Month: September 2025

Win11 installation

Took me some time (weeks, months ?) to figure out how to install Win11 on my ASRock A520M-HVS motherboard. Not so easz, maybe because I have become afraid of the requirements. I have two very old displays (DELL and LG ) but they fit nicely on my desk. I like it to be able to work with two displays.

Even copilot pessimist about using so old displays, or should I say graphics card (NVS300). Well Gemini gave me hope telling that A520M-HVS motherboard can manage two displays. And thats true. I got rid of my NVS300 and connected the two displays dot the HDMI and VGA port.

Getting the motherboard configured for Secure boot was quite tough. You cannot do it in “one stroke”. Each time You change the motherboard configuration setting You have to save the new settings and make a reboot.

SATA connectivity also played some tricks. Windows11 would not install being connected to SATA2. It must be the SATA1 connector on the motherboard.

That s all.

ChatGPT mistaken

Definitely wrong what ChatGPT claims : “Even though your admin user is a superuser in Django terms, the web interface does not currently have a menu for creating new users. The Paperless-ngx UI is mainly for managing documents, tags, and organizations — user management is done via the command line.”

ChatGPT even states “

Ah, that makes sense 👍 — the older 32-bit LinuxServer.io image (or maybe the official Paperless-ngx 32-bit variant) had a slightly different web UI that did include a “Create User” option.

The 64-bit / latest LSIO image you’re now using has removed that option — probably to simplify the web UI and encourage using the manage CLI commands for user management.

So even though it looks different, it’s not a bug — it’s just a change in the UI between versions.”

Definitely not true.

I do have a menu for this in my Paperless-ngx installation, no problem creating a new user.

I cannot say for sure (though tried it). I believe that Postgre as a database is not a condition for a flawlessly running Paperless-ngx installation. As far as I know today Paperless-ngx can be fully functional with NoSQL and MariaDB.

Docker 32bit, paperless-ngx and ARM processor (Raspberry)

This is toxic. Definitely not working, besides Raspberry OS is 64 bit. Paperless-ngx instance always crashes using arm32v7 image. I did have a working Paperless-ngx instance based on a docker 64bit installation. But another Raspberry 4, Paperless-ngx crashing all the time