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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 Andreas‭

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Q&A Set a default zoom level for all websites

How do I tell Firefox to default to 80% for every new web page it opens? 100% is too big, and the system doesn't support fractional scaling well, so every time I land on a new domain name, I have t...

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

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Q&A How do I turn one layer into the mask for another layer, and back to normal again?

If I have two layers, how do I convert one of them back and forth between a normal layer and as a layer mask for the other layer?

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Andreas‭

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Meta Why was this question about PyCharm closed?

Because the concept in the question is out of the scope for Power Users. Python is a programming language; Pycharm is an integrated development environment. Thus the topic of the question, is the t...

posted 1y ago by Andreas‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Andreas‭

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Q&A Stack contents of layer or selection

If I have a layer or selection, how do I stack it horizontally and/or vertically such that it draws into the layer beneath (or current layer in the case of a selection)? I have a tile that I'd lik...

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

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Q&A Repeat one layer (group) as a tile

I have an image which I want a number of identical tiles on top of, arranged such that the tiles start at an offset, then duplicate x number of times in the horizontal direction, and y number of ti...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Andreas‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Andreas‭

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Q&A Restore tabs from windows.plist

Due to unfortunate circumstances (my own shortcomings), I have managed to back up only ~/Library/Saved Application State/com.apple.Safari.savedState/windows.plist before making changes to that file...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Andreas‭

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Q&A Stack contents of layer or selection

Use Filters/Map/Tile (menu bar). The new width equals the old width multiplied by the number of times you want the item horizontally stacked. Similarly, multiply the height for the vertical stack....

posted 1y ago by Andreas‭

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Q&A Find and close last opened tab in Safari

Finding and opening the last open tab in Safari, is usually straightforward; just look in the user interface. However, that's not an option, because every time the browser is started, it opens ever...

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

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Q&A What does the "preparing" step do when I upload a video on some website with my iPhone?

The simple explanation is that the file stored on your phone isn't the file the website wants, nor the one your phone wants to share. What needs exchanging are the contents of the file; the picture...

posted 1y ago by Andreas‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Andreas‭

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

I recently acquired a Samsung "gaming" screen (Samsung 28" Odyssey G7 4K 28BG700) to be the monitor for my desktop. Unfortunately, it seems to want to be everything but a simple monitor for my comp...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Andreas‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Find and close last opened tab in Safari

Warning: this will result in the entire window the tab was located in, to be deleted Warning: windows.plist is invalid without its data.data file. Back up both before proceeding. Skip the first t...

posted 1y ago by Andreas‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Andreas‭

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Q&A When running a query with ChatGPT with search enabled, can I restrict the search to only certain domain(s)?

The answer appears to be no, because in order to do so, there would have to be a system in place to filter both the training material and the set of web pages that an auxiliary search is limited to...

posted 1y ago by Andreas‭

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Q&A Is it safe to simply insert more disks into my motherboard?

I currently have a single disk in my computer, containing the boot partition, as well as all my data. I also have one or more secondary disks that I'd like to insert into the motherboard (either NV...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Andreas‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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