Author: Randy Usegnu
Windows 11 Services to Disable
In the XDA Developers article ‘5 services I disabled to improve Windows performance’, the author demonstrates how turning off five unnecessary background services can free up CPU and memory, reduce disk thrashing, and speed up boot times. Services to disable How to disable Restart your PC to apply changes. You can re-enable any service at
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Asus ProArt P16 Boot Loop
If you have a Asus ProArt P16 (H7606) and get stuck with the blue screen at boot after a Windows 11 update, it is caused by a bad BIOS Firmware update. Windows 11 will install a bad firmware that causes a boot loop with the TPM 2.0 setting in the BIOS firmware. To fix this
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The Fascinating Legacy of Sears Catalog ‘Kit Homes’
A Revolution in Homeownership In the early 20th century, Sears, Roebuck and Company transformed the way Americans built and bought homes. Through its Sears Modern Homes catalog, the retail giant offered high-quality, mail-order house kits that allowed everyday people to construct their own homes—sometimes with the help of family and friends, much like traditional barn-raisings.
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Olympus Film Simulations
Kodak Portra 400 Film Simulation ISO400 WBSunny A+5 PictureMode Portrait G-4 Sharpness-2 Contrast0 Saturation+1 GradationNormal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf28owTkVxA&t=101s Fuji Superia 200 Film Simulation ISO200 WBCloudy A0 PictureMode Portrait G+7 Sharpness0 Contrast+2 Saturation+1 GradationHigh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0esr_7kP8c&t=322s Chrome Film Simulation ISOAuto WBSunny A+1 PictureMode Muted G+1 Sharpness0 Contrast-2 Saturation-2 GradationHigh Velvia Film Simulation ISOAuto WBSunny A+2 PictureMode Natural G+1 Sharpness0
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The Unshakable Power of Stupidity: Why History Keeps Repeating Itself
Take a moment and picture yourself standing on a mountaintop, looking down on the vast history of human civilization. From the mighty Roman Empire and ancient Persia to the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and beyond, you’d see empires rise like waves crashing on the shore—only to eventually fade into the sands of time. The
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2007-2015 Toyota Tacoma Wiring Diagrams
2007-2015 Toyota Tacoma Wiring Diagrams (EM03NOU) PDF Downlaod
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28 Unwritten Rules Of Being Poor
Always spend before saving.Never invest in self-education.Avoid financial literacy at all costs.Credit cards are free money.Buying items on sale is saving money, regardless of need.Ignore your debts, and they will disappear.Never plan or budget for your spending.Only the wealthy can invest.Big houses and flashy cars are a sign of success.Don’t have an emergency fund.Stick to
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The Hidden Truth Behind Everyday British Phrases
British communication can often feel like decoding a secret language, filled with subtle phrases and understated remarks that carry far more weight than they seem. To help you navigate these murky waters, here’s a comprehensive breakdown of what Brits really mean when they say the following: Final Thoughts Understanding these nuances of British communication is
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Megapixels: Do They Really Matter for Stunning Prints
Do Megapixels Really Matter for High-Quality Prints? Many photographers obsess over megapixel counts, believing more is always better. But does a higher megapixel camera truly guarantee better prints? Let’s explore the reality. Understanding Viewing Distance: A key factor in print quality is viewing distance. There is a simple formula: For example, a 24 x 36
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The Middle Class Dilemma
A System Designed to Keep You Trapped Modern society has perfected a system to maintain economic control over the majority while ensuring the stability of the elite. This system revolves around three critical pillars: the 9-to-5 work culture, a standardized education system, and pervasive debt. The 9-to-5 Work Trap Henry Ford’s introduction of the 40-hour
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The Hidden Truth: How Big Food Mirrors Big Tobacco’s Playbook
Big companies in the food industry, like Kraft and Kellogg’s, are using tricks similar to those tobacco companies used to get people hooked on their products. They design ultra-processed foods, like chips, sugary cereals, and frozen meals, to taste so good that people keep buying and eating them, even if they are unhealthy. These foods
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The Hidden Meat Industry Scandal: How Data Manipulation Raises Your Grocery Prices
This is one of the biggest food scandals of the 21st century. It involves a company called Agri Stats, which gathers secret data from the largest meat companies in the U.S., like Tyson and Hormel. They allegedly use this data to raise prices on chicken, pork, and turkey, making food more expensive for everyone while
