I have a perfectly functional printer at a static IP address, 192.168.1.44, on wired Ethernet. My Ubuntu computer prints to this printer just fine using IPP. My Windows 11 PC has the correct printer model, IP address, and protocol. It sees the printer on the network (e.g. I can manage […]
Monthly Archives: September 2026
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I need extra storage for backups and archival, and I’m deciding between two approaches: Buy a bare internal 3.5″ HDD and a USB SATA docking station. Buy a pre-built external HDD (i.e., drive already in an enclosure). They look functionally similar: both end up as a USB drive on my […]
The Surface Pro 7 Windows 11 Pro was functioning normally on battery and was in daily use on battery Yesterday, it shut down as battery went to 0%. Unit was connected to AC Adapter as usual and following a 2 hour charge, failed to start. Connected to another known good […]
After a failed attempt to install KDE Neon on an old laptop (interrupted install by unintentional power down), I find that the laptop will no longer boot. Prior to the attempted install KDE Neon was already present, but I wanted to reinstall because of a problematic automatic update. I formatted […]
I got this stupid problem after windows 11 installs latest update into my laptop, which is changing the style of my windows 11 – style file explorer into windows 10 – style one. Initially I was able to solve the problem by uninstalling the latest update but it kept installing […]
I converted some pdf files into Word 2016. When I opened some files I found out that there were a lot ^p in the middle of sentence. Could I create a wildcard to search occurrences. ^p can not be used in the wildcards directly (illegal pattern). There are possible situations […]
The cursor input appears to be lagging when I use the touchpad on my Lenovo Thinkpad P15 Gen 2. I am running Ubuntu 26.04 as an operating system. The specific behavior of the lag is a very slight delay in the input, but only when I have my finger off […]
I usually expect a window to have an “X” icon in the top right corner so that I can close it if I no longer need it. However I don’t see such an “X” icon for the following window. How do I close it? I’d like to be able to […]
I am trying to install Arch Linux on a very old laptop. It’s a Sony VAIO, made at about 2006, with a NAPA motherboard, an Intel Celeron M 440 CPU, and an extended (by a previous owner) RAM of 1024 MB – 2 sticks of 512 MB from different makers. […]