iGPU VAAPI acceleration on HA Frigate in Proxmox

A while ago I started using Frigate as an alternative for the really crappy motion detection on my Foscam R2M IP camera and quickly found myself adding my other 2 Reolink camera's to it as well. However, CPU usage was pretty high despite it only having to handle 3 camera's and this inevitably leads to …

Installing a Homematic IP radiator valve using RaspberryMatic on Home Assistant

In this guide I'll try to explain how to use the HM-MOD-RPI-PCB on the same Raspberry Pi as Home Assistant without using the Home Assistant provided Homematic CCU container. The only requirement to do this is that you do not have an officially support HA installation but instead have it installed on Raspbian using e.g. …

Office 365 slow when typing and constant high CPU

Lately, my Office 365 started to misbehave. Launching Excel was so slow that it usually ended with "There was a problem sending the command to the program" and typing into Word was a PITA; it would take 2-4 seconds for text to show up after typing. A quick look at the process revealed that there …

Speaker fill not working in Windows 10

I recently tried to attach a subwoofer to my desktop computer, but when playing music, there was no sound coming out of it, even if I had the "Speaker fill" option enabled. A possible solution is to replace the High Definition Audio driver with an older version (specifically, the one from 27/02/2017). To do so, …

Fix: can not enable Javascript in IE11

Today I had to re-sync my OneDrive library on my Windows 8.1 laptop but before I could log in I got stuck on a "Javascript is required" error message. I checked, double-check and re-checked that all Javascript options were enabled in Internet Explorer 11. I completely reset the browser, wiping all my settings, I re-installed …