Disable Copilot in Windows 11

AI technologies are great, but the new AI-powered recall feature in Microsoft's Co-pilot on Windows 11 raises privacy concerns. This feature has the capability to take periodic screenshots without notification, highlighting potential risks to user privacy(read here).

You can however chose to disable below feature with below steps...ironically provided by copilot itself 🤣

Connect-VIServer The SSL connection could not be established, see inner exception [Solved]

Recently, i've taken up familiarity with Powershell interfacing with VMWware for automation and first issue i came across was when attempting to connect to EsXi with below command

"Connect-VIServer -Server $vCenterServer"

NFS Datastore inaccessible after ugprade to ESXi 8.0 update 2

After recent upgrade From ESXi 7.0 U3 to ESXi 8 update 2, i lost access to my NFS datastore. After hours of online search, i realized the culprit was the esxi firewall.

Resolution:

1. Enable SSH in esxi   

2. Log into ESXI host via ssh using putty and execute below command:

Unable to start Picoweb on micropython [Resolved]

I've recently delved into microcontrollers and iin this case, teh ESP32 DevKIT(pictured above).
Amongst the numberous possibilites of this nifty device is its ability to function as a webserver. There are various frameworks for web application and i chose picoweb.
Instructions for deployment appeared quite simple.
IDE used in my case is uPyCraft V1.1
Assumption made is that unit already has internet connection

Unable to Update Unifi AP Firmware (Resolved)

Recently i updated my Unifi Controller from v4 to v5.10.26 after which i could not recieve information regarding the units and i was unable to upgrade the APs to the current version.
after numerous checks and online information, i got no where.

Install Nginx with uWSGI and Django on Raspberry Pi

This tutorial is aimed at installing a lightweight web-server  on the Raspberry Pi with python support.
The required packages are:
1. django
2. uWSGI
3. NGINX
4. Python

Note: This installation is based on the assumption you already have a correct django project.

Send your public IP Address via mail.

I have a setup that i like to monitor/access remotely but the IP address assigned to me by my ISP is DHCP assigned and changes all the time and paying for a static address is expensive.
I have a raspberry pi that i use for automating processes and this hosts the script I wrote a python script that gets my public IP every 5 mins and sends it to me via mail.