs on Android?

Chrome Open the page you want to "install". Then Kebab menu > Add to home screen, after which you still might have to press something like install or OK a couple times.

posted 10d ago by Iizuki‭

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Q&A What does the "preparing" step do when I upload a video on some website with my iPhone?

The simple explanation is that the file stored on your phone isn't the file the website wants, nor the one your phone wants to share. What needs exchanging are the contents of the file; the picture...

posted 2mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭

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Q&A What's the difference between "test content speed" and "test peak speed" in Orb?

This is mostly covered by the documentation. Orb's primary speed measurements and important for activities like streaming videos, downloading files, video conferencing, and other relevant day-to...

posted 1mo ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by Michael‭

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Q&A How to identify which processes consume most CPU?

I want to have a list of top consumption in a range of time, or at least when the total CPU consumption is over a threshold. On many task managers, sorting the processes by CPU only show which ones...

0 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by Ooker‭

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