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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 Linux distro and documentation for a Windows power user wanting to become a Linux power user without spending a lifetime in the process?

I don't know any type of document like that, but I've been using both for 10 years now. I'm by no means a poweruser at windows, maybe in linux. The best advice I can give you is, that the flow is ...

posted 1y ago by Or4ng3h4t‭  ·  edited 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A How can I see old photos, so far down a Facebook page that scrolling down freezes the browser?

One relative has taken so many photos, that scrolling down to his pictures before 2020 takes too much time and effort. But once scrolling reaches his pictures uploaded in 2020, my browser froze. I ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 2y ago by TextKit‭

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Q&A In Word, how can I set 'Header Position from Top' and 'Footer Position from Bottom' simultaneously for all pages?

I don't have time to set, or change, the 'Header Position from Top' and 'Footer Position from Bottom' for each page individually and manually! How can I set them all at once, in one fell swoop? Pl...

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

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Q&A How do I make Xbox stop telling me that I have a free game pass on Windows 10?

I have Windows 10 but don't have this problem. That may be because the first thing I did when I got the machine was to go thru all the settings I could find, and shut off anything I didn't want. ...

posted 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Install Quarto extensions globally

Is there a way to install Quarto extensions globally? If I follow the installation instruction from https://quarto.org/docs/extensions/managing.html and e.g. use quarto add quarto-ext/fontawesome...

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

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Q&A Circulate through spaces on macOS 11

One possibility is to use Hammerspoon with the following configuration: hs.hotkey.bind({ "cmd" }, "Right", function() local NextSpace = 1 for k, v in pairs(hs.spaces.allSpaces()[hs.scree...

posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Circulate through spaces on macOS 11

Another approach is to use Karabiner-Elements. As a first step, I created to executable shell scripts, which will switch to the previous/next space using the handy tool SpaceInfo Space_prev: #!/...

posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Disable automatic tlmgr updates in Quarto

I didn't yet find a clean solution, but as a dirty hack one can edit the quarto.js file and change the line [kLatexAutoInstall]: true, to [kLatexAutoInstall]: false, (this obviously won't s...

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

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Q&A Install Quarto extensions globally

This is probably not a lasting solution, but one can manually copy the individual folders of the extensions to <path to your quarto installation>/share/extensions/quarto/ Documents seem t...

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

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Q&A Launching hidden application at login under macOS 13 Ventura

Based on the post https://droidwin.com/how-to-hide-an-app-at-launch-on-mac-ventura/ an alternative approach could be to use a launch agent. To do this, create a file vienna.LaunchAtLogin.plist (re...

posted 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Launching hidden application at login under macOS 13 Ventura

Another possible approach is to create a helper app which opens an app without opening a window. I used platypus to create a simple app which will execute a shell script. The settings used for th...

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

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Meta Is the site name "Power User" or "Power Users"?

The site name is Power Users. With due respect to the author of the previous answer and the community, considering the question title, Is the site name "Power User" or "Power Users"? I'm po...

posted 1y ago by Wicket‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Wicket‭

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Meta Software Recommendations Category

In the meantime that this is being discussed... the tag [software-recommendations] has collected seven questions. Related What should our take be on software recommendation questions?

posted 1y ago by Wicket‭

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Meta Office suites category

As of June 2023, it doesn't look to be enough questions about office-suite related apps to warrant having a category: Microsoft Office Considering the basic Microsoft Office Suite package: mic...

posted 1y ago by Wicket‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Wicket‭

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Q&A Why do I get "we've run into an issue" and error code caa70004 when starting Microsoft Teams?

I installed Teams on my desktop. Whenever I click it, this error message appears. Why? We're sorry—we've run into an issue. Error code - caa70004 There's a more permanent way to sign in to Mic...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by TextKit‭

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Q&A Audio book player for macOS 11.5

After a lot of trial and error, I finally found cog which wonderfully satisfies my wish list. There are two other players which came close: https://iina.io/ (needs to keep a window open) ...

posted 3y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A How to add a partition of Disk 1, to another partition of Disk 0?

I use Windows 10. How do I add the yellow partition to the red one, to increase the size of red? Green (833 GB) must be left alone, and must not be changed or moved.

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

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Q&A Does Wireless receiver increase internet speed?

Recently, I noticed there's some problem with my Wireless Driver. I had discussed with a computer technician (whom I call Engineer) he said that it will cost too much to replace Wireless driver. So...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Anonymous‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Anonymous‭

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Q&A Vim horizontal scrollbind skips first scroll if it's the very first interaction

I have a custom spreadsheet viewer in Vim that splits the headers into a top pane and the rest into a bottom pane. I bind horizontal scrolling so that scrolling right keeps the headers above the co...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by Michael‭

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Q&A What is a good browser suitable for every-day use that respects user privacy and freedom?

Pale Moon Pale moon is technically a Firefox based browser, but it has diverged considerably over the years. It was originally a fork of an old version and has retained many "good old" FF features...

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

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Q&A Centre tick labels in mermaid/gantt diagram

As a quick and very dirty hack, one could stick some invisible characters, like em-spaces (U+2003), in front of the date. ```mermaid gantt tickInterval 1day axisFormat                        ...

posted 11mo ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Facebook app, Messenger badge count wrong, how to fix it?

On Fairphone 5, Android 13: Uninstalled Facebook app. Uninstalled Messenger app. Installed Facebook app. Installed Messenger app. Logged in to Facebook app. Logged in to Messenger app. Mes...

posted 9mo ago by propatience‭

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Q&A Facebook app, Messenger badge count wrong, how to fix it?

Facebook app is showing the badge counter for Messenger wrongly, I have no unread messages, how do I remove the unread message badge? I tried looking for how to clear cache but that wasn't so easy...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by propatience‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by propatience‭

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Q&A Disable input sources pop-up in macOS 14

I finally found a solution thanks to @bogdanw at https://stackoverflow.com/a/77256214/2777074 The idea is to create a file called UIKit.plist with the content: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UT...

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

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Q&A How do I make animated dotted lines ("marching ants") in images on my web page?

How do I make animated dotted lines ("marching ants") in images on my web page? Some people have showed me diagrams online where the lines are animated dotted lines / animated dashed lines, where ...

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