my programming journey

Logitech K380 on top of my laptop's keyboard After wasting a lot of money buying some bluetooth keyboards from different brands I finally purchased Logitech K380 .  In short: this is the best of all of them by miles. Not only the tactile feel is superb, the connection is realible too. And when my laptop starts it takes only a few seconds to register the key press on the login screen, something that I can't say of all other compact keyboards I have had. But there are two things that annoy me . First the over-crowded layout of the UK version I have got (see the picture above for the most top left key, number 2 key, the two keys on the left side of the enter key and the bottom left key next to Shift key, that makes Shift keys much small than on the US version. I would have preferred to buy the US version , but it is impossible to find in the UK where I live. Second the reversed Fn key setup . I understand that Logitech mainly target multimedia use with this keyboard. But I would...

Windows is not activated, my goodness! Windows 10 Professional was pre-installed on my Dell Inspiron 5480 when I bought it. I kept it there and kept it updated just in case I need to use any Windows application one day. Until yesterday when as usual Windows suggested another updates. I can't remember all of them but they were Windows 10 version 1909 , Intel related stuff and others . As usual I just let them all run. However this time it went really really wrong. First after a few times restarts I noticed a defaced desktop : the usual wallpaper was set to the default one and the theme was also different because the icons looked different. And second , to my horror, I saw in the Settings that Windows is now not activated !!! What the hell had happened! I shut down the system just to make sure this was only temporary. The laptop rebooted, but I noticed the grub menu for dual boot had disappeared . It booted directly into Windows. And the defaced desktop and the deactivated Wind...