A pearl suggested by the Twitter algorithm is [Archive] Mohit Bhoite | मोहित भोईटे (@MohitBhoite) / Twitter
Look at the beauty of for instance [Archive] Mohit Bhoite | मोहित भोईटे on Twitter: “Here is the end result. …” / Twitter
Every now and then the Twitter algorithm suggests a pearl in the timeline. This tinme: Mohit Bhoite | मोहित भोईटे, who makes gorgeous 3D electronics design
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Windows 10 and 11: installing WSL2 does not require winget, Chocolatey or Scoop
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/05/18
After using Chocolatey for a long time and writing about it, I have written a few articles on other Windows package managers like winget and Scoop.
Part of the reason was that I wanted to install new systems in a semi-automatic way including WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux 2).
As I have spent quite some time getting treated against metastasised rectum cancer, I missed part of the evolvement of WSL into WSL2 and of the winget evolvement.
The good news is that this simplified the scripted installation of WSL2 a lot, as over time, this got very easy, as confirmed in these posts/messages I found via [Wayback/Archive] winget wsl2 – Google Search:
- [Wayback/Archive] [Package Request] WSL 2 · Discussion #3669 · microsoft/winget-pkgs
wsl --installis now available in Windows 10 2004 and above. I think that’s a better solution rather than winget having a special case for it. - [Wayback/Archive] How to Install WSL 2 on Windows 10 (Updated) – OMG! Ubuntu!
to install WSL 2 on Windows 10 OS Build 2004 or later you need to open the command prompt app with Administrator permissions, and enter the following command:wsl.exe --installAs soon as you hit enter, the process automatically gets to work. It enables the WSL optional features required, fetches the latest WSL Linux kernel version, and installs Ubuntu as your default distro
I even found back this was announced when I was still in hospital: during the Build 2020 conference. A summary is at [Wayback/Archive] The Windows Subsystem for Linux BUILD 2020 Summary – Windows Command Line describing the introduction of wsl.exe --install and that it defaults to install WSL 2 as back-then already most Windows Insider build users using WSL had switched from WSL 1 to WSL 2.
Back to installing
Yesterday, in Windows “equivalents” for bash backticks in cmd and PowerShell, I showed how to get the wsl.exe information:
C:\temp>PowerShell -Command "SigCheck "$((Get-Command -CommandType Application wsl).Path)"" Sigcheck v2.82 - File version and signature viewer Copyright (C) 2004-2021 Mark Russinovich Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com c:\windows\system32\wsl.exe: Verified: Signed Signing date: 09:24 15/10/2021 Publisher: Microsoft Windows Company: Microsoft Corporation Description: Microsoft Windows Subsystem for Linux Launcher Product: Microsoft« Windows« Operating System Prod version: 10.0.19041.1320 File version: 10.0.19041.1320 (WinBuild.160101.0800) MachineType: 64-bit
This was on one of my Windows 10 systems with version 21H2.
The installation progress was as follows and took ome 3 minutes on a 50 Mibit/s fiber connection:
C:\temp>wsl.exe --install Installing: Virtual Machine Platform Virtual Machine Platform has been installed. Installing: Windows Subsystem for Linux Windows Subsystem for Linux has been installed. Downloading: WSL Kernel Installing: WSL Kernel WSL Kernel has been installed. Downloading: Ubuntu The requested operation is successful. Changes will not be effective until the system is rebooted.
Time to play around (:
–jeroen
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Windows “equivalents” for bash backticks in cmd and PowerShell
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/05/17
A while ago, I needed the file information of wsl.exe on one of my Windows systems.
On Linux, I would do something like file `which bash` where file will give the file details and which gets you the full path to bash.
The file equivalent on Windows for me is [Wayback/Archive] Sigcheck – Windows Sysinternals | Microsoft Docs, which is part of [Wayback/Archive] File and Disk Utilities – Windows Sysinternals | Microsoft Docs.
The which equivalent on Windows for me is [Wayback/Archive] where | Microsoft Docs.
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Bookmarklet-Youtube: Add all subscriptions to watch-later
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/05/16
Saved because I want to learn how to save a YouTube URL into a [Wayback/Archive] YouTube: Watch later play list, as doing it by hand takes at least 10 seconds per URL.
[Wayback/Archive] Bookmarklet-Youtube: Add all subscriptions to watch-later
–jeroen
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Getting the human readable Windows 10 version from the registry (via Super User)
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/05/15
[Wayback/Archive] powershell – How to get the windows version with command line? – Super User (thanks [Wayback/Archive] harrymc!)
The value can be found under registry keyComputer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersioninside the value namedDisplayVersion.The following PowerShell command will get it:(Get-Item "HKLM:SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion").GetValue('DisplayVersion')
This seems to have been introduced in version 2004 (20H1).
–jeroen
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Gazelle 02978 backlight pictures (via Bike Forums)
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/05/12
Since one of my bicycles got the same Gazelle 02978 backlight:
[Wayback/Archive] [Dutch bikes] Replacing Rollerbrake drum brake + Nexus 7s shifter – Bike Forums
Outside of Gazelle 02978 backlight
Inside of Gazelle 02978 backlight
The button on the back side (which you can press through the outer housing under the luggage carrier), is a simple on-off toggle, but you have to wait about 2 seconds between pressing twice (otherwise it won’t recognise the second press).
If I ever need to replace it, this is the current (at time of writing early 2022) replacement part number 8717118039984.
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Disabling the Windows 10 news (and weather) feeds
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/05/11
I finally got annoyed enough to figure out how to disable the Windows 10 news (and weather) feeds.
