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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 my screen automatically zooms? How to stop it?

This is triggered by holding Alt and rolling the scrollwheel (or, on a touchpad, moving two fingers vertically). Since you mention sticky keys: If they are on, the Alt keypress and the scroll even...

posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A How to download all mail in Claws-mail

Right-click the folder whose mail you want to download and click download messages in the context menu. This is absent from the manual (I suppose one is expected to discover it in the GUI) and ther...

posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A Audio book player for macOS 11.5

I'm looking for an application to play my mp3 audio books on macOS 11.5. On an older system, I was using ecoute, but this does not seem to work under macOS 11.5. Required features: resume the...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A How do I temporarily disconnect a Mac from the network without touching cables?

A workaround to a problem I'm having with an application on my Mac (desktop machine) is to disconnect from the network before launching the program. I headed over to the network settings to look f...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A How do I temporarily disconnect a Mac from the network without touching cables?

If your goal is to only disconnect certain apps, you can use tools like https://objective-see.com/products/lulu.html (free and open source) TCPBlock (free, for older MacOS) to block ...

posted 3y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 3y ago by samcarter‭

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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?

I have learned (from their forum) that, contrary to my impression, Yellow doesn't support search or the contact form when generating a static site. It does support them if you have Yellow serve yo...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Isn't Slug redundant, when Bleed oversteps the page and Bleed < Slug?

First: "actual stock" means the physical paper/wrap/billboard that your work is printed on. If this is an online-only work, there never will be actual stock. Different printing techniques have diff...

posted 3y ago by dsr‭

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Q&A With Datenstrom Yellow SSG, how do I generate lists of tags and recent posts for my blog?

The answer turns out to be to add a sidebar, which is a separate element. First, you have to use the Berlin theme, not the default. This theme adds a line to system/layouts/default.html: <div...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Installing WhatsApp on a desktop computer without having WhatsApp installed on a smartphone

I use Windows 10 Home. I need to install a WhatsApp client on my desktop computer but WhatsApp requires me to have a WhatsApp client installed on my smartphone to do so; Installing WhatsApp on my ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 3y ago by deleted user

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Q&A What's the pattern for how on/off sliders work?

Relying on my own experience, usually websites do some combination of the below: The current state tells you how it is That is, if it is green, it is on, and if it is red, it is off Filled i...

posted 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Microsoft Photos app takes a lot of time to load in Windows 10

One of the default apps on Windows 10 for viewing photos is Microsoft Photos. The app is really nice and have very useful features but one of the worst problems with the app is that it takes a lot...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭

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Q&A Remapping backspace with Karabiner Elements

I'm using Karabiner-Elements to remap some keys. I would like remap backspace to forward delete option + backspace to backward delete To do this I tried to write the following rule ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A How can I, most effortlessly, whiten or white out yellow or brown Tint?

Is Tint the correct term? I'm referring any document, paper, or picture that appears too yellowish or brownish. I'm not merely referring Foxing. I prefer black text on white background. What's th...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Why does Google Search Console shows data two days prior?

Generally, Google Search Console (GSC) shows me data about my website from two days before. I can understand a scenario were data about just one day before is given: The day in which we check the...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Discrepancy between Google search console and Google site: command

In Google search console I have: 883 webpages Discovered - currently not indexed 4 webpages Crawled - currently not indexed But, from a site:example.com command (regarding the same website),...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user

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Q&A How can I reuse a set of nodes in Tikz?

I have a graph in TikZ which I would like to use multiple times, with variations. As a simple example, say I have the following set of nodes \begin{tikzpicture} \node (a) at (0, 0) [circle,draw...

0 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Change keyboard shortcuts in Firefox

Currently, there doesn't appear to be a user-friendly way to change the keyboard shortcuts on Firefox without extensions, regardless of OS. It might be a good idea to upvote this post on Mozilla Co...

posted 2mo ago by techsavvytinkerer‭

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

My current computer is about 10 years old. It suits my current needs well enough, but in the future I'd like to do a bit more, so I'm think about some budget upgrades for CPU, motherboard and memor...

3 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by Michael‭

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Q&A Fonts That Support the Creative Commons Unicode Symbols

Therefore, getting to the actual question in the title, does anybody know of fonts (ideally OFL or similarly licensed) that cover these symbols in their proper locations? There’s a font named ...

posted 2mo ago by Jayman‭

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Q&A Why don't motherboards support the highest RAM Speeds?

Depending on your use case - historically RAM speed hasn't mattered that much. AMD's APUs were memory speed dependent, but that was for the video adaptor. It's also worth noting many PC builders te...

posted 2mo ago by Journeymangeek ‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Michael‭

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Q&A Fonts That Support the Creative Commons Unicode Symbols

As of Unicode 13.0 (released in March 2020), the character set has included glyphs representing Creative Commons licenses. 1F16D - The Creative Commons logo (🅭) 1F10D - CC0, the public domain d...

3 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by John C‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Delete "dosdevices" folder created by WINE from Windows

I have a backup of a Linux Mint install circa 2016. Individual files were copied using Ubuntu to an NTFS drive. Now I'm tar-ing and archiving the files, and trying to delete what's left. I made th...

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by Big Head Mode‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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

Can I expect my old graphics card to work with modern budget CPUs? What specific compatibility issues might I have to look out for, or how can I research this? Yeah sure it will very likely wo...

posted 6mo ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Does Thunderbird support Maildir?

I want to use a local folder in the Maildir format with Thunderbird. I have other programs set up that bring mail to this folder, I just need Thunderbird to view and sort them. I found https://sup...

0 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Understanding OAuth(2) security: what's a realistic threat model?

I don't believe this addresses the question at all, because the question is asking about threat to the user. I personally suspect that adopting 3rd party authentication is often not driven by threa...

posted 5mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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