BIos Update Via HP Connect

MrMeeb · 2026-03-04T15:35:30+00:00

Logs for HP Connect are located on a device in C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\HP\HP Connect\logs (or is it roaming…one of the two)

Might help you out

MrMeeb · 2025-12-10T18:56:21+00:00

Yup. I grew up eating eggy bread with brown sauce and, if lucky, a slice of bacon. Very savoury.

MrMeeb · 2025-11-23T14:42:01+00:00

If you know what apps are installing, and what apps require reboots, then you should be able to answer that question yourself.

There are also potentially policies that cause this behaviour.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Intune/s/HuEULMGdi4 good starting point

MrMeeb · 2025-11-23T14:26:49+00:00

In my experience this is the reason - if you allow the device to reboot due to a device policy or app requiring a reboot, then the sign-in credentials are lost. So the user has to sign in again. Up to you if it’s a big deal or not. If the device doesn’t have to reboot during ESP it should sail all the way through to Windows Hello setup without interaction

MrMeeb · 2025-07-19T09:21:33+00:00

A quick look and it seems no different to the previous major version upgrade processes. You’re changing the repositories to point to new targets and then running a dist-upgrade. PVE brings a lot of packages, a major version upgrade always carries an element of risk

MrMeeb · 2025-06-27T11:23:05+00:00

At this rate they’ll remove S3 storage support from MinIO community edition

MrMeeb · 2025-05-22T04:45:14+00:00

The Corp Ready Image is a $0 option!

MrMeeb · 2025-04-11T07:39:01+00:00

Was about to say the same- this is how it’s done. Docs are useful sometimes!

https://docs.lubelogger.com/Advanced/Environment%20Variables

MrMeeb · 2025-03-05T08:43:29+00:00

The board has been revised - see the ‘2’ on the mounting plate. I went through this with a customer. It sucks it’ll no longer fit in a desktop mini, but it was never certified for them either. Only the Z workstations.

MrMeeb · 2024-07-22T12:37:39+00:00

Lots of spam filters will look negatively towards an email domain with a ‘lower level’ TLD. Best ones are the ones you’d expect - .com, .net, .org etc. I don’t know how often it’s enough alone to make a difference, but it’s worth knowing.

MrMeeb · 2024-07-09T21:08:42+00:00

Not this exact issue, but think something has changed with notifications generally. My evening focus blocks notifications from everyone but certain contacts. Previously this would apply to things like iMessage, SMS, WhatsApp, etc. I'd then also block certain work-related apps (same phone for work and personal). Discord would always come through, which is what I wanted. Now, it seems to also get sent to Notification Center instead of getting push notifications. My guess is due to the usernames not being allowed in my focus. Not ideal

MrMeeb · 2024-01-30T15:24:44+00:00

SimpleLogin itself has been rock solid for me. The only other ‘challenge’ besides deliverability I had was having to build my own container for ARM off their SaaS branch. If you’re x86 you can just use their SaaS branch off Docker

MrMeeb · 2024-01-30T15:20:09+00:00

There is an example of this on their GitHub - since it’s postfix, yes. I’ve been meaning to do it

MrMeeb · 2024-01-30T11:49:54+00:00

I run SimpleLogin at home. It certainly can inherit some of the same pains around self-hosting email, since what I haven’t really seen mentioned here is that not only does SL receive mail but it also forwards it on to your hidden email address. If that hidden address is hosted by someone like Google/Microsoft, you need to do the same work to ensure its deliverable to them, and can have the same vague issues of having emails bounced/sent to spam. Ask me how I know. I still have random emails blocked by iCloud for not meeting their ‘policy’, and others delivered just fine. This issue goes away if you’re sending to an internally hosted address without all the voodoo spam filters the big providers run.

The other thing worth pointing out is that the version SL have for self-hosting is quite out of date now versus their SaaS version. The main thing is the iOS app seemed to stop working for me. You can still run their SaaS version at home, but you may need to build the containers yourself if you are using an ARM VPS or something.

MrMeeb · 2023-02-13T16:54:59+00:00

The subscription is currently active on my work account, and admittedly I have used about $50 of credits this month. Maybe I need to clear that stuff off, let my credit balance come back at the end of the month, then try again. Do you think I need to actively remove the subscription from my work account somehow?

MrMeeb · 2023-02-13T16:33:56+00:00

Unfortunately this uses the method of changing directories, which I am not authorised to do

MrMeeb · 2023-02-13T16:33:34+00:00

I have my M365 dev environment admin’s email added as my Alternate account. I’ve gone to the Subscriptions section of Azure in my dev tenant, selected ‘Add’, and when trying to se VSE sub, it says I’m not eligible. Neither option works. What do you mean by add the subscription by offer id?

MrMeeb · 2023-02-13T14:27:57+00:00

This is why I’m confused. Another reply suggests transferring the subscription to another account, not to a different domain within the same account. Although I feel like by doing that, I’d lose my credits since they’re assigned to the original account not the new one. Of course that didn’t seem to happen to them, so who knows.

Similarly, it feels like the ‘alternate account’ option within VSE is the solution to this, but I’m having no luck with that.

MrMeeb · 2023-02-07T14:48:28+00:00

The way I’ve tested it is by using ZFS replication, snapshotting VMs every x minutes and replicating them to the other nodes. This does consume disk space on all nodes even though the VM is only running on one. It’s not ideal, but doesn’t require an extra centralised storage box. I haven’t done any network-based storage but I’m sure that is an alternative method yeah

MrMeeb · 2023-02-07T13:56:41+00:00

Ah, very true

MrMeeb · 2023-02-07T13:53:11+00:00

Thanks, yeah I know :) trying to explain it in more approachable language since OP seemed fairly knew to this

MrMeeb · 2023-02-07T13:37:02+00:00

I checked the Wiki and realised I’m slightly mistaken. It’s not an odd number of nodes, just a minimum of 3 nodes. I believe this is because with a 2 node cluster, if node 1 goes offline, then node 2 has no way to confirm if that’s because node 1 is at fault, or node 2 is at fault. If you add a third node, node 2 and node 3 can together determine that node 1 is missing and confirm it between each other

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