Daily Archives: May 18, 2026

Before I get into a bit more detail with this question, I’d like to point out that I’m not looking for opinions. In my search on this topic, I did not find any solution, but because there are many linux distros out there, I fear that I missed something. If […]

I bid on a storage unit & won. Inside was some computer. A few Apples new and old IMac to MacBook 2015 and newer I got all to work. A few desktops same outcome but their are two one Chromebook & one laptop that is bitlocked. I’ve tried everything that […]

When trying to build ffmpeg 8, the building process fails with these error messages: libavdevice/v4l2.c: In function ‘device_open’: libavdevice/v4l2.c:191:35: error: ‘V4L2_CAP_VIDEO_CAPTURE_MPLANE’ undeclared (first use in this function) } else if (cap.capabilities & V4L2_CAP_VIDEO_CAPTURE_MPLANE) { libavdevice/v4l2.c:191:35: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in libavdevice/v4l2.c:193:23: […]

How can I make Windows 11 not show a network drive as a drive letter in Windows Explorer, if the physical drive is not mounted on the remote host? I recently bought a 4TB USB external hard drive with its own power supply, and attached it to a small PC […]

My system : inxi -b System: Host: Laptop2 Kernel: 6.8.0-117-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.12 Distro: Kubuntu 24.04.4 LTS (Noble Numbat) Machine: Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: VivoBook_ASUSLaptop X515DA_M515DA v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required> Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X515DA v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends […]