Hyper-V allows partitioning the GPU to pass through as a renderer engine to a Windows guest machine. This post outlines the steps to enable accelerated rendering in a Hyper-V guest.
Getting intel iGPU passed through to VM can be challenging. This post provides an step by step guide for full iGPU passthrough to Windows guest.
It is often useful to compress image files, especially when submitting them online and having to deal with limited file size & dimension requirements. This post describes using ImageMagick to compress image files.
Consumer versions of windows only allow a single RDP session at the same time. It’s possible to circumvent this limitation.
Creating symlinks is useful when you want different paths point to the same common file or folder.
Sometimes you may want to override UAC forcing privilege escalation when running programs that indicate admin rights in their manifests. Here’s how.
This was more painful than I thought.
The compatibility tab is hidden for Microsoft Windows’ system files. To work around this issue, you can mark the executable as hidpi aware directly in registry.
There are times where you may want to disallow a user to run any commands on the server, without completely disabling the account. For example, to allow an account to open port forwards, but no shell access.
Samba’s default settings are defined with security and compatibility in mind. In the modern world, we can trade off compatibility and some security for faster speed.
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