As soon as I plug in the dongle of the Bluetooth Delton keyboard KB200 into the docking station, my computer acts as if the Ctrl key is pressed and does not type anything. I verify it by pressing the Esc button alone which opens the start menu in addition to […]
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It looks like KB5066198 introduces SMB2 regression on Windows 10 pro and home (confirmed on 3 machines). Prior to this update, connections to an SMB2 share on an ASUS RT-AX86U Pro router were stable and maintained for a very long time. I verified that using netstat on the router. Since […]
I have a dual boot pc, using grub2 with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 22.04. There are 2 disks. SDA holds the boot and both OS. SDB is only used as storage. Here is my fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors Disk model: Samsung SSD 860 Units: […]
I installed Windows 11 using the English version, I then installed the Hebrew language pack and set it as the Display language, however it changed it very badly – it’s partially English and partially Hebrew in many places, like the menus: It’s been like that for a few months, and […]
I have found the following code snippet for decrypting passwords from chromium-based browsers def _decrypt_v80(buff, master_key): iv = buff[3:15] payload = buff[15:] cipher = AES.new(master_key, AES.MODE_GCM, iv) decrypted_pass = cipher.decrypt(payload) decrypted_pass = decrypted_pass[:-16].decode() return decrypted_pass buff is the encrypted password blob storaged in the “Login Data” database. master_key is the […]
recently i went on a cruise. normally i would connect my samsung-android phone to the ships wifi, turn on my phone mobile “hot-spot” and let multiple devices connect to my phone and use the ship wifi at no extra cost. however, it appears that the cruise line came up with […]
Over the past year, my desktop has become much slower when opening programs and files. I haven’t changed any hardware, but it feels like everything takes longer to load now. What are the main reasons a computer slows down with time, even if you don’t install much?
I’d like to automate logging out and suspending the PC on Ubuntu 24 with lightdm. I tried this: SESSION_ID=$(loginctl | grep $(whoami) | awk '{print $1}') loginctl terminate-session "$SESSION_ID" systemctl suspend This logs me out (fairly brutally, TBH, running apps complain they quit unexpectedly so maybe not the cleanest) but […]
I’m looking at two offerings of – supposedly – the same AMD APU, the 8700G. One of them says the model is: 100-100001236BOX and the other says that the model is 100-100001236SBX. Are there actual differences here, or is this some kind of marketing/packaging term? Perhaps one might come without […]