I asked in the fediverse for recommendations for wired (so I don’t have to worry about battery life / charging), stereo, headsets with a boom microphone, for using with Linux.| neilzone.co.uk
I’ve wanted a ThinkPad X1 Yoga for a while, and I found one on eBay for a price I was willing to pay: £190.| neilzone.co.uk
I’ve been struggling to find a way of connecting my SurfaceBook 2, running Debian, to two 4K monitors at the same time.| neilzone.co.uk
Lots of references to a time when the sourceforge file was not available, which was not the answer to the problem today.| neilzone.co.uk
Sandra and I have been using matrix (a synapse server) for a few years, but Sandra didn’t find it the easiest thing to use, and I never got audio and video calls working reliably.| neilzone.co.uk
I’ve been trying to get GSConnect - the GNOME implementation of KDE Connect, which is software to control some of your phone’s functionality from your computer - working with my laptop for ages.| neilzone.co.uk
I’ve written before - for Debian 10 and 11, and for RaspberryPi OS - about remotely unlocking a LUKS-encrypted partition via ssh.| neilzone.co.uk
Someone posted a link in the fediverse to this piece, “PSA: upgrade your LUKS key derivation function”.| neilzone.co.uk
When I’m at home, I mostly use my laptop at my desk, connected to a dock, which has Ethernet to it.| neilzone.co.uk
When trying to accept a calendar invitation from people at a particular domain, sogo threw an error:| neilzone.co.uk
I use espanso as a text expander. I specify “triggers” - think, shortcuts - and, when I type those triggers, the trigger word is replaced automatically with whatever I have defined.| neilzone.co.uk
I often want to add today’s date to the beginning of a document’s name.| neilzone.co.uk
There was some interesting discussion on the fediverse about tools for backing up to USB devices on Linux.| neilzone.co.uk