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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 What's this orange "Work" with briefcase icon in Firefox?

I've used Firefox for approximately 10 years, but I've never seen this before! Please see below. I was working under the premise (very unlikely true, but still) that interacting with that ico...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 3y ago by TextKit‭

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Q&A Alternative to Google Adsense

I'm starting a small site with some online tools. Tried to include Google Adsense but I initially got rejected because the site was still on construction. Yet I've seen in the forums that they are...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by nelson777‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A Make left-click warp the scrollbar thumb position instead of paging down/up

I found that the GTK theme I use also has a settings.ini file, which sets gtk-primary-button-warps-slider to false. I wouldn't expect it to take precedence over the user specific file, but it does....

posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A How do I fix Blue Screen of Death error "kmode_exception_not_handled?"

The blues screen of death appears whenever I attempt to boot into Windows. The information displayed says "kmode_exception_not_handled." I am tech savvy however I have not been able to find a solut...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by SavvyTechLearner‭  ·  edited 1y ago by SavvyTechLearner‭

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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?

Please, correct me if you think I'm wrong! What you're asking is at cross purposes with the Linux movement. Linux is fundamentally different from Windows because its development model is diffe...

posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Ought I clone my C Windows drive, from my old SSD to new SSD in new computer?

Cloning is fine provided you do a proper clone. Something I used to do with Win7 is to actually clone the partition with a partition manager, and then boot from the new one. After everything is fin...

posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Converting pdf to png with sips on macOS 13.3.1 Ventura

The problem has been fixed in macOS 14.0. After upgrading to macOS Sonoma, one can again use sips to convert pdfs to pngs

posted 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Setting zoom level in Safari web apps

One of the new features of macOS 14 Sonoma are Safari web apps which allow to treat webpages like an application. Is there a way to set the zoom level persistently in such apps? I can zoom in and ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by samcarter‭

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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 Native Folder Synchronization on Android

Nothing prevents it, and many services do it. For example, Nextcloud's client can synchronize folders. Some reasons that could be making it less common are: Phones are sometimes thought of a de...

posted 7mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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

I can't post a full answer since I never owned this model. But this might be helpful until someone else does. From https://www.displayspecifications.com/en/model/87792ead I found that the OS for t...

posted 7mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A How can I color the columns of a CSV file differently in Notepad++?

Example Cross-posted: https://qr.ae/pAR6j7 https://superuser.com/q/1888670/116475

0 answers  ·  posted 6d ago by Franck Dernoncourt‭

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Q&A Setting zoom level in Safari web apps

This problem seems to have been solved in Safari 18.0 (19619.1.26.111.10)

posted 7mo ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A How to make an app immersive (fullscreen) in Android?

Is there a way to make an arbitrary app immersive in Android? That is, fullscreen with the status and navigation bars hidden. A temporary solution would be the best. I'm thinking about a situation...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by Iizuki‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by xxxxme‭

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Q&A Why does copying an image from Chrome and pasting it into MS Paint reduce its quality, and how can I prevent this?

This is just a wild guess, but it seems more likely to me that the resolution is lost when copying, not pasting. For example, maybe Chrome is copying the image as displayed on your screen, not the...

posted 12d ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Why does copying an image from Chrome and pasting it into MS Paint reduce its quality, and how can I prevent this?

When I copy an image in Chrome: and paste it into MS Paint, the quality is reduced: Why, and how can I prevent that? I use Windows 11 24H2 Pro, Paint 11.2412.311.0 and a MSI GS76 Stealth 11U...

1 answer  ·  posted 12d ago by Franck Dernoncourt‭  ·  last activity 12d ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Why does Windows Task manager shows 100% for the GPU utilization for one process but shows 1% for the overall GPU utilization?

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...

0 answers  ·  posted 12d ago by Franck Dernoncourt‭

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Q&A Why does this PowerShell command first request writing all bytes before uploading to JFrog Artifactory and how can I make it stream bytes immediately?

I upload a 150 MB file via PowerShell to a JFrog Artifactory server as follows: $FilePath = "dataset.tar.gz" $URL = "https://artifactory.somesite.com/artifactory/project1/dataset.tar.gz" $ARTIFA...

0 answers  ·  posted 12d ago by Franck Dernoncourt‭

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

Like always with overclocking, it is not guaranteed to work or be reliable. When one as a hardware manufacturer makes a claim about supported speeds, there's a lot of things to consider: Does ...

posted 5mo ago by Lundin‭

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

The command palette has entries[1] for "Show Next Change" and "Show Previous Change," with hotkeys listed as Alt+F3 and Shift+Alt+F3, respectively. You may also be interested in just paging to the ...

posted 10mo ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Michael‭

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

Sorry, I don't know the answer to "remove this in Windows", and this is too long for a comment. The root cause is that Linux gives the user more power in working with files, and Windows is less pe...

posted 6mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A How to automatically select new bulk downloads, and delete downloads deleted months ago?

Write a script to find the old files. Once you have a full treename of a file, it's trivial to delete it. Pretty much any command shell should be able to do this. Here is an example using my scr...

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

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Q&A Why can't I delete the English (US) Language pack? [closed]

I face this same problem. Why is "Remove" grayed out? How do I delete?

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by Sunny‭  ·  closed 9mo ago by samcarter‭

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

It is possible to view these with an third party archive, like archive.ph. It does take a while for the page to be archived if nobody has done so yet.

posted 8mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A In MS Edge, how to clear autofill data?

Only way currently seems to be to clear all autofill data or timed autofill data. Three dots (...) History Trash Icon Time range All time Autfill form data (includes forms and cards...

posted 3mo ago by propatience‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by propatience‭

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