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How do I tell Firefox to default to 80% for every new web page it opens? 100% is too big, and the system doesn't support fractional scaling well, so every time I land on a new domain name, I have t...
I'm trying to get tmux to pass through extended keys to my terminal. In particular Shift+Enter and Ctrl+Enter. I'm attempting to utilize this in Vim by mapping the two key combinations. My termina...
In previous versions of macOS, the battery indicator in the menu bar was coloured in either black or white (depending in the wallpaper): In macOS 15 Sequoia, the battery indicator changes colour...
Whenever I boot up Windows on my laptop, the clock is set to UTC time. This happened no matter what timezone I was located in at the time. However, when I boot up Ubuntu on the same device, I got t...
Consider Ventoy. It's an open source tool that seems to meet your requirements… ✓ supports most distros (or Windows, ChromeOS, etc) ✓ choice of os at boot time ✓ add another just by co...
I'm about to build a desktop PC first time in many years and I was confused by the following discrepancy related to memory speeds: Zen5 CPUs "natively" support DDR5-5600 RAM (for example 9600X) ...
I'm switching over to Firefox from Google Chrome now that Chrome is trying to kill uBlock Origin and similar extensions. So far I've managed to import my bookmarks, passwords, and userscripts over ...
The firefox keyboard shortcuts to navigate tabs depend on the operating system. An overview can be found at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-perform-firefox-tasks-quickly?red...
You at least have a couple options for open-source alternatives, though cross-platform, open-source, and dedicated authenticators is a very, very small pool of options. This list is therefore mixed...
A lot of sites these days use OTP. I'm not very familiar with this, but you normally install an app like Google Authenticator on your phone. The app serves an OTP code on demand which you enter alo...
I'm looking for a Linux task app that syncs tasks with an existing CalDAV server. I already have a CalDAV server set up (Baikal), and the relevant calendars have been set up with task support, so ...
This post solved it for me. This issue is caused by having Noto Color Emoji too high in the font priority. Check /etc/fonts/local.conf for the following item: <match target="pattern"> <...
I am using a Lenovo Legion laptop and one thing I have noticed is the fan working at full speed from time to time. This seems to be related to the CPU jumping to a high frequency to deliver more pr...
Generally, PC these days are almost always built with 2 hard drives: one for the OS and related programs, one for applications and user data. There is nothing directly harmful with storing a lot o...
What is the magit equivalent of git switch branch? I'm particularly interested in the situation where you cloned a repo, and want to checkout a remote branch locally. From the commandline that u...
As far as I know, you can't. Each mark refers to a single location; if you change this location with the m command, the previous location is lost. There is no concept of a "mark value history" whic...
Assuming innermost directories are not empty, in any POSIX compliant system, find . -type d -links 2 -exec cp -r {} . \; In a GNU Linux system, a more performant alternative is find . -type d ...
How can one add one comment to two or more selections in Google Docs? It is clearly technically possible, since when you copy a section with a comment, any pasted text will link to the same commen...
Background: I'm using a websites which uses a pin code locally stored in a cookie for login. As firefox does not recognise the field to input the pin as a password field, it won't store the passwo...
I have a docx file in A3 format here consisting of one page. Using LibreOffice Writer, I'd like to scale it down to A4 without breaking the layout. Eventually, I want to print the document on an A...
How can I find out the different image resolutions in DPI that my scanner supports? I'd prefer to use a command line tool to get the supported resolutions.
Using scanimage First, get the name of the scanner with scanimage --list-devices In my case, this produced device `brother4:net1;dev0' is a Brother Brother_DCP-L3550CDW DCP-L3550CDW To get...
Clicking on Tags, among other tags, I see [microsoft-excel] x 7, but clicking on [microsoft-excel], I don't see any questions. What does that number seven next to [microsoft-excel] mean on the Tag...
There are several deleted questions with that tag, so I'm guessing that the tags page is reporting the number of all questions instead of all visible questions. It shouldn't do that; thanks for th...
Firefox family browsers. These have good compatibility because Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari are the browsers most commonly tested by web developers. With more obscure browsers, many commercial...
