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| Comment | Post #290276 |
x-post https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/465242/57046 (more) |
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| Comment | Post #293591 |
x-post https://superuser.com/questions/1885749/why-does-copying-an-image-from-chrome-and-pasting-it-into-ms-paint-reduce-its-qu (more) |
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| Comment | Post #293590 |
x-post https://superuser.com/questions/1886174/why-does-windows-task-manager-shows-100-for-the-gpu-utilization-for-one-process (more) |
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| Comment | Post #293589 |
X-post https://superuser.com/questions/1886700/why-does-this-powershell-command-first-request-writing-all-bytes-before-uploadin . If you cross-post the same question on multiple sites, please include links to all other versions of the question in every post, even in the original one. X-posting withou... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293528 |
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| Edit | Post #293528 | Initial revision | — | 24 days ago |
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A: Is there any way to make switching to specific tabs with the keyboard work in Firefox? 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?redirectslug=Keyboard+shortcuts&redirectlocale=en-US#wwindows-tabs (the OS and firefox version can be selec... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #293527 |
sure, I'm going to write one up.
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| Comment | Post #293527 |
This overview https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-perform-firefox-tasks-quickly?redirectslug=Keyboard+shortcuts&redirectlocale=en-US#w_windows-tabs lists the linux equivalent as `alt` + `1` etc. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #293527 |
With firefox on mac, I can navigate tabs with `cmd` + `1` etc. to go to the nth tab and `cmd` + `9` for the last tab. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293257 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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Remove "Erase Disk..." option from right-click context menu in macOS 15 Since macOS 15, the right-click context menu for removable volumes has an entry "Erase Disk..." right next to the "Eject" entry: Screenshot of the right-click context menu showing the option "Erase Disk..." right next to the option "Eject " Is there any way to remove the erase option from the c... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #293251 |
... wondering if running the additional app will actually consume more energy than saved by the "low power" mode. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293251 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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A: Avoid colour change for battery indicator in macOS 15 during low power mode As a workaround, one can use the open source application "stats" (https://github.com/exelban/stats) as a replacement for the mac battery indicator: screenshot of the battery indicator. The outline is in black and current battery level is indicated by a partial black filling. The background of the ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293250 |
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| Edit | Post #293250 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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Avoid colour change for battery indicator in macOS 15 during low power mode In previous versions of macOS, the battery indicator in the menu bar was coloured in either black or white (depending in the wallpaper): screenshot of the battery indicator. The outline is in black and current battery level is indicated by a partial black filling. The background of the screenshot ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293020 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
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A: Change position of subtitles in yt-dlp If one uses the `--exec` argument, one can access the name of the `.mp4` file via `%(filepath)s` and `%(requestedsubtitles.en.filepath)s` will give the filename of the subtitles: ``` yt-dlp -f 160 --write-subs --write-auto-subs --sub-langs en --embed-subs "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC91ZW... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293019 |
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| Edit | Post #293019 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
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Change position of subtitles in yt-dlp I would like to change the vertical position of subtitles in videos downloaded with yt-dlp. If I use ``` yt-dlp -f 160 --write-subs --write-auto-subs --sub-langs en --embed-subs "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC91ZWUvfEo" ``` the subtitles will be placed at the very bottom of the video:... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #292790 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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A: Fonts That Support the Creative Commons Unicode Symbols You could use the site https://www.fileformat.info to find fonts which contain a specific character. For example for the creative commons logo: https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1F16D/fontsupport.htm the site will suggest these four fonts which contain the symbol: Table with the ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #292769 |
Yes, by default it will only show fonts which have all the specified glyphs. One can use `albatross --or a b` to search for each glyph individually. (more) |
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A: Fonts That Support the Creative Commons Unicode Symbols You can use the command line tool `albatross` (https://gitlab.com/islandoftex/albatross/) to find out which of the fonts you already have on your system, contain a given symbol. For example, on my system: ``` albatross 🅭 🄍 🅯 🄎 🄏 .---.-.| | |--.---.-.| |.----.-----.---... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #292617 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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A: Setting zoom level in Safari web apps This problem seems to have been solved in Safari 18.0 (19619.1.26.111.10) (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292445 |
Revenge for all my comments deleted there? :P (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292445 |
Welcome to powerusers! (more) |
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| Edit | Post #290639 |
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| Comment | Post #292370 |
@#8046 Some of these domains are probably not the biggest ones in existence - I don't think I've ever come across a site from the Cook Islands :) (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292370 |
@#8046 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.co_(second-level_domain) (more) |
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| Comment | Post #292329 |
Maybe try if you can change the available zoom levels with `about:config->toolkit.zoomManager.zoomValues` (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292328 |
Maybe you can adjust the available zoom levels in `about:config->toolkit.zoomManager.zoomValues` (more) |
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| Edit | Post #292329 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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A: Set a default zoom level for all websites Firefox allows to set the default zoom level in its preferences. Go to ``` Preferences->General->Zoom->Default zoom ``` to set it according to taste (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292328 |
Easy solution to the language problem: use the english version of firefox :P
(maybe make a meta question for a more helpful answer how to treat such problems) (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292328 |
Is Preferences->General->Zoom->Default zoom what you are looking for? (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292284 |
Thanks for the explanation! As the question is essential about downgrading, it sounded as selling it might raise enough founds to buy a downgrade, but if it was on sale, the second hand price might also be lower. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292284 |
@#64277 Do you make use of any other special features of the smart screen? Otherwise selling it second hand and buying another monitor with the proceeds of the sale might be a viable solution. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292147 |
maybe https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto is worth a try (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292147 |
Thanks for the update! Much clearer question now! (more) |
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