[There's a TL;DR at the end of this rant in case you're just desperate to get your Zoom client to work again]
There are many reasons why proprietary, non-interoperable services are a bane and why I generally say no to them, be them Twitter, Discourse, or Google Docs. However …
This is what this post is about: having a single switch for monitor, amplifier, and computer.
I use an oldish notebook with a retired monitor and an amplifier I picked up from kerbside junk to watch …
Somewhere beneath the fan on the right edge of this image there is breakage. This post is about how to limit the damage in software until I find the leisure to dig deeper into this pile of hitech.
My machine (a Lenovo X240) has a smart card reader built in …
As I have already pointed out in April, I consider simple and compact web browsers a matter of freedom (well, Freedom as in speech, actually), and although there's been a bit of talk about ladybird lately, my favourite in this category still is netsurf, which apparently to this date is …
Ich bin ein stiller Fan des Debian-Pakets installation-birthday. Das hat mir vorhin eine Mail geschrieben:
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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 11:04:11 +0200
From: Anacron <root@hostname-withheld>
To: root@hostname-withheld
Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' on hostname-withheld
/etc/cron.daily/installation-birthday:
0 0
| |
____|___|____
0 |~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~| 0
| | | |
___ …
An early version of this post rendered in netsurf.
I believe about the worst threat to software freedom these days are web browsers. That is not only because they already are, for many people out there, a more relevant applications platform than their primary operating system, and that almost everything …
As I've blogged the other day, I like having my machine's syslog on the screen background so I notice when the machine is unwell and generally have some idea what it thinks it is doing. That also makes me spot milder distress signals like:
logind-uaccess-command[30337]: Failed to reset ACL …
AGPL (copyright)
While I believe that RSS (or rather Atom a.k.a. RFC 4287) is a great standard for subscribing to media like blogs[1], I strongly suspect that virtually nobody pulls my RSS feed. I'm almost tempted to log for a while to ascertain that. Then …
I'm setting up an ancient machine – a Pentium M box with a meme 256 MB of RAM – with current Debian bullseye, and I'm impressed that that still works: this machine is almost 20 years old. Hats off to the Debian folks.
But that's not really my story. Instead, this is …
Since Corona started, I've had to occasionally run zoom and other questionable telecon software. I don't want that proprietary junk on my main machine, partly because I'm a raving Free software lunatic, partly because binary packages from commercial vendors outside of the Debian main repository have a way of blowing …
The other day the cage that holds the SIM card for the wireless modem of my Lenovo X240 rotted away. Fixing this (provided that's even reasonable, which I'm not sure about) requires digging quite a bit deeper into the machine than I …
The other day someone gave me another dock for my thinkpad, and I eventually decided to use it at home. I've had a dock at the office for a long time, and docking there involved running a complex …
I've upgraded my personal notebook – with a file system that has a continuous history back to a slackware in 1996 and thus always is the most rewarding thing to test upgrades on – to Debian …
After decades of (essentially) using other people's smarthosts to send mail, I have recently needed to run a full-blown, deliver-to-the-world mail server (cf. Das Fürchten lernen; it's in German, though).
While I had expected this to be a major nightmare, it …
I'm reading PDFs quite a bit, most of them in my beloved zathura. So, I was dismayed when today I paged through a book that showed in zathura as on the left side of this figure:
The metrics are off so badly that readability suffers.
Rather than try to fix …
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