samcarter‭

On main meta, someone suggested to look into the possibility to merge our Power Users community with the community for Linux Systems to increase activity. (see https://meta.codidact.com/posts/28512...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by ArrayBolt3‭

Personally I think this would be an excellent idea and we would benefit in many ways. as the post on main meta already mentions, both communities would benefit from more activity looking ...

posted 3y ago by samcarter‭

but isn't deletion overkill? As explained in comments, I deleted the post because the text is verbatim copied from two posts, which were published under the cc by-sa license, but you did not i...

posted 3y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Canina‭

I'd like Firefox to automatically use the "Print using the system dialogue" setting: In older versions, I could use print.tab_modal.enabled = false in about:config to automatically get the ...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Alexei‭

"Why an update?" you might ask. The current logo looks nice, but there are a couple of problems which could be solved with an updated logo: Is the site name "Power User" or "Power Users"? Is th...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by trichoplax‭

I have some text files which think they are encoded in UTF-8: file test.txt test.txt: Unicode text, UTF-8 text, with CRLF line terminators However if I look at their content, I think they migh...

3 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭

After a bit of experimentation, I think the \ in my search term is the problem. This acts as a shortcut for the "I'm feeling ducky" option. Workarounds: remove \ from the search term pla...

posted 4y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 4y ago by samcarter‭

I'm using a zsh shell with zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'm:{a-z}={A-Za-z}' autoload -Uz compinit && compinit to allow tab completion regardless of capitalisation, e.g. cd desk w...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Alexei‭

The url might not have been the best one to pick, but given that the question is verbatim the same as on other Q&A sites, I still think the presumption of a x-post is not so far fetched... T...

posted 3y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 3y ago by samcarter‭

I'm using the firefox extension metrication. I only ever use it via its entry in the context menu, therefore I would like to remove its icon from the url bar to gain more space: I tried the sugg...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by samcarter‭

I intermediately have a problem with DuckDuckGo. Instead of showing me the list of search results it sometimes directly jumps to one of the search results, without giving me a chance to check if th...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Quasímodo‭

Background story: I would like to have a button in my touch bar which changes the illumination of the keyboard in small steps (what you normally get from pressing Illumination(up/down)+option+shif...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by samcarter‭

The problem is that these two settings are only stored in the local storage of the browser and not transmitted to duolingo. This means that when the local storage is cleared for some reason (for me...

posted 2y ago by samcarter‭

TL;DR Turns out the correct name is #pageAction-urlbar-metrication_deltamikecharlie { display: none !important; } Long version: How to find the name? There is actually a nice guide at ht...

posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 1y ago by samcarter‭

The firefox keyboard shortcuts to navigate tabs depend on the operating system. An overview can be found at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-perform-firefox-tasks-quickly?red...

posted 2mo ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by samcarter‭