All the undocumented weird configuration values that make stuff tick, even though they generally speaking likely shouldn’t. These articles mostly describe hacks you need to configure in the production environment directly.
Hopefully, there won’t be THAT many articles in this category… But I guess there will. I mean, what can you do?
Weird configuration hacks are there to stay, after all.
This article explains how to commit a crime so heinous Steve Jobs would throw a backflip in his grave: start using Outlook as the default mail app on your mac. But, as I’ve discovered is OFTEN the case with macs, changing default apps isn’t always as intuitive as you’d hope.…Continue reading How to set Outlook as Your default email client on a mac (because that’s definitely a totally sensible thing to do)
… if by “life”, you mean “absolutely everything you do in Windows 11”, that is. And Windows is life, right? And Narrator in Windows is a life saver for people with vision impairment, if they can’t afford a real screen reader (I know – that sounds heretical, like saying that…Continue reading How to disable Narrator.exe from narrating your life?
Reinstalling a Windows machine is always a lot of fun! And that’s why I’ve been more and more of my time doing just that. See, my most favorite pastimes over the last few months have been staring at System Restore failing, endless reboot loops, looking for lost Bitlocker keys and…Continue reading Clipboard History disabled – “This setting is managed by your organization?” | Easy fix!
This article explains how to tweak Windows Search so that it finds something. Or better yet – that it finds even the files that your applications are trying to HIDE from you (by storing your personal files under Application Data folder)! Microsoft is actively trying to hide these files from…Continue reading Windows Search not finding anything? That might be the default now, but you don’t need to accept it!
This article explains how to sensitively and carefully limit your Home Assistant’s database growth, without losing any valuable data. And because data is the new oil, pretty much all of the data is valuable. Who knows when you need to know whether your basement door was open or closed 1…Continue reading Taming my Home Assistant database growth
Just a quick tip I learned the hard way: if you want to host a website on GitHub Pages, make sure to only point the www-subdomain, and not the “naked”, apex domain, in case you’re using it for email mailboxes. I learned the hard way that the A records pointing…Continue reading Don’t assign root domain to GitHub Pages if you use it for email!
This article explains one possible fix to a problem you might have with Microsoft’s “Phone Link” app. Namely, the app might disappear and refuse to come back. Windows might even stop you from trying to re-enable it with an error along the lines of “Some of these settings are managed…Continue reading “Phone Link” permanently disabled and Windows claiming “Some of these settings are managed by your organization”? (Probably) an easy fix!
This article explains an issue that you probably shouldn’t run into – unless you’re doing something a bit dumb. Just like I was. Or still am. Namely, I really needed an app I registered in Entra ID to have multiple “app identifier URIs” for reasons that are not great, but…Continue reading How to add multiple app URIs for your Entra app registration?
Alright, so my months-long via dolorosa to achieve a functioning Windows workstation has now cost me a few weeks worth of hours of work and around $4000. And I’m finally at a point where I have Visual Studio working again, and I’m only missing some totally unimportant and irrelevant things…Continue reading How to fix Bitlocker failing to activate?
This article explains how to fix your template sensors, automations and other functionality that is broken by the 2024.4 update of the Home Assistant platform, where forecasts are removed from weather entities. Fixing the issue requires some YAML, and while you’ll loose debuggability and possibly encounter some performance hits and…Continue reading Home Assistant 2024.4 changes weather forecasts – what to do?
