Daily Archives: March 27, 2026

I’m a seal, please don’t eat me, I really don’t know anything about computers. I’m asking for my son, who is and has been living off the grid for a few years. None of this makes any sense to me, but it will to him. This off-grid laptop is now […]

On a dual boot I run out of /boot/efi space because Microsoft Windows really made a small partition: $Volume = Get-Volume | Where-Object {$_.FileSystemType -eq "FAT32" -and $_.DriveType -eq "Fixed"} $SystemDisk = Get-Disk | Where-Object {$_.IsSystem -eq $true} $SystemPartition = Get-Partition -DiskNumber $SystemDisk.DiskNumber | Where-Object {$_.IsSystem -eq $true} $SystemVolume = […]

I have a VHD file which is much larger in size than its actual contents. What is an easy way to compact it?

I have 32GB 10 class MicroSD card, a microSD-USB adapter, an UEFI-based laptop with built-in microSD reader, USB 2.0, USB 3.0 (at least blue) ports and I want to boot the laptop with Windows 7 from the SD card. Laptop does not have legacy boot option. Secure boot is disabled. […]

Sorry for this fuzzy question, it just came into my mind, I don’t know whether there’s a correct term for this kind of question. Let say we have a table of timeline recording types of events: Event Type Date Interval A 2026-3-25 – B 2026-3-27 – A 2026-3-28 3 B […]