Something that I have a hard time with, every time that I start up a new distro, is getting my xbox controller working without a cable. It is never easy, and at no point does it seem like something any of the distros I frequent will fix "out of the …
First off, may I say this is dumb. This has been an issue for at least 4 years in the Linux community and still, to this day, the solution is to fix it manually.
To start, my install uses NetworkManager which has a rudimentary GUI, and since this has been …
I mentioned the other day on mastodon that I was starting to have issues with windows, again. There was just a couple of things that I am using an old desktop for automation, mostly publishing this site and a few backups with robocopy. I love robocopy.
However, because MS wants …
If you are self-hosting apps on your local network, that you also want to access from the external world, like I do with my webarchive then you may have challenges getting your DNS to work properly.
One way to do this is to host your own DNS server and point …
Somethimes I don't use WSL on my main machine for long periods of time and I forget the user password, so I've done this more than once.
Open a command prompt as administrator.
Get the Name of the WSL installation
wsl --list --verbose
I like the "idea" of Unix and the derivatives Linux and FreeBSD in particular. However, most the applications that I need to actually get work done rely on Windows.
So, when I build personal proejcts I like to build them with FreeBSD or a flavour of Linux (Like with TrueNAS …