Category: Tech
This category contains all of the non-rants. And some tech-related rants, I guess. It’s difficult to categorize your content, you know?
This category contains all of the non-rants. And some tech-related rants, I guess. It’s difficult to categorize your content, you know?
Microsoft has just retired the Windows Dev Home experience before it ever came out of Preview -status. And before it ever became that useful. Or even functional, if you ask me. It was a good idea (or maybe even a really good one), that never really materialized. I mean, I…Continue reading Have you heard? Dev Home is going away before it even arrived!
This article explains how to sensitively and carefully limit your Home Assistant’s database growth, without losing any valuable data. And because data is the new oil, pretty much all of the data is valuable. Who knows when you need to know whether your basement door was open or closed 1…Continue reading Taming my Home Assistant database growth
This article shows a few benchmarks I have run on the performance improvement that Dev Drive offers, using a real-life project I am (well, was) working on some time ago. The simple examples in this article should give you some guidance on what kind of performance you should be able…Continue reading Dev Drive performance increase in real life scenarios?
This article explains how you can identify which wifi bands your TP-Link Decos are using, without using a WiFi Analyzer or other such tools. I’ll also explain why you might need this information – in my case it was about interference (because of course it was!) And as usual, this…Continue reading How to identify which wifi band your Decos are using?
Just a quick tip I learned the hard way: if you want to host a website on GitHub Pages, make sure to only point the www-subdomain, and not the “naked”, apex domain, in case you’re using it for email mailboxes. I learned the hard way that the A records pointing…Continue reading Don’t assign root domain to GitHub Pages if you use it for email!
I recently (finally) moved to a commercial Password Manager after I got tired of having to copy-paste everything from KeePass in my apps on Windows and letting the only company on Earth that has to remind themselves in their slogan NOT to be Evil handle all of my web/Android passwords.…Continue reading Experiences from migrating to Bitwarden
This article is going live 24th of December in 2024. That’s when we in Finland celebrate Christmas (yes – we celebrate on Christmas Eve, so that we can just chillax on Christmas day, either hungover, playing with our new toys, or both). I’ll have you know I wrote this article…Continue reading Merging on GitHub Actions fails with “could not read Username for ‘https://github.com’: No such device or address”?
This article documents, how to close the Sidebar in Microsoft Edge. Because for whatever reason, Edge really does not make it obvious what the keyboard shortcut is, or if there even is one! I know what you’re saying. And believe me, that’s exactly what I’m thinking: Back to the “Project…Continue reading How to close the Sidebar in Microsoft Edge
This article explains how to fix Surface Headphones autoplaying semi-random things when you remove them from your ears and place on the desk. And by that, I mean autoplaying even when you’ve explicitly stopped anything from playing. Or even when it first stops playing something else. It’s delightfully consistent in…Continue reading How to stop Surface Headphones from autoplaying audio when you place them on the desk?
This article explains one possible fix to a problem you might have with Microsoft’s “Phone Link” app. Namely, the app might disappear and refuse to come back. Windows might even stop you from trying to re-enable it with an error along the lines of “Some of these settings are managed…Continue reading “Phone Link” permanently disabled and Windows claiming “Some of these settings are managed by your organization”? (Probably) an easy fix!