I just got an ASUS Zenbook 14 and installed Fedora, but on boot the function row on the keyboard works as F1-F12, rather than as volume/media and other system function keys. I went into the UEFI and found the only option to customise is to just completely disable media keys and then stumbled upon this […]
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[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Note: This may also be seen as error: “Ive_destroy: destroy operations are not allowed from LVE context” in kernel logs/on the hypervisor KVM.[/box] I came across this error on a couple of new CloudLinux 8 servers running Plesk encountering users with newly imported/backup restored users from entering cagefs, with this error
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I recently encountered this error on a new server, and it turned out it was a result of a mismatch between the PHP version selected within Plesk and the PHP version in the CloudLinux PHP Selector. To resolve this, ensure that the correct PHP version is selected under both by heading to the PHP: And
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[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Tested on an ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED running Windows 11 22H2[/box] The Apple Magic Trackpad 2 is hands down the best wireless trackpad on the market, and is arguably better than most trackpads that come built into Windows laptops. Fortunately, it’s relatively easy to get it working on a PC. Whilst
[box type=”warning” align=”” class=”” width=””]Please note this guide now uses a fork of the official MTProxy software. The official version is unmaintained (no updates in 5 years), and there is a bug from 2019 that remains unfixed and makes using MTProxy on newer Ubuntu releases difficult. The fork used is the most popular on GitHub
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Note: April 8th 2022. This may no longer work. It worked at the time of writing, but my printers keep coming up again now. Modern GNOME based distros automatically discover and install printers on your network and there’s no easy way to disable this. In the past disabling cups-browsed was enough, but we also now need to
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Out of the box Fedora applies organisation management to Chromium based browsers, and while heading to chrome://policy doesn’t show any policies even being applied (the only one has Error as its status), browsers such as Brave will prevent you from enabling Secure DNS as long as organisation management policies are enabled showing the message “This
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My laptop has issues with coil whine, resulting in me needing to disable Intel Turbo Boost. I usually use a GNOME Extension like CPU Power Manager but at the time of writing that extension isn’t compatible with GNOME 40, and isn’t much use for non-GNOME users. Firstly elevate to sudo with sudo -i, then: nano
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Timeshift works fine on Fedora, but with a little bit of tweaking. Elevate to sudo with sudo -i, then install Timeshift with: dnf install timeshift -y Next find the name of the partition you want to use Timeshift on by running lsblk. On my laptop (ThinkPad X390) it is under nvme0n1 -> nvme0n1p3 > luks-xxxx…
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This error is fairly simple to fix. There is no 64-bit Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 provider, so you simply need to set the Application Pool for the site in question to 32-bit and the error should go away. To do this: Open the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager GUI Click on Application Pools on the left-hand side Then
