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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 matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A How to mark a folder as the destination for pasting in ranger?

In ranger, I am often copying a bunch of files from one folder to another. Currently I do it like this: Select files with Space Cut with F6 Navigate to the destination folder Paste with pp ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A How to mark a folder as the destination for pasting in ranger?

Still don't know how to do this, but bookmarks kind of accomplish it. You can do m1 too bookmark a folder as "1". Then move to another folder and bookmark with m2. Now, to switch use: `1 `2 #...

posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A KMail: Run script on open for local mail dirs

I use offlineimap to synchronize my mail, and I have the directory set up as a local folder in KMail. Currently, I open KMail and also run offlineimap to synchronize my mail. Is there a way to mak...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Alternative to Cheese that allows custom capture directory?

I use Cheese to take photos with my webcam. The photos get saved under ~/Pictures/Webcam which I don't like. I want them somewhere else. In typical, presumptuous Gnome fashion, there is no UI in C...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Is there a program for systematically testing keyboard function?

My keyboard is getting old and occasionally I notice the key presses don't quite register. This keyboard uses membrane switches so I can see how they would wear out after a while and not be as resp...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Browser video sometimes stops working; how can I figure out why?

Does the Mac Mini have a GPU? This sounds like something that could happen due to a graphics driver issue. AFAIK Youtube relies on the HTML5 video element. If it freezes in all browsers, it's prob...

posted 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A How do I trick Google meet into letting my browser use backgrounds?

When I use my Firefox-family browser to connect to Google Meet: Update your browser to use visual effects You're using an older browser version that doesn't work with Meet's visual effects I...

0 answers  ·  posted 12mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Meta Closing "unclear" questions

A frustrating situation is when a mod decides that a question is "unclear" and closes it, and yet the question is not actually unclear. Unfortunately, the close prevents anyone else from posting an...

3 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Delete "dosdevices" folder created by WINE from Windows

Sorry, I don't know the answer to "remove this in Windows", and this is too long for a comment. The root cause is that Linux gives the user more power in working with files, and Windows is less pe...

posted 2mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Native Folder Synchronization on Android

Nothing prevents it, and many services do it. For example, Nextcloud's client can synchronize folders. Some reasons that could be making it less common are: Phones are sometimes thought of a de...

posted 3mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Turning a Samsung smart screen into a dumb computer monitor

I can't post a full answer since I never owned this model. But this might be helpful until someone else does. From https://www.displayspecifications.com/en/model/87792ead I found that the OS for t...

posted 3mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Reddit: How to get around "whoa there, pardner!"

It is possible to view these with an third party archive, like archive.ph. It does take a while for the page to be archived if nobody has done so yet.

posted 3mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Is there a memory book for humans?

Not a real answer, but may be interesting: Silly Tavern includes a memory book Of course, Silly Tavern is a frontend for talking to AIs. So passages from the memory book will be shown to the AI, n...

posted 8mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A What is a good browser suitable for every-day use that respects user privacy and freedom?

Pale Moon Pale moon is technically a Firefox based browser, but it has diverged considerably over the years. It was originally a fork of an old version and has retained many "good old" FF features...

posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Ought I clone my C Windows drive, from my old SSD to new SSD in new computer?

Cloning is fine provided you do a proper clone. Something I used to do with Win7 is to actually clone the partition with a partition manager, and then boot from the new one. After everything is fin...

posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Linux distro and documentation for a Windows power user wanting to become a Linux power user without spending a lifetime in the process?

Please, correct me if you think I'm wrong! What you're asking is at cross purposes with the Linux movement. Linux is fundamentally different from Windows because its development model is diffe...

posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Cloudflare Captcha - which tests are actually important?

It seems like Cloudflare Captcha (which appears to be using Google reCaptcha) shows two types of challenge: One where it's a single image broken up into tiles, and one where every tile comes from a...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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