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In windows 11, how can I disable the behavior that double click on the title bar maximize/restore windows size? It is very annoying. Also when I use Firefox, for some reason,even click maximize/r...
Chrome has a huge file inside AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\OptGuideOnDeviceModel\2025.8.8.1141\weights.bin The size of the file weights.bin is 4.0 GB I want to delete this file. Will i...
Since the update to macOS 14.0 Sonoma, I every now and then get the following pop-up while typing. At first it is just the blue circle with "US": When I click on it, the white part with "DE" app...
I am unable to update Windows Subsystem for Linux Update - 5.10.102.1 whenever I try to update it, I get Install error - 0x80070661 how can I solve it?
Windows has some huge sized files: pagefile.sys 15.1 GB hiberfil.sys 3.2 GB Apps.ppkg 2.1 GB How can they be shrunk? Or is it maybe safe to delete them?
I'm using the macOS Automator.app to create a calendar alarm. Is there any way to get information about the calendar event, which triggered the alarm, inside the workflow? In particular, I would li...
I've connected multiple devices to a Slate 7 WiFi router (GL-BE3600). However, my laptop and phone get significantly better internet speeds over WiFi than the desktop connected with Ethernet. The ...
I'm looking for an application to play my mp3 audio books on macOS 11.5. On an older system, I was using ecoute, but this does not seem to work under macOS 11.5. Required features: resume the...
Google has announced that Starting next year, Android will require all apps to be registered by verified developers in order to be installed by users on certified Android devices. They claim ...
As a motivating example, when I write documentation for Python code I like to be able to start up a quick REPL session, play around with the code, and then copy and paste what appears on screen int...
What is a good browser suitable for every-day use that respects user privacy and freedom? This browser should: Respect user privacy. Ideally no telemetry, or at least opt-in telemetry. Does not...
When utilising Bugzilla, I am able to set issue dependency multiple levels deep, which is essential for project management. Although most CalDAV clients instead expose one-to-many relationships for...
As previously asked at https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/465242/57046, I have an iPhone running iOS 15. When I upload a larger video on some website, iOS spends a while "preparing" the video. What ...
As previously asked at https://webapps.stackexchange.com/q/181486/192282, I read the YouTube help page Add an audio track to your video: I am stuck at step 4: I don't see any Editor icon/option ...
As previously asked at https://superuser.com/q/1904253/383391 and https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/1l6cak9/why_is_the_efficient_mode_option_greyed_out_in/, I use Brave and Chrome on Wi...
As previously asked at https://android.stackexchange.com/q/262416, I joined a Zoom meeting on my Android phone. I turned on the closed captions. How can I export the closed captions generated durin...
Like also asked at https://android.stackexchange.com/q/262335, I'm wondering how can I configure Chrome on Android so that no site can play any sound unless I authorize it?
As previously asked at https://superuser.com/q/1927257/, I noticed that switching between my laptop's built-in microphone and my headphones' microphone causes the headphones' audio quality to chang...
As also asked at https://android.stackexchange.com/q/262286, I read No SIM card Insert a SIM card to use Mobile Hotspot and other tethering options. Why is a SIM card required to create a Wi...
Similar question as https://webapps.stackexchange.com/q/82533. I want to remove some photos and videos from my Google Photos to regain some storage space in my Google account. I read on https://sup...
After a software update maybe a month or two ago, contacts are displayed differently on my Android phone. The most annoying difference is that they are now sorted by first name. Under Settings &g...
My Synology DS220+ died and I decided that the successor will be a DIY system. Now I'm trying to access the data from the disks that were used in the NAS. Every tutorial, blog post, forum post I f...
I use Windows 11, version 24H2. How can I hide the Windows update icon from the Windows taskbar? I tried to hide the Windows update icon by going to Taskbar settings > Other system tray icons a...
I recently hit an issue on Windows where an application was not able to bind to a specific port (1883 for RabbitMQ MQTT). I followed the normal steps of using Resource Monitor to check for ports th...
