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Steps to enable remote control of a computer with Intel® AMT using MeshCommander

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/15

For my link archive to remotely administer some Intel 3060 Micro machines: [Wayback/Archive] Steps to enable remote control of a computer with Intel® AMT using MeshCommander

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WHY2025 Badge Case by Dynom | Download free STL model | Printables.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/02

If you are going to WHY2025, then you get an awesome badge.

Since the specs have been out for a while, now it’s time to find and 3D-print an enclosure for it.

A good start is this one:

https://www.printables.com/model/1372316-why2025-badge-case

jeroen

Related Blog post:

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Huis te koop: Wagenstraat 8 2161 ZM Lisse [Funda]

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/24

Friends were interested in this house: Wayback Huis te koop: Wagenstraat 8 2161 ZM Lisse [Funda]

Archived the links just in case they ever need part of it again.

Pictures in the order of their appearance on Funda:

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Some internet speeds during our holidays

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/24

I forgot to record a few locations, but here are some of the speedtest results during our holiday in Germany, Denmark and Norway.

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Pushing the Limits: Ultimate Upgrade Journey of a Macintosh SE/30 – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/11

Cool: almost maxed out!

[Wayback/Archive] Pushing the Limits: Ultimate Upgrade Journey of a Macintosh SE/30 – YouTube

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Windows warned me of disk full; PowerToys updates filled the disk as the update notification got overwhelmed by tons of others  (like chat ones) in the Windows notifications which is limited to showing just the last 20

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/30

I got warned about low disk space on drive C: caused by PowerToys taking 7 gigabytes of stale upgrades: [Wayback/Archive] 396918165-154de37a-432d-4cab-84ee-0f5a54eb6575.png (1370×789).

PowerToys itself does not like this situation either: an update will quit without indicating why.

According to their issue tracker, this should have been fixed in v0.58.0* , but it wasn’t, see [Wayback/Archive] Update installed, but installation files not deleted. · Issue #13296 · microsoft/PowerToys · GitHub

So if you disk runs full, check out for a bunch of powertoyssetup-*.exe (why don’t they use Pascal casing for readability here?) files.

 

If you get chat notifications, then they will likely overwhelm the PowerToys notification that an update is available as Windows by default only can show the most recent 20 notifications, and it is hard to modify that default:

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Charging the Battery on Your Ring Video Doorbell 2 – Ring Help

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/30

Your Ring Video Doorbell 2 is charged using a common micro-USB cable (an orange one is included in your Ring box). The micro-USB cable can be plugged into any USB power source such as a computer. Your Ring Video Doorbell 2 will take around five to 10 hours to fully charge depending on whether the USB cable is plugged into a USB port or into a wall outlet.

[Wayback/Archive] Charging the Battery on Your Ring Video Doorbell 2 – Ring Help

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On-line PC part compatibility checker: Pick parts

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/23

If I ever want to build a PC again, this site helps me assemble the parts and check their compatibility: [Wayback/Archive] Pick parts. Build your PC. Compare and share. – PCPartPicker

Of course it is not a 100% coverage or guarantee, but it will you a lot of hints when on-line configuring a system.

This is the system a friend was configuring and I was quite positively surprised:

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Solution for “mac flush DNS cache” by Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:: “@christopherkunz alias dnsreset=’sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder'” – narrativ.es

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/10

https://narrativ.es/@janl/114658491232292970

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Bye bye: Changes to Microsoft Authenticator autofill – Microsoft Support

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/08

autofill in Microsoft Authenticator will be discontinued from July 2025

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-billing/changes-to-microsoft-authenticator-autofill-09fd75df-dc04-4477-9619-811510805ab6

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