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Python, $PYTHONPATH, sys.path.add()
This code indicates what I wish to do, i.e.
- have a variable to hold the name of a file to import,
- with hsutil.which() used to look up the FOLDER it resides in (via $PATH),
- and automatically get ...
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How to use CMake's ProcessorCount for building?
I am currently using CMake 3.22 and cannot easily upgrade - but if an answer would depend on a higher version, please do feel free to mention that and proceed anyway.
What I would like to tell CMake ...
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Should I be worried about this MicrosoftSecurityApp.exe error pop-up?
Loose translation of pop-up message:
"Unknown exception 0xe0434352 in application at position 0x00007FFF..."
It's the first time I see this message while connecting to a remote PC with mstsc....
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Windows 11 Home - issue with USB hub driver update
I am using Win 11 Home on a Dell XPS 13 9360. I plug a USB hub into it using USB c connector. This normally provides power, HMDI, wired network and USB A connectors. This has worked just fine for a ...
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Website triggering weird dimming of my display in Chromium-based browsers
There's this website with a gallery that triggers something weird on my PC:
when I clicked on the picture of the house to enlarge it, the background got this "scalines" effect where the ...
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Crontab for nth Monday of month weirdness at Dec 1 2025
Crontab that's worked just as expected for more than a year suddenly triggers unexpectedly
For a trio of servers (running Rocky 9.4), we have a policy of monthly reboots following a rolling schedule. ...
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I moved my users directory to another drive, now all my onedrive files are empty
I was running out of space on my OS drive, so I followed the instructions at this answer, by copying the files to another drive, then replacing C:\Users with a <JUNCTION> pointing to the ...
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VLOOKUP that preserves general format
How can I use VLOOKUP and preserve the data if both source and target cells have "General" format? It does not work as expected, because if the source cell is blank then the target cell ...
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Are brief spikes from 60 °C to 90 °C in a laptop’s CPU package temperature normal during light usage?
I see in HWiNFO that my laptop's CPU package temperature often spikes from 60 °C to 90 °C. Here's the CPU package temperature graph. The y-axis, which the screenshot inconveniently cropped out, ranges ...
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How can I report this Greenshot obfuscate box dragged out of bounds bug?
I love using Greenshot to make helpful personal and work snippets. I was obfuscating some parts of an image to help focus on the key details (had an obfuscate box with right and bottom edges past the ...
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Why is h264_nvenc higher latency than libx264?
I’m experimenting with low-latency video on an Nvidia Jetson Thor using a ZED Mini camera, as a first step towards eventually sending the video over WebRTC.
Right now I’m just doing a simple FFmpeg -&...
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Why does Windows copy first file fast (sometimes) but then craters (200MB/s -> 1MB/s)?
I have two LaCie 16TB d2 Professional hard drives, NTFS formatted, connected to a Windows 11 host via USB 3. On the root of each drive was a single folder, with file sharing enabled. One was a clone ...
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Why can't I get an IPTables redirect rule to work?
I'm working with a network router which runs this Linux firmware
Linux SNR-CPE-ME2-SFP-Lite 3.4.113.185 #1 SMP Wed Mar 19 13:55:06 +05 2025 mips GNU/Linux
I'm trying to set up a traffic redirection ...
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OBS Window Capture only captures mouse cursor when window is focused
When using Window Capture in OBS with "Capture Cursor" enabled, my mouse cursor will only appear in OBS if the captured window is in focus. If the window is not focused, like when I've ...
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How to lock down Windows to block unwanted sites? [closed]
I want to configure Windows so that certain categories of websites are permanently inaccessible in a way that cannot be bypassed by changing DNS settings, using VPNs/proxies, accessing direct IPs, or ...
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Why does my ISP says that my internet has no problems, but it does?
I’ve been having some issues with my internet at home, and I suspect it’s the ISP’s fault, but I can’t prove it because I’m not an expert.
The problems are limited. The internet works fine for most ...
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How to recover from Acronis True Image corrupting backups?
