I’m using an HP Windows 11 laptop, with a Ryzen 7520 U processor with Windows and all drivers fully updated. Every so often (around once a week to once a month), the Control key on my built-in laptop keyboard will act as if it was held even if it wasn’t. […]
Daily Archives: August 10, 2025
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In Windows 11 24H2 (64 bit), Windows Firewall is configured to block arbitrary Outbound Connections. That said, any program who wants to access the Internet must be specifically added to the Firewall’s Outbound rules. In WSL v2.5.10.0, with mirrored networking mode, execute command wget https://www.google.com. Receive: Resolving www.google.com (www.google.com)... failed: […]
When I run “time xxx” on a Linux box, where xxx is a single threaded application, I may get output like this: real 12m45.376s user 0m9.085s sys 0m49.029s Where did the almost 12 minutes go? The computer where this comes from has plenty of CPU: At all times when the […]
I can save a screenshot like this: import -window root test.png And I can display that image as the image for i3lock (as per the manpage): bindsym $mod+u exec convert ~/test.png RGB:- | i3lock --raw 1920x1080:rgb --image /dev/stdin This looks as expected. However, when I try to combine the two […]
I use the default Windows 10 app for viewing photos, but the new one with the W11 desing runs so bad taking CPU even when doing nothing and takes so much to load. So I installed a version from 2020 with whe classic Windows 10 UWP ui, and it runs […]