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macOS14 has been made a child tag of macOS
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Comment Post #290069 Thanks for your answer!
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Answer A: Disable input sources pop-up in macOS 14
I finally found a solution thanks to @bogdanw at https://stackoverflow.com/a/77256214/2777074 The idea is to create a file called `UIKit.plist` with the content: ``` redesignedtextcursor Enabled ``` This file should then be placed in `/Library/Preferences/Featur...
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Comment Post #289895 A related discussion: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/send-tabs-log/idi-p/15640
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Question Disable input sources pop-up in macOS 14
Since the update to macOS 14.0 Sonoma, I every now and then get the following pop-up while typing. At first it is just the blue circle with "US": Blue circle with the text "US" in it When I click on it, the white part with "DE" appears: A blue circle with "US" in it and a white ellipse with ...
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Question Setting zoom level in Safari web apps
One of the new features of macOS 14 Sonoma are Safari web apps which allow to treat webpages like an application. Is there a way to set the zoom level persistently in such apps? I can zoom in and out via the menu and keyboard shortcuts, but once I quit the app and reopen it, it again shows as 100%...
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Edit Post #289833 Initial revision over 1 year ago
Answer A: Converting pdf to png with sips on macOS 13.3.1 Ventura
The problem has been fixed in macOS 14.0. After upgrading to macOS Sonoma, one can again use `sips` to convert pdfs to pngs
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Comment Post #289602 Thank you for your answer! It worked perfectly!
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Edit Post #289591 Post edited:
Trying to add some sentence structure
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Comment Post #289531 Thanks for your answer! A lot of useful information for further investigation!
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Question Determine encoding of text
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.txt ) However if I look at their content, I think they might in reality have some other enc...
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Comment Post #289465 Do you have the linux subsystem for windows installed? If yes, can you try using git from there?
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Comment Post #289465 Not really a solution for your problem, but to temporarily speed up the process while one is out and about, one could use the tips from https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.md#special-cases-options , in particular only cloning the branches one currently needs and only c...
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Comment Post #289276 Your question does not contain enough information to make a recommendation. How messed up is your current installation? Are you able to fix possible problems which can occur with the shortcut?
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Question Userscript or -style to disable responsiveness of website
I like to arrange my browser on one site of my screen and have room for another application on the other half of the screen. This results in a width of my browser window of about 775 px. Many sites, Codidact included, will seriously squash their layout at such narrow widths, see e.g. the following...
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Comment Post #289053 Welcome to powerusers!
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Comment Post #288566 (if tags get too detailed it will get harder for new users to organically discover which tags to use for their post)
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Comment Post #288566 Sounds mostly good. I wouldn't overdo it with tags about the account type, such information can be in the question body.
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Comment Post #288565 I would tag them with two tags, one for the application and a separate tag for the operating system. "Thanks to the screenshot, it's evident": please be careful with such conclusions, there is a user who will not show their own screenshots, but random pictures from other sites, which might or migh...
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Edit Post #288559 Initial revision almost 2 years ago
Question Applications for "Edit Tags Ability"
At the moment it is not yet possible to gain the "Edits Tags Ability" naturally (making suggested edits, which is a requirement to gain this ability, has not yet been implemented, see https://meta.codidact.com/posts/279616 for details). Until suggesting tag edits gets implemented, I suggest that u...
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Edit Post #288557 Initial revision almost 2 years ago
Answer A: Add [windows-11] as a child of [windows] and add tag usage guidance
I updated the tag hierarchy (also for the `macOS` tags) and added the proposed usage guidance to the `windows` tag.
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Comment Post #288492 @#60977 Per community consensus, recommendation questions are on-topic https://powerusers.codidact.com/posts/284817/284902#answer-284902
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Comment Post #287684 @#60977 reaction added
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Comment Post #281904 About your comment about overleaf: I suggest to redirect LaTeX questions to Codidact's sister project TopAnswers. It has an active community specifically about LaTeX and friends ( https://topanswers.xyz/tex -- full disclosure: I'm a active user of this site). We also have an informal agreement with s...
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Comment Post #288386 Thanks for your comment! I tried following that. For me, this brought nothing obvious up. I added the html of one of the server buttons to the question.
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Question Hide server name tooltip on discord
If one hovers over a server name in discord, a speech bubble with the server name pops up: Screenshot of the discord server list with the tooltip bubble visible Is there any way to avoid this tooltip? Maybe a userscript or a user style? As this element is only visible on mouse hover, I'm having...
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