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Since my Ubuntu system is currently fried, and running a live boot was encountering problems, I am forced to resort to attempting to clone a Git repository on a Windows 10 system. I installed Git f...
I'm a very-long-time Windows user that has lots of experience with that OS and its predecessor (MS-DOS). I can't call myself exactly a Windows system programmer, although I know some of the APIs a...
I like to arrange my browser on one site of my screen and have room for another application on the other half of the screen. This results in a width of my browser window of about 775 px. Many site...
I use metric units in some projects, imperial in others. It's annoying having to keep switching global units every time. Is there a way in FreeCAD to set the units per-document? When I open a docu...
Mouse usage is a big factor (and was the culprit for my tendonitis). Learning the keyboard shortcuts for your most common operations means not having to jump to the mouse so often. Remember the a...
I think there are two aspects to this: Modifying your choice of hardware and software for various tasks, and improving quality of ergonomics in the chosen *ware. In sum, for me it comes down to avo...
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...
I would like to get a list of all the files in a git repository which I modified. Take for example the repository https://github.com/josephwright/beamer . I tried the command git whatchanged --au...
If you want to suppress the squiggly lines for a certain part of your document, select that part and then choose Review/Language/Set Proofing Language and tick "Do not check spelling or grammar". T...
I think Quintec's answer is a good one. But, just for the sake of completeness, I'll add some other options Proprietary options Maple ,a general-purpose computer algebra systems (CAS) like S...
You don't show enough of the document structure in the question to provide a fully fleshed-out example, but since it appears that you're now able to block based on CSS selectors and simply need hel...
In the menu bar, select Colors. Enter Hue-Chroma and maximize lightness; or Enter Colorize and maximize lightness.
The Secure Shell extension is perfectly appropriate here. SSH keys come in two parts: a private key and a public key. The public key is placed on the destination server(s), in (for example) ~/.ssh...
