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GeraldS‭

Sysadmin working with Linux and Windows servers, VMware vSphere, Docker, Ansible, Atlassian.

Veeam Certified Engineer 2023

Programming history with Basic, Pascal, C, C++, C#, PHP. Currently most work is done in Bash, Powershell and Python. I started learning Rust.

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Q&A Code blocks on mastodon

TLDR: It requires an instance running a special software The toot in question was posted on the instance wetdry.world, which, as of now, is running Mastodon v4.5.0-alpha.1+chuckya. chuckya is, ...

posted 8mo ago by GeraldS‭

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Q&A Does sending a picture in high quality still compress the image in Telegram?

Sort of. I sent an image to myself and checked the received images on my PC. File Size Resolution Compression1 Original image 1.49 MB 4080x3072 95% HQ sent image 401 kB...

posted 6mo ago by GeraldS‭

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Q&A How can I add an audio track to my YouTube video?

The second screenshot you show isn't step 4, it's step 3, "Click the video you'd like to edit". It doesn't mean "click the checkmark next to it", it means you to open it (by clicking on the name or...

posted 8mo ago by GeraldS‭ · edited 8mo ago by GeraldS‭

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Q&A Why is the efficiency mode option greyed out in Task Manager, and how can I turn off efficiency mode for Brave and Chrome?

The menu entry to enable/disable efficiency mode is greyed out when the program in question has more than one process, indicated by the number of processes in parentheses behind the program name, i...

posted 8mo ago by GeraldS‭

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Q&A How do I enlarge inbox text in Thunderbird?

There are options to increase/decrease the font size directly in the view menu. They affect everything, including the message list and they are applied instantly, no restart required. But they a...

posted 7mo ago by GeraldS‭

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Q&A How to deal with self-signed certificates in household devices

I use my personal certificate authority (CA) for this. Using easy-rsa it's easier than it sounds. There are tons of tutorials for this, so I just summarize it: install easy-rsa, it comes with e...

posted 2d ago by GeraldS‭ · edited 2d ago by GeraldS‭

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Q&A Problems accessing disks from a Synology NAS from a Linux PC

My Synology DS220+ died and I decided that the successor will be a DIY system. Now I'm trying to access the data from the disks that were used in the NAS. Every tutorial, blog post, forum post I f...

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Q&A Problems accessing disks from a Synology NAS from a Linux PC

As it turns out my problem was two-fold. One problem was my USB SATA adapter, after I got hands on a computer where I could attach the disks directly they showed up with the proper sizes and I got ...

posted 3mo ago by GeraldS‭ · edited 3mo ago by GeraldS‭

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Q&A I want to delete or shrink huge files that take a lot of space on hard drive

You can't delete them directly, but you can disable/configure the features in Windows. hiberfil.sys is related to hibernation and usually has the size of the memory installed in the machine. If yo...

posted 1mo ago by GeraldS‭ · edited 1mo ago by GeraldS‭

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Q&A I got a "Website NFC Tag" alert on iPhone. How do I see what URL it will send me to, safely? (Potential for 0day in iOS?)

You can use an app like URL Checker. It allows you to validate and check an URL for malicious intents before opening them in an actual browser. You can find it in the app store, I'm using somethin...

posted 7mo ago by GeraldS‭

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Q&A What are best practices for keeping my blog in version control repository (Wordpress in a git repo)?

IMO there is no benefit in managing a WordPress installation with SCM, as long as it is in backup. You write your own theme or own plugins, of course, use SCM to manage them (one repository per th...

posted 6mo ago by GeraldS‭ · edited 6mo ago by GeraldS‭

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Q&A what is msteamsupdate.exe

It updates MS Teams. If you block internet access for it, you won't receive updates for Teams anymore and will be vulnerable to security issues. If you don't use Teams you could however just unins...

posted 6h ago by GeraldS‭ · edited 6h ago by GeraldS‭

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