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Greek Letters & Symbols
Oct Dec Hex HTML Α greek capital letter alpha 1621 913 0x391 Α Β greek capital letter beta 1622 914 0x392 Β Γ greek capital letter gamma 1623 915 0x393 Γ Δ greek capital letter delta 1624 916 0x394 Δ Ε greek capital letter epsilon 1625 917 0x395 Ε Ζ greek capital letter zeta 1626
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Random Equations
Trillion Dollar Equation Veritasium has a video on YouTube explaining it here. The Trillion Dollar Equation is a nickname for a mathematical formula that businesses use to understand how much money they can make from their customers over time. It helps predict a company’s growth by focusing on three main things: How many customers they
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Classic Sandwiches
Peanut Butter and Bacon Sandwich Beef Tongue Sandwich Olive and Cream Cheese Sandwich Grilled Spam and Pineapple Sandwich Deviled Ham Sandwich Egg and Olive Sandwich Cheese Dream Sandwich Fried Bologna Sandwich Hot Dog Sandwich Sloppy Joe Sandwich Pimento Cheese Sandwich Chipped Beef on Toast Sandwich Liver Worst Sandwich Pork Roll Sandwich Fluffernutter Sandwich Chow Mein
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Begging for money
Walking through Home Depot pushing a baby in a cart handing people a handwritten note asking for money to help feed her baby. Then when she gets kicked out, walks over to her husband waiting in the parking lot for her, holds the baby on her lap driving to the next store to beg for
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Using LUT’s with Darktable
Using the free LUT’s from on1.com you can load them into Darktable and apply the same way styles are applied. Below are examples of the LUT’s in the download.
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Synaptic touchpad on Manjaro
The Synaptic touchpad on Manjaro will stop responding and/or get glitchy after using it for about 10 minutes. You either have to press the F7 (toggle touchpad) key, so for a temporary fix I made a bash script to run xdotool to disable/enable the touchpad, then added it to a cron job to run every
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Olympus OM-D E-M10 Film Recipes
ChromeProfile MutedWhite Balance A+1 G+2RGB -2Shadow -2 EternaProfile MutedWhite Balance A+1 G+1RGB -2Shadow -2 VelviaProfile NaturalWhite Balance A+2 G+1RGB +1Shadow -4Highlight -2
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The 0x80070002 Error
The 0x80070002 ErrorWhile updating windows, it is possible to receive the 0x80070002 Error. As a result the update process will not be completed, and your computer will not be able to transmit files. The reason for your computer receiving the 0x80070002 Error is due to it not having all of the files that should have
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Full Frame to APS-C Conversions
Noise conversion from Full Frame to APS-C or MFT or 1 Inch camera sensors.An image on a Cannon APS-C camera with ISO of 1250 will have the same noise as ISO 3200 on a Full Frame sensor. This assumes that both sensors are the same type, so it may vary in real life use. APSC-C
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Add an alias to Manjaro KDE Konsole
The default Manjaro KDE terminal emulator is Konsole that uses zsh.To add an alias edit /usr/share/zsh/manjaro-zsh-config and add the alias like alias ll=’ls -l’
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How To Cook Rice
By: Denise Bustard https://sweetpeasandsaffron.com/how-to-cook-rice Showing you exactly how to cook rice with step by step photos! There are three important steps to ensure you get perfect, fluffy rice each and every time, whether you are making long grain white or brown rice. Rice is such a staple in our house, we eat it at least three
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Manjaro With Intel UHD 600
Option 1One option is to go to display settings and change the resolution, then change back to original. Option 2To permanently set the screen resolution get the needed information with: [user@Asus ~]$ cvt 1920 10801920×1080 59.96 Hz (CVT 2.07M9) hsync: 67.16 kHz; pclk: 173.00 MHzModeline “1920x1080_60.00” 173.00 1920 2048 2248 2576 1080 1083 1088 1120
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THE MEN WHO DITCHED THEIR GRASS LAWNS FOR CLOVER
Traditional grass lawns originated as a status symbol, but clover lawns are becoming the go-to choice for a cheap, climate-friendly yard that’s easy to maintain For years, having a two-story house with a mid-size SUV on the driveway and a lush, perfectly manicured lawn was the vision of success that kept Mark, 37, happy in his northern
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TopHat is a Nifty System Monitor for GNOME Shell
By Joey Sneddon · Updated 26 July 2022 Want to keep an eye on your system resources without pulling up a terminal or launching GNOME’s System Monitor tool? Check out TopHat. TopHat is a new system monitor GNOME extension that puts a top-level overview of active CPU, RAM, and network usages in the GNOME Shell top bar.
