raspberry-pi

Raspberry Pi 2 - Network connectivity in Ubuntu

I was surprised that after installing Ubuntu on my Raspberry Pi 2, it wouldn't connect via a wired connection.

After making the following changes, everything worked as expected again.

In /etc/netplan/50-cloud-init.yaml I had to set the following to enable the ethernet adapter:

network:
    version: 2
    ethernets:
      eth0:
        dhcp4: true
        optional: true

The following package was needed for WLAN drivers: linux-modules-extra-raspi
And finally, to be able to reference the interface as "wlan0" again instead of "Predictable Network Interface Names" - this is a short-term preference - I had to add the following to /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt: net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0

Workaround for Microsoft Office activation issues on accounts with the same e-mail address

In case you have used the same e-mail address for both your personal and work Microsoft/Office accounts in the past, you might run into problems activating Microsoft Office on your personal account. The problem I encountered was that, whenever I entered my personal e-mail address in the activation dialog

Disable OneDrive in Microsoft Office

If you don't use OneDrive and want to remove it from your Microsoft Office applications, you can use the following registry setting: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\Internet] "OnlineStorage"=dword:00000001 The documentation of the OnlineStorage

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Workaround for Microsoft Office activation issues on accounts with the same e-mail address

Disable OneDrive in Microsoft Office