In the Settings app, I have used Accounts > Your accounts to remove a Microsoft account (X@Y.Z). In Settings > Accounts > Passkeys, I still have one passkey which matches this account (X@Y.Z). I have no other passkeys. When I sign in to microsoft.com, Edge suggests I use this passkey. […]
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I’ve purchased a used HTC Vive and I’ve been trying, for the past few days, to make SimulaVR work with it, using Copilot with Claude Sonnet 4 to help me make it work, as I don’t have a lot of free time to delve into how it works. First I […]
I am trying to install and compile the GAUSS toolbox on macOS using the repository below: Repository: https://github.com/dilevin/GAUSS.git README: https://github.com/dilevin/GAUSS/blob/master/README.md I am following the macOS installation steps, and the process stops in InstallGAUSS_OSX.sh The script gets past the DMG mount step: sudo hdiutil attach -noverify ./qt-opensource-mac-x64-5.9.0.dmg and then hangs on […]
Around two weeks ago the screen saver just stopped being activated. I have always used the screen saver that came with the PC. I had chosen this theme: Mystify (Wait 10 Mins) No mouse moving software installed. Monitor is an old standard no-frills flat-screen monitor. Computer: Dell Optiplex 780, Windows […]
I bought a Ducky One 3 keyboard, and I wanted to configure it. I am on Windows 11 Pro, and I want to connect via the latest Chrome to their configuration website at: https://one-x.duckyhub.io yet my keyboard is not found: I made sure that the botton switch are all off. […]
In Linux Mint, I am used to using AltGR to generate symbols, e.g. AltGR+4 produces € and AltGR+shift+2 produces ⅛. I often want to use an italic curly L (Unicode 2113 ℓ), and would like to map that to AltGR+L. This is much easier to remember, and to type than […]
I was connecting external SSD to my laptop, I left my laptop open and the laptop battery got discharged while the SSD still connected to it, I have 2 questions Is there is any physical/electrical harm to the External SSD being connected to the laptop and the laptop got fully […]
Recently I tried migrating my HDDs (RAID5 – 4x 4TB) from an existing OMV6 setup to a fresh OMV8 installation on a new pc build, since the new motherboard offered me 2 more SATA slots. Unfortunately the system had a problem with the SATA drives (very old motherboard primarily meant […]
I’m trying to migrate away from Dropbox to Syncthing. In the process, I’ve hit a small snag. It seems that, in my Dropbox folder, two of the folders contain a file called Iconr where r is, bizarrely, the carriage return character. Problem is, this is invalid on Windows, so Syncthing […]