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Fedora 36 Tweaks
For file journaling check usage withsudo journalctl –disk-usage Change how much space is used for journaling by editing /etc/systemd/journald.conf and uncomment and change SystemMaxUse=50M Disable Spectre and Meltdown mitigationsEdit /etc/default/grub and add mitigations=off to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line then update grub with sudo update-grub Increase DNF update speedFirst update system with sudo dnf upgrade –refresh -y then
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Disabling Fedora ABRT notification
This was taken from https://robbinespu.gitlab.io/posts/disable-abrt-fedora/ Posted: May 15, 2019 | Reading time: 2 min⚠️ Warning: This post is over a year old, the information may be out of date. I dont like ABRT because it spamming my fedora system notification. It kinda disturbing me, so because of the MCE ABRT notification keep spamming, I suggest to
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Dehydrate Eggs For Longer Storage
Powdered Eggs-Dehydrate Eggs for Longer Storage Dehydrating / By Heather Harris When the days get longer, hens will naturally lay more eggs. If you have 12 hens, you could find yourself with nearly 6 dozen eggs each week. Unless you eat eggs for every single meal, that can add up. Storing them in the fridge is a
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Unigine on Solus Linux
Unigine Community 2 Universal real-time 3D Engine for creative enthusiastshttps://unigine.com/products/community/advantages/ Install the following: linux-headers-3.16.0-4-all gcc g++ make ccache libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libxrender-dev libxext-dev libx11-dev libglvnd-devel The following are not available: libopenal1 libc6-dev Then install Solus build packages: sudo eopkg it -c system.devel Make the file exectuable: chmod +x UNIGINE_SDK_Browser_Linux_1.9.33.run Run the file: ./UNIGINE_SDK_Browser_Linux_1.9.33.run Run the SDK
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Install Joplin on Solus
How to add the Joplin AppImage program on Solus OS Download the AppImage file to ~/.local/share/applications/ Make the file executable: chmod +x Joplin-2.5.10.AppImage Create link with system apps: sudo ln -s ~/.local/applications/Joplin-2.5.10.AppImage /usr/bin/joplin Create menu entry sudo nano /usr/share/applications/joplin.desktopWith the below lines: 2021.11.08 10:20
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1995 Honda Odyssey Owners Manual
Here is the link to the 1995 Honda Odyssey Owners Manual and Service Manual in PDF format. Owners Manual Service Manual
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Solus Automatic Time Fix
With Solus you can not set Automatic Date & Time, once you close the settings window it reverts back to off. Checking the NTP status as below it failed to load: systemd-timesyncd.service – Network Time SynchronizationLoaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2020-06-05 21:30:23 EDT; 3s agoDocs: man:systemd-timesyncd.service(8)Process: 3450 ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd
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Solus OS Boot Problems
My Predator Helos laptop has two video cards, one intel for low power consumption and one Nvidia 1660 Ti for gaming.I tried to use Optimus with bbswitch to switch between cards on demand automatically. When installing the bbswitch package it also installed the 4.9 lts kernel. Upon reboot I just get a blank screen with
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How To Make A Pumpkin Spice Latte At Home
The pumpkin spice latte – also known as the PSL – became a fall obsession as soon as it hit Starbucks in 2003. In just a decade, Starbucks reportedly sold more than 200 million cups of the pumpkin-flavored drink. The PSL took on a life of its own on social media with a hashtag, and
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How to Make Coffee Jelly
Ingredients 1/3 cup sugar, divided 1 tablespoons gelatin 2 cups hot strong coffee 1 teaspoon lemon juice 1 cup heavy cream 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract Instructions Reserve 1 tablespoon sugar and mix the remaining sugar and gelatin together thoroughly in a medium bowl. Add the hot coffee and lemon juice to the sugar and gelatin. Gently stir until the
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Request your military service records (including DD214)
Submit a military records request to get your DD214 or other military service records through the milConnect website. You’ll need to sign in to milConnect to get your military service records To use this feature, you’ll need a Premium DS Logon account. Your My HealtheVet or ID.me credentials won’t work on the milConnect website. Go to milConnect
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2020 Discovery Sport
