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Horizon Services Nightmare and Warning

This story begins Christmas Day 2022. I'd seen the signs before. My furnace was on the fritz. The blinking light that I've come to hate on my Beckett Oil burner was flashing. I tried to soft and hard reset it and that was not working. So I called around. One of the leading HVAC companies that I have used in the past was not available until Thursday, so I chose Horizon, who had an appointment for the next day according to their online booking system, which they tout heavily. So I booked an appointment online on Monday for a Tuesday 8am-12pm window. Nobody came. I called at 12:15. I was told the appointment never made it to the dispatch people. So they told me definitely they would have someone out that night 8pm-12am. Nobody came. Called at 12:15am. Was told that someone was finishing up a job and they would get to me next. It's now 4am and... Nobody came. Finally got the dispatch to send someone at 9am Wednesday. That's a full 24 hours I waited, without sleep for them t
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Deleted Items folder appears in Outlook for Gmail account

If Outlook creates a Deleted Items folder for a Gmail account in Outlook, it's probably because the Trash folder is hidden in Gmail. Remove the account from Outlook Sign in to Gmail Change the Settings -> Labels -> Trash setting to Show Add the account back to Outlook Interesting page: Command line switches for Outlook . 
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Backup Linux files to Windows 11 Desktop using WinSCP and PowerShell over IPv6

Note/Disclaimer: This can be done with Windows Power Automate, but that takes more time to accomplish the same goal. Also not that you will likely have to sign your PS script (with either methos), which I may cover in another post. If you think that would be valuable, comment below. ↓ Environment: VPS running RockLinux (CentOS compat) Network interface: ens192 Windows 11 (Task Scheduler) WinSCP 5.17.10 (5.18 didn’t work, I forget why). IPv6 network provided by host I’ll be using a sample CIDR fc04:1c8e:685a:239c: for this tutorial. One IPv6 was provisioned to server over DHCP. fc04:1c8e:685a:239c::1 I created two new IPv6 addresses at host. fc04:1c8e:685a:239c::2 fc04:1c8e:685a:239c::3 Add IPv6 address to server: $ sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ens192 Add the following line to the end of the file: IPV6ADDR_SECONDARIES="fc04:1c8e:685a:239c::5/64   fc04:1c8e:685a:239c::4/64" Reboot host. You should now see the networks available: $ ip addr | grep inet6 ... inet6
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