VLC Flatpak won’t play videos from network shares

Suddenly the Flatpak version of VLC on Ubuntu stopped playing video files directly from a network fileshare (SMB/windows share) mounted via Nautilus. The error is about VLC not being able to play "smb://" files. That's annoying because Nautilus is supposed to hide the fact that this is a network share and create then illusion of … Continue reading VLC Flatpak won’t play videos from network shares →

wpa_supplicant spam

Ubuntu 24.04 is spamming several of these entries in syslog: wpa_supplicant[1736]: wlp3s0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-62 noise=9999 txrate=390000 The solution is to raise the wpa_supplicant logging level and restart networking: mkdir -p /etc/systemd/system/wpa_supplicant.service.d/ vi /etc/systemd/system/wpa_supplicant.service.d/log.conf # add these lines [Service] LogLevelMax=4 # save & quit systemctl daemon-reload systemctl restart wpa_supplicant.service systemctl restart NetworkManager.service

Android: “something went wrong and you need to sign in again” loop

I recently had trouble setting up a Google workspace account on my Android phone. Symptoms:- The phone persistently displays "Something went wrong and you need to sign in again". On clicking that, you get the same message again.- The phone persistently displays "android account action required". On clicking that, you get the same message again.- … Continue reading Android: “something went wrong and you need to sign in again” loop →

Microsoft Teams video freezing

I usually don't write about the Microsoft Windows ecosystem, but this one took a while to figure out and I hope it saves other people time. The setup: Microsoft Windows, the Teams application, a Canon EOS camera attached over a no-name HDMI-to-USB video grabber being used as a web cam. The issue: video sporadically freezes … Continue reading Microsoft Teams video freezing →

Azure diaries: InUseSubnetCannotBeDeleted

When re-deploying a Bicep template that defines a vnet with subnets, I get the error "InUseSubnetCannotBeDeleted". It seems like ARM is trying to re-create the nested subnets, even though they haven't changed. The solution is to add a redundant reference to all subnets via the "existing" keyword. resource websiteVnet 'Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks@2021-02-01' = { name: 'vnet${sfx}001' location: … Continue reading Azure diaries: InUseSubnetCannotBeDeleted →