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This way, the next time I encounter the same issue, I’ll be able to find the solution easier by googling.
This category contains assorted tips, tricks and solutions regarding all the different workarounds and solutions related to technology pretty much in general.
This article explains a couple of different ways to fix any video playback stuttering, when watched on YouTube, on your OnePlus phone. I first ran into this on OnePlus 8 Pro, but according to the chatter online, there are plenty of other OnePlus handsets with the same… Well, I’m not…Continue reading How to fix YouTube stuttering on OnePlus 10 Pro?
Struggling to transfer tables from Excel to Microsoft Loop? Weirdly enough, you’re not alone. In this wonderful world of ours, simply copying and pasting often turns your perfectly organized rows and columns into an illegible blob. It’s frustrating, inefficient, and downright maddening for a superficially fancy and shiny new tool…Continue reading How to Copy-Paste a Table from Excel to Microsoft Loop Without Losing Your Mind
So about a year ago, I paid (or made my employer pay) 4000 USD to get an AI-PC. That laptop had no AI features whatsoever, so its NPU is still in brand new condition. Great savings abound if I ever end up selling it! 😜 But about 6 months later,…Continue reading “The Copilot key isn’t connected to an action. Choose what you’d like to happen when you press the Copilot key”
This article explains how to uninstall Skype for Business when it’s not visible in your Control Panel, Settings, Installed apps or Programs and features. This article also (accidentally) underlines the futility of using a separate uninstaller application. They’ll typically introduce more trouble than they’re worth. But let’s get to it.…Continue reading How to remove Skype for Business, if it sneaks back onto your machine?
This article explains how you can output the value of a secret variable stored in Azure DevOps. This applies both to secrets stored in a Variable Group, or Pipeline Variables stored as secrets. Is it safe, secure and advisable to do this? No! But is it possible? Yes it is!…Continue reading How to output the value of a secret variable in Azure DevOps?
This article explains how to work around the issue where the Copilot app fails to take pictures. Sounds boring, right? But hey – even with all of the gripes I have about Copilot, I do use it daily, and I’d really like it to work. Because when it does work…Continue reading Copilot Android app refusing to take pictures? I have the dumbest fix you’ll ever hear, but it’ll work, trust me.
This article explains how to get your built-in webcam back after a Windows 11 update (in my case, February 2025 Cumulative Update package) hides/disables it. The weird thing is, the camera is visible in the Device Manager. No app can see it though. And trying to update the driver through…Continue reading Adventures in the Windows 11 24H2-land: How to restore your webcam after February 2025 Patch breaks it?
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 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 enable Web Search for Microsoft 365 Copilot, when Copilot for Microsoft 365 thinks it’s disabled for whatever reason. But fear not! Most of the time there’s just a simple switch you need to flip to enable M365 CoPilot to access Web results for you. But…Continue reading M365 Copilot claiming “You have turned off web search in the work mode”? Easy fix!
