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How to Set Up a SSH Connection in Claude Code Desktop

Sunday, 2026.05.24 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Summary: Claude Code’s desktop app can SSH into a remote machine and run sessions there against your repo, MCP servers, and ~/.claude config. Setup is a four-field dialog, assuming ssh user@host (where user is your username and host is the hostname or IP) already works from your terminal. The non-obvious caveat: session history is siloed. The desktop app, the CLI on the remote, and the VS Code extension (if you use it) on the remote each keep separate session lists.

How to Fix the VMware Workstation “mksSandbox” Crash (ISBRendererComm Error)

Thursday, 2026.05.21 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Have you ever been working in a VM, everything’s fine, then dialog pops up like this: VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (mks) ISBRendererComm: Lost connection to mksSandbox (3796) After that your VM is crashed and is powered off. Whatever you were in the middle of, gone with it. You start it back up, it runs for a bit, then it might crash again. 😢 Very not cool! This happened to me on a Framework Desktop system with AMD CPU, Ubuntu 24.04

Windows 10 printing to old/offline printer instead of new one [SOLVED]

Tuesday, 2026.02.17 J.D. H. Leave a comment

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.

VMWare workstation player download [SOLVED] 2026

Friday, 2025.02.07 J.D. H. Leave a comment

⚠️ Major Update (Feb 2026): VMware Workstation Player has been discontinued. Read below for what happened and what to use instead. QUESTION: I need to download VMware Workstation Player, but I can’t find it anywhere. Does anyone know where to get it? ANSWER: VMware Workstation Player no longer exists as a standalone product. Broadcom discontinued it in May 2024, and version 17.x reached end-of-life on November 17, 2025. No more updates, no more downloads from official sources. The good news? VMware Workstation Pro is now

How to Add a Third Party Designee in TurboTax Desktop (2025)

Monday, 2023.04.17 J.D. H. 4 comments

A Third Party Designee is someone you authorize to discuss your federal tax return with the IRS on your behalf. This is especially useful if you’re filing for an elderly parent, a family member in memory care, or anyone else who may not be able to call the IRS themselves. The designee can answer IRS questions and provide information about that specific return without needing full Power of Attorney verification each time. Note Updated April 2026 with TurboTax 2025 Desktop

Minecraft not using dedicated GPU [SOLVED]

Tuesday, 2023.02.21 J.D. H. Leave a comment

How to fix the issue of Minecraft not using dedicated GPU If you’re having trouble getting Minecraft to use your dedicated GPU, there are a few steps you can take to try and fix the issue. NVIDIA First, open the NVIDIA Control Panel and select Manage 3D Settings. Then, select Program Settings and add javaw.exe to the list of programs (if you are not using the Java edition, then select your applicable version of Minecraft). Finally, choose High-performance NVIDIA processor

Unable to open kernel device ‘\\.\VMCIDev\VMX’: The operation completed successfully.

Wednesday, 2021.05.05 J.D. H. 5 comments

If you encounter the following error message: Unable to open kernel device ‘\.\VMCIDev\VMX’: The operation completed successfully. Did you reboot after installing VMware Workstation? Module ‘DevicePowerOn’ power on failed. Failed to start the virtual machine. You may want to try editing the VMX file for your virtual machine and changing this variable from true to false: vmci0.present = “false” (it was the located on the last line in my VMX) After making this change, I was able to successfully boot