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Archive for November, 2024

Summer 2024: Our audit of Homebrew | Trail of Bits Blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/04

In the summer of 2024, something interesting happened in the Homebrew world: [Wayback/Archive] Our audit of Homebrew | Trail of Bits Blog.

This is really cool, while not only it caused some fixes of by then unknown issues, but also improved the various processes that already made Homebrew such a great tool by focusing on these aspects:

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How to check if your device meets Windows 11 system requirements after changing device hardware

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/04

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] How to check if your device meets Windows 11 system requirements after changing device hardware

Press Windows logo key + or select Search, type pc health check, and select PC Health Check from the list of results.

The trick os to install and run the above tool:

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Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11 | Leave a Comment »

Kris auf chaos.social: “Fernfusion?” -> Fernfusion!

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/01

[Wayback/Archive] Kris: “@Natanox @moranaga Lizenz: do whatever you want with it…” – chaos.social

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My E61 BMW dashboard showed a yellow icon with a car on a lift: it meant the battery was running low

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/01

DIY resetting service "due" lights… - Page 5 - BMW 1 Series Coupe Forum / 1  Series Convertible Forum (1M / tii / 135i / 128i / Coupe / Cabrio /  Hatchback) (BMW E82 E88 128i 130i 135i)It looks like my E61 needs the battery to be charged at least every few weeks. Need to figure out why.

If I don’t, then the light on the right shows.

At first I thought this might be a key-fob issue (which was also running low on batteries), but that is a different icon. A few weeks later without using the car, date and time in the car were being reset, so it is definitely a car battery charge issue.

Some links:

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