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A smart home can be a convenient and energy efficient way to control and automate various aspects of your home. However, it’s important to understand the potential costs involved in setting up and running a smart home. First, the initial cost of purchasing and installing smart home technology can vary depending on the specific products
If you’re using the Microsoft Remote Desktop client and see the ‘Too many passwords’ warning, then please consider not saving your passwords, as it’s not considered secure, but if you have to, then this is how to resolve this. Increase the number of remote desktop passwords you can save BEFORE YOU PROCEED, PLEASE NOTE THAT
Good news, if you’ve missed having the battery percentage on your iPhone’s status bar, well Apple have brought it back in iOS 16, for the iPhone 11 Pro, 12, 12 Pro, 13, 13 Pro, 14 and 14 Pro. It’s rumoured that it will come to the iPhone 13 mini in iOS 16.1. Enabling the battery
Whether you are interested in buying, or selling, property via Rightmove, you might want to download the images. Now sure, you can do this one-by-one, by right clicking on each photo (when viewed full screen) and choose to copy/save the photos, but that’s a very manual task, which will take you time. This type of
If you have UniFi devices, but don’t have one that runs the network controller software, you can install it in a docker container on a Raspberry Pi. This process should be pretty similar, regardless of the device, so long as you have Docker installed, but this image is specifically designed for the Raspberry Pi. Prerequisites
If you’re reading this, then you already know how useful Microsoft Teams is, and there numerous ways to expand how you use it. One way is with add-on via the in app store, another is adding an email address to a Team channel, and another is using webhooks to post to Teams channels. An example
If you’re working with data in Power BI and would like to count how many duplicates there are, the below example will help you. Let’s start with the table structure. For this example, lets says we want to see how many people have the same first name, and the data looks like this: EmployeeID FirstName
If you need to test something, but don’t want to risk changing or damaging your existing Windows installation, then you can utilise something called Windows Sandbox. This basically creates an isolated sandbox machine, which is automatically disposed of when you’re done with it. To get started, follow the below guide: Windows Sandbox Requirements For Windows
If you have a column containing numeric values in your Power BI report, depending on the graph, it can sometimes be too much and produce some messy graphs, like the below: To make this look better, you might want to group the data into ranges instead, to make it easier to read. For example, if