Recently a client had a compressed .7z file that just would not sync in Google Drive desktop edition. It was a pretty normal backup file and was not huge (just a couple hundred MB and their internet connection was fast enough to back that up without issue). It just refused to sync. I retried, restarted and everything else to no avail. Eventually, I renamed the file and that FINALLY caused it to sync successfully for the client. ✅👍 Just posting this
TL;DR: Your old Windows 10 PC or VM (virtual machine) doesn’t meet Windows 11 requirements? It probably needs UEFI firmware, TPM 2.0, and Secure Boot, none of which older PCs and VMs were configured with out of the box. This guide walks through the full in-place conversion for VMware VMs without reinstalling Windows, in about 45 minutes. Many of the concepts (MBR to GPT conversion, UEFI firmware, clearing update policies) apply to physical PCs as well. Microsoft ended Windows 10
Q: My Samsung Galaxy Watch accepts the unlock swipe but then just freezes on the screen and won’t go any further. How do I fix this? A: This is a surprisingly common glitch where the watch acknowledges your input but the software hangs on the transition. The good news: a forced restart fixes it almost every time, and it will not erase any of your data. How to Force Restart a Samsung Galaxy Watch (Watch 4, 5, 6, 7, and
Preface: I’m not really a Mac guy. But I have deep respect for what Apple has done with their silicon, and I’ve been following their CPU journey since the Motorola 68k days through PowerPC, the Intel transition, and now their in-house Apple Silicon. What they’ve accomplished in the last five years is genuinely remarkable. Apple is one of the few original tech companies that has survived and thrived over the decades while still staying in the consumer tech space. As
TL;DR: Replaced a printer but Windows 10 keeps sending jobs to the old one? Cancel the stuck jobs in the old printer’s queue, then set your new printer as the default. Two minutes and you’re back in business. 👍 So I got a message from a client’s office today. “The printer won’t print.” Classic. We had just set up a brand new Brother DCP-L5510DN to replace their old DCP-L5500DN. The new printer was confirmed working via USB the day before.
A Hardware Guide for People Who Actually Work With AI With regards to AI and Claude, here’s what most people are not writing about yet: the hardware side of working with Claude, and more importantly, the human side. A lot of AI blog and Reddit posts out there fall into one of two camps. Camp A is obsessing over local LLM rigs, how many NVIDIA H100s you can cram into a tower, how much VRAM you need to run a
So this took me a minute to realize, and if it saves even one person some frustration, it’s worth a post. I’m working in Claude Code, trying to paste a screenshot or image like I can in VS Code with Claude Extension:CTRL+V… nothing.Try again. Nothing.Different image. Still nothing. A few thoughts are running through my head? Turns out… nope. I was just using the wrong shortcut. The magic combo is: ALT + V After which you should see something beautiful
Is the Upgrade Actually Worth It? The internet loves a clean upgrade narrative: Old card bad, new card good, spend money. But the reality of the NVIDIA RTX 5080 era is messier and more interesting. If you are currently rocking an RTX 3090, you’re still packing serious heat. That card remains a 24GB monster. The big question: Is the 5080 a meaningful leap forward, or just high-end hardware FOMO? Let’s break down the data. Raw Gaming Performance: Faster, but is