For a while now Windows has wanted me to update, particularly to update to Windows 11. I don’t want to do that as I like things how they are now. In the past I have clicked the “pause updates” button to delay and this has worked for quite a bit […]
Monthly Archives: December 2025
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macOS is not reading my external Elements USB drive. I had it connected to a Linux OS machine as a mounted network drive and used Samba to connect to it. I also had used one of the partitions for a Time Machine. Now disk utility recognizes the drive but cannot […]
I’ve noticed that for some reason Windows sometimes breaks certain applications or causes text to display incorrectly, especially after changing some system settings. For example, I live in Finland and I like to reinstall Windows every now and then, about once every couple of years. I’ve noticed that occasionally text […]
I’m trying to install DisplayCAL by uv pip install. But also, I’m in Fedora with native python 3.14. App won’t run because it ask python version in range 3.8 → 3.13 only. So how can I install it with specific python 3.13. I prefer to use uv as virtual env. […]
I’m running into a problem: I have two network connections on a single Windows 10. The Wi-Fi network (USB dongle) is meant to handle my gaming traffic, and the SIM-card modem, which is connected via LAN, is supposed to handle streaming and OBS Studio. I set custom interface metrics for […]
One of the apps I use doesn’t work properly. It displays an error text in a toast message but the error text is very long and wont fit into the toast. Also the toast disappears after a second. How can I see the past toast messages? Is there a log […]
I have created the following mount unit : # /etc/systemd/system/usr-local.mount [Unit] Description=Mount /usr/local After=local-fs.target [Mount] What=LABEL="/usr/local" Where=/usr/local Type=ext4 Options=defaults [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target But I get these error upon system boot : Sun 2025-12-07 17:07:44 CET systemd[1]: local-fs.target: Found ordering cycle on usr-local.mount/start Sun 2025-12-07 17:07:44 CET systemd[1]: local-fs.target: Found dependency on […]
Firefox allows placing some less essential menu items to the overflow menu. the menu icon highlighted in my browser: the ‘remove from toolbar’ option is disable for this item: I’ve removed all of the items from the said menu and only the ‘customise toolbar’ option remains — supposedly all entries […]
I’m facing a hardware issue that I haven’t been able to resolve despite extensive troubleshooting. I hope someone here can help me identify the root cause. System Specifications Motherboard: MSI B550 Gaming Plus CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (no integrated graphics) GPU: MSI RTX 5070 RAM: 2 × 16 GB […]