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I have Windows 11 Home 25H2 (26200.8039) and every time I restart my PC it keeps switching to light mode. I found this Reddit post that says that it’s because of Power Toys. So I disabled it and it still keeps switching to light mode. I tried uninstalling Power Toys […]

Issue I want to make a uBlock Origin filter that adds the parameter &udm=14 to the URL of Google searches. For example, redirecting www.google.com/search?q=test to www.google.com/search?q=test&udm=14. What I’ve tried I know that I can remove parameters with $removeparam: ||www.google.com/search^$removeparam=udm ! Before: www.google.com/search?q=test&udm=2 ! After: www.google.com/search?q=test If trusted filters are enabled, […]

Have printed forever on this very versatile A4 black and white laser printer and then all of a sudden it wants to print a blank page and then print half a page, which gets stuck causing a paper jam. Clear it all down and all is well and then we […]

I had some sad experience with Windows 11 losing the data set up for Windows Hello. The thing is that it’s quite complex and maybe there are some implementation flaws also. As one example, if I re-enroll fingerprints, I get a message that the maximum allowed number of fingerprints allowable […]

I’ve setup SMB on my proxmox host in order to sync files/pictures/… When connecting with Android I always get authentication errors. I’m sure the user/pass are correct. tried different account: same issue tried with “FileManager+”, “Foldersync”, “Solid Explorer”, “Samba Player” > all fail My Android can connect to smb on […]

After running into an issue (I pressed Ctrl+Z instead of Shift +Z in a terminal), I’m currently reading the section of the Bash manual dedicated to background jobs. There’s a sentence there that I’m not sure I’m interpreting correctly. 7.1 Job Control Basics …….. Bash waits until it is about […]

I’m trying to determine whether data recovery is still possible from a BitLocker-encrypted SSD after a hardware failure that likely destroyed access to the original TPM. The laptop’s motherboard was physically damaged and no longer boots. The SSD is intact and readable when connected externally to another system, but it […]

Using Linux Mint 22 – System Info –> System I keep getting error code (1) when I try to install an apt. Checking further it was indicating postfix was not installed or damaged. I then used SU and update and remove postfix. When I try to reinstall it fails: dpkg: […]

I have some text like this, with my cursor at the | Sally sells seashells by the seashore| If I have Word show me paragraph breaks, that text looks like this: Sally sells seashells¶ by the seashore| If I select the bottom line of text, and don’t select the paragraph […]