A lot of websites ask for your permission to show notifications. While Chrome notifications might be useful for some sites, the constant pop-up prompts can be annoying. We’ll show you how to turn off Chrome notifications for good. How to Disable Chrome Notifications If you’re not interested in notifications from any website, you can block the prompts completely from the Chrome settings. First, open the Chrome web browser on your Windows, Mac, or Linux computer, and then click the three-dot menu icon in the top-right corner of the window....

The Philips Hue app can do a handful of cool stuff with your Hue lights, including the ability to schedule your lights to turn on and off at specific times throughout the day. Here’s how to set it up so that you never have to flip a switch ever again. RELATED: How to Set Up Your Philips Hue Lights Doing this used to require a service called IFTTT, but a feature called “Routines” was introduced in the new Philips Hue app earlier this year, and it’s main function is to schedule your Hue lights to turn on and off....

macOS Sierra’s picture in picture mode doesn’t natively support Netflix and YouTube, but a Safari extension adds a dedicated button for the job, letting you pop out videos for these sites with just one click. Download Install Pied PíPer The extension, PiedPíPer, is not offered in the official Safari Extensions Gallery as of this writing. Thankfully, it’s still easy to install. Head to the Pied PíPer page on GitHub, then download the “Installable Version” with the ....

time Has Many Relatives There are many Linux distributions and different Unix-like operating systems. Each of these has a default command shell. The most common default shell in modern Linux distributions is the bash shell. But there are many others, such as the Z shell (zsh) and the Korn shell (ksh). All of these shells incorporate their own time command, either as a built-in command or as a reserved word. When you type time in a terminal window the shell will execute its internal command instead of using the GNU time binary which is provided as part of your Linux distribution....

The Windows Command Prompt has a built-in history feature, allowing you to quickly view commands you’ve run in the current session. Even better, the Command Prompt offers quite a few keyboard shortcuts and other tricks for working with your command history. How to View Your Command History To scroll through your command history, you can use these keyboard shortcuts: Up Arrow: Recall the previous command you typed. Press the key repeatedly to walk through your command history....

Linux logs a large amount of events to the disk, where they’re mostly stored in the /var/log directory in plain text. Most log entries go through the system logging daemon, syslogd, and are written to the system log. Ubuntu includes a number of ways of viewing these logs, either graphically or from the command-line. You can also write your own log messages to the system log — particularly useful in scripts....

The Eero PoE 6 has a coverage area of up to 2,000 square feet and can connect to more than 100 devices. The device is capable of wireless speeds of up to 1.5 gigabits per second and 160 MHz channels. And, because of PoE’s versatility, it can go practically anyplace an ethernet cable can be pulled, making it simple to flush mount to ceilings and walls. And to go with those access points, you have the Eero PoE Gateway....

Setting the default terminal emulator is easy by using the update-alternatives command. Open a terminal window and type in the following command: You’ll see something similar to the following, although you may not see as many options on your system: Just type in the number of the selection and hit enter. Now when you launch the terminal via the menu item, or by typing in x-terminal-emulator at the command line, you will see the correct window pop up....

Managing the resources available to your Pods and containers is a best practice step for Kubernetes administration. You need to prevent Pods from greedily consuming your cluster’s CPU and memory. Excess utilization by one set of Pods can cause resource contention that slows down neighboring containers and destabilizes your hosts. Kubernetes resource management is often misunderstood though. Two mechanisms are provided to control allocations: requests and limits. This leads to four possible settings per Pod, if you set a request and limit for both CPU and memory....

Hubitat Is a Powerful Hub for Your Smarthome One thing is still true; there are too many smarthome hubs from which to choose. And while there are hubs you should avoid altogether, Hubitat isn’t necessarily one of them: it’s complex, perhaps too complex for many people, but has a lot of powerful features. Hubitat is a true smarthome hub designed to be the center of your automation. It connects to Z-wave and Zigbee, Alexa and Google Home, Lutron and LAN devices....

Port Selection The first thing to consider when getting a USB-C hub is the port selection. While outlets for USB-A, HDMI, and Gigabit Ethernet cables are fairly common, they may be absent from some options. Even when present, they vary in number. If you use USB-C more, you might want to prioritize an adapter with multiple ports. The same applies if you wish to connect more USB-A or HDMI-supported devices....

The new Meta Quest Pro isn’t a replacement for the popular entry-level Quest 2 headset, which went up in price in August. The Quest Pro is much more expensive, with a starting price of $1,499.99 — more than the M2 MacBook Air. It’s the first headset with the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 1 chipset, along with 12 GB RAM, 256 GB of internal storage, and ten high-resolution sensors. Meta says all those hardware improvements mean a 50% power boost while still dissipating heat better than the Quest 2....

Whether it is just a matter of curiosity or a genuine need to know before adjusting the size of the file on your own computer, just how large can a Windows page file actually be? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites....

You pay good money for your speedy broadband connection, and it would be a shame if a poor hardware choice was hampering your network. Are network switches to blame for your slow connection? We get a not-insignificant number of reader inquiries about network hardware, especially concerns over whether or not a network switch is to blame for home network problems—primarily issues with connection speed and stability. Despite the suspicion that so many people seem intent on casting towards the poor network switch, it’s very rarely the source of network problems....

Thankfully, most DisplayPort problems are relatively easy to avoid or fix. Here are four common DisplayPort problems, along with advice for diagnosing and solving them. Display Adapter Link Failure The first clue to a DisplayPort link failure will probably be your monitor switching to low resolution. This mainly affects AMD GPUs and usually occurs after waking your computer and monitor from sleep. The Radeon software should alert you to the problem with an error message, but this is easy to miss when it pops up....

Whether that means you use your Android phone as a controller for video game emulators on your Android tablet or you use an old Android phone to control the action on your new and more spacious Android phone, you can easily link together two devices. Check out the video above to see the installation process and the controller in action (jump to 3:26 if you just want to see them using the controller)....

There are few things as frustrating as listening to your favorite music and suddenly having one or more songs play at a lower volume. Is there an easy way to fix the volume problem without sacrificing quality? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post helps a frustrated reader solve his volume problems. Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites....

The new car, which is based on the existing gas-powered Blazer, is a crossover SUV with a taller height than a typical sedan-style car — competing against the Tesla Model Y, Nissan Ariya, Ford Mustang Mach-E, and others. It can jump from 0-60 mph in less than 4 seconds, according to GM, and the ‘Super Cruise’ driver assistance feature (which allows hands-free driving on some highways) will be available on some models....

You turn lights off when you leave the room, you turn off your computer when you’re not using it, but your power bill still looks like you leave the proverbial lights on all day and night. The culprit is likely sitting silently under your shiny HDTV set. You have several great questions in your email. Let’s start with the easiest to answer and move to the hardest. Along the way we’ll provide some tips to help you get to the bottom of your problem with the definitiveness you’re after....

Every time you reboot your Windows 10 PC, Microsoft OneDrive bugs you to login or create an account. But what if you don’t want to? What if you want it to go away, forever? Microsoft doesn’t give you that option, but we have a way to disable it for good. You’d think if the computer is so smart, it would get the message after you close out of the dialog every single time you reboot....