The OMEMO encryption ecosystem for XMPP (Jabber) is split into distinct, incompatible versions. Unfortunately there are different versions of OMEMO encryption existing, that are incompatible to ...
meta.discourse.org/t/388327 contains a PNG example of what it describes. The example was converted from an .eml file (because the .eml file is > 100 000 characters, and Discourse doesn't permit ...
As was originally posted at community.spiceworks.com/t/1226828: [1] I want something that is as versatile as Open Camera for AOSP: [2] it allows me to configure the aperture, ISO, grain reductio...
I'm trying to change the view for a specific folder in finder from the command line. Specifically, I want to switch to icon view and set the icon size to 512 pixel. Currently, my approach is to us...
Similarly to posts/294844: I've recently installed the Windows 11 Enterprise 25H2 Insider Preview Canary .ISO. [1] After registering my webcam: ...I expected it to operate. However, althou...
Context/Rationale I've recently installed the Windows 11 Enterprise 25H2 Insider Preview Canary .ISO. [1] During its OOBE (its initial configuration process), I was asked to authenticate with my M...
I'm looking for a free (and if possible opensource) tool to search through the content of PDFs. Requirements: search full text of all PDFs in one folder (the PDFs are "plain text", not scans) ...
Downloading an image and encoding it into base64: curl -o output.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/USA-San_Jose-De_Anza_Hotel-3.jpg/500px-USA-San_Jose-De_Anza_Hotel-3.j...
In Outlook 365 I have a search folder. It only has From... criteria on the Messages tab. There are multiple from addresses there to match, separated by semicolons: [email protected]; [email protected]...
When running a finder quick action, a cute little cog wheel is shown in the menu bar while the task is still running: Is there a way to make a similar icon appear in the menu bar while a shell s...
Problem Wrapping comments in Neovim gets messed up in the presence of parentheses. This happens with both auto wrapping and manual wrapping (gw). MWE This is what happens in a Python file (file...
Is there a functional benefit to using a 4k computer monitor over a 2k one, or is it just a luxury (ie. looks nicer etc).
Avidemux doesn't appear to be in the standard package repository for Debian. What are my options for installing Avidemux on Debian 12? Is there a relatively safe package repository that I can use...
I've been trying to set up campfire to test - I'm mostly following the guide given on the git repo , and trying to fill in the missing bits. I'm using this script to try to start the basecamp dock...
I recently switched from DuckDuckGo to startpage as my primary search engine. I was using the firefox addon duckduck-go-google to add a google link to the DuckDuckGo search results - just in case i...
What are best practices for keeping my blog in version control? In particular, I hear that many people use git to version control a Wordpress blog. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) (i) (j) That wa...
Does sending a picture in high quality still compress the image in Telegram?
I'm trying to set up 2FAuth on a local server (old Raspberry Pi, Debian), alongside some other services. Following the self-hosting directions, I believe that I managed to get the code running, an...
I sent an email to a friend's work address. The email had an attachment, not a lot of text, and was signed (not encrypted) with my PGP signature. They briefly received the email before it ...
I've resurrected my Linux phone hardware, set to try it again as a defense against the further subversion of Android as a platform you own in any way. I figured I'd install Plasma Mobile, as I use...
Premise about:preferences resolves to chrome://browser/content/preferences/preferences.xhtml, which itself resolves to jar:file:///usr/lib64/firefox/browser/omni.ja!/chrome/browser/content/browser...
I've just installed Thunderbird on MacOS 14.2.1. I've run through all the settings I could find related to fonts and sizes, but nothing I change affects the message list, meaning the list of sende...
I have repositories on GitHub, and have been using a user name and password to access them. All was working great. I could use various GIT commands on the command line, and GIT would automaticall...
Sorry if the title is weird, please feel free to suggest a rephrase. I have a personal server in my closet. I host various software on this for my family's use. The vast majority of the time I con...
I'm running a self built machine with a MATX-CS612 motherboard. It runs ubuntu server 24.04 with a ZFS root. The machine tends to reboot under a very specific workload (Running a selenium workflow ...
On iPhone and iPad I can delete Facebook (and thus all its data, per storage info in Settings) and reinstall it and it still remembers my login. Privacy violation/bug?
