Hide the Phone Link In Start Menu in Windows 11

In the most recent update of Windows 11, Microsoft added a new design of the windows 11 start menu that includes a the pane “Access your mobile devices here”, also called “Phone Link In Start Menu”. While this is a neat feature for users at home, it’s not something you really want in a company environment. And as usual, Microsoft hasn’t provided any policy or setting to easily hide this by default.

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Exclaimer Breaks Email Forwarding

UPDATE 15/09/2025: it looks like they fixed it a couple of weeks ago.

Recently, several colleagues reported that they received blank emails containing only images and a text file named ATT00001.txt. The images were part of the email signature, and the actual message body appeared inside the text attachment.

I soon found out that Exclaimer was causing the issue… sort of.

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Connecting Visual Studio Code to a VM running Raspberry Pi Desktop (Raspbian)

Here is the situation, I have Raspberry Pi Desktop running in a VM and Visual Studio Code on my machine. When I try connect to my Raspberry Pi Desktop using VS Code Remote Development, I receive the error node: not found. When checking the files on the side of the Raspberry Pi Desktop, the node file is there and running the file results in:

$ ./node
-bash: ./node: No such file or directory
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