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There are several apps which allow the user to toggle immersive mode in Android. These may require root or the use of adb on a connected computer for the initial setup. Searching for "immersive mod...
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...
As a workaround, one can use the open source application "stats" (https://github.com/exelban/stats) as a replacement for the mac battery indicator: "stats" also allows various customisations, li...
TL;DR I disagree with the technician regarding CCleaner - I use it without any concerns. I have absolutely no idea regarding Advanced SystemCare Pro. It may well have problems or it may be 100% fi...
If one uses the --exec argument, one can access the name of the .mp4 file via %(filepath)s and %(requested_subtitles.en.filepath)s will give the filename of the subtitles: yt-dlp -f 160 --write-su...
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...
Why does Windows Task manager shows 100% for the GPU utilization for one process but shows 1% for the overall GPU utilization? I use Windows 11 24H2 Pro, Python 3.12 and a MSI GS76 Stealth 11UH la...
We use Gmail with Google Workspace (G Suite) or whatever it's called. We have a group, say [email protected]. Some of our members and aliases in that group are not receiving emails and I have no ide...
I currently have a single disk in my computer, containing the boot partition, as well as all my data. I also have one or more secondary disks that I'd like to insert into the motherboard (either NV...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Problem I would like to trim trailing whitespace on save in all files except .diffs using Neovim. Have vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd({ "BufWritePre" }, { pattern = { "*" }, command = [[%s/\s...
Problem Wrapping comments in Neovim gets messed up in the presence of parentheses. This happens with both auto wrapping and manual wrapping (gw). MWE This is what happens in a Python file (file...
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...
Why does the default SSH client behavior for MacOS send LANG and LC_* environment variables to the server? If I consult man ssh_config, it says SendEnv […] The default is not to send any enviro...
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...
I end up using a Python script that relies on the bibtexparser Python package: import re import bibtexparser def wrap_mixed_case_words(title): def replacer(match): word = match.g...
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...
I'm using Genymotion to emulate an android device on macOS. Is there a way to start the virtual device from the command line instead of going through the gui?
Can't run a Python file in PyCharm: why? got closed as "This question is not within the scope of Power Users.". The community description is: Our community for computer enthusiasts (power users...
The answer appears to be no, because in order to do so, there would have to be a system in place to filter both the training material and the set of web pages that an auxiliary search is limited to...
When I use my Firefox-family browser to connect to Google Meet: Update your browser to use visual effects You're using an older browser version that doesn't work with Meet's visual effects I...
How to change "Master Password" of KeePassXC Database? I Googled "keepasxc change password for database" but only found outdated results.
