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November 24, 2022
How to figure out what is stealing focus in Windows

How to figure out what is stealing focus in Windows

I had an issue a week ago. Something was stealing focus in Windows 11 and it was super annoying. Every 20 seconds something was stealing the focus away from the window I was trying to do work on. Playing games, watching a full screen video, coding, or typing, something was messing up my work and …

December 3, 2021
How to prevent Bot DM spamming on your Discord Server

How to prevent Bot DM spamming on your Discord Server

If you are part of any Crypto, NFT, or Stocks-related Discord, you have inevitably gotten a DM that reads something like this. Undoubtedly these are annoying, scammy, scummy, and a pain in the butt to report as spam and block. I am less than ten crypto/NFT related discords, and I get at least 2-3 messages …

July 5, 2020
GIGABYTE G32QC Monitor Review After 1 Month

GIGABYTE G32QC Monitor Review After 1 Month

A great monitor on paper, but after using it for 1 month, the true experience is less than stellar. Here is everything right and wrong with it.

April 25, 2020
How to update containers in Portainer with 3 clicks

How to update containers in Portainer with 3 clicks

Yes, it really is as simple… with one condition. Disclaimer This will only work if all of the relevant data/settings are in external volumes or were passed in as ENV variables. It depends on what tag you are using for your image, most people will be running some form of “Lastest” which is what I …

September 24, 2019
Creating Static IP addresses in a Docker Network

Creating Static IP addresses in a Docker Network

I self host a lot of different software in my network. Databases, applications, and test VM’s that require the use of static ip addresses in Docker. I researched the problem and found out there was no easy way of just assigning a default static ip address. IP’s were given out on a first boot first …

June 23, 2019
How to use a phone or tablet as a CEMU GamePad

How to use a phone or tablet as a CEMU GamePad

Learn how to use a phone or tablet to make a Wii U GamePad in CEMU

June 18, 2019
Uncovering a “Bitcoin Generator” exploit scam

Uncovering a “Bitcoin Generator” exploit scam

*Note after a year of putting this article in the draft folder I decided to publish it as is. The accounts are no longer up and the websites are also down from what I have checked. Be safe and enjoy! As Benjamin Franklin once said “… in this world nothing can be said to be certain, …

January 1, 2019
Easy privacy guide for surfing the web

Easy privacy guide for surfing the web

(This was a blog post that I originally wrote on my good friend Tek’s blog. I decided to move this over to my blog to consolidate and preserve it here.) Let me start out by saying this guide is going to be different than most others. A lot of guide pretty much just suggest browse in …

December 7, 2018
Why the FCC went from Friend to Foe

Why the FCC went from Friend to Foe

(This was a blog post that I originally wrote on my good friend tek’s blog which can be found here: https://teklordz.net/why-the-fcc-went-from-friend-to-foe I decided to move this over to my blog to consolidate and preserve it here.) It would be quite an understatement to say that when the FCC voted to approve net neutrality laws in 2015, the …

December 4, 2018
Network Wide Ad Blocker (Pi-hole)

Network Wide Ad Blocker (Pi-hole)

(This was a blog post that I originally wrote on my good friend tek’s blog which can be found here: http://teklordz.net/pihole I decided to move this over to my blog to consolidate and preserve it here.) Ads… whether they are necessary/good or pure evil is outside the scope of this article. One thing that can be …

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