Stop Seeing Unwanted Posts in Facebook

Are you still on Facebook and noticed the amount of undesired crappy fake AI-generated posts infesting your feed?

Instead of scrolling from Home, go to Feeds and choose more specialized feeds like Friends or Groups.

Less and Less Space on Your Disk? Using Thunderbird?

 If you see your free disk space going lower and lower and you are using Thunderbird, there's a good chance a bug is eating away a lot of it.

First step: disable automatic compacting of folders: uncheck "Compact all folders..."

Then go to:

C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\

Check the size if you have multiple ones, go inside and delete all "nstmp" files.

Those are the product of a bug:

"This sounds a lot like the folder compaction bug which can cause Thunderbird to drastically increase the size of temporary files (nstmp, nstmp-2, etc) if the process fails. We're currently rewriting the code for this (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1890448) and a fix should be coming soon."

Thanks to https://www.reddit.com/user/killyourfm/

Thunderbird Eating Up My Hard Drive : r/Thunderbird (reddit.com)

Free up Space in Windows 11

Open "System" and go to Storage -> Temporary Files or search for "storage" and click on Temporary Files. Customize and get some space back.

Manually Edit the TortoiseHg Registry

 Sometimes you have spurious entries that cannot be removed from the UI.

You can manually edit the Repository Registry by going to the local configuration directory--something like: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\TortoiseHg--and editing the file:

thg-reporegistry.xml

If you have an empty group, there will be a line like:

    <allgroup name="default"/>

which you can just delete.

Thunderbird (115.x.y) Use Body Text Style by Default

Update of my post from a few years ago.

You can set Body Text as the default composition style from the Tools Menu ->  Settings -> Composition:

uncheck "Use Paragraph format instead of Body Text by default".

Still, if you reply to an email and find yourself using the Paragraph style, you might think the option has been disabled. It's not. You just moved inside a Paragraph block.

Can not extract resource from com.android.aaptcompiler.ParsedResource

 If you get this strange error while building an app with AndroidStudio:

"Can not extract resource from com.android.aaptcompiler.ParsedResource"

 

 check if you just introduced an unprotected apostrophe (') in strings.xml and replace it with (\').

Thanks to soulflavacrew.

Download Your Data from Instagam

 The tricky part is to find how to start. 

1. Log in.
2. Choose your account in the top right corner.
3. Click on the Options icon, right of "View Archive".
4. Choose "Settings and Privacy".
5. In the "Accounts Center", choose "Personal Details".
6. Now in the left side menu, choose "Your Information and Permissions".
7. Choose "Download your Information" and proceed with customizing your request.
8. Wait for Instagram to notify you when the data is ready to be downloaded.

The End