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Wireguard causes strange problems if its MTU setting is the “default”. Lower it to 1280, because otherwise you have things like SSH hanging while fetching from a Git repository! If…

These instructions apply to Windows. We use hg-git, which is installed by default with TortoiseHg version 7.0.1. Note that with a previous version we had problems, so it is necessary…

VirtualBox on Windows 11 will run VMs with the “Green Turtle” icon, at a very reduced speed, unless some steps are made (which may also reduce Windows 11 security). Having…

Here are a few notes about supplying external power to the Canon EOS R8 mirrorles camera. Canon sells a “fake battery” adapter which uses a 220V power supply, but the…

Finding the correct configuration for using a virtual machine for running the Yocto builds is not easy – and for other things also. I have a new laptop, a ThinkPad…

The reason for this is very simple. MBR partitions do not work above 2 TB. I had (long story…) a 2 TB NTFS partition on a 4 TB USB hard…

Short version: do not use a default network printer. LibreOffice is very slow opening UI dialogs, such as “Format”. I am using version 7.4.1.2 (x64) on Windows 7, but it…

When passing arbitrary strings as parameters for some function, you may be tempted to do it using a path component, which can be decoded easily with Django. Do not do…

In case you have code running on a Texas Instruments C2000 processor, and you have to identify the specific processor in the code itself. 1. Read register 0x0882. This register…