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 […]
Monthly Archives: October 2025
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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 […]
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?
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 […]
I have been using Google Authenticator Chrome extension for some years, on my Windows and macOS computers. Suddenly it has no accounts in it. I’m pretty sure I saved a backup somewhere, but I can’t find it. (The Windows version was probably 10, and perhaps even 7. The problem happened […]
I am running a Magento 2.4.7-p3 webshop (Netherlands based). VAT validation is configured to use the default Magento VIES integration. Most (9/10) of the time it works correctly: A customer enters a valid EU VAT number. Magento validates it with VIES. Customer is automatically moved into the correct tax-free customer […]
I have a laptop from which I SSH into a remote machine every day. When the connection drops (e.g., because I’m taking my laptop from work to home and logging back on), all of my SSH sessions die. I want to avoid this, and have it behave the exact same […]
The printer, new, has a default password shown on a label on the back. When I try to login to the printer’s web page, I get: “Password Error Login Failure The password entered is invalid, please try again.” I have reset the printer and the very first time I entered […]
I keep getting this error on my Windows 11 Pro machine: svchost.exe – Application Error The instruction at 0x0000000010034A3D referenced memory at 0x0000000010034A3D. The memory could not be written. Click on OK to terminate the program! [This is the details of error] (https://i.sstatic.net/AJPFJGW8.png) This happens repeatedly, even after restarting. Sometimes […]