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 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 2y 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

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 3y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 3y 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 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 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 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by samcarter‭

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

How do we want to handle cross-posts, e.g. posts which are completely copied verbatim from other sites? A couple of approaches I could think of: IF they fulfil the original site's license re...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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

How can I get a list of all file types for which a certain application is the default program? I know that I can get a list of all file types an application is capable of opening from the info.pli...

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

I'm using firefox to access duolingo. The website offers settings to disable motivational messages and animations. However the settings frequently turn themselves back on automatically. Is there...

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

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