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Welcome to the Power Users community on Codidact!

Power Users is a Q&A site for questions about the usage of computer software and hardware. We are still a small site and would like to grow, so please consider joining our community. We are looking forward to your questions and answers; they are the building blocks of a repository of knowledge we are building together.

Posts by samcarter‭

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Meta How would you feel about a merger with Linux Systems?

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

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Meta How would you feel about a merger with Linux Systems?

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

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Meta 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 th...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta Wasn't this deleted question salvageable?

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

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Q&A Using "Print using system dialogue" as default in Firefox

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

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Q&A Switch off automatic redirection to search result in DuckDuckGo

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

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Q&A Remove extension icon from Firefox url bar

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

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Meta Please don't presume cross posting from me.

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

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Q&A Case independent tab completion in zsh shell

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

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Q&A 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.tx...

3 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Michael‭

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Q&A Switch off automatic redirection to search result in DuckDuckGo

I intermediately have a problem with DuckDuckGo. Instead of showing me the list of search results it sometimes directly jumps to one of the search results, without giving me a chance to check if th...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A Remove extension icon from Firefox url bar

TL;DR Turns out the correct name is #pageAction-urlbar-metrication_deltamikecharlie { display: none !important; } Long version: How to find the name? There is actually a nice guide at ht...

posted 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&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...

posted 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A 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. Is there...

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

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Q&A All file types associated with an application

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

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Q&A 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+shif...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Meta 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: IF they fulfil the original site's license re...

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

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Meta Who should the temporary moderators be?

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

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Q&A Get unique list of all files in a git repository, which I modified

One can use sort -u to eliminate the duplicate entries and create a unique list: git whatchanged --author=samcarter --no-commit-id --name-only | sort -u

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

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Q&A Change colour of search markers in firefox scroll bar

The markings for search results in the firefox scrollbar are pink by default (requires "Highlight All" to be selected): Is there any code I can plug into a userChrome.css file or similar to chan...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A 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 passwo...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Clean up firefox's new tab page in private mode

Adding the following code block to one's userContent.css file will remove the clutter: /* removing clutter from new tab */ @-moz-document url("about:privatebrowsing") { .promo { displ...

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

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Q&A Clean up firefox's new tab page in private mode

By default, the new tab page in Firefox has a lot of clutter in private mode. How to remove all this clutter?

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&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: Threshold, if the selection of th...

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

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Q&A 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 site...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by Ullallulloo‭

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