Using Acronis True Image for more than 20 years now, I think I'll finally quit using it, because the company just doesn't fix well-known bugs, while the base system is highly unreliable. Read this ...
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Where does Microsoft Edge get its profile information from? Where is my Hotmail e-mail address stored in Windows to be found by Microsoft Edge?
When I start Microsoft Edge, it automatically found my Hotmail e-mail address and links the current profile to that e-mail address.
I do not what this to happen. I'm not able to get rid of this link.
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HDMI IN Port of All-In-One HP computer with Linux installed displays video but not audio
In a very similar situation to this previous post (Using the HDMI In port of a PC with Linux), doing the setup does a very good job of transmitting the video signal of the GPU of my non HP computer, ...
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Are VPN connections unique to client applications? [duplicate]
Our institution provides us with a VPN service. In their instructions, they ask us to use the FortiClient application, but from my experience it is very bad (disconnects constantly, randomly, and ...
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Merging 2 videos : AAC as input, but Vorbis as output. Need to have AAC as output
I would like to merge 2 videos : F1 + F2 = F3
F1.mp4
Stream #0:0\[0x1\](und): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p(tv, unknown/bt709/unknown, progressive), 1920x1080, 49 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 ...
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WireGuard works only after switching network interfaces (Windows 11 & Android)
I rented a server from Hostkey and I'm setting up a WireGuard VPN for use on Windows 11 and Android. I need it to work over both Wi-Fi and 4G (MTS carrier). After configuring everything, I ran into ...
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Duplicate Recycle Bin Icon Appearing on Desktop When Using Folder Redirection
I’m seeing a strange issue where users end up with two Recycle Bin icons on their desktop. We modify the registry in "Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User ...
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Is Codepage 1252 guaranteed to be available on all Windows systems?
I have an application written in non-Unicode-aware Delphi (D2007) that uses ANSI encoding/decoding utilities. The app works fine on all systems regardless of locale.
On updating the application to a ...
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FQ_CoDel settings in OPNsense for Game Streaming
I'm having trouble understanding which values go where when trying to configure FQ_CoDel for game streaming in my OPNsense router. The Geforce Now documentation is clear about which ports they use and ...
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Need help to recall a Windows ping monitoring tool [migrated]
I have used a server status monitoring tool a few years ago and want to pick it up again. I tried other ways but so far I have failed to remember this tool. The features of this tool are:
Core ...
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How do I make VLC respect video rotation?
For the life of me I've never managed to get this to work.
I often have videos that clearly have correct rotation metadata -- Windows thumbnails and the Photos app display them fine -- but when I open ...
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Wish to know if software which can forge humans with natural shadows such as this is published, is available to consumers? [closed]
Are the tools which this document gives descriptions of, published, such that consumers can use those? Notice: some of the examples were too huge to include into the question, thus are left as (...
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How can I remove Content Credentials from a video without affecting the quality of the video?
Videos contain Content Credentials. For example, videos generated by some AI site such as https://firefly.adobe.com/ forces Content Credentials upon their users by silently adding Content Credentials ...
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Why are Windows Powershell repair scripts failing under Windows 10?
Windows Search doesn't work under Windows 10, version 10.0.19045.4046.
Windows.Shell.ExperienceHost is showing as one of the reasons, seems it's not installed "correctly"
I tried the ...
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Deleted EFI partition on secondary hard drive, now computer will not boot
Several years back I upgraded my main hard drive. I can't remember the specifics, but I believe I cloned the entire drive onto the new drive, and then just selected the new drive to boot from. I kept ...
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Modify Google Chrome sound output [migrated]
Certain Website allows android device sound output only.
How to choose Chromecast or Bluetooth?
How to change Chrome settings?
How to change site settings?
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How to comment some code in PyCharm using Swiss/German keyboard?
I am trying to learn Python using PyCharm and my Swiss/German keyboard. The usual shortcut to comment some code (line or block) is ⌘ + / which should become ⇧ + ⌘ + 7 on a Swiss/German keyboard since ...
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What AI services and data collection can I effectively remove from Windows 11?
