Our setup (in my opinion) is incredibly messy. I log in as marct.ipa@subdomain.domain.com to a host and, using just the basic git commands (clone, pull, diff, etc) I can edit and update the content via GitHub. All good and easy. However, our database guys do not want to use GitHub […]
Monthly Archives: April 2026
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Recently i had to upgrade to a new machine and had to spend a lot of days setup all my development environment : shortcuts, windows settings, control panel options, applications and so on. In the future when i change my computer again, i’ll have to do all these tasks again. […]
I’m running Firefox 144.0 under Linux (Debian 13). I have carefully read everything in the following superuser post concerning the bypassing of HTTPS in Firefox: Firefox allow HTTP URLs (and not force HTTPS) …and none of those Super User-listed procedures for site-specfic bypassing of forced HTTPS are working for me. […]
I need to share my personal Windows 11 laptop with peers for basic tasks (web browsing, MS Word, light coding). I have created a Standard User account, but I am struggling with two specific requirements: Privacy: I want to completely block this user from accessing my D: drive and specific […]
I believe the AppX component for Windows 11 search experience that is broken is the system-owned (un-alterable) thing C:WindowsSystemAppsMicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy It’s broken. And it’s unrepairable by any means known to the internet. Even after doing all of the usual “Google me…” things, search results stay empty forever. No error is shown: […]
I am – unfortunately – using MS Edge. As I am switching accounts, I need to export all cookies saved by the MS Edge browser for my existing account. For the purposes of this question, never mind about other aspects of backup – just cookies. I’ve found extensions which save […]
I’m trying to lease static IPs to the 4 nodes (Ubuntu 24.03-based) of my cluster by using dnsmasq running on the (OpenWRT 23-based) control board. This works neatly with 3 of the nodes, which get the IPs 10.20.0.12, 10.20.0.13, and 10.20.0.14, respectively. Node #1 (blade3n1), unfortunately, gets the (wrong) IP […]
In orbstack‘s Linux machine I can see the vdb disk: [mark@rocky ~]$ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT zram0 253:0 0 7.8G 0 disk [SWAP] vda 254:0 0 374.3M 1 disk vdb 254:16 0 8T 0 disk └─vdb1 254:17 0 460.4G 0 part /mnt/machines/rocky vdc 254:32 0 1G […]
I have a Framework 16 laptop running Ubuntu Desktop 25.10. I would like to change what the default system volume controls when using the builtin speakers. In alsamixer, I see this: The system volume controls the middle one (Speaker). This causes the volume to behave in a strange way, affecting […]