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OK kids, it about time someone told you that you’re doing Facebook wrong.Fuck Zuck and all the *insane* tracking going on when you visit the site via browser or app.If you are using a app, god help you cause I’m not going to. Browse on over to https://www.facebook.com/?filter=friends&sk=h_chr and enjoy a streamlined experience akin […] llamafile – Download a full AI in a single .exe (or linux executable) Super cool way to try out a AI on your computer without needing to install a thing! Dip a toe and start your journey into the world of the future! For more advanced users with a lot of drive space, this […] As I spoke about in my longwinded email rant here, using free email for private communication is a thing of the past, at least if you (or the person you are communication with) expect any privacy at all. While there are a few reputable email hosts left, that can change at any time – […] New Build Time! I am still not totally pleased with last years HTPC rebuild – the Super Low Power HTPC / NAS. While it did achieve everything I set out to do, our usage and some odd file transfer behavior have me looking to redo the redo. Usage wise, we nearly entirely use the […] Okay, WTH is Rob talking about now?! We should be running our own Proxies? Rob explains the issues with VPN’s today and has a few suggestions. Among them is to run your own internet proxy. He suggests software like Shadowsocks, VLESS + Reality, and Hysteria 2 (at 15:00 in the video) Rebex has a couple nice and tiny servers (Web, FTP, sFTP) that are handy in a pinch. I have been running one alongside a PRTG installation without any hiccups. Source: Rebex Tiny Web Server (free) – Rebex.NET So I’ve been following Daniel for years now and subscribe to his weekly email, “Unsupervised Learning”. Some good stuff. Daniel has a been working on some pretty ambitious ideas, including “Humans 3.0″… the melding of AI and the human being using a bunch of programs. For me, it’s that last part that gives me the […] Source: How to Install Docker on Linux Mint 21: A Step-by-Step Guide I found this guide to be concise and accurate as of July 2025 with a up to date LMDE 6. Basically the commands are: sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupgcurl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg –dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/docker.gpgecho “deb [arch=$(dpkg –print-architecture) […] <TLDR> Use a recovery environment to re-install grub! </TLDR> I have been getting the dreaded “No Operating System” when restoring a VMware guest using Veeam. Here is my story of how I fixed it. I have two old SLES guests running on VMware 7. I use Veeam to back these systems up. One of my […] I am using LMDE6 and a Nvidia RTX 5000 16gb to run various Local LLM A.I. models. I have been following this guide with good success: How to Run a Local LLM with Ubuntu Other links: https://ollama.com/library/phi4https://www.baeldung.com/linux/genai-ollama-installationhttps://community.aws/content/2eojjD2E7TBgPFJmB2FGAtrSSBh/the-rise-of-the-llm-os-from-aios-to-memgpt-and-beyond?lang=en Source: MS-DOS Starter Pack – PHILSCOMPUTERLAB.COM It seems I’m forever putting together a DOS rig… One of these days I’ll get around to finishing this project, till then… links! https://www.retro-exo.com/exodos.html and https://www.retro-exo.com/index2.html https://dosbox-x.com/ A open application dashboard for linux.. allows for realtime updates directly from the apps being monitored. Source: Heimdall Application Dashboard Does anyone know how to get the HEVC codec for free byu/true_White_Knight inWindows11 In my continuing series of Microsoft can eat a bag of Dicks, here is how to disable required password changes due to expiration. For disabling password expiration, execute this in a elevated command prompt: wmic UserAccount where Name=”username” set PasswordExpires=False In order to use Iperium Backup with Vmware’s esxi environment, you need to enable Change Block Tracking. In vmware esxi, edit settings -> VM Options -> Advanced -> Configuration Paramaters, Edit Configuration and add: ctkEnabled = “TRUE” scsi0:0.ctkEnabled = “TRUE” The option ctkEnabled = “TRUE” is a VMX option which controls the general CBT configuration […] I present for your enjoyment the hoops one must alight through to work with Windows 8 in 2024.
Sideloading Windows 8 Applications https://archive.org/details/Win8AppxArchive How to install metro apps on windows 8.1 using wsappbak byu/randomusername12308 inwindows8 –> Open PowerShell. Get a Windows developer registration using this command: Show-WindowsDeveloperLicenseRegistration If it doesn’t work […] As part of cutting cableTV we have been using Windows Sandbox a lot. I never really looked into configuring Sandbox much as I had used Sandboxie in the past and it is super configurable. Sandboxie is starting to show it’s age, and Windows Sandbox is still here so… Here is a MS Support page going […] A post for my business brethren, or anyone with a firewall on their network (which, really, please consider!). Microsoft is at war with my company. They forcibly introduce internet sites that have nothing to do with my business to my users, limiting the productivity of my employees and exposing my network to potentially compromised websites […] Ain’t news to anyone that the newly redesigned Thunderbird is a giant turd. No idea why the developers felt the need to screw with a fully functioning application, but they sure did fsck it up! If you fell for the old please upgrade trick and want to go back to a usable program, here is […] I’m yanking this off Reddit for when they delete the thread (happening more frequently!!). How to get rid of copilot… Did a bunch of digging today. It looks like you can also disable it via Intune, using a configuration profile. Thanks to https://www.reddit.com/user/maxpowers156/ for posting it. *EDIT* 9-25 this config policy failed […] |
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