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| Comment | Post #285408 |
@VLDR As you can see from comments like https://powerusers.codidact.com/comments/thread/5490#comment-15648 , there where a couple of different ways in which users interpreted the first version of the question. What might be a clear question for you, might not be clear for others. Embrace this and don... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285408 |
@#53696 In the context of a Q&A site an "outdated answer" refers to a solution that at the time of posting worked fine, but since then circumstances changed and the solution either no longer works or there are better solutions now available. Using this reaction for an answer which does not meet this ... (more) |
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Programmatically changing the keyboard illumination in small steps 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`+`shift`). To do this I'm currently trying to use MTMR (My touchbar. My rules.), which allows me to ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285408 |
@VLDR It is NOT outdated! Please don't abuse reactions like this. If you don't like an answer. As @Monica explained above, you can up- or downvote to show how satisfied you are with the quality of a post. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285452 |
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A: Maximise instead of full screen window There is actually a little app to change the behaviour of the green button called "Right Zoom": https://blazingtools.com/rightzoommac.html Caveat: The button will still go into full screen for most Adobe applications (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285448 |
> When I join the meeting, I get a "waiting for the host to start the meeting" message and then when I return to it later the meeting is in progress.
That's good. So you are in the waiting room before, which means that you probably don't have to worry about the daily disconnections from the serve... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285448 |
Is using voice control allowed? Or training your cat/dog/parrot/... to press the buttons for you? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285448 |
I'm not sure if this is something the host can configure, but in a conference which ran for 3 days straight (people from different time zones would join at different times for the talks), the meeting was interrupted by zoom about every 24 hours and people had to rejoin. Maybe that's something for you... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285448 |
Maybe a wired connection would be more stable? There are LAN-to-USB connectors or docking stations which might allow you to hook your tablet to a wired connection (I'm not an Android user, so no actual data how good that works) (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285448 |
Just an observation from way too many zoom meetings: It seems that whether or not one is automatically reconnected to the meeting correlates with the duration of the network disruption, the magic threshold seems to be around 10 seconds or so
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| Comment | Post #285408 |
@#53696 Can you please retract the "Dangerous" reaction? While it might be true that the answer does not solve your problem, there is no dangerous advice in it. Please limit the usage of this reaction to things that are actually dangerous. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285413 |
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A: Increase contrast between current and other tabs in Firefox I also had the problem that I couldn't tell which tab was active -- in particular in dark mode they looked all the same. To fix this I'm using https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix This set of scripts offers the opportunity to get the old Photon-style tabs back and, as all the colours ar... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285408 |
There are even applications like the newsreader Vienna, who will by default open links in the background, so you can just click without any modifier keys. A really useful feature. I'm quite surprised that this isn't a thing in the windows world. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285408 |
Some systems, like mac, support cmd+click in many applications to open links in the background. So not sure if the behaviour you describe can really be called "universal". (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285382 |
Videos are normally compressed. You can imagine this as reusing elements. If the same element is present in a lot of frames, you only have to save this information once. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285358 |
The fill bucket provides the exact same options for the threshold and the composition. However I would always first select the area you want to fill with the magic wand to see that the selection is correct and then use the bucket to filll the whole selection. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285363 |
If the text is not too long, erase it completely, import the image into a vector drawing tool like inkscape and retype the text. Vectorised text always gives better results as pixelated text. People will be able to zoom in, copy it, etc.
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A: What is the correct way to change the color of an element in GIMP? To make the selection you get with the magic wand to follow your object more accurately, you can adjust the tool settings. Two of them are particular useful: 1) `Threshold`, if the selection of the magic wand is too big or too small, tweaking this parameter is a good starting point. 2) If y... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285306 |
x-post https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/155209/how-to-concurrently-productively-change-all-gray-color-in-all-headings-and-subh (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285265 |
side note for everybody looking into this: the system requirements can be found at https://eu.shop.battle.net/en-gb/product/diablo_ii_resurrected?p=74831#systemrequirements (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285124 |
@#54706 Good question! Maybe one can make a contest/vote for a new name with "powerusers" as one of the options? While PU might look like a natural choice due to the bigger scope, I think one important point in making such a merge successful is that all users of the new community know that it is thei... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285182 |
Can we really assume that they are originally written by the same individual? They are posted on other sites by many different accounts and they never react to any comment asking if they are the same user. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285163 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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How to handle crossposts 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: 1. IF they fulfil the original site's license requirements they are fine. Otherwise they should be deleted. 1. IF they fulfil the original site's ... (more) |
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x-post https://superuser.com/questions/1605650/what-are-the-differences-between-obs-4-encoders (more) |
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x-post https://superuser.com/q/1621983/383391 (more) |
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x-post https://superuser.com/q/1625385/383391 (more) |
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x-post https://superuser.com/q/1622213/383391 (more) |
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x-post https://superuser.com/q/1646230/383391 (more) |
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x-post https://superuser.com/q/1578883/383391 (more) |
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x-post https://superuser.com/q/1435800/383391 (more) |
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x-post https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/q/79602 (more) |
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x-post https://superuser.com/q/1660453/383391 (more) |
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x-post https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/q/79948 (more) |
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x-post https://superuser.com/q/1666724/383391 (more) |
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| Comment | Post #283153 |
x-post https://android.stackexchange.com/q/240786 (more) |
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