Observations on the world and its inhabitants
OpenWebUI has been active in updating its software. Each upgrade makes for a snappier more reliable setup in Docker (as I tested and found on my W11 computer). This guide is notes-to-self on upgrading OpenWebUI when it runs as a single Docker container on Windows 11 using PowerShell. It assumes the following setup: OpenWebUI stores ...
My Downloads folder has a reputation. It starts each day as a convenient holding pen for files I need briefly. By the end of the week, it becomes a digital landfill of installers, PDFs, screenshots, ZIP files, videos, and documents I meant to file but never did. Clicking through hundreds of files trying to remember ...
On 19 April 2026, I attempted to boot into Windows 11 on my dual-boot desktop PC — a routine action I have performed well over a hundred times. Instead of a normal startup, Windows began running an automatic repair process on Drive C. This took approximately three minutes before presenting a screen stating that the ...
This is a record of installing WinBoat on BigLinux as a proof of concept for running Windows applications natively within a Linux environment. The goal was to understand the process well enough to repeat it on another Linux machine. Snagit (Techsmith) which usually is constrained to Windows was used as the test subject app. System: ...
After getting my “digital brain” perfectly tuned on my BigLinux desktop, the next hurdle was getting it onto my Windows 11 laptop. On paper, it looks easy: you just copy a file from one machine to the other. In reality, Windows is a bit more sensitive about how it “reads” those files, and I ran ...
This post documents the transition from TextBlaze to Espanso on a BigLinux system, detailing the technical hurdles overcome and the final configuration logic. The plan is then to run Espanso on W11. 1. Espanso vs. TextBlaze: Key Differences While both tools serve the same goal, the philosophy of use is different: 2. The Critical First ...
What happened was that I created a System Restore point before 590 Nvidia. System Restore failed even after switching off Virus Shield. This meant I’d have to do a fresh re-install of the 577 driver. The best path forward was to ensure that 590 was totally cleaned out. Of course, not everybody knows: Absolute Cleanup: ...
