Laptop RAM is a pain point for me. I’ve inexplicably never had a RAM upgrade work right out of the box for a laptop… Maybe I’m just unlucky. I’ve never had this happen on desktop though. Part 1: HP Envy x360 This starts with an HP Envy x360 Laptop (15m-dr1012dx). The device came with 12GB of DDR4 RAM at 2666MHz. (A 4GB and 8GB stick) ...
When I made this blog back in April of 2022, I just used it for random rants, and that is still what I intend to use it for. However, posting on it was a pain as the old one used Docsify. Wasn’t a problem with Docsify though, as the name implies, its for documentation, not blogs. You can see the old implementation here. At one point I even talked about switching to Ghost in a post, and decided not to. Later down the line, on the 27th of October 2023, I decided to switch to Ghost. No regrets. ...
I was always willing to be reasonable until I had to be unreasonable. Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things. — Marvin Heemeyer This first started when I went to buy an HD movie. Hitman: Agent 47 to be specific. I love the Hitman series. I’ve bought and played them all on Epic Games. The movie trailer, in case you are interested. ...
This is pretty quick and easy { "supress_first_run_page": { "Value": true } } Spaces, newlines, and tabs do not matter. Capitalization does. More details on this process are here, and how to get to extension settings is here Why this exists? No documentation on disabling AdBlock Plus’ first run page exists. I believe this is maliciously intentional. On a tangent, did you know its AdBlock plus is practically useless anyway? They’ve been bribed by almost every major advertiser to whitelist their ads. Deploy uBlock Origin for better control over your organization’s ad blocking policies.
Some extensions can justify it, but not many In my school district, we force deploy Adblock Plus to all student and staff devices. We do this because many ads in this day and age can be downright malicious to end users. In addition, they can impede the usage of sites. While I don’t like Adblock Plus for many reasons, (Later post perhaps) this is downright awful on some devices, mainly the ones we have in carts, which reset every time they are closed, to wipe student logins. Standard practice for shared Chromebooks. The issue arises where Adblock Plus has a “first run” page, which runs every time the extension is installed. This page has an unnecessary loading page (Chrome already handles installing extensions, this is just useless) and after “loading” it then proceeds to beg for donations. ...
My laptop is an HP Envy x360 DR1012DX - I can’t promise this will work on your device. After only finding a .exe as a BIOS update option on the HP driver list for my laptop, I had to find a solution for Linux. This might be a short post, as I just want to document the way I did it for anyone else that might be struggling to do this. ...
I am hoping to begin a series of working on the R910. These articles will range from very short to pretty long. Anyway, Lets get started! Getting the BIOS I have started by creating a USB stick formatted with FAT16, as this appears to be the only format the BIOS updater can read. The BIOS is available at the Dell Website, and I have downloaded it to the USB and named it BIOS.exe (Despite being a Windows executable, this seems to be the file format the updater wants) ...
Warning: Tampering with a device you do not own is a Federal crime. Charges can be pressed SH1MMER is an exploit to unenroll Chromebooks from enterprise management. Upon investigating, I found it affects the new Chromebooks my district just bought, so this blog will try to detail the process we do to secure them more. It’s not perfect, because SH1MMER is a hardware exploit from what I understand, and there are currently only software patches. ...
Space Station 14 can be compared to Among Us, to someone who has never played, If you thought Among Us was hectic, it is nothing compared to SS14. Oftentimes, imposters are the least of your concern, and the worst is other players incompetence in running the place. So what is this? Space Station 14 is a hectic imposter/management game where you take on the role of someone trying to keep a failing station going, all while things are made worse by sabotage or incompetence. There are several roles you can choose from: ...
This is not a guide on how to recover data from Optane, I was never able to figure it out Now don’t get me wrong, Optane seems pretty cool - coming from the video Intel gives about it. My laptop came with it installed, and I had no issues with it! But when it comes to getting data off it - oh boy… you are in for a treat. ...