When Windows 11 setup is at the make an account screen press Shift + F10 to get the command prompt as admin. Type “start ms-cxh:localonly” You’re done.

#Get ready just in casesudo apt updatesudo apt install snapd #Add Ollamacurl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh #Initialize Ollamaollama run gemma3 #Add a simple web interfacesudo snap install open-webui –beta #Rebootsudo reboot #Start the web interface onceopen-webui serve #Access the web sitehttp://yourip:8080 #Make the first account

You run this from Powershell on the Azure subscription you want to identify the cert expirations for, including Azure Managed Certificates that will soon be affected by the DigiCert change effective Monday, July 28th, 2025. There’s probably an easier way but this is my starting point. Get-AzWebApp | ForEach-Object {$certs = Get-AzWebAppCertificate -ResourceGroupName $_.ResourceGroupforeach ($cert...More Please

Bluesky is pretty neat but every user being @*.bsky.social isn’t really my thing since I’m a nerd with my own domain. So rather than be @superpj.bsky.social I changed mine to @superpj.xcr.jp with a simple DNS entry but you can also do it with just a text file on your personal hosting if that’s not your...More Please

PSA, repairing the Crowdstrike BSoD on Azure-hosted VMs Hey! If you’re like us and have a bunch of servers in Azure running Crowdstrike, the past 8 hours have probably SUCKED for you! The only guidance is to boot in safe mode, but how the heck do you do that on an Azure VM?? I wanted...More Please

Disable CoPilot/AI features on Windows 11, you can follow these steps: To allow it back into your life follow the Disable steps and change Enabled back to Not Configured.

I’m always forgetting the commands so here’s the short easy version From the Terminal menu system/check-installation#hopefully it says “status: installation is ok” #if you’re upgrading from 6 to 7 it needs to know that.. If not skip the below line. system package update set channel=upgrade #check for updatessystem package update check-for-updates #get the updatesystem package...More Please

Thank you Threads. Now please stop having a dozen sex bots follow me a day. Unless you make real life sex bots. Then we need to talk about a subscription service.