Lesson learned: buy more silent fans and (if you dare) better water cooling: [Wayback/Archive] This over-engineered IKEA hack got out of hand! – YouTube
--jeroen
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You don’t need an over-engineered IKEA cabinet hack to silence your PC
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/11
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Important to defeat Twitter wrongly auto-guessing of URLs (and assuming anything with @ or # is a mention or hashtag) is Nelson’s Weblog: tech / zero-width-space
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/11
Quoting in full from [Wayback/Archive] Nelson’s Weblog: tech / zero-width-space to demonstrate a zero-width-space problem with WordPress too.
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Should be easy to put in a Bookmarklet: Archive.is blog — What is the long version of the url please. …
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/10
[Wayback] Archive.is blog — What is the long version of the url please. …
Click on “share” button to see different forms of linking to a page.
For example
https://archive.vn/Aoans/share
So there are two tricks:
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Installing WhatsApp Desktop from the Console
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/09
Related to WhatsApp Desktop for Mac or PC cannot only chat but also voice and video call: installing WhatsApp from the command-line.
That was easy to do via winget:
c:\temp>winget install -e --id WhatsApp.WhatsApp Found WhatsApp [WhatsApp.WhatsApp] Version 2.2222.12 This application is licensed to you by its owner. Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages. Downloading https://web.whatsapp.com/desktop/windows/release/x64/WhatsAppSetup.exe ██████████████████████████████ 145 MB / 145 MB Successfully verified installer hash Starting package install... Successfully installed
This was a while ago, so the version number by now is dated, but it is about the command winget install -e --id WhatsApp.WhatsApp
Via:
- [Wayback/Archive] whatsapp desktop microsoft store – Recherche Google
- [Wayback/Archive] WhatsApp Desktop – Microsoft Store Apps which shows one of the IDs at the end of the URL:
https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/whatsapp-desktop/9NKSQGP7F2NH - [Wayback/Archive] Download and install WhatsApp with winget which shows the easier to use ID that I used above.
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Linkjes rondom Macrogol: die van Ratiopharm verdraag ik het beste.
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/08
Eerst eveven een inleiding: waarom gebruik ik Macrogol en waarom deze post juist nu?
De TL;DR: ik heb ontlastingsklachten na veel ingrepen vanwege uitgezaaide endeldarmkanker. Macrogol helpt de ontlasting beter van consistentie te krijgen.
In 2023 testte ik 4 verschillende fabrikanten vanwege een beleidswijziging van de verzekeraar (wat hen veel geld kostte en mij veel tijd), wat achteraf goed was omdat een maand terug ineens het middel van de fabrikant die mijn lichaam het beste verdraagt niet leverbaar was.
Gelukkig heb ik van eerdere problemen met medcijnlevering (hallo allopurinol en hallo crisis in 2023 [Wayback/Archive] Dit is waarom we in Nederland zoveel medicijnen tekortkomen – EenVandaag!)
Een stukje geschiedenis
Na alle behandelingen van eind 2019 tot en met halverwege 2022 rondom mijn uitgezaaide endeldarmkanker blijf ik met LAR-syndroom, wat kort is voor low anterior resection syndrome. De Low Anterior Resection was bij mij onderdeel was van een Total Mesorectal Excision: een methode waarbij relatief veel omliggend weefsel rond de endeldarm wordt weggenomen om zo de kans op relatief lokale uitzaaiingen te verminderen.
Dit was het alternatief voor een permanent colostoma: een stoma van de dikke darm. Bij dit alternatief hoort een – vooraf door mij geaccepteerd risico – op TME post operatieve klachten. De operatie is een forse ingreep laag in het kleine bekken waar weinig ruimte is en bij vrouwen meer doorheen loopt (vagina en baarmoeder) dan bij mannen (prostaat), naast uiteraard blaas, plasbuis en de endeldarm.
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Tested: HomeSpot NFC-Enabled Bluetooth Audio Receiver for Sound System
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/08
I am using the [Wayback/Archive] HomeSpot NFC-Enabled Bluetooth Audio Receiver for Sound System – HomeSpot Digital to connect my digital audio devices (laptop, smartphone, etc) to my analog amplifier.
Verdict: it is OK-ish.
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HELP e60 bulb type | BMW-Driver.net Forums
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/05
To make sure my spare light bulb set is complete, the list from [Wayback/Archive] HELP e60 bulb type | BMW-Driver.net Forums (same for E61):
details for the E60 are
Dipped/Low Beam: H7 (499)
Main/High Beam: H7 (499)
Side/Parking Lamp: W5W (501) “THESE ARE YOUR ANGEL EYES”
Front Fog Lamp: HB4 9006
Front Indicator: PY21W
Tail Lamp: P21W
Rear Fog Lamp: P21W
Reversing Lamp: W16W
Rear Indicator: PY21W
Stop/Tail Lamp: P21W
Note to self: the indicator lamps (PY21W and W5W) are all orange.
Query: [Wayback/Archive] bmw e60 signal lights side bulb type – Google Search
--jeroen
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25 Gigabit Linux internet router PC build – Michael Stapelberg (forget MikroTik for this)
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/05
Two interesting posts on fast network routing:
- [Wayback/Archive] 25 Gigabit Linux internet router PC build – Michael Stapelberg
- [Wayback/Archive] How I configured and then promptly returned a MikroTik CCR2004 router for Fiber7 (2021) – Michael Stapelberg
… I also ran into weird DNS slow-downs, which I didn’t fully diagnose. In Wireshark, it looked like my machine sent 2 DNS queries but received only 1 DNS result, and then waited for a timeout.
… Since I last used MikroTik in 2014 the software seems to have barely changed. I wish they finally implemented some table-stakes features like DNS resolution for DHCP hostnames
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Reminder to self: write a Bookmarklet that shortens YouTube URLs to the youtu.be ones
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/02
When sharing YouTube videos via the mobile apps, they are shortened using the youtu.be domain.
So this is a reminder to write a Bookmarklet based URL-shortener myself for this and extend it so it also understands the various YouTube URL parameters (like start time).
The transformation is documented:
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MSI installation error 1603 – Windows Server | Microsoft Learn
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/01
This happens a lot with apps that auto-update before package manager contain that update: [Wayback/Archive] MSI installation error 1603 – Windows Server | Microsoft Learn
Cause
You may receive this error message if any one of the following conditions is true:
- Windows Installer is attempting to install an app that is already installed on your PC.
- The folder that you are trying to install the Windows Installer package to is encrypted.
- The drive that contains the folder that you are trying to install the Windows Installer package to is accessed as a substitute drive.
- The SYSTEM account does not have Full Control permissions on the folder that you are trying to install the Windows Installer package to. You notice the error message because the Windows Installer service uses the SYSTEM account to install software.
Query: [Wayback/Archive] Exit code was ‘1603’ – Google Search
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