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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 ...
What you want to adjust is called the white balance. That's a very common issue, so I expect just about any image editing software has a feature to manipulate the white balance. I'm not familiar ...
As soon as I plug in the USB cable to my desktop's USB port, and the external Hard Drive starts spinning, it keeps scritching. Please listen to my audio file. I bought it in 2015, but I plug it i...
Accessing any server involves sending from a particular IP address to a particular IP address; the exchange of packets includes the sender so that the recipient can send packets back. An IP addres...
I use Videopad. It works for me with Intel i5 10th generation (codename ice lake) and 8GB RAM. I have an integrated graphics card (not dedicated). My brother uses Vegas.
Try using Kden Live which is made by KDE.
My opinion is: They do no harm and should be allowed. These are the reasons why I disagree with Olin Lathrop. The answers go out of date fast. They become useless, even damaging, to the long te...
As we have set up communities here on the Codidact network we've been appointing temporary moderators. Ultimately, of course, we want each community to choose its own moderators; we've been doing ...
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It's a failed YouTube embed. The site has a script to create YouTube embeds from youtube.com links, but fails on the link https://www.youtube.com/embed/?autohide=1&enablecastapi=0&html5=1&...
TL;DR TANSTAAFL Google is in business. They give a lot of stuff away for free. But much of that is in order to get things that people pay for, either directly (paid accounts for G Suite or whateve...
How do I cut out/trim/split a section of audio (or video) from a larger one, with VLC? I'm not trying to transcode, just extract a piece, ideally from the command-line.
The answer is pretty straightforward, just a few arguments: nvlc -I dummy input_file.mp3 --start-time 30 --stop-time 35 --sout file/mp3:output_file.mp3 vlc://quit where input_file.mp3 and output_...
Are there any free (and preferably open source) methods to make the green window button maximise the window instead of going full screen? (I know BetterTouchTools can do that, but this is no lon...
I'm looking for a text processor that can color specific words, just like Microsoft Wordpad can (select a word -> click the color button -> choose a color), but for a GNU/Linux system. I hav...
You can certainly send the user to a different page from the front end with a bit of JavaScript: location.href = 'https://example.com/new-page';
I've been using Datenstrom Yellow on a Mac running 0S 10.12.6 (Sierra) to build a personal web site (mostly a blog). The self-hosted test site (runs directly from source) and the build (generated s...
One of the folders in my home folder, Music, appears to be hidden. In the finder it appears slightly greyed out and it won't appear if I try to open files from applications which don't show hidd...
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...
LLMs (AI) have limited context windows which makes it challenging to include all necessary context in the prompt. A common solution is a memory book. The memory book stores arbitrarily large amoun...
Are there US stock brokers that allow programmatic access for retail investing? I would like to be able to connect to my broker's API to check my stock portfolio and place trades. I'm not looking ...
There are many vector search libraries and engines for use in machine learning, apis, databases, and programs. https://github.com/currentslab/awesome-vector-search has a list of some of them. For ...
I am trying to handle the digital affairs of a departed family member. The person had an iCloud account, which I am able to log into (I have the password and the 2FA device). There's about 40G of...
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 ...
Sorry, no simple answer here, though I did find one service free for up to 100 users: https://groups.io Any "service", as opposed to software you install on your own system, needs to be paid for, ...
