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The markings for search results in the firefox scrollbar are pink by default (requires "Highlight All" to be selected): Is there any code I can plug into a userChrome.css file or similar to chan...
Enter about:config in the address bar. Search for ui.textHighlightBackground and change its color value — you can use the #RRGGBB format or generic names such as "green". Note this al...
I have been using my 10-year-old small Samsung compact camera until recently. Whenever I plug that one into a Windows laptop, it shows up as a regular mass storage device just providing files, no-...
One can use sort -u to eliminate the duplicate entries and create a unique list: git whatchanged --author=samcarter --no-commit-id --name-only | sort -u
It has been reported that, if on a dark theme in KDE, Firefox automatically renders some websites that support it (e.g. Duckduckgo does, but Codidact doesn't) in dark mode. How can I better contro...
Olin's answer correctly diagnoses this as a form of coil whine, which can be emitted from almost any component but in your case is coming from the PSU. If you're not comfortable with voiding the w...
This is regarding the regular phone app that came with my Android phone. Under App Info, it says App installed from Google Play Store and version 78.0.437276706. I haven't done anything deliberat...
After upgrading one of my computers to Firefox 99.0.1 on Ubuntu, it's started rendering some fonts—specifically DejaVu Sans and Arial, although there may be others—incorrectly. The actual words are...
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...
The benefits of allowing "easy" questions The Software site already had an analogous discussion and the consensus came out fairly strongly in favour of accepting and answering beginner-level quest...
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 tried to use my Wireguard VPN on Android, and, it sucks! I installed https://f-droid.org/packages/com.wireguard.android/ thinking that would be "the" wireguard app. I configured it with my conne...
This solution works for me on Ventura 13.4.1. Taken from an article by Tom Nelson on the MacSales.com site, How to Create and Use a RAM Disk with Your Mac (Warnings Included!). In a terminal app, ...
I regularly use two computers with the same keyboard and monitor(s) with a KVM switch. With one button press, the KVM switch can transfer both the video output (monitors) and input (keyboard and mo...
PiKVM is an open source project which offers an internet KVM (keyboard-video-mouse) via a Raspberry Pi. It comprises an HDMI capture capability (also usable with VGA via adapters) which can be vie...
[Update: I just noticed that you are on Android but your partner is on iPhone. I tweaked the wording here to focus more on that scenario] To share a live, realtime location from Android Google Map...
Over time, the Windows folder keeps gathering crap and grow. Therefore, a fresh installation of Windows is bliss - it is the only 100% working way to get rid of all waste files that it picks up ove...
Quick fix I agree with Canina that you need to do two translations to fix this problem. Fortunately, it appears that you can recover the original text without loss. Try this: # first convert f...
if someone else has been able to answer to the asker's satisfaction, it is patently false that the question is unclear. That is actually a flawed premise. The question "what is the price of b...
My partner and are are sometimes in the position of trying to find each other in a large or crowded space (like a convention center, or if one of us is driving to pick up the other somewhere). We ...
Occasionally someone* occasionally modifies one of the files I'm responsible for with an archaic tool that decides to convert the updated file to UTF-16 (probably lossless) or an even more archaic...
I don't have a ready answer to the question in the title, but with regards to The plan was to disable the MariaDB service so that no new writes to the database can be made (that have a risk of n...
Threats In my head, there are three main threats, though the OAuth 2 RFC has a whole chapter on the topic. Your questions deal mostly with one of them and slightly with another. Fake login page ...
My hard drive is making a screeching/scraping/scratching sound. Is this bad? Will it explode? What I do? How do I figure out which hard drive is doing it, if I have multiple?
What is the easiest way to set up a mailing list? The goal is to send an email to one address, and it gets automatically re-sent to everyone who is currently subscribed to that list. Ideally, the ...
