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It hasn't been an especially good couple of weeks. I've suffered couple hardware failures. One of my recent posts is about 13 year old SSD getting a retirement . There are other hardware failures waiting for a write-up. A Linux gets security updates every once in a while. I have two boxes with a bleeding/cutting edge distro. The obvious difference between those is, that a "bleeding" edge is so new…
With this DALL-E 3 created image of Santa Claus' "cloud service" I'd like to wish you all Merry Christmas! AI image generation has taken a leap forward since my last year's card . This time even an abstract concept is understood and can be visualized in a picture I could fine-tune into my liking. Bonus : When thinking a random word like " christmas ", Spotify has 174188 albums and 783892 songs…
I had an opportunity to take a trip to India. My employer is expanding in Bengaluru and I went there to get a good look&feel how things are there. From this trip, I'll share some pics: For a Finn, there is lots of people and traffic. In traffic the constant 24/7 honking of horn is something I won't miss. If Azure is down, your initial guess might be the electric grid next to Microsoft office . For…
In Stack Overflow Developer Survey, 2024 there was a question (I'm paraphrasing here): As a part of your work, how many years have you coded professionally? (NOT including education) Today, this date, my answer is 30! For this achievement, I'm awarding myself an AI-generated trophy. This is an uncommon achievement. Looking at 2025 statistics of developer coding years (including education): The…
Like the Dire Straits song says: " I want my ESU! " Or maybe I remember the lyrics wrong. 14th Oct came and went and I'm still not able to get my Windows 10 into Extended Support Updates -program. What gives!? I meet all the criteria, but no avail. Apparently they changed something in license agreement and I haven't approved that yet. Going to my Microsoft Account: There I'm first greeted by a…
Yeah, Windows 10 still end-of-lifed and not getting any updates. Can you guess what happened next: There were six new security updates. Let me repeat: after not getting any, I got 6! That's what I'd call inconsistent. Pressure is still high. After installing those security updates and rebooting: After login, I didn't get a login. Instead, there was a force-fed dialog on Windows 11 upgrade. No…
Today is 14th Oct 2025. End of support for the last version of Windows . Good thing is, I can go for a paid support model, Extended Security Updates (ESU). Oh wait! The text says: "Enrollment for Windows 10 Extended Security Updates will be coming soon." Looks like I'm not alone with this problem. "Enrolment for Windows 10 Extended Security Updates will be coming soon." still showing up not even a…
My beloved ISP whom I love to hate has finally ... after all the two decades of waiting ... in Their infinite wisdom ... decided to grant us mere humans, humble payers of their monthly bills a native IPv6 . This is easily a day I thought would never happen. Like ever. Eight years ago, when I was living in Stockholm, I had proper and good IPv6. There is a blog post of that with title Com Hem…
The heat is on. Microsoft is already tightening thumb-screws. See my post from last month on that. It's time to upgrade your PC before end of support End of support for Windows 10 arrives on October 14th, 2025, Ths means your PC won't receive technical support or security updates after that date. Get Windows 11 to stay up to date. Microsoft recommends Windows 11 for your PC Moving to Windows 11 a…
Trouble Operating multiple physical computers is a chore. Things do happen, especially at times when you don't expect any trouble. On a random Saturday morning, an email sent by a system daemon during early hours would look something like this: The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], FAILED SMART self-check. BACK UP DATA NOW! Device info: SAMSUNG…
Solar panel, photovoltaic system, solar generator. These babies have many names. There are three of 505 watt panels on my roof. Besides the ones in the picture, I do have more panels. This is just my 1500W on sunrise side. Having micro-inverters works well for east-west -installations. Conversation around solar panels is constantly bubbling. Lot of discussion, not so much facts. Plenty of opinions…
This is what's happening in my system tray: Blue is an optional update indicator. Yellow or orange indicate security patches. This is what happens when I click the update icon: Pretty good advertisement space! Also, additional updates include: I have zero intention to upgrade. If Windows 11 had anything better or something I'd ever need, I'd already be running the darned thing. As it's just a…
On my Arch, I was doing the basic update with pacman -Syu . There was an announcement on linux-6.15.5.arch1-1 . Nice! Aaaaaand it failed. (75/75) checking for file conflicts [####################] 100% error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad103 exists in filesystem linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad104 exists in…
Long time no post. I've been busy doing tons of stuff at work, at home and elsewhere. Had very little time to post. Now that summer vacation is there, I finally have availability to do some posting. Four years ago I got a really fast connection . The reason why I moved ages ago was to get a fiber Internet connection (also there was the obvious need for more space). Now that my beloved ISP has more…
For messaging, there are plenty of choices. I must admit, my thinking is similar to criminals: the less any government knows about me and my messaging, the better. Today, full anonymity is gone. Really, really bad actors were staying below law enforcement radar, and now those really good ones for messaging are gone. So, I'm doing what Mr. Snowden does and am using Signal daily. For governments to…