Posts from February 2025

Posts from February 2025 (5)

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  Published on

  2025-02-26 3:36 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

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  androidcopilot

  Copilot Android app refusing to take pictures? I have the dumbest fix you'll ever hear, but it'll work, trust me.

  This article explains how to work around the issue where the Copilot app fails to take pictures. Sounds boring, right? But hey - even with all of the gripes I have about Copilot, I do use it daily, and I'd really like it to work. Because when it does work - well, about 50% of the times it does work - it's really helpful, and it does make me more productive overall. Okay. That's enough of a sales pitch.

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  Published on

  2025-02-25 3:29 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  dellwindows11

  Adventures in the Windows 11 24H2-land: How to restore your webcam after February 2025 Patch breaks it?

  This article explains how to get your built-in webcam back after a Windows 11 update (in my case, February 2025 Cumulative Update package) hides/disables it. The weird thing is, the camera is visible in the Device Manager. No app can see it though. And trying to update the driver through Device Manager is no use, as it's apparently already using the latest driver version. Background I can appreciate Windows removing any extraneous web cameras I might have - or rather, might've had.

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  Published on

  2025-02-18 3:29 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  devhomemicrosoftstore

  Have you heard? Dev Home is going away before it even arrived!

  Microsoft has just retired the Windows Dev Home experience before it ever came out of Preview -status. And before it ever became that useful. Or even functional, if you ask me. It was a good idea (or maybe even a really good one), that never really materialized. I mean, I gave the app a go a while ago, and it didn't really do anything. Or the little it did were things easier to do elsewhere - or changes that didn't persist.

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  Published on

  2025-02-11 4:43 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  homeassistanthomeautomationsql

  Taming my Home Assistant database growth

  This article explains how to sensitively and carefully limit your Home Assistant's database growth, without losing any valuable data. And because data is the new oil, pretty much all of the data is valuable. Who knows when you need to know whether your basement door was open or closed 1 year and 11 months from now?

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  Published on

  2025-02-04 3:41 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  devdrivewindows

  Dev Drive performance increase in real life scenarios?

  This article shows a few benchmarks I have run on the performance improvement that Dev Drive offers, using a real-life project I am (well, was) working on some time ago. The simple examples in this article should give you some guidance on what kind of performance you should be able to expect after adopting Dev Drive. YMMV and the usual caveats apply, but hey - it's still data you can use to decide if it's worth the (miniscule) set up cost.

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