Yearly Archives: 2026

I run my system as a dual-boot with Windows 11 Pro and Ubuntu. So when I boot up I first see a bootloader asking me to choose which operating system I want. The hard drive is partitioned and Windows can’t access/doesn’t know about the Linux partition. This was setup starting […]

I used to be reasonably confident taking the list of Firefox preferences, and the explanations of their meanings, from https://kb.mozillazine.org . But that site has always been unofficial, and now, alas, it also seems to be unmaintained. So unless I can find a direct explanation of a particular pref on […]

I use Windows 10. I have a VPN that creates a dynamic Tun2Socks tunnel. By “dynamic” I mean it only exists when I’m using the VPN. When I’m not using the VPN all my dns traffic goes through DNSCrypt. Since the Tun2Socks device is dynamic any changes I make to […]

After doing a System Restore on my Win10 machine last night I went to sleep, and woke up to some alarming news; my machine wouldnt even boot. Problem: After a failed System Restore attempt (original error: System Restore did not complete successfully… 0x80070780, involving a file under an old user […]

Every time I try to log in to Microsoft Store, Xbox or any other Microsoft app in Windows which requires Microsoft account connection (or even directly under Settings->Accounts->Email & accounts or directly attempting migrating a local profile to a Microsoft profile it fails with 0x80048054 or with 0x80860010 (essentially too […]

My macOS 26.5.2 install on a M1 Mac Studio keeps saying I have no storage left on the disk despite removal of all pictures and most big programs to external disks some 32TB. Does the main disk keep representations of these external drives? What’s going on? More importantly how do […]