Tag: Tweaks

RaspberryPi with PiHole

Randy Usegnu

Building a High-Performance Raspberry Pi 5 Home Server & NAS This guide covers the full setup of a Raspberry Pi 5 (8GB) acting as a Network Attached Storage (NAS) and a network-wide ad-blocker (Pi-hole). 1. Hardware Overview & Initialization The Raspberry Pi 5 is a significant upgrade, featuring the Cortex-A76 architecture. Initial Identification To check

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Windows Registry Hacks

Randy Usegnu

Think of the Windows Registry as the “Brain” or the master settings book of your computer. While most people change settings using the standard menus, the Registry lets you go “under the hood” to change things that are usually hidden. ⚠️ A Quick Warning The Registry is very powerful. If you change the wrong thing,

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Windows 11 Services to Disable

Randy Usegnu

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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Synaptic touchpad on Manjaro

Randy Usegnu

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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