Proxmox mount host storage in Linux Container

 On host in terminal run:

pct set <container_id_number> -mp0 /<host_dir>,mp=/<container_mount_point>

Windows 10 update KB5034441 fails with error 0x80070643 (how to ignore update)

In January 2024, Microsoft pushed out a broken update to the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) that got a couple things wrong:

1) If your WinRE partition didn't have enough space, the update would fail to install.

2) If you didn't have a WinRE partition at all, it would also try to install and fail.

Within a week or two, MS linked to info about how to resize a WinRE partition to address #1 above. As for #2, they suggested you just ignore the failing update.

My system was suffering from #2 and I was tired of seeing the failing attempt so I did a quick search for how to disable a specific update and found an article describing Microsoft's "Show or Hide Updates Tool".

 

Display UTF-8 characters in Putty or a Windows Terminal ssh session

Using Putty SSH on Windows 10 to connect to a Debian 12 system, I noticed that some UTF-8 characters were not rendering properly in the terminal. After checking the Putty settings (Window -> Translation -> Remote Character Set = UTF-8 and Window -> Appearance -> Font = Noto Sans) I was still seeing a filename containing the UTF-8 Middle Dot (·) character printing out with some kind of encoding representation rather than the character itself. The character rendered fine in Firefox when visiting the aforementioned URL.

I wondered if it might be a font issue so I tried installing the Noto series archive of Nerd Fonts and selecting NotoMono Nerd Font Mono. This didn't fix the display in Putty.

Next attempt was to try a different terminal. I installed Windows Terminal which is supposed to use a default font with better UTF-8 support and fail back to other fonts as needed. On a whim I also tried just running ssh in it. I had forgotten that MS decided to include ssh in the April 2018 Windows 10 Creator's Update. Anyway, after using that terminal and the built-in ssh to connect to the server, I was still not seeing the middle dot character rendered properly.

Some more investigation revealed that it might be an issue with locale settings on the Debian side so I ran dpkg-reconfigure locales and chose en_CA.UTF-8 UTF-8, en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8, and en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 as my locales to generate followed by en_CA.UTF-8 as the "Default locale for the system environment". After that, reconnecting in both Windows Terminal using `ssh` and in Putty both allowed me to see the middle dot character properly.