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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...
I use computers heavily, both for work and out of personal habits. It's probably typical for me to spend ~60 hours a week at a computer (how depressing, I know). Over the years, this has caused so...
This is a broad topic, and I can't address all the details fully in one post. Instead, I will post an overview with enough keywords in each area, and leave it to the reader (and other questions) to...
I use email frequently, for many things, some of them important (banks, work). From what I've seen, all the offline mail clients (like Thunderbird, Evolution, Kmail) suck for a power user - mail fi...
There is always a trade off between ease of writing and reading. HTML, Latex, rich text (docx/rtf) have excellent readability if prepared right, but writing in them is difficult. Plaintext is easy ...
Sorry if the title is weird, please feel free to suggest a rephrase. I have a personal server in my closet. I host various software on this for my family's use. The vast majority of the time I con...
I noticed a random lagginess and/or freezing in my browsers from time to time. After carefully switching off and on all plugins and things related to the network I found out it was the Apple Privat...
When we launched this community, we did not yet have the ability to set different reputation grants for different categories. We've had this for a while but we failed to follow up before now, sorr...
I have found three posts from one user having the same statement: I'm a computer illiterate One of these posts derived on-topic question in this site, which have two answers; the top answer m...
From the search results page there is a link to the help page for search. This explains how to search for any word, only an exact phrase match, or all words in any order: plain search If you ...
I searched computer illiterate because I think I have seen some posts including these words and would like to copy the link to them to ask a question. Later I will provide more details on the quest...
That looks like a font scaling or DPI issue – those ━ □ 🞩 buttons look far-enough apart that the OS might be deliberately scaling to make a touch screen easier to use, but apps that are not aware o...
As of June 2023, it doesn't look to be enough questions about office-suite related apps to warrant having a category: Microsoft Office Considering the basic Microsoft Office Suite package: mic...
Adapting @samcarter proposal shared in a comment to the question Use two tags One tag for the software, i.e., microsoft-word One tag for the platform windows or the corresponding child tag ...
This is a follow-up to Should we use more specific version tags for software? The referred question is about tagging software, more specifically software versions and presents the case of windows-...
I'm interested in participating in tag curation. Below there are some notes network x 6 Should it be network or networking? battery x 2 It should not be the only tag, or it should ...
At the moment it is not yet possible to gain the "Edits Tags Ability" naturally (making suggested edits, which is a requirement to gain this ability, has not yet been implemented, see https://meta....
I updated the tag hierarchy (also for the macOS* tags) and added the proposed usage guidance to the windows tag.
As an alternative to rebooting, you might try to use "Force Quit Applicaitons" (Command-Option-Escape), select one web browser then click Force Quit. If there was another web browser in the list, r...
A term that describes frontend redirects has the following tags: web-browsers web-servers While both tags are related, they don't look appropriate as the question is not about a web browser ...
I wonder if adding [windows-11] as a child of [windows] might be possible as [windows] already has [windows-10] as a child. Also, considering that the term "windows" in the context of personal com...
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...
In the meantime that this is being discussed... the tag [software-recommendations] has collected seven questions. Related What should our take be on software recommendation questions?
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...
The site name is Power Users. With due respect to the author of the previous answer and the community, considering the question title, Is the site name "Power User" or "Power Users"? I'm po...
