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May 3[edit]

Chrome extension for heavier fontweight?[edit]

More than a few news websites use a lightweight font for the running text, grey letters with thin strokes. Reading a longish article in this style is straining my eyes. Firefox has a Page Style viewing option "No Style" that ignores the style setting. Is there a Chrome option or extension having a similar effect? --Lambiam 12:04, 3 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There's a font menu in Chrome, on chrome://settings/fonts. You can use this to change the font settings, like the default fonts and whatnot. Explodicator7331(talk) 16:00, 4 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It allows me to set the font size and the default, serif, sans-serif and fixed-width font families, but not the font weight and colour. --Lambiam 18:34, 5 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Copying Pictures of Document from Android to Windows 11 Desktop[edit]

I feel like this is a question that I ought to know the answer to, but I have been having excessive difficulty in figuring out how to do what I am trying to do.

I have a Samsung Galaxy A42, Android version 13, and a Dell Windows 11 desktop computer. A two-page photograph of a document was sent to me via text message. I would like to have the document on my computer. (Someone will ask why I am not satisfied to view it on my phone. The screen is larger on my computer, and I have a laser printer attached to my computer.) I know of two basic ways to do this, either with a USB connection, or via WiFi and the Internet, but I haven't found a way to do either that isn't clunky. If I connect the phone to the computer with a USB cable, and enable the computer to view the internal storage of the phone, what subdirectory on the phone will the incoming text messages be in? (I know how to access pictures that I took with the phone-camera and copy them to the computer. This isn't my picture, but a picture sent with a text message.) Second, is there a straightforward way to send the document to myself from the phone to the computer?

So where are the incoming text messages in the directory structure of the phone, so that I can browse down to them from my computer when I am viewing the phone as a device on the computer? Robert McClenon (talk) 16:12, 3 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I recommend you first try and see if there is an option to save the file in the messaging app your using. It's possible your messaging app saves the files in somewhere easily accessible by default but it's possible it doesn't. Nil Einne (talk) 00:17, 4 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. There is an option to save to the Gallery. But I haven't found where to look for it in the subdirectories of my phone when I am viewing the phone in a window on my Windows 11 computer. In other words, we don't know. That may be answered in a Missing Manual. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:40, 4 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I run into this frequently. Easiest thing to do is send it to yourself on some app that us installed on both devices. Gmail will work, or any kind of instant messenger. The answer to your USB cord question depends on specific model of your phone. The file may be ona directory called DCIM (I think). Other devices automatically store to Downloads, or Files, or Downloads under Files, etc. On a couple of phones I have not been able to find this. My advice is to save the texted document to your phone, then Gmail. If it's saving the texted image you're having trouble with, a long click on the image may bring up a share menu, or it may by at rhe upper right of the document Elinruby (talk) 18:16, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Windows 10 computer thinks it's in Sweden[edit]

A couple of years ago I got a new work computer at my workplace. It's an HP Z8 workstation running Windows 10 Pro. It was bought and set up by our IT department in Sweden and shipped here in Finland where I set it up for development.

Now, for some strange reason, the computer seems to think it's still in Sweden. For example, when I view YouTube videos on it, all the advertisements are in Swedish and advertise Swedish stores. When I visit Booking.com, it displays all the prices in Swedish kronor instead of euros.

What could be causing this and how can I change it so the computer knows it's in Finland? JIP | Talk 20:25, 3 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Settings -> Time & Language -> Region & Language and choose Finland from the drop-down under Country or Region. There is a video at this link. DuncanHill (talk) 20:30, 3 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's possible DuncanHill's suggestion will help but a lot of those things often rely on IP geolocation. Are you accessing websites directly via your own ISP in Finland or going through your companies internet perhaps via a VPN? If you're not sure try using an IP geolocation and info tool on your own IP. Nil Einne (talk) 00:23, 4 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]