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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’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 […]

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’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 […]

Similar to: How USB port can also used as audio output? but that doesn’t solve my issue. Windows 11. I have Roxel RBS-770 Speakers with a USB line for Audio input to the speakers. The Instruction manual with the speakers simply says to plug the USB in and that’s it. […]

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 […]

Sub HIDE() Dim t As Table Dim c As Cell ' Loop through each table in the document For Each t In ActiveDocument.Tables ' Loop through each cell in the table For Each c In t.Range.Cells ' Check if shading matches light gray (RGB 191, 191, 191) If c.Shading.BackgroundPatternColor = […]