There are 104 keys on most keyboards and most people use barely half of them. Why not make them useful? I find F1 to be utterly useless. It pops up a help screen and in the terrible web browser that is not your default. Use a program like AutoHotkey to rebind them to something useful […]
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tl;dr: No Even if you barely create content like taking photos and videos, you should consider avoid having the lowest storage capacity device. 128GB may be the lowest capacity these days for phones and some laptops. I understand that some people are really tight on their tech budget. You might ask yourself: “Should I pay
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Some of you might have multiple computers at your home like I do. I centralize a lot of my files on one computer. My devices like my laptop have limited space so I access files over the network. Using the Windows environment, there is one advantage that this OS does that happens to be better
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This is what I say the most when I am helping my dad with his tech questions. Sometimes, I accidentally click on something I didn’t intend to. There is a split second between realizing my error and my reflexes kicking in. This is what can be done (undone). Hold the click. Meaning don’t let go
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Sometimes I can’t find a solution to a problem. For this particular problem, I tried searching for an answer online and with ChatGPT, but I still couldn’t find a way to do this. Let’s say you are watching a YouTube video on your phone and there’s a product placement with a QR code to go
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Transferring 35TB of data from one system to another is something that doesn’t happen overnight. There are practical limits of transfer speeds. I know where bottlenecks occur, but it’s good to have real experience to see how data moves and figuring better ways to do it. From my benchmarking of the parity arrays I did
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Using your phone to pay at POS terminals has become a convenience people expect. But sometimes, even with your phone unlocked, you’ll be asked to verify with a fingerprint or PIN leaving you awkwardly fidgeting and retrying the tap. This happens because most Android phones’ face unlock isn’t considered secure enough for payments. Apple’s Face
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A single command wiped all my data: Get-VirtualDisk | Remove-VirtualDisk -Confirm:$false I blame Claude (An AI Chatbot). He told me to enter this into PowerShell.😭 My disaster recovery story I use the Windows Storage Spaces (WSS) to manage my data storage system. I have two pools and I transferred the data from one of my
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Back when I gamed a lot from my friends, there were some mini-games that surprisingly I would totally crush and take first place easily. These involved rapid clicking. On a gaming controller, the tip is to rub your fingernail over the button side-to-side and that happens to be a faster motion that triggers the button
Most of you know that powering a computer is not free. When a computer is on, it generates heat. What some people might not know is that the amount of energy a computer, laptop, tablet uses varies by usage. For example, your phone drains battery more when you use energy intensive functions like filming video,
