Changing file associations with Brave browser
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How to change and automatically open downloaded files based on extension in Brave browser? Here’s how I found to do it! Continue reading
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Installing Brave browser on Kubuntu 22.04
Fix: N: Skipping acquire of configured file ‘main/binary-i386/Packages’ as repository ‘https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease’ doesn’t support architecture ‘i386’ errors when installing Brave or other packages on recent Ubuntu / Kubuntu systems Continue reading
Oneplus 6 phone dialing issues
When your OP6 phone dialing dies, check this as a possible solution. Continue reading
snap + firefox made me angry
How to disable snap and reinstall mozilla firefox non-snap packages on Ubuntu Linux 22.04 and later Continue reading
Extremely useful .htaccess ReWrite validator
So as I was working on one of my many web projects, I needed / wanted a faster way to validate my Apache web servers URL rewrite rules. This site did the trick and worked great: https://htaccess.madewithlove.com/
JBL BAR 5.1 wireless soundbar firmware upgrade
A quick write up on how to successfully perform a firmware upgrade on a JBL 5.1 Soundbar with wireless speakers Continue reading
Microsoft Outlook 2016… Sigh…
As part of my day to day work I find my self forced into a Windows 7, Microsoft Office environment. This is already painful enough having to slog through the crippling security restrictions imposed on me by corporate InfoSec and … Continue reading
Epison scanners and Windows 10
Today, after the July 2018 Patch Tuesday session for my wife’s Surface tablet she started complaining about everything locking up and her computer crashing. This was a problem because she had a large number of documents to scan in, which … Continue reading
Disabling systemd-resolvd service on Ubuntu systems
What is systemd-resolved? systemd-resolved acts as a systemd based DNS proxy system which has intelligent request handling both from a D-BUS interface as well as a DNS server to intercept traditional network lookups. It performs this task by setting a … Continue reading
XPS 13 and M3800
So very recently my beloved 2013 era XPS 13 developer edition finally failed. The HID controller failed and that’s pretty much it for these things. As a result of this I ended up switching back to my spare laptop (well … Continue reading