When I used my Raspberry Pi 5 on a TV, I noticed a frustrating problem: if I switched the TV input to another device and then came back to the Pi, the screen was often black. The system itself was still running. I could reach a terminal with Ctrl+Alt+F5 or over SSH, but the desktop would not […]
Sometimes tech irony hits hard. My Raspberry Pi’s Bluetooth mouse stopped working after I moved the SD card to another Pi. I thought it would be simple to open the Bluetooth menu and pair it again, but without a mouse there was no way to click the little Bluetooth icon. I tried to use MouseKeys […]
I had a Logitech wireless mouse and a USB receiver. I expected them to work together, but nothing happened when I plugged in the receiver. Both the mouse and the receiver had a small orange star symbol. After a bit of research, I learned this symbol means they are part of Logitech’s Unifying system, which […]
If you’re using a Raspberry Pi with a high-resolution monitor or TV, you may have run into the frustrating issue of tiny, unreadable text. Here’s a quick fix to make your desktop environment usable again: 1. Set Defaults for Large Screens 2. Adjust the Screen Resolution These two tweaks should make your Raspberry Pi setup […]
Recently, I ran into a frustrating issue with Dredge on PC. After playing for hours with no problems, the game suddenly started launching to a black screen—no error message, just nothingness. Here’s how I eventually solved it, in case you’re in the same boat. What Didn’t Work (But Might Be Worth Trying) Before finding a […]
You can basically follow my instructions in the guide about dual-booting Windows and Debian with full disk encryption only with some minor differences. Here are my notes for you and for my future-self. I used Blivet GUI Partitioning and created an encrypted LVM volume group like I do in my guide. The steps are similar: […]
If you have issues (empty folder, cannot connect, etc.) when connecting your Xiaomi phone to your PC via USB cable, you should try the following before you try anything else. This is how I solved it after I installed Mi Suite and enabled developer options and USB debugging; these were not necessary. Connect your device […]
networkmanager-openvpn should be installed for managing OpenVPN via GUI on Arch Linux. I added configuration for my OpenVPN connection but it was not connecting via GUI without any error message. I was able to connect using openvpn command. I checked the log with journalctl | grep NetworkManager and I noticed (gnome-control-center:6433): libnm-glib-WARNING **: Device activation […]
I was not able to open Playstation Network using my Playstation 3. Whenever I tried to enter PSN, I read a message that Playstation Store must be upgraded to “version 1.26”, however download could never finish successfully, it was ending with a message like “an error occurred during the download operation”. Error code: 800233EF. How […]
My notebook’s brightness level was always set to maximum notwithstanding my previous adjustments using the brightness slider in the Gnome system menu. This is a problem experienced by many people on various distributions. Therefore search engine results are helpful to find a solution. Arch Wiki was again the most informative guide that I read during […]