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

The URL of the site shows "powerusers", matching the drop down list of sites at the top right of the page, and the list of sites in the page footer, which both say "Power Users" (plural). However, ...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Wicket‭

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Q&A Permanently disable motivational messages and animations on duolingo.com

I'm using firefox to access duolingo. The website offers settings to disable motivational messages and animations. However the settings frequently turn themselves back on automatically. Is there...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Wicket‭

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Q&A Permanently disable motivational messages and animations on duolingo.com

The problem is that these two settings are only stored in the local storage of the browser and not transmitted to duolingo. This means that when the local storage is cleared for some reason (for me...

posted 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Meta Do we want an update for our logo?

Not a logo professional or active member of this community, so take all these with a grain of salt, but some ideas I see are: Get rid of the "button" icons, they aren't very easy to see and add ...

posted 2y ago by Hosch250‭

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Q&A Remove extension icon from Firefox url bar

TL;DR Turns out the correct name is #pageAction-urlbar-metrication_deltamikecharlie { display: none !important; } Long version: How to find the name? There is actually a nice guide at ht...

posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Is it wise to delete C: (containing Program Files) on an old hard drive, to create space to backup more files?

Essentially (it is actually a bit more complicated), the information on a hard drive (or solid state drive - a computer will normally treat them basically the same, and actually floppy disks, flash...

posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 4y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A What actions should be performed to restore a website after a DDoS attack?

A typical DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service; which is a subtype of the broader class of Denial of Service attacks) will simply flood a host, or its network connection, with data. It's not uncommo...

posted 4y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Switch off automatic redirection to search result in DuckDuckGo

I intermediately have a problem with DuckDuckGo. Instead of showing me the list of search results it sometimes directly jumps to one of the search results, without giving me a chance to check if th...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A Switch off automatic redirection to search result in DuckDuckGo

You have already given the answer, and I have just found that it is documented under the Search Syntax section: Use \ to go to directly to the first search result. For example, \futurama.

posted 4y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A How to use GitHub Personal Access Token?

You should be able to use a PAT like a password as you've been trying to. I think what's blocking you is your Git version: see this SO question, which suggests that error comes from the Git client ...

posted 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A How can I plug in both a microphone and speaker to a laptop with a single 3.5 mm jack?

He sees just 2 3.5mm audio jacks — see my green arrows. Correct? No, clearly not. Since both holes are different sizes, at most one of them can be 3.5 mm. It's hard to tell absolute sizes in you...

posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Why does my HTC Desire 610, running Android v4.4.2 and WiFi connected, falsely allege "your phone is up to date" and "no updates available"?

Your phone appears to be telling the truth in stating that there are no updates available for it. Mapping that fact to a statement that "your phone is up to date" in the message title is perhaps u...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Canina‭

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Meta How to handle crossposts

How do we want to handle cross-posts, e.g. posts which are completely copied verbatim from other sites? A couple of approaches I could think of: IF they fulfil the original site's license re...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A How can the total size of all frames of a video > that video's size?

As already noted in another answer, the answer is compression. But it is actually much more than you might think. A typical video has a huge amount static from frame to frame. Even an "action" vide...

posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Programmatically changing the keyboard illumination in small steps

Background story: I would like to have a button in my touch bar which changes the illumination of the keyboard in small steps (what you normally get from pressing Illumination(up/down)+option+shif...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Is a local Apache a local web server?

Well, it really depends on what you mean by a "web" server. If you mean a piece of software that implements the protocols typically used for (the server aspects of) web browsing, such as HTTP, TLS...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Control whether Firefox renders web pages in dark or light mode

According to this support answer to "Home page is black", Enter about:config in the address bar. Edit the value of "layout.css.prefers-color-scheme.content-override" to 0 to use a dark b...

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

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Q&A All file types associated with an application

How can I get a list of all file types for which a certain application is the default program? I know that I can get a list of all file types an application is capable of opening from the info.pli...

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

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

The correct way to do this is to run an IMAP syncing program automatically, to keep a mirror of all your email on your local machine. Then you point Claws at the local machine, not at the remote IM...

posted 3y ago by dsr‭

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Q&A How to block all images in Outlook by default?

By default, Outlook client does a great job at blocking images coming from external sources (ensures no tracking, no potentially disturbing images etc). Some folks within my organization are using ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Meta Who should the temporary moderators be?

I would like to suggest Canina‭. Although there aren't yet so many posts in which we could get to know how others handle things, I think they could be a good moderator for these reasons: base...

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

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Q&A Simple text editor for Linux with support for coloring individual words

Thanks to Samcarter for suggesting Abiword! It does quite more than just coloring text, but it's much lighter than Libreoffice (I only had to install two dependencies). Files can be saved in vari...

posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A How can I command my Lenovo laptop — NOT a ThinkPad — to stop charging the battery, at a maximum cap level of my choice?

Two possbilities: A firmware upgrade supports this feature. You can't. I also have a Lenovo laptop, purchased in 2018, and it does allow me to set the limit to charge to. Here is a screen sho...

posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A How can I force new Chrome tabs to the end of the list?

When I launch new browser tabs from links on other pages, I want the new tabs to appear at the end, not right after the current tab. Chrome (desktop) doesn't have a setting for this (or at least n...

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

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Q&A Matrix solution software

I am trying to invert the matrix in the picture. I had done mistakes 3 times. And I heard someone in Khanacademy were saying "let computer do the hard tasks". I was trying to find better Matrix s...

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