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 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 1y 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 2y 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 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 2y 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 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 1y 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 10mo ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by trichoplax‭

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 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 2y 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 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 2y 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 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 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 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Quasímodo‭

I would like to suggest Canina‭. Although there aren't yet so many posts in which we could get to know how others handle things, I think they could be a good moderator for these reasons: base...

posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 2y 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 6mo ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by samcarter‭

I have some text files which think they are encoded in utf8: file test.txt test.txt: Unicode text, UTF-8 text, with CRLF line terminators (https://github.com/samcarter/shared/blob/main/test.tx...

3 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Michael‭

Adding the following code block to one's userContent.css file will remove the clutter: /* removing clutter from new tab */ @-moz-document url("about:privatebrowsing") { .promo { displ...

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

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...

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

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

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