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Activity for Monica Cellio
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How do I download everything stored in iCloud? I am trying to handle the digital affairs of a departed family member. The person had an iCloud account, which I am able to log into (I have the password and the 2FA device). There's about 40G of data stored there, only some of it backups from his Apple devices. I am looking for a way to download ... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
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How can I do a one-time data import to DokuWiki to create many pages? I am new to DokuWiki and have done the basic setup for a private wiki. I want to use it as an alternative to a spreadsheet I've been using to track my ratings and other notes for a category of products. (The spreadsheet hasn't been workable for me on my phone.) I am creating pages, one per specific ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
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How can I disable channel drag and drop in Discord? When using Discord in a web browser, on a server where I have admin privileges, I sometimes find that I've accidentally moved a channel, which affects everyone on the server and can affect channel permissions, so that's bad. You move channels by clicking and dragging, but apparently the interface is... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
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What does this suspicious URL structure do? I (well, my spam trap) received email that I know is a scam, but I'm trying to understand how it works. The message contains a URL of the following form: https:/example.com:2096/?gotoapp=SomethingWithoutAnExtension The single `/` after the protocol is suspicious, and I assume the key to a ... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
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How can I filter GitHub commits by date range, in a friendlier way than git log? We have a repository hosted on GitHub. I'm trying to track down a bug and have narrowed the date range for when it could have been introduced. I would like to easily review commits in that date range, and ideally I'd like to get other team members to help in this review. I know that from the com... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
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How can I transmit my current location to someone else's phone? My partner and are are sometimes in the position of trying to find each other in a large or crowded space (like a convention center, or if one of us is driving to pick up the other somewhere). We both have phones; it would be great if I could have mine send my location to his (or vice versa) so that... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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A: What technical steps can I take to reduce Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) and discomfort from heavy computer use? Mouse usage is a big factor (and was the culprit for my tendonitis). Learning the keyboard shortcuts for your most common operations means not having to jump to the mouse so often. Remember the arrow and page up/down keys, too. Unless you're hardcore, though, you won't get away from the mouse en... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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Should posting on Meta affect reputation? When we launched this community, we did not yet have the ability to set different reputation grants for different categories. We've had this for a while but we failed to follow up before now, sorry. Do you want us to change posts on Meta to not award rep for upvotes or subtract it for downvotes? ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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A: Tags page shows [microsoft-excel] x 7 but clicking on this tag shows no questions There are several deleted questions with that tag, so I'm guessing that the tags page is reporting the number of all questions instead of all visible questions. It shouldn't do that; thanks for the bug report. Update 2024-01-24: this bug is now fixed. The tags list counts only visible posts, not... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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How do I get the Pixel (Android 12) to show the incoming phone number for probable spam? I have a Pixel 5A running Android 12 (I assume stock Android because it's a Pixel, but I don't know how to tell). The phone app that came with it reports probable spam or scam calls by labeling them "Scam Likely" or "Spam Likely" in the caller-ID slot. All good so far. My previous phone, a ZTE A... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
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Browser video sometimes stops working; how can I figure out why? I leave my Mac (Mini, not laptop) running all the time, only rebooting when something forces me to (like a software update). My uptimes are usually measured in weeks, sometimes months. Occasionally, browser-based streaming video (Youtube, Google Hangouts) will stop working, in all browsers, thoug... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
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Automatically restore a dropped Zoom connection? I once again (thanks Covid!) have a weekly gathering that has moved from in-person to virtual, using Zoom. I am an attendee, not the host. I need to be able to join the meeting up to about 18 hours in advance and then not interact with Zoom again. That is, I consume the meeting passively, but I ca... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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How can I get my browser to block a specific SVG (Discord server icon)? I am on several Discord servers. One of them has, as its server logo, an image I would rather not see every time I use Discord. I had previously used AdBlock to suppress it, but it came back recently and it now appears that Discord is embedding an SVG rather than referencing an image URL, so I don'... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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How can we grow this community? Codidact's communities have a lot of great content that is helping people on the Internet. Our communities are small, though, and sustainable communities depend on having lots of active, engaged participants. The folks already here are doing good work; our challenge is to find more people like you ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: "No associated Stack Exchange site from which to transfer your content?" We have now removed that section on the profile edit page on communities that don't use imported posts. You should now see it only if you could successfully add a link. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Who should the temporary moderators be? Promoting this from a comment thread: samcarter has contributed a lot of both content and curation and would be a good addition to the moderator team -- and has confirmed in that thread that cats and dogs can work together here. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Who should the temporary moderators be? As we have set up communities here on the Codidact network we've been appointing temporary moderators. Ultimately, of course, we want each community to choose its own moderators; we've been doing this as a stopgap, while communities are forming, so Codidact staff don't have to handle all the flags (... