Honey, I Shrunk the qcow2: A “Guide” to Dealing With Oversized Proxmox VM Disks

Hello beautiful peoples! “Guide” is an overstatement. I’ll tell you what I fucked up and how I fixed it (for my own records and future…

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USB Selective Suspend Setting: Enabled or Disabled? Microsoft Confusing the BeeGeeses Out of Me…

Hello beautiful peoples! You open Power Options in the Control Panel, dig into Advanced power settings, and find “USB selective suspend setting” with the value…

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[UPDATED] Plans have now changed. I _MAY_ not be going back to Pure Telecom after I switch to Vodafone.

EDIT / UPDATE: CLICK HERE AND READ! I… What Just Happened… I… Might Actually Get The Superfast Broadband… Tomorrow? Emotional Roller Coaster… 💖Pure Telecom Again?…

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[Updated Again 25/10/2026] I Wrote A GMail SMTP Relay Postfix Setup Script So That You Don’t Have To!

Hello beautiful peoples! Setting up an e-mail relay can be a pain in the backside… so I wrote a script that will make this task…

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How I Run Linux GUI Apps With WSL2 on Windows.

Hello beautiful peoples! After I have installed WSL 2 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS in Windows 11 I like to do the initial setup and then I…

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How _I_ _am_ installing WSL 2 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS in Windows 11.

Hello beautiful peoples! Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a feature of Windows that allows you to run a Linux environment directly on Windows. It’s…

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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Samba (SMB) share. Nice and easy.

Hello beautiful peoples! Today I will show You how to configure Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with Samba (SMB) share that’s read and write capable. Wait wait…

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Proxmox does not like Wayland. How to switch back to Xorg in Ubuntu?

Hello beautiful peoples! I have installed Ubuntu 22.04.3 in the Proxmox VM and after initial setup I tried changing resolution to 1920 x 1080 using…

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Why can’t I close mc / mcedit in Ubuntu with F10 keyboard shortcut? And how to fix it.

Hello beautiful peoples! I love mc / mcedit. At some stage of my life that was my favourite file manager and text editor and so…

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