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Turn off Spatial Audio from a Mac

Open Control Center Control Center is the stacked "switch off" over "switch on" icon usually immediately to the left of the Calendar / Clock On a Mac, Fn+C will open it With your headphones connected, selected as the audio output, and audio playing: Click the icon that is a triangle with "waves" coming out of it Change "Spatialize Stereo" to "Off" My thanks to xiaopingwow in Apple Discussions.…

Force Wifi 6E / Wifi 7 to use 6 GHz on Windows 11

Windows will sometimes use a stronger 2.4 or 5 GHz connection instead of the weaker but faster 6 GHz. To force 6 GHz: Open Device Manager Under Network adapters, find your Wi-Fi adapter It will likely say "Wi-Fi 6E" or "Wi-Fi 7" or similar in the name Right click on the adapter -> Properties Advanced tab, find Preferred Band in the Property list Select Prefer 6GHz band Once the network connection…

Handy Linux basics

Extension Manager (com.mattjakeman.ExtensionManager) Ease local management of Gnome extensions Mission Center (io.missioncenter.MissionCenter) Windows-style task manager Setup a keyboard shortcut to ctrl-shift-esc Piper (org.freedesktop.Piper or dnf install) Open source utility for managing Logitech mice

RegEdit paths to change to when removing OneDrive

Pull out the references to OneDrive from: Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

Removing Copilot from Microsoft Office apps

Using GPO to disable Copilot does not remove it from Office apps. To remove it from Office apps: Disable using Copilot (do this once) File -> Account Click Manage Settings button Uncheck "Experiences that analyze your content" Or uncheck "All connected experiences", but this turns off propagating "account privacy settings across devices". Disable Copilot button (do this in every app) File ->…

Disable OneDrive and Copilot in Windows 11 Pro using GPO

Make sure you have any files you want copied someplace that isn't a OneDrive folder. OneDrive will try to move files, but it may not succeed. Sign out of OneDrive Uninstall OneDrive Open the group policy editor (GPO) GPO -> Local Computer Policy -> Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> OneDrive Prevent OneDrive from generating network traffic until...: Enabled…

Disable Wifi power saving

I haven't had good luck with wifi powersaving on Linux. To turn it off if you're using NetworkManager: sudo vi /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/wifi-powersave-off.conf Add: [connection] 2 is disable, 3 is enable wifi.powersave = 2 My thanks to jcberthon .

Trying to install Linux on an Asus Zephyrus M16 GU603?

Many many thanks to u/da1ciau's reddit post .

Running Signal using distrobox on Silverblue

There is no official Signal build for Fedora. One can use an unofficial RPM or an unofficial FlatPak, but the only official build is for Debian. Distrobox should let us run Signal in a Debian container. Unfortunately, Distrobox is not included in Silverblue. It must be installed with rpm-ostree. One can use similar commands with toolbox, but it does not easily create a working Signal…

Disable predictive text on macOS 26

Settings -> Keyboard -> Input Sources (under Text Input) -> Edit... Remove anything undesired. Thanks to bmike on Stack Exchange.