Well, Microsoft promised to protect your investments, meaning: The software you bought should still run when updating Windows. However this is not the case: I had a program written for Windows/98 that still worked correctly in Windows/XP, but did not in Windows 7 and Windows 11: Some elements inside custom […]
Yearly Archives: 2026
1890 posts
JSON object always changes its sort order after conversion from PHP arrays to JSON is there any solution ?
I am trying to detect an element on a Service Now page, that seems to be”hidden” under quite a number of shadowroots. The further below code stops at the first level, and if I put a console.write in to see what $s.shadowroot is, it gives me: Here is the DOM: […]
Good afternoon, I am living in a dorm, using it’s wifi, and am a streamer. The wifi here has a login/splash/captive webpage. After 24 hours of being connected, I’m still “connected” to the wifi but I will lose and no longer be granted internet access until I load a browser […]
This seems to be a Windows bug, but it’s a subtle one. I run Win 11 Pro for Workstations, currently Version 25H2, OS Build 26200.9445. For the last month or so (I’m unsure just how long) it has frequently scrambled the order of typing, pasting & mouse actions, in many […]
Early this year, around February or so, I bought an old, used 48U network rack, which I set up in my living room for home use. This rack has a power strip mounted on the side with an L5-30P plug, intended for a 30A circuit. I used an adapter to […]
On a Logitch K400 Plus keyboard, the F1-12 keys don’t work as regular F-keys by default, but as multimedia keys. To use the F-keys, you need to press FN. Installing the Logitech Software is a solution, but it comes with 500MB of bloatware. Uninstalling is not an option because the […]
In Microsoft Edge, Zoom correctly displayed video from my Logitech C615 before I joined a meeting. After joining, it showed the virtual background without my image. With virtual backgrounds disabled, the video appeared solid green. The webcam worked correctly in Microsoft Teams, Edge had camera permission, and the computer had […]
I have a Western Digital HDD WD20EZBX 2TB with SMR and one ext4 partition. After a series of file system mounts/unmounts (I cannot provide a more precise background, because I do not remember), I lost an ability to mount it again. For example, when I try this: sudo mount -v […]