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Questions about cross-platform mobile apps
I see and understand that questions "about mobile phones" are off-topic here. That's fine. That makes sense to me.
And I've seen:
Are questions about use of mobile apps on topic here?
Where ...
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Reviewing questions including "is there a script" about userscripts
Tl;Dr: I'm reviewing open questions about userscripts. During this review I might suggest edits and flag posts. The intention of this post is to share my current ideas about the edits that I think ...
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Asking about the popularity of a package manager
Is it on-topic for Super User to ask a question regarding the popularity/popular acceptance of a specific package manager (for Windows)?
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Wording a question about protocols for converting authentication without it being " product, service, or learning material recommendations"
I'm trying to ask a question about protocols for converting between user authentication types on an SMTP server, but whatever I do my questions keep being closed because various mods consider a ...
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Where should I ask this question?
I asked this question here:
How can I modify this bash script so that the port argument is optional?
On second thought, I wonder whether https://unix.stackexchange.com/ or on https://apple....
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Does this constitute a high quality question? From review audit
I recently received this review audit: https://superuser.com/review/first-posts/1065904
The question is here: Will my computer run Windows 11?
It was obviously anonymized for the audit purposes so I ...
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Where to ask for a software suggestion?
I'm wondering: what is the right place to ask for a suggestion for some software with desired functionality? (When the first choice - Google doesn't provide a sufficient answer.)
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Is Super User always this slow to respond or am I doing it wrong? Can I do anything to fix it?
Early this year, I asked about a Windows 7 upgrade from Vista which made my computer unbootable, on an older account (which I can't find any longer). I followed it for a few months; it got ~50+ views ...
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Asking question about Outlook.com
I asked a question concerning Outlook.com.
As I was not sure whether Superuser was the proper place, I did some research and realised that there is a dedicated tag:
outlook.com. The tag is relatively ...
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Dealing with same user multiple posts & not enough details
This question relates to a user that has opened a plethora of questions(7), in an attempt to get the same rough question answered.
The problem in my opinion is this user hasn't given enough details ...
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Can I ask here a question about MS office?
Can I ask here a question about MS Office Word? (specifically about Multilevel list)
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Asking about websites recommendations is allowed behaviour or breaks any rule?
There is certain explicit functionality I'm trying to get and that used to be available at a given website. Offline now but maybe there is a replacement or another one that serves the same ...
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What to do when a question is a duplicate of a question from another stack site
Specifically, Can't login on server using ssh [Too many authentication failures] is a duplicate of https://serverfault.com/questions/580753/ssh-aborts-with-too-many-authentication-failures#580864.
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Same question, different program?
I had a problem that I wanted to solve regarding the program Numbers (macOS's spreadsheet program, analogous to Excel). I found a question that is the exact issue I'm having, but the answer is ...
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Why do we have the google-calendar tag if we can't ask questions about it here?
I'm just wondering why we have the google-calendar (or any other web application) tag here for superuser when questions on this topic are considered off topic? I recently had my question migrated ...