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Windows

How to Disable Automatic Updates Using Group Policy for Windows 11

Samsung

How to check the Battery Health of your Samsung phone

If you want to figure out the battery health and number of charge cycles your device has so far (good to determine if a battery replacement is needed or when buying a preowned/refurbished one), you can do the following

VR

Virtual Reality: What to Expect in the Coming Years

Virtual reality (VR) technology has come a long way in recent years, and it's only going to continue to evolve and improve.

AI

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Future of Work

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a topic of much discussion in recent years, with some experts predicting that it will revolutionize the way we live and work. But what exactly is AI and how will it impact the future of work?

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Router

Restoring the factory firmware on your router (TP-Link)

Windows

Creating a symbolic link (junction) on Windows

Sometimes you want to move larger program folders to a larger drive in order to save space while preserving the original path. This can be achieved by running the following command (ensure that the source folder has been moved to the destination already): mklink /J C:\[SRC FOLDER PATH] D:

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Appreciate the support!

Depending on where you are, hope you had an awesome Thanksgiving holiday and got some great Black Friday deals. You may have noticed recently that membership is required for some posts now and I'm experimenting with some paid options as well starting at $1 a month - do

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Apple

Compatibility of ASUS routers and Apple devices

UWB

Phones/Devices with UWB (Ultra-wideband)

What's ultra-wideband (UWB)? It's a radio which utilizes a very low energy level for short range, high bandwidth communications. This would allow you to pinpoint exact location of other phones, key fobs or tracking tags, and more. Real world applications can also include determining where you

Fix

Fixing Audio Issues on TWS Earbuds

I got my hands on the QCY QS2 wireless earbuds a couple months back and noticed the audio to be rather quiet out of the box. This was the case even at higher volume levels. If you have a device that runs Android then the following may resolve your issue!

Apple

macOS Catalina Deleted My Files

I had quite a scare after the update recently and it turns out Apple decided to move any user created folders that resided on the root of the drive to /Users/Shared/Relocated Items/Security A safer option would be to have them in your user directory instead. You can

Fix

Fix Choppy 4K Videos on VLC

Just the other day, I tried playing some 2160p sample files and noticed occasional stuttering during playback. This was rather odd since the player is automatically GPU accelerated by default, so lack of computing problem wasn't the case. It looks like depending on the encoding of the video

SSL

Let's Encrypt Certificate Renewals (TLS-SNI-01 Validation)

If you've set up Let's Encrypt certificates in the past, you would've most likely received emails indicating that action is required in order to prevent upcoming renewals from breaking (starting Feb. 13, 2019). Depending on your deployment, you can test against their staging environment

Holiday

Season's Greetings

Happy holidays to everyone who stopped by this year and I wish you all the best for 2019! Here's a couple fun stats - for 2018, there were: * Nearly 5K unique pageviews * Nearly 3 minutes, on average, was spent on a page * 35% of visitors who used Google

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Work

Integrating Your App with Zapier

Slack

Opinion: Is Slack worse than having a company phone?

This can be said for any other team chat platform, as this was something I've always been wondering. Alerts overload or too many messages during off hours? Under the same Notifications section as above, there's a Do not disturb area where you can set quiet hours.

Cloud

Cloud (VPS) Hosting Compared

Over these past couple years, I've tried a fair number of cloud server providers to get a better idea how feasible each one of them are. To be clear, we're going to cover hosting for more general use cases opposed to solutions that are more geared

Apple

DIY Laptop Repair (MacBook Pro, 13-inch)

I noticed the keys on my laptop haven't been as "clicky" since I got it and due to the design of the more recent Apple MacBook Pro keyboard (mainly 2016 & 2017 models as they share a similar design), any particles that get trapped between the

Opinion

Opinion: VAR for Soccer

You may remember a short blurb I wrote on GLT ages ago but now we've come a long way since that was deployed. For those unfamiliar with this, VAR is short for Video Assistant Referee and allows review of calls on whether they are warranted for a penalty

Travel

Staying Connected While Travelling (Asia Edition)

Living in a country with some of the most expensive celluar data plans in the world, I was shocked to discover the plethora of options available abroad where plans are better in every aspect especially when it came to cost and amount of data you were getting. Japan You can

Announcement

Celebrating Five Years

It's been quite an amazing journey and to realize that it has been that long since my first blog post (despite being absent for all of 2017 ). I want to express my deepest gratitude for all the family/friend support and the readers that stopped by! I'

Wear OS

Wear OS Adventure (with Battery Saving Tips!)

It first started with backing the Pebble 2 HR around May 2016. Then come around November of the same year I received my unit and was thoroughly pleased with it. Literally two days after, came news of Pebble shuttering and with Fitbit coming in to pick up the pieces. By

Opinion

Opinion: The State of Crowdfunding

Back from a super long hiatus, I really want to share my thoughts on the current state of crowdfunding and what I observed from the goods I received over the past three or so years. Here's a quick category breakdown based on the type of projects that were

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Windows

Disable Automatic Updates Using Group Policy (Windows 10)

Linux

SSH Key Setup

Premise Sometimes connections requires a password or a really long command, so by adding your public key to the server you can just do something like: ssh user@123.45.67.89 Then you would be connected with no password prompt. Notes You may have already generated a public key,