I hate Windows 11's current direction, plain and simple. I want to return all/most of my settings in a way that most closely resembles Win 10 or Win 7. No AI, as little data collection as possible, no ...
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How to check if certain IP address is part of a range?
I need to check if $ip_address belongs to the IP addresses ranges I have.
The only clumsy way that I get to go is using nmap to extract all addresses to the file and use grep to check if IP address ...
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How to move Spotify spam into the spam folder?
I get a lot of emails pretending they are from Spotify. Since I don't have Spotify, I want to move them into a spam folder. Spotify occurs in a column called "correspondents". I have set up ...
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Windows 10 and 11 (tried both) install always fails, all partitions were deleted without backing up, tried multiple times, need help please
I did a clean install of windows 10 on my lenovo laptop. After deleting all partitions, the installation process fails before reaching 100%. Sometimes 81%, other times it fails earlier in the ...
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We have already have a domain (e.g. www.example.com) we are planning to create Active Directory domain with FQDN example.com is this possible?
We have already have a company domain (e.g. www.example.com) we are planning to create a Windows Active Directory domain with FQDN example.com now the concern is that users within the domain will not ...
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Why does my 24TB Seagate Expansion makes a grinding noise for a few seconds only if I connect it before turning on the PC?
My 24TB Seagate Expansion makes a grinding noise for a few seconds only if I connect it before turning on the PC, also in this case the computer takes twice as long to start up.
Otherwise If I connect ...
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Why are the memory requirements in my Kubernetes cluster more than expected? [closed]
I'm running a cluster in AWS (EKS). I'm experiencing an issue with a pod hosting an import service (Python FastAPI endpoint). The pod restarts upon file import.
Reason : OOMKilled - exit code: 137
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Is there a workaround to get Chrome updates after version 109 on Windows 8.1?
I know it seems strange but updating my Windows means potentially losing my whole workflow and applying all the customizations. Something that I can't afford to do right now.
The problem is this ...
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How do I exclude folders from the 'find' command when accepted solutions don't work?
I want to count the number of files and folders contained within a given root folder, potentially excluding certain subfolders.
According to this accepted answer, the basic structure of the command ...
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Why do subtitles appear constantly in bold in Windows 11? Only embedded subtitles display correctly
I just reinstalled Windows (Windows 11 25H2, 10.0.26200 Build 26200). Now the subtitles look like this and appear in bold or bigger shadow/outline. Before I noticed this problem, I changed several ...
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Is it possible to tell the what lifespan is left of a USB flash drive?
I have a relatively high quality SanDisk USB 3.0 flash drive. I have had it for a while (years). Can these flash drives be interrogated either under Windows, Linux, or macOS to disclose any firmware ...
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Is it possible to boot an ISO inside a VM/similar which is inside another VM when nested virtualization is not enabled?
Context:
I have a Windows Server 2022 VM where Jenkins generates nightly builds.
Jenkins checks out the repository and produces an ISO file as an artifact.
I need to boot that ISO and run an ...
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Trouble with Iptables using recent module
I have a web server that uses a additional restful server in a different port. I would like to allow traffic to the restful server only after a connection to the main server has been established. To ...
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How to get a USB card reader to be recognized as COM in WINE?
I’m trying to get an Olaqin SET-2 PC/SC card reader to work under WINE on a computer running Linux Mint 22.2.
I’m following that documentation, which seems sadly out-of-date: https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/...
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Why does my laptop keyboard stop working shortly after boot?
The keyboard on this second-hand laptop is non-functional.
After consulting online tutorials, I performed the following troubleshooting steps:
Accessed Device Manager.
Uninstalled the keyboard ...
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How to delete only writable files?
In a script I want to delete specified files, but only if they are writable (by the caller). I thought yes n | rm ... would do the work, but apparently not:
> touch t/beta t/gamma ; chmod a-w t/...
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How do you remove ghosting artifacts with FFMPEG after denoising a video?
I am processing a file with a lot of temporal noise. Using hqdn3d in FFMPEG with very high settings, I was able to successfully remove the temporal noise. But, now, scenes with quick motion contain ...