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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

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Q&A Set a default zoom level for all websites

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Is there any way to make switching to specific tabs with the keyboard work in Firefox?

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...

posted 2mo ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Allow extended keys in tmux?

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...

0 answers  ·  posted 12mo ago by rcmosher‭  ·  edited 12mo ago by rcmosher‭

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Q&A Synchronize OTP across multiple devices

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...

posted 8mo ago by Zoe‭

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

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) ...

3 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by morgwai‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Why might I be failing to connect to the eduroam network on Ubuntu 22.04?

My university, like many others, offers a connection to the eduroam infrastructure. I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 (LTS); unfortunately, the instructions provided by the institution for connecting to the...

1 answer  ·  posted 1mo ago by Mithical‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by 9hax‭

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Q&A Can I "multi-etch" boot media?

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...

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

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Q&A How can I get Windows 10 to stop displaying the wrong time on bootup?

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 7mo ago by Mithical‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Iizuki‭

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Q&A Avoid colour change for battery indicator in macOS 15 during low power mode

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Synchronize OTP across multiple devices

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...

2 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Zoe‭

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Q&A How to delete old files in GIT while keeping history?

Depending on some semantics, it is possible to do what you want, for a sufficiently motivated cohort of "we." The tricky part is that you're rewriting history, and everyone has to agree on that new...

posted 2mo ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Michael‭

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Q&A Linux task app with support for CalDAV sync

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 ...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by Zoe‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Zoe‭

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Q&A Is there any way to make switching to specific tabs with the keyboard work in Firefox?

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 ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by Mithical‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A How do I fix Firefox fonts having extra spacing and weird numbers on Ubuntu?

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"> &lt...

posted 3y ago by Ullallulloo‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Ullallulloo‭

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Q&A How to quickly change the maximum processor state in Windows 10?

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A Should I now delete backup files already stored on my SSD C Drive? Should I use free space on SSD C Drive?

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...

posted 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A What is the magit equivalent of git switch branch?

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...

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

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Q&A How to jump to original mark after overwriting

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...

posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 3y ago by deleted user

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Q&A How to copy files preserving one directory up

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 ...

posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 2y ago by mcp‭

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Q&A Commenting on multiple selections in Google Docs

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by qohelet‭

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Q&A Setting a cookie with a userscript

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...

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

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Q&A Fit page content to paper format in LibreOffice Writer

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...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Matthias Braun‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Wicket‭

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