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Unable to gave an upvote to Q or A The answer pointing to the YouTube embed is correct. I don't know why it fails in that way, but while we wait for someone to put some extra guardrails around YT embeds, I've edited the post to remove the link. I am hoping that bad YouTube links are relatively rare and that we won't see this problem... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Moved to a new OS version, didn't change project source, and now Datenstrom Yellow project won't build -- how do I debug this? I have learned (from their forum) that, contrary to my impression, Yellow doesn't support search or the contact form when generating a static site. It does support them if you have Yellow serve your site dynamically, which is what the maintainers recommend. What changed for me, apparently, was not ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Moved to a new OS version, didn't change project source, and now Datenstrom Yellow project won't build -- how do I debug this? I've been using Datenstrom Yellow on a Mac running 0S 10.12.6 (Sierra) to build a personal web site (mostly a blog). The self-hosted test site (runs directly from source) and the build (generated site for deployment) work fine. I have a "home" area and a blog, and I use the Yellow extensions for side... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: With Datenstrom Yellow SSG, how do I generate lists of tags and recent posts for my blog? The answer turns out to be to add a sidebar, which is a separate element. First, you have to use the Berlin theme, not the default. This theme adds a line to `system/layouts/default.html`: yellow->page->isPage("sidebar") ? " with-sidebar" : "") ?>"> For some reason the blog templates don'... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: How can I force new Chrome tabs to the end of the list? That extension is hobbled, but @Moshi linked to a different one, Tab Position Customizer - Modified in a comment, and this option has been working fine for me for more than a week. The extension allows you to customize a few things: - Tab opening position: always last (this is the one I want), al... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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How can I force new Chrome tabs to the end of the list? When I launch new browser tabs from links on other pages, I want the new tabs to appear at the end, not right after the current tab. Chrome (desktop) doesn't have a setting for this (or at least not one I've been able to find), so I use the "New Tabs at End" extension. Google has recently revoked... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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How do I temporarily disconnect a Mac from the network without touching cables? A workaround to a problem I'm having with an application on my Mac (desktop machine) is to disconnect from the network before launching the program. I headed over to the network settings to look for a way to do that, but didn't find anything like "disconnect" or "disable" in the UI, and I sure don't... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Application check for updates will never succeed and blocks launch; can I intercept or bypass it? samcarter gave me a clue in a comment by asking if the same thing happens if I'm not connected to the Internet. The software does detect that and proceed, fortunately, with the following message: Connection not available; click Help|Check for updates to adjust auto-updates Clicking "ok" here ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Application check for updates will never succeed and blocks launch; can I intercept or bypass it? I have a software application (Trope Trainer, from Kinnor Software) that I installed on my Mac (OS 10.12) several years ago. I don't use it often but it's always worked fine for me. The application uses only local storage as far as I know; cloud dependencies weren't common back when this software w... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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How do I clear a sticky "missed call" notification (older Android phone)? My (older) phone is running Android 7.1.1. (In case it matters, the phone is a ZTE Axon 7.) I use the phone app that it came bundled with, "Dialer" v 4.2.001. (That's a really generic name, I know. I'm not sure how to get more identifying information.) As usual, the phone icon shows a red ale... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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How can I export a long Microsoft Teams chat? I would like to export the entire history (thousands of messages) of a conversation from Microsoft Teams. There is no "save" or "export" functionality evident in the Windows client. I found some forum posts that suggested using the browser interface and printing to PDF, but when I did that I got on... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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With Datenstrom Yellow SSG, how do I generate lists of tags and recent posts for my blog? I would like to use a static site generator to create a personal blog. I'm new to SSGs (but not to blogs). Following some initial research and recommendations, I chose Datenstrom Yellow for its apparent simplicity (Markdown source and an easy "build" step to generate HTML, which I can then upload t... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Office suites category There seems to be consensus on a few things: 1. These questions are off-topic on Software Dev and on-topic here. 2. A lot of questions were asked (and some closed) on Software Dev before this community existed. 3. One motivation for the request for a category is to prevent these questions (if mi... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Should we use more specific version tags for software? This is one of the use cases that motivated tag hierarchies. If we make `windows-10-21h1` a child of `windows-10`, then anybody searching for `windows-10` will also see the questions from child tags by default. (You can restrict it to show only the parent tag and not children if you want, though I'... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: on-topic question in this site A starting point is the proposal. I'm going to quote from the question and from this answer. Again, these are starting points. Our current short description: > Power User Codidact is a community where computer enthusiasts (power users) ask and answer questions about software and hardware usag... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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How do I debug this problem with a laptop sometimes not seeing some dock connections? I have an HP ZBook laptop running Windows 10. This is a work machine with a corporate-controlled OS image, but I have some admin rights on the machine.[^1] The machine was issued to me about 20 months ago and the Windows specific version is 1703. I use this laptop with an HP docking station (als... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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Welcome to Power Users! Welcome to the Power Users community on Codidact, where computer enthusiasts (power users) ask and answer questions about software and hardware usage! We're glad you're here and we're excited to see what you will build. This community is starting "from scratch", without importing Q&A from other sit... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |