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Problem: I’m experiencing a persistent issue where my internet connection, when provided by a Wi-Fi USB adapter (stick), seems unstable or incompatible with certain sensitive applications, specifically Google Apps Script and seamless Google Chrome login. When using a Wi-Fi stick (tested on 2 different PCs with 2 different sticks), Google […]

I am trying to use the ‘Camera’ application on Windows 10 that shows my webcam filming me. I am using the built in camera on my laptop. The green light next to the webcam flashes on and off when the program is running. In the ‘Camera’ program the words ‘Front-Facing […]

All computers, laptops and smartphones I’ve tried do not seem to be able to connect to more than one wireless network at once. Is this a hardware limitation or due to the way their operating systems are programmed? I’m surprised this limitation has not been improved over the years.

I have a split DNS and I connect to work through Wireguard. However, I only ever want certain domains to be resolved through the office DNS. So I naturally set a search domain, allowing only office.net to be resolved through the office DNS. However, this will still leak DNS requests, […]

There’s a lot of contradictory information out there, including on Google’s own help sites, regarding wildcarding in filters. Apparently it does work, at least to some degree. Unfortunately, all the examples I see use wildcarding of addresses within a fixed domain e.g. *@abc.com. That’s not my problem, however. I get […]