NEW DISCOVERY SPORT $44,600.00 DISCOVERY SPORT SEP250 AWD AUTOMATIC BASE MSRP FROM * CONFIGURED OPTIONS TOTALTotal does not include any selected Accessories $9,268.00 Delivery Charge $995.00 TOTAL MSRP * $54,863.00 YOUR BUILD EXTERIOR $170.00 Fuji White $0.00 19″ Style 1039, 10 spoke, Gloss Sparkle Silver $0.00 Standard brake calipers $0.00 Body-colored roof $0.00 Privacy glass
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2020 JAGUAR XF
2020 JAGUAR XF $68,200.00 2020 XF SEDANXF SS AWD 3.0 liter V6 380HP Supercharged Gas (Automatic) All Wheel Drive BASE CONFIGURED OPTIONS TOTALTotal does not include any selected Accessories $5,579.00 Delivery Charge $995.00 GRAND TOTAL $74,774.00 YOUR BUILD EXTERIOR $985.00 Black Pack $375.00 Indus Silver $610.00 20″ 5 Split-Spoke ‘Style 5031’ with Dark Grey Diamond
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Reset 2016 Evoque Service Due Warning
To manually reset the “Service Due” warning follow the steps below: Turn on the ignition (only press the start button without pressing the brake) Open the hood Open the driver door Fully press the brake and gas pedal together for 60 seconds Turn off the ignition Close the hood and driver door To check if
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Reset 2016 Jaguar XF Service Due Warning
To manually reset the “Service Due” warning follow the steps below: 1. Turn on the ignition (only press the start button without pressing the brake) 2. Open the hood 3. Open the driver door 4. Fully press the brake and gas pedal together for 60 seconds 5. Turn off the ignition 6. Close the hood
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Install GNOME Shell Extensions Manually
It’s not that you have to be always online to install GNOME Shell extensions. You can download the files and install it later, without needing internet. Go to GNOME Extensions website and download the extension with the latest version. Extract the downloaded file. Copy the folder to ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions directory. Go to your Home directory and
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Use Optimus in Fedora 30 on Predator Helios 300
NVIDIA Optimus is an optimization technology created by NVIDIA which, depending on the resource load generated by client software applications, will transparently and seamlessly switch between two graphics adapters within a computer system in order to provide either maximum performance or minimum power draw from the system’s graphics rendering hardware. From Bumblebee’s FAQ: Bumblebee is
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Fedora 30 Slow To Boot On Predator Helios 300
With a fresh install of Fedora 30 on the Acer Predator Helios 300 (PH-315-52-7BVL) boot hangs at “A start job is running for udev Wait for Complete Device Initialization“. To check to see what is taking so long to boot run: sudo systemd-analyze blame The problem is with “i2c-nvidia-gpu“. To disable this create the file
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Installing Linux on Acer Predator Helios 300
This has not been tried yet, use at own risk Installing Ubuntu Attach a second Screent to HDMI port At BIOS, you can disable Secureboot In BIOS, switch the touchpad from Advanced to Basic Install Ubuntu 18.04 from a Stick or USB CD-ROM with the Nouveau Drivers Two screens work out of the box Install
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Acer Aspire E 15 Video Card Test
Acer Aspire E 15, 15.6″ Full HD, 8th Gen Intel Core i3-8130U, 6GB RAM Memory, 1TB HDD, 8X DVD, E5-576-392H Running Fedora 30
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Range Rover Evoque: Interior Light Locations
Interior lights locations 1. Sun visor lamps. Illuminates when the vanity mirror is opened. 2. Map reading lamps. Move a finger close to (or touch) the relevant lens to switch on/off. Note: If you are wearing gloves, it may be necessary to touch the lens to operate the lamps. 3. Front interior lamp. Illuminates when
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RPM Packages Explained
Perhaps the best known way the Fedora community pursues its mission of promoting free and open source software and content is by developing the Fedora software distribution. So it’s not a surprise at all that a very large proportion of our community resources are spent on this task. This post summarizes how this software is
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Getting Gnome-Software to work in Fedora 30
Sometimes when opening gnome-software nothing will be displayed like below: To get gnome-software to reload and work again, open a terminal and just type “killall gnome-software” then open gnome-software again.
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Setting up a Bluetooth Controller for Linux Gaming
Setting up a Bluetooth Controller for Linux GamingPosted by LordDaveTheKind, 24 January 2019 at 9:34 pm UTC | Views: 10,611 Recently I solved an issue for setting up my Wireless (via Bluetooth) controller on Steam for Linux, and decided to elaborate a little better about my experience, and share my results and observations with you all. The controller I
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