Category: Tips

Pi Hole – Not upgrading (pihole -up)

Recently Pi Hole issued an update to there web front end, unfortunately every time I ran the command pihole -up I was getting an error message:

Unable to find remote helper for 'https'

I was struggling to find any help on the web about this error but stumbled on an old article regarding git cloning failing in a similar way, knowing that Pi Hole uses git I ran the following commands:

sudo apt-get remove git

and this command to re-install git and any missing components:

sudo apt-get install git-all

After this I re-issued the command pihole -up and was successfully able to update it to the latest.

pi@pihole:~ $ pihole -up
[i] Checking for updates...
[i] Pi-hole Core: up to date
[i] Web Interface: update available
[i] FTL: up to date

Hey Presto!

New Weather Icon on Windows 10

Has your Windows 10 just updated recently and a New Weather Icon appeared on your task bar you didn’t ask for? Me too!!!

 

 

Here is two methods onto how to hide or remove it:

Firstly if you are not interested in removing the new feature you can simply right click on the taskbar and go to News and Interest and choose – Turn Off

But if you are like me and feel that the Windows 10 Bloatware is getting out of hand and turning into Windows 98 SE power tools disaster then here is a more permanent way to disable it (Install Linux – Lol)

Seriously if you are a bit handy with group policy you can disabled the feature fortunately by follow the below steps:

  1. Open gpedit.msc ( Group Policy Editor )
  2. Goto the following path: Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> News and interests
  3. Right Click onto Enable news and Interest on toolbar and choose Disable
    Disable_Remove_News_And_Interests_Feature_Windows_10_Taskbar_Group_Policy.png
  4. Click Apply and Okay and restart you PC

Hopefully the new ADMX template has been updated so that we can remove this from corporate domain.