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Due to the GDPR (Article 20), services (like Apple or Google) had to offer EU citizens[1] the option to download their personal data. Many also offer this option to non-EU citizens to a greater or ...
Suppose I want to use some functionality on foo.com which requires associating my activity with me specifically - for example, posting on a forum, or playing some games and having the site keep tra...
If you ask strictly about partitions, then you can't... One partition is on one disk, the other partition is on another disk. Therefore, you cannot combine/merge both partitions. One part(ition) o...
You could use Maxima. Some packages offer a GUI (Xmaxima or Wxmaxima, if I'm not mistaken), but you can use it in the terminal. Below, an interactive terminal Maxima session in which I define and ...
Historically, books and magazines were printed on large pieces of paper, which were then cut into smaller pieces of paper. Even today large reels of paper run through rotary printing presses wher...
Promoting this from a comment thread: samcarter has contributed a lot of both content and curation and would be a good addition to the moderator team -- and has confirmed in that thread that cats a...
I need to be available by smartphone for potential customers which generally all of them reside in a country different than the one I reside at. Register-with-phone-line VoIP applications such as ...
From the FAQ: No, unfortunately it's not possible. Allowing this would require embedding terminal multiplexer into Vifm, which is kinda silly because it is a file manager. The compromise is to r...
I use vifm in split mode - it always shows two vertically separated windows each with a directory listing. From there I can open files using the right arrow. However when I open a text file, vifm g...
It seems like all my attempts to get an upvote to Q or A for this post is failed Why can't I play a YouTube video embedded on a website, in YouTube itself? Initially I thought it is something on ...
As already stated, of course it's possible to do a redirection in the front end by telling the browser to request a different URL. Using Javascript is one possible method (some companies apparently...
samcarter gave me a clue in a comment by asking if the same thing happens if I'm not connected to the Internet. The software does detect that and proceed, fortunately, with the following message: ...
This isn't a direct answer to your question, but a suggestion. Try specifically disallowing internet access to this program in your firewall. That may cause the program to realize it can't get to...
I'm looking for a reliable and easy backup and restore system for the OS on a Windows 7 laptop (more details below). If I were to boot it to an external drive and back up all the files on the hard...
I am in Xubuntu. Sometimes, when I use Android Studio and suddenly change my "activity". I meant whenever I visit Android Studio to Chrome using alt+tab then my screen automatically zoom. Here how ...
While I can't say for certain what tool the publishers used, you may wish to check out the para option of the LaTeX footmisc package. It automatically makes the formatting decision based on the foo...
Recently, most of questions got lot of downvotes(Even, this didn't happen to any other Codidact sub-site). In Q&A site's questions have 12 upvotes and 17 downvotes. I think most of people con...
The obvious starting point is that in a site called Power Users, questions should be power users' questions. So to take a glaring offender: I never used OBS before. I'm computer illiterate. ... ...
Open Broadcast Studio is a program to allow live mixing of video and audio sources. One might use it to direct a digital broadcast of a play using several live camera feeds and sending the result t...
A hash is a mathematical function that maps a large number to a much smaller number. Files can be considered numbers; graphics files are certainly amenable to that. For example, an MD5 hash is alw...
A starting point is the proposal. I'm going to quote from the question and from this answer. Again, these are starting points. Our current short description: Power User Codidact is a communit...
This is one of the use cases that motivated tag hierarchies. If we make windows-10-21h1 a child of windows-10, then anybody searching for windows-10 will also see the questions from child tags by ...
My Windows 10 laptop has a Scandinavian keyboard. Very convenient, as I can write the letters æ ø å with ease and ä ö with a couple of keystrokes. However, I am missing the quote symbols « and », ...
Hi Power Users! The "Code of Conduct" link in the tour leads to this URL, which produces a 500 error for me. The issue is 100% repeatable. I'm currently using Firefox 88 if that helps.
I would like to use a static site generator to create a personal blog. I'm new to SSGs (but not to blogs). Following some initial research and recommendations, I chose Datenstrom Yellow for its a...
