Tag: WebDev

A scary popup briefly showed, revealing that my microphone was in use. I hovered the system tray icon which mentioned that "Windows Feature Experience Pack" was using it. This only lasted about 1 to 2 seconds. I then found evidence that I didn't misread this, by looking through Settings and finding "Recent activity": Is it normal for a Windows service to randomly access my microphone? Presumably if it is some lower-level service that manages the microphone, it would not be operating on the application layer, but some sort of driver layer, where I would not expect to be notified of its access.

I have a weird behavior that I cannot understand. I am running on a Raspberry Pi OS (Debian Trixie). If I create a simple file /lib/systemd/system/foo.service without enabling it. [Unit] Description=Foo [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=/bin/echo FOO [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target It somehow gets started after I reboot even though I did not enable it and ends up as a symlink in /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/foo.service. If I disable it the symlink disappears but reappears after a reboot. I checked the presets in /lib/systemd/system-preset/*.preset but there is no wildcard. What else could I check and is this an expected behavior? I have an Arch Linux machine as well as an Ubuntu one on my PC and I do not see this behavior.

when I try to change anything in the startup timing menu it won't let me, every other setting can be changed and there is no obvious settings lock. Thanks!

Current arnndn filter situation In this question/answer, we see that an AI RNN model can be used in ffmpeg to remove background noise from audio. Some model(s) trained in 2018 are provided by Gregor Richards here. In 2026, I didn't find updates or variants of these models. Original RNNoise software (and Gregor's variant) However, to build those, Gregor used RNNoise, a software provided by xiph.org and created by Jean-Marc Valin. In 2018, Gregor made a few changes to the RNNoise software (he called it

I have a bad habit of ignoring reminders, but there was a time I had automatic shutdown active and the warning it sent was super effective at breaking my focus. The problem is I don't know how to trigger just that style of warning on its own, as you only get one alert per shutdown command and I would like to use them as reminder popups. I need something that pulls focus, and requires me to stop and interact with it to be able to close it, not just click off. I've tried finding apps that do this but everything I find tries to be non-intrusive. I've also tried to find ways to access the specific pop up type that the shutdown reminder is, but I can't seem to find any information on it specifically. I'm very new to using things like task scheduler so I'm certain I'm just missing an odvious solution, so any help would be appreciated.

I have a couple of folders within the 'Shared Folder' section of my UGreen NASync (running UGOS Pro) to which I have mounted a couple of SMB folders from my Synology NAS. I cannot, for the life of me, remember how I did this. Looking via the web app or the UGreen application (Windows or Android) the two folders which have the network shares mounyted to them have a symbol in the icon that looks a bit like a globe - possibly indicating network folder. The bottom two icons above are the ones with networks shares from teh Synology mounted on them. I want to mount another share from the same Synology to the folder at the top. Opening properties for those bottom two folders shows me no options or information relating to them having SMB shares mo

I have a program set up as a Windows-Service, that is not dependent on any other service and can be started, stopped and restarted without admin priviliges from the Windows Services GUI. I want to start it locally on my computer through Powershell, not the Services-GUI. In Powershell I can find the service: PS C:\Users\myuser> Get-Service -Name cdbsvcd15.9.7 | select * Name : cdbsvcd15.9.7 RequiredServices : {} CanPauseAndContinue : False CanShutdown : False CanStop : False DisplayName : CONTACT Elements 15.9 Service Level 7 (Build #246163) Service Daemon DependentServices : {} MachineName : . ServiceName : cdbsvcd15.9.7 ServicesDependedOn : {} ServiceHandle : Status : Stopped ServiceType : Win32OwnProcess StartType : Manual Site : Container : I notice CanStop and CanShutdown is False, whi

I bought a laptop, but it came with the previous owner's administrator account. Now, I can't download stuff I'd like because of that. Could anyone help me with this? I'm using the laptop just with a regular user account. I've already tried several ways to delete her account, but I haven't been successful.

I have a ThinkStation S30 0568 bought second hand for experiments which runs a Xeon E5-1620 which has four cores, and I have purchased another CPU (compatible according to the HMM document) but boot was stuck at 67 on the LED which probably means that the machine didn't like the CPU. Then I replaced the old CPU but the machine is still stuck on 67. Previously I found that reflashing the BIOS from USB after moving the CMOS jumper helped when it was stuck on 62 but not now. I have been unable to find any listing of LED codes that may hint what it doesn't like now. Any suggestions? It is a really nice machine so I would be really sorry if I broke it in my enthusiasm.

I want to test the quality/stability of a WLAN where the access point is quite far away, using a continuous ping command: ping 192.168.0.1 -t -i 116 -l 1 This is done via a Windows 11 client, which is directly connected to the AP. My train of thought is that I use a small-sized ping packet (1 byte) to get the shortest possible ping response time. The downside is that for bigger IP packet sizes, the response time might be higher (but that could be verified with a second ping with the max MTU size, in my case 1500). The upside is that it puts less strain on the network, but considering the sizes and that pings are sent out only once per second, this should be irrelevant (even with -l 1500, that would be approx. only 1MB every 10 minutes). Is there anything I missed in designing the test that has to be taken into account? Note: I have one ping going to the internet gateway/router 192.168.0.1 and one ping going to