At first I thought the solution in this post worked for Windows 11 as well, but re-testing in Windows 11 it does not or does not (or not any more: given so many new Windows 11 releases with ever changing functionality I’m not surprised).
Disable Windows news feeds for current user
Failure: just disabling the news feed will automatically get it reset by explorer.exe
Based on the below sources, I made this small batch file:
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Mysk 🇨🇦🇩🇪 on Twitter: “Google has just updated its 2FA Authenticator app and added a much-needed feature: the ability to sync secrets across devices. TL;DR: Don’t turn it on. The new update allows users to sign in with their Google Account and sync 2FA secrets across their iOS and Android devices.…”
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/05/10
Do not use the Google 2FA Authenticator to to sync secrets across devices.
The why is explained in the (long) tweet by [Wayback/Archive] Mysk on Twitter: “Google has just updated its 2FA Authenticator app and added a much-needed feature: the ability to sync secrets across devices. TL;DR: Don’t turn it on. The new update allows users to sign in with their Google Account and sync 2FA secrets across their iOS and Android devices.…”
For similar reasons, you might not want to use Authy by Twilio to sync between devices either, though that is less insecure as it enforces you to use a backup-password in order to sync these through the cloud: in the past that backup-password had few security restrictions so it was easy to use a relatively insecure password.
Related (most in Dutch):
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Restart Windows explorer with an UAC administrator token
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/05/10
Sometimes, you want to restart the Windows explorer. This is already an exception case which you want to do when explorer hangs (for instance when taskbar icons do not respond any more), or has files locked which need to be modified. I described the latter in Inno Setup: Program Folder not showing up In Start > All Programs , with this very simple restart script:
taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe start explorer
Even more exception is wanting to run explorer with a UAC elevated administrative token. I sometimes do this when moving around stuff from other users on the same computer without having them logged on (as that would lock the files or directories to be moved around).
The risk of running explorer under UAC elevation, is that any program you start will also start UAC elevated, so beware what you ask for…
This is how you start explorer under UAC elevation:
pwsh.exe -nol -noni -nop -w hidden -c "taskkill /f /im explorer.exe; start explorer -v runas -a /nouaccheck"
or if you run an older Windows version of PowerShell:
PowerShell.exe -nol -noni -nop -w hidden -c "taskkill /f /im explorer.exe; start explorer -v runas -a /nouaccheck"
These command-line options and verbs are used:
pwsh==PowerShell:-nol==-NoLogo-noni==-NonInteractive-nop==-NoProfile-w hidden==-WindowStyle Hidden*-c==-Command
See:
taskkill:/F== force close/IM== image name (name of .exe file)
start== [Wayback/Archive]Start-Process(Microsoft.PowerShell.Management) – PowerShell | Microsoft Docs-v==-Verb(in this caserunas*)-a==-ArgumentList(toexplorer)
See [Wayback/Archive]
Start-Process(Microsoft.PowerShell.Management) – PowerShell | Microsoft Docs.explorer/nouaccheck==/NoUACCheck**
Time to explain a few:
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I dug into scoop a tiny bit: some thoughts and links
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/05/09
Last month, I wrote Need to take a look a Scoop (as a long time Chocolatey user).
So I did, and started with a list of my Chocolatey installs grouped by functionality in order to expand the table towards winget and [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – ScoopInstaller/Scoop: A command-line installer for Windows.
This was a good way to start learning, and by already doing this, got learned this:
- Whereas Chocolaty has a global searchable community package index at [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | Packages which is moderated too.
- Scoops works differently. There are many buckets you can get your applications from, and there is no Scoop maintained index of them.
Let’s focus on the latter for a bit:
- Scoops comes preconfigured with a few [Wayback/Archive] Scoop/README.md at master · ScoopInstaller/Scoop: Known Application Buckets
- There are are many more application buckets available (at the time of writing, close to 1000), most by individual, and only providing one ore very few applications, and unverified by the community
- There is a [Wayback/Archive] ScoopSearch project that indexes most of the the Scoop buckets that exist, but they do not verify their contents.
- The ScoopSearch project basically indexes all github projects having a github page with a topic
scoop-bucket, see [Wayback/Archive] scoop-docs/Buckets.md at master · kidonng/scoop-docs
If you want your bucket listed in the Scoop Directory , add a topic of
scoop-bucketto its github page.The indexing is done by the project [Wayback/Archive] ScoopSearch/ScoopSearch.AzureFunctions: Azure functions to maintain Scoop applications index.
- Two projects provide a view on the ScoopSearch project results: of the azure functions project
- [Wayback/Archive] ScoopSearch: Apps (that’s the default view, there is also a [Wayback/Archive] ScoopSearch: Buckets view)
- [Wayback/Archive] Scoop Directory | scoop-directory with more views than ScoopSearch, like [Wayback/Archive] Search The Scoop Directory | scoop-directory where you can search on a (part of ) the application, bucket, author, or repository name.
ScoopDirectory indexes once a day, updating both the static Markdown pages and a [Wayback/Archive] scoop-directory/scoop_directory.db at master · rasa/scoop-directory database used for searching.
It also uses [Wayback/Archive] scoop-directory/include.txt and [Wayback/Archive] scoop-directory/exclude.txt to amend the ScoopSearch results..The refreshing is done by [Wayback/Archive] scoop-directory/update-index.yml at master · rasa/scoop-directory calling [Wayback/Archive] scoop-directory/github-crawler.py at master · rasa/scoop-directory.
- There is also a much broader [Wayback/Archive] Projects list – Repology that also indexes the repositories of many many Linux package managers.
From the above, I got a feeling that Scoop is way more like the Linux Package Managers than WinGet and Chocolatey are.
–jeroen
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