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Installing local AI on Ubuntu dualboot 

As a Software Developer for my day job, I am using a lot of AI tools paid for by the company I am working for.  But the issue is, it is only for the projects I am doing for them.  I really like the capabilities of AI tools nowadays, but I do not want to risk the huge bills for myself that cloud agents can consume.  That is why I decided I would try to set up on my desktop with an RTX 5090.  This video card has 32GB of available VRAM, and the PC has 128GB of normal RAM.  As I talked to Gemini in the Google browser, it tried to convince me that […]

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Why would I learn xUnit for .Net Core?

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Everyone faces challenges with code quality and unit testing. I am not different either. Here is how the business realized the need for code quality and the need for x unit in this case. This is my story of …

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How to Check the Xbox One Controller Battery Level on Windows 10 PC

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To check the battery level of your wireless Xbox One Controller is not that trivial on a Windows 10 PC. You might think that Microsoft gives you a working solution out of the box but I was spending quite a lot of time finding out what is the right way to do it. It turns out […]

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Windows 7 stucked update solution

I had a “small” issue for a week when I reinstalled my old windows 7 laptop. It was all ok, except it did not want to install updates. Nor skype or similar things. At first, I got errors in the c++ redistribution library. (Here is the solution, to install it follow the steps from below.) […]