hardware
HP Victus GPU Stuck at ~30 W, Low FPS at 99% GPU Usage: It Was "HW Power Braking" (EC Reset Fix)
HP Victus RTX 5050 stuck at 27 W with 99% GPU usage and low FPS. nvidia-smi showed HW Power Braking; an EC reset brought it back to 72 W.
Lukas
Sysadmin, coder, CIO at one company and CEO of my own. Linux, Windows Server, game servers — I write down what I set up and what broke.
business-ai
Odoo: Send a Silent Internal Copy of Every Confirmed Booking (and Why the Customer Got It Instead)
An Odoo automation rule + code server action that mails an internal copy of each confirmed rental, and the use_default_to trap that mails the customer.
Windows Server
Two-Way Syncing a Windows Desktop to a Storage Box with rclone bisync and Task Scheduler
Two Windows laptops, one SMB storage box, no OneDrive: rclone bisync every 10 minutes via Task Scheduler, with the resync, filter and PST gotchas I hit.
hardware
My Gaming Laptop Called Its Own Charger "Non-Original" and Throttled Everything — an EC Reset Fixed It
HP gaming laptop flagged its original charger and throttled CPU + GPU. Measuring it with PowerShell and nvidia-smi, and the EC reset that fixed it.
business-ai
“I Barely Use It” — Where $100 of AI API Credit Actually Went
A business AI assistant drained $100 of API credit while the owner swore he barely touched it. The real drivers: a 30-minute heartbeat, premium models on background jobs, and one retry storm.
Linux
Let's Encrypt Kept Failing After a Server Move. The Culprit Was a Second A Record.
Two A records after a migration meant round robin, and Let's Encrypt's multi-perspective validation kept hitting the old server. Diagnosis and fix.
Windows Server
Microsoft 365 Expired? Rescuing a Mailbox from the Local OST into a PST
The M365 subscription lapsed, the mailbox was locked server-side, only Outlook's OST cache was left. How I got 3,844 items into a PST plus .msg files.
business-ai
Turning HTML-Only Email Receipts into PDFs with Headless Chromium
Many receipts are HTML mails without attachment. Render them to PDF with Playwright, and dodge the Gmail label gotcha that reprocesses a thread forever.
business-ai
My AI Receipt Sorter Shifted Amounts by 2,000 Euros, So I Took the Numbers Away From It
An LLM misread credit card statements by up to -2,000 EUR. Now statements are parsed line by line with pdfplumber and the model only reads single receipts.
Linux
Mail + Web on One Server: 4 GB or 8 GB of RAM? I Measured It
Real RSS numbers from a panel box with mail and web: ClamAV eats over a gigabyte. Why summing ps lies, how to measure with smem, and when 4 GB is enough.
Linux
Lower Your DNS TTL Before You Migrate a Server (A Checklist)
A 24-hour TTL turns a server move into a day of half-broken DNS. When to lower it, how to check what resolvers see with dig, and what to tell DNS support.
Docker
My Hosting Panel's Firewall Kept Wiping Docker's iptables Chains
KeyHelp loads its firewall with iptables-restore and flushes Docker's chains. How to spot it, the quick fix, and the options to make it stick.