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| Edit | Post #287873 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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Do we want an update for our logo? "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 the mouse cursor in the Power User logo an accessibility problem? I doodeled around a bit and came... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #287843 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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A: Programmatically changing the keyboard illumination in small steps Instead of trying to build my own touch bar, I'm now using Karabiner Elements to remap the existing keys on the touchbar to the desired behaviour. The following configuration will remap the screen brightness, keyboard illumination and volume keys to change their settings in small increments: ``... (more) |
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You're welcome! (more) |
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Post edited: dirty hack: adding block quotes around the images so one can see their size and transparency on the white background of the page |
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| Edit | Post #287709 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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A: How to make background transparent and trim to content I don't know if or if not this is possible from within grafx2, but your manual workflow can be simplified dramatically by using image magick. The following command will do all your steps at once and reproducibly: ``` convert test.gif -transparent white -gravity south -chop x60 -trim output.png `... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #287703 |
I don't know if your question as asked is possible or not, but I think there is a good chance that your manual workflow can be simplified drastically. Therefore I'd like to see a test image.
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| Comment | Post #287703 |
Can you show an example image? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #287684 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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A: Permanently disable motivational messages and animations on duolingo.com 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, the local storage gets cleared when restarting the firefox), these settings are lost. As a workarou... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #287683 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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Permanently disable motivational messages and animations on duolingo.com 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. screenshot of the duolingo preferences Is there a way to permanently switch them off? Maybe with a user scrip... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #287564 |
Do you have permission from https://thetravelissue.wordpress.com/2016/11/25/how_to_master_ksenes_glosses/ to use the image? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #287380 |
@#53919 I'm doing exactly the opposite: 80% default zoom so I can have the browser on one half of the screen without the buttons in the topbar vanishing :) (more) |
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| Comment | Post #287417 |
please read https://askleo.com/why_isnt_my_outlook_pst_getting_smaller_after_deleting_emails/ and https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/reduce-the-size-of-your-mailbox-and-outlook-data-files-pst-and-ost-e4c6a4f1-d39c-47dc-a4fa-abe96dc8c7ef (more) |
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| Edit | Post #287373 | Question reopened | — | over 2 years ago |
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@#53890 Done :) (more) |
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| Edit | Post #287399 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Is the mouse cursor in the Power User logo an accessibility problem? Not really an accessibility issue, but this mouse pointer confused me to no end. I'm using macOS and this pointer looks exactly like my actual mouse pointer. I can't count how often I was looking for my mouse on the screen and wondering why it wouldn't move... My current workaround is to block t... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #287380 |
This mouse pointer confused me to no end. I can't count how often I was looking for my mouse on the screen and wondering why it wouldn't move - solved the problem by blocking the image with my adblocker :) (more) |
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| Comment | Post #287340 |
@#8049 Nice idea! As far as I can tell Rstudio uses an absolute path, but it turns out this path can be customised in `.Rprofile` via `Sys.setenv(RSTUDIO_PANDOC="/path/to/some/folder/")`, so I could point it to a wrapper script which adds the verbose option to the call. If you would like to write an ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #287347 |
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll keep that in mind as a last resort. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #287340 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Adding option to pandoc call from RStudio If ones uses RStudio to convert a rmarkdown file to pdf, RStudio will call pandoc with arguments like this: ``` /opt/homebrew/bin/pandoc +RTS -K512m -RTS Untitled.knit.md --to beamer --from markdown+autolinkbareuris+texmathsinglebackslash --output Untitled.tex --lua-filter /Library/Frameworks/R.f... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #287171 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Setting a cookie with a userscript @Canina had the brilliant idea to make my userscript reload the page in case the cookie did not exist previously. Using this idea, my userscript now works like this: Greasemonkey version ``` // ==UserScript== // @name test // @match ://example.com/ // @run-at documen... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #287170 |
@#8049 Thanks for your edit! So many options to choose from :P (more) |
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| Comment | Post #287170 |
Thank for for digging up all the information and offering all these alternative approaches. I particular like the idea of an automatic reload! (more) |
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| Edit | Post #287167 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Setting a cookie with a userscript Background: I'm using a websites which uses a pin code locally stored in a cookie for login. As firefox does not recognise the field to input the pin as a password field, it won't store the password for me. To avoid having to remember the pin myself, I'm using a greasemonkey user script to aut... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #287149 |
Can you try if https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/remove-game-pass-pop-upapp-when-turn-on-computer/45f7fff0-afba-42ee-ac99-0196b405b29e might do the trick? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #287143 |
"Users here may not control whether later other websites cross post them" this would be true for sites which automatically scrap other sites, but this hardly applies if you copy your posts to other sites like reddit or the teamviewer forum.
In case the content was reposted without your knowledge... (more) |
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