Yearly Archives: 2026

I’ve seen a lot of discussion about the internal technical mechanisms of why an SSD might fail, which is fascinating by itself. But I haven’t seen a whole lot about how to predict that failure. Does a failed SSD really just “disappear”? Either not found at all, or found but […]

After questions 1, 2 and 3, I still have issues connecting to localhost from my Windows 11 machine. In particular, I cannot run openclaw dashboard. When I type: > openclaw dashboard 🦞 OpenClaw 2026.5.7 (eeef486) — Your terminal just grew claws—type something and let the bot pinch the busywork. Dashboard […]

I have to install a HP Microserver Gen9 with Windows server OS. I read everywhere these kinds of servers are set up like this: OS on the separate SSD. Data on the other 4 HDD in RAID 1. The thing I don’t get and I cannot find an answer to: […]

I have a NAS Folder mounted as drive letter V: on W11 Pro. Whenever I delete a file on V:, Windows always shows the “Are you sure you want to permanently delete this file?” confirmation dialog. My NAS already has its own recycle bin, so the Windows warning about permanent […]

I have one Windows 11 Pro fully up to date that has stopped showing the “safe to remove” notification (and never shows the “still busy” notification either). The “safely remove” icon disappears telling me it is ok to remove the device. Nothing wrong on the settings/system/notifications page as far as […]

Recently (in the last month), I’ve found that Firefox plays audio tracks silently in some cases. It thinks it’s playing, and the track’s time will run down, but no sound will actually be produced. I am using Firefox 150.0.2 (64-bit) on Windows 11 25H2 (26200.8328). I assume it depends on […]

I would like to put a condition around a login script: Auto-run certain tools when no window manager is active, such as screen or mc. What’s the simplest test to do that?

It has been installed Windows 7 32 bit on a partition and Windows 7 64 bit another partition as a second OP and reachable by dual boot. If windows 7 32 bit been reinstalled from scratch after formatting the drive it had been installed on, is there a way to […]