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The Case of the Stubborn Synology: A Fedora NFS Saga

August 13, 2025 Cassie 317 Views 0 Comments How To

After battling with stubborn NFS mounts on his Fedora PC, Paul documents the troubleshooting journey to a stable solution. Discover how he moved past initial assumptions about SELinux, diagnosed a deeper issue with unclean shutdowns, and ultimately achieved reliable mounting by leveraging NFS 4.1, a streamlined directory structure, and the power of autofs. This narrative-driven article provides practical commands and insights to help any Linux user conquer similar network mounting challenges.

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KDE Workaround: ALT+F3 for Azure Desktops via Your Linux Browser

July 31, 2025 Paul 387 Views 0 Comments Computers, How To, Linux, Microsoft

Linux KDE intercepts the ALT+F3 combo so you cannot activate the Windows key on remote PCs. In this article I explain the simple workaround.

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My Artificial Intelligence Use Policy

July 26, 2025 Paul 1410 Views 2 Comments Artificial Intelligence, Blogging

With the explosive emergence of Generative AI, I feel it important to clearly identify what content on my website was created by AI. This is my “AI Use Policy” to explain how articles will be attributed to AI generation going forward.

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How I Installed a Catalytic Converter Shield on My Honda Ridgeline

December 7, 2024 Paul 1804 Views 0 Comments Automotive, How To

I installed a catalytic converter shield on my 2022 Honda Ridgeline. In this article I explain in detail the full process from choosing the shield to installation, and how the shield is holding up seven months later.

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Landing Back on WordPress.com, Compliments of Jetpack

September 22, 2024 Paul 4238 Views 4 Comments Blogging, WordPress

I have been wandering in the virtual desert for the past three years with my self-hosted blog. Silly me did not realize you can connect into the WordPress.com community via Jetpack.

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Someone Had to Blab to the World About AI and Now We All Pay the Price

April 29, 2024 Paul 1110 Views 0 Comments Artificial Intelligence, Commentary, Philosophy

In today’s article, I pause and reflect on what AI has been over the past year and a half since the introduction of ChatGPT. Has this “new” AI improved your life? Do you see the benefits to yourself and to society? And I look back at my own attempt to build an AI interface for my website.

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Synology Active Backup for Business: How to Create Encrypted Backups

April 27, 2024 Paul 3915 Views 0 Comments Home Network, How To, NAS, Synology

Synology’s Active Backup for Business is an amazing tool to backup your devices. But if you want to encrypt and compress your backups, you must take a few steps on your own, which I explain in this article.

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How to Remove “Ask Copilot” Button from Windows 11 Search

February 18, 2024 Paul 3334 Views 5 Comments Artificial Intelligence, Computers, How To, Microsoft

If you want to remove the “Ask Copilot” button from your Windows 11 search area, read this article for how I did it in the latest Windows 11 build.

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My Warning About Lenovo – Do NOT Buy From Them!

December 14, 2023 Paul 2666 Views 2 Comments Computers

I do not take pleasure in writing an article like this, but feel I have a moral obligation to warn others thinking of purchasing from Lenovo. After this event, I will never do business with Lenovo again.

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Updating Steam Across Multiple PCs Is Easy

December 10, 2023 Paul 2081 Views 0 Comments Apple, Computers, Linux, Microsoft, Video Games

If you have multiple computers in your home running Valve’s Steam, you only need to download game updates to one, and the Steam clients can take care of updating themselves locally across your home network. In this article I explain my observations and compare Steam’s local updates to the similar Xbox process.

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