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 […]
Daily Archives: October 5, 2025
5 posts
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 […]