Yearly Archives: 2023

I have encountered some strange behavior pasting certain text into Microsoft Word 2016. If I paste page 21 of this document into Word, all of the text between the first two instances of the < (not ≤) character on that page is replaced by a single < character. Similarly weird […]

I’m running Ubuntu on Win 10 with WSL subsystem. My shell is ksh. After idle periods of not using the shell – can be several hours or just a few minutes – it turns unresponsive. A given shell can be in use for several weeks without issue, or it can […]

I just installed herstluftwm on my debian machine and configured some stuff when my friends called me on discord. I was listening to music and the sound quality dropped drastically when I joined the call. I was checking bluetoothctl and noticed that the headphones switched to “idle” mode when joining […]

When I start excel I get a welcome screen where I can pick a recent document, a new blank workbook, a new template, and other options. I would like to have Excel automatically just open a new blank workbook. For word, I can do this with winword /w /q to […]

I’m asking for categories, not specific product recommendations. Here is the problem. My child (12 y.o.) does not yet have a mobile phone. When his friends visit, they are each already glued to their phones. Their phones are already their fifth limb, at this young age. I’m eager to keep […]