Thomas' Tech Tips
Weekly technical tips and tricks
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How to restore the default document template in Microsoft Word
1 February 2023
How to fix "yt-dlp" error "download_content() got an unexpected keyword argument"
31 January 2023
How to disable Cortana in Windows 10
25 January 2023
How to disable a user's password in Linux
18 January 2023
How to increase Keyboard Repeat Rate to more than KDE Systems Settings allow
11 January 2023
Increase keyboard repeat rate to more than Keyboard Settings in Windows Control Panel allows
4 January 2023
How to configure Keyboard Repeat Rate in KDE
30 December 2022
How to increase Keyboard Repeat Rate in Windows
23 December 2022
Change keyboard layout in Linux from command-line
17 December 2022
Poor man's iperf using netcat
10 December 2022
Fix broken packages on Red Hat Linux on Azure
3 December 2022
Fix trust issues with Let's Encrypt TLS certificates on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
27 November 2022
How to stripe over multiple disks using LVM
20 November 2022
How to connect Keychron K8 Pro keyboard via Bluetooth
15 November 2022
How to pair bluetooth device with LibreElec using bluetooth authentication code
13 November 2022
Print all except the first and last few lines of a file
6 November 2022
How to enable timestamps in dmesg
30 October 2022
How to view and flush DNS cache on Windows
23 October 2022
Access BIOS and boot from USB on Lenovo Yoga Slim Pro 7i
16 October 2022
Make MacOS hosted Minecraft games visible over LAN
9 October 2022
Use netcat to copy a file over the network
2 October 2022
Shrink LUKS volume with ext4 filesystem
27 September 2022
Convert LUKS volume from version 2 to version 1
20 September 2022
How to verify SSH host key fingerprint
13 September 2022
How to change passphrase on an SSH private key
6 September 2022
How to generate new ed25519 SSH host keys
30 August 2022
How to suppress SSH banner on login
23 August 2022
Fix X-Forwarding on Linux
16 August 2022
How to escape single quotes with awk
9 August 2022
Disable ACLs in Cygwin
2 August 2022
Install Cygwin packages easily with apt-cyg
27 July 2022
Enable Cygwin Bash Prompt Here Context Menu in Windows
20 July 2022
Reload PostgreSQL configuration without restarting
14 July 2022
Show battery percentage in MacOS
10 July 2022
Move a window by clicking anywhere on it in MacOS
5 July 2022
Convert FLAC to MP3 using ffmpeg while retaining all ID3 metadata
30 June 2022
Search and Replace across multiple lines with Vim
24 June 2022
See the size of PostgreSQL databases
10 June 2022
Enabling TRIM/DISCARD on Debian, ext4, luks, and lvm
3 June 2022
How to determine which LUKS passphrase belongs to what key slot
27 May 2022
How to enable BIOS mode on Corsair Strafe RGB
20 May 2022
Enable debug info with Kerberos and ssh
13 May 2022
How to speed up Cygwin startup time
6 May 2022
How to list installed Cygwin packages
29 April 2022
How to utilize 256 colors in Konsole
22 April 2022
How to disable desktop effects in KDE
15 April 2022
Configure DNS search domain on Red Hat
8 April 2022
DNS lookups through SOCKS proxy with Firefox
1 April 2022
Using sparse files in Linux
27 March 2022
Convert HTML files to PDF
20 March 2022
Fix ping for regular users in Linux
13 March 2022
How to trim filesystem from PowerShell
6 March 2022
See current connections in PostgreSQL
3 March 2022
grep trick to hide grep in ps process list
27 February 2022
Have grep show results from binary files
20 February 2022
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