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| Edit | Post #282296 |
Post edited: Tags edited for clarification. This is about "ports" as specified by TCP. Not to be confused with physical ports, which can also be used to connect computers. |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #282296 |
Suggested edit: Tags edited for clarification. This is about "ports" as specified by TCP. Not to be confused with physical ports, which can also be used to connect computers. (more) |
helpful | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282278 |
"A lot of questions were asked (and closed) on Software Dev before this community existed." Not many of them were closed. A lot of them are borderline on-topic and there was no better place for them. I think it is most fair to have those questions migrated here - the majority of them were self-answe... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281905 |
I agree that HTML questions should be posted on software.codidact, not sure about Latex. Something can be on-topic on several sites at once. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282122 |
You can tell it to prompt for it and set a time or schedule when the update will happen. But I don't think it is possible to stop the update train. Also if you aren't around to tell it when you want it to do an update, it will eventually do the update anyway. The only solution I know of is to switch ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281905 |
Markup language questions aren't necessarily off-topic here. This might be an area with overlapping scopes between the two sites. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282000 |
@Istiak Some programs may have keyboard shortcuts that use Alt. These codes were never easy to work with, it's more of a last resort thing. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282000 |
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— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282000 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Hot keys with AltGr for Windows 10 Short of finding some program that does this, Windows has the built-in "alt codes". By pressing the Alt key and holding it while typing 4 digits, you can type symbols. The regular Alt, not AltGR. You'll need a list of codes, such as this: https://altcodeunicode.com/ For example: Alt 174 ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281940 |
The real question is how Microsoft knows where your computer is located so that they can give you weather reports... Anyone remember telling Microsoft that information? Now when you install Windows 10 you could do default install or custom install. Custom install basically meaning turning off massive... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281813 |
Codidact isn't striving to become Quora 2 or Reddit 2... because those sites and many others like them already exist. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281813 |
@JohnDoea A lot of the rules on SE actually originate out of common sense. If you were to ask me such a question and I have domain knowledge because I work at a company making such products, I'll very likely be gagged by a NDA with my employer. So it will only lead to broad and vague answers - overal... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281813 |
Apart from that I really don't think the question belongs on Power Users either. Software Development does supposedly allow program design questions, but when we proposed that to be on-topic, then at least I thought the scope would be limited to design questions about the program that someone is deve... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281813 |
@JohnDoea How is questions asking for speculation on overly broad topics any better than those asking for speculation of specific things though? That just means there's multiple problems: too broad, asking for opinions, possibly cannot be answered at all, and so on. It essentially boils down to: can... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281814 |
"Terminal" could mean anything from a computer to a command prompt to a terminal software listener. Not the best term to use in any kind of context. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281812 |
Yes that's your opinion which you voiced in that other thread. What does this have to do with a software recommendations category? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281812 |
I have no idea why you bring up that post here. It has absolute nothing to do with software recommendations. A software recommendation would be "which office suite has the best word handling program?" but an office suite question would be "how do I turn on bold text in MS Word 2099?". There's simply ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281813 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Would questions about software systems design limitations be on-topic here? If it is possible that someone who isn't a developer of that software (or such software) can objectively answer the question, then I think it would be on-topic. If answers involve speculation about the developer's rationale or in case there are no sources to be found explaining why the software w... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281811 |
The main reason is that if the main category contains some 95% office suite questions, then people will hesitate to ask other types of questions here. I certainly would. Currently, in this very early stage, 10 out of 26 questions (38%) are about office suites. If we migrate the 50+ excel formula ques... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281809 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
| Question | — |
Office suites category A site for office suites was proposed here: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/277548. This proposal is still in early stages and unlikely to get enough support to emerge as a site of its own in the near future. Meanwhile, all such questions will end up here and we already know they will be plenty. I... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281788 |
It's very hard to tell what could be the cause. Windows update silently replacing working drivers with broken drivers is one of the most common computer problems nowadays. I'd poke around the net to see if anyone using the same docking station are having similar issues since when the problems started... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281716 |
It's better but I don't like the idea as whole. It's an open invitation to subjective, bad questions no matter how well you phrase the rules. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281716 |
If this is to be included, it needs some very clear directions of how to post such questions. A use case, some specific requirements etc. Otherwise it risks ending up with "hey anyone know any good games?", "what web browser is best?" and similar low quality question. Also, the gear recommendation ca... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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