I just stumbled on an old NextCloud Box in my loft. It’s a quiet Sunday in the house, so I thought I’d see if it still works, and if there’s any data on it. I’m pretty sure I did use it for a while, so there must be something on it.
Here’s my NextCloud Box in a cardboard box labelled “NextCloud Box”.
Here’s what the NextCloud box looks like once installed.
[Read More]I’ve had my GabeGear Steam Deck for over a year now, and I love it. When it first arrived, I considered using it to play retro games - via emulators. But a terribad experience with EmuDeck soured my opinon of retro gaming on the deck.
The whole EmuDeck installation and configuration was less than straightforward, indeed somewhat cumbersome. I found it to be a loosely connected, and poorly integrated bag of spanners. Surprising for a project seemingly awash with community supporters and funding!
[Read More]Neither of these are “App Stores” in the way average people know them. You can neither buy or sell products in these so-called ‘stores’…
…yet.
The wording on those two screenshots above is both hilarious and sad. It’s very reminiscent of People’s Front of Judea or Slim Shady.
Anyway, here follows a bit of a moan about all this (the app stores, not Monty Python or Eminem).
I have previously lamented on the following subject as a stream of tweets. The topic has been on mind mind again recently though. So I thought I’d revisit and expand my thoughts.
[Read More]SOMETIMES I PRESS THE CAPS LOCK KEY BY ACCIDENT, USUALLY WHILE PLAYING A VIDEO GAME. I THEN FIND MYSELF UNABLE TO TYPE A PASSWORD OR I AM ACCUSED OF SHOUTING ONLINE.
OVER COFFEE, MY FRIEND MARTIN EXPLAINED THAT IT’S POSSIBLE TO DISABLE THE CAPS LOCK KEY COMPLETELY IN LINUX. I’D NEVER CONSIDERED DOING THIS, MISTAKENLY THINKING THE ONLY OPTIONS WERE TO REMAP IT TO SOMETHING ELSE.
IT TURNS OUT GNOME TWEAKS HAS AN OPTION. IN ‘KEYBOARD & MOUSE’, CLICK THE ‘ADDITIONAL LAYOUT OPTIONS’, THEN CHOOSE ‘CAPS LOCK BEHAVIOUR’.
[Read More]My work computer is a ThinkPad Z13. It’s on most of the time, including overnight and during the weekend. I’m one of those horrible people who like to just wiggle their mouse, unlock, and get working. I often leave a ton of windows open, so I quite like to sit down and start working without having to wait for boot up, and subsequent app launch.
So when I arrive at my desk on a Monday and discover my GPU has crashed, that’s a poor start to the week. The GPU crashing doesn’t completely kill the machine, just my desktop session and all the applications that were open. ðŸ˜
[Read More]Back in 2020 I stumbled on Bandwhich, a “Terminal bandwidth utilization tool”, written in Rust.
More recently, I was looking for a tool to identify which processes on a box were using bandwidth, and how much. I remembered Bandwhich and took another look. I wanted an easy way to install Bandwhich on a variety of machines, running a variety of Linux distributions across different architectures.
So I built a snap of bandwhich.
[Read More]Earlier today I posted a poll on Mastodon.
As I write this, there are fifteen hours left on the poll, and it looks like this with around a hundred votes:
Most people seems to think I should wait for a month. That result may change overnight, of course, but I can’t wait! I’ve got a blog post to write, and time on my hands!
So let’s upgrade now!
[Read More]Canonical is planning an ‘All Snap’ desktop next year. It will likely be available side-by-side with the traditional deb-based installation we’ve been used to since 2004.
If the “All Snap” or “immutable” platform is to be a success, Canonical needs to get a grip on the broken, uninstallable, insecure, and outdated snaps provided in the snap store.
This is a long post, so feel free to skip to the ‘Solutions’ section for my positive thoughts.
[Read More]Back in December 2020 I wrote up my personal Must-Have GNOME extensions. It’s been nearly three years, two job changes, and a few Ubuntu upgrades, so I thought I’d take another look.
tl;dr:
I no longer have these installed.
This used to crash a lot for me, to the point I’d go and look for it in the panel and it was missing. I figured if I don’t realise it’s gone, I probably don’t need it that much. Also, GNOME shell volume control has changed a bit over the last few years. It’s pretty easy to switch device now in the menu.
[Read More]Back in July, Martin introduced us to ZeroTier on the Linux Matters podcast, episode 8. He detailed why he’s using the tool and how. Worth a listen.
Per their website, ZeroTier “lets you build modern, secure multi-point virtualized networks of almost any type. From robust peer-to-peer networking to multi-cloud mesh infrastructure, we enable global connectivity with the simplicity of a local network.”
Interesting marketing, but do I need this though?
I have three main computers, and some other devices I use regularly. By ‘regularly’ I mean ‘at least once a week, maybe more’.
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