(This one is a reminder for me!) vidir is in Debian’s moreutils package: sudo apt install moreutils -y Add the following to ~/.bashrc: export VISUAL=vim export EDITOR="$VISUAL" Then re-source .bashrc: source ~/.bashrc| Neil's blog
For $reasons, I needed to run VirtualBox on my laptop, to make some changes to a .vdi disk image. I installed VirtualBox but, when I tried to run it, I got an error message saying Cannot operate in vmx boot mode Or something like that. (I couldn’t find a way of copying the error message to the clipboard.) To make this go away, I edited my grub config (/etc/default/grub) to add kvm.enable_virt_at_load=0: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet kvm.enable_virt_at_load=0" I then ran sudo update-grub...| Neil's blog
Sandra has an iPhone, and I wanted to back up the photos on it to an external drive. I was expecting this to be a bit of a nightmare but it turned out to be very easy. I used a laptop running Debian testing with GNOME. Sandra’s iPhone is running whatever the latest version of iOS is - 18.something, I think. It is not “jailbreaked”/“jailbroken” / “rooted” or anything like that. It went like this: I plugged Sandra’s unlocked phone into my computer. The phone prompted me to “Tr...| Neil's blog
For a while now, I’ve used nautilus-image-converter for doing simple operations on images. In particular, for scaling images down to 25%, mostly so I can post them to the fediverse. I haven’t managed to get it working from Debian’s apt repository for testing (dependency issues), and I didn’t fancy building it. Plus, it was only a GUI for imagemagick anyway. So an obvious replacement was to use a nautilus script to call magick directly. Something like this: #!/bin/bash SELECTEDFILES="$...| Neil's blog
Something I haven’t had to do before arising from my new-to-me laptop. Most of the time, I use my laptop plugged into two large external displays, via USB-C dock. In this case, I don’t care too much about the laptop display. I have it working, and if I want to keep an occasional eye on a piece of software, I might put it there, but my main focus is on the external displays. But sometimes, I will also use the laptop on its own, when obviously the laptop display is important to me. I’m st...| Neil's blog
I was pretty happy with my X1 Yoga Gen 2, but then I stumbled across a secondhand Gen 6 - four years newer, with a 4K screen and 32G of RAM - going for a very reasonable price. So I took the plunge. These are some notes for me. I doubt that there’s anything unduly interesting or novel in here; after all, this machine has been around for a couple of years now (or longer). It’s fast (by my standards) This is, by some way, the fastest machine that I have ever had. I haven’t done any benchm...| Neil's blog
One of the things I didn’t get around to sorting out during my experiment in using a terminal-only computer was a way of interacting with my calendar (caldav) and contacts (carddav) accounts on my Nextcloud server. I got vdirsyncer working fine, but interacting with the downloaded .ics/.vcf file was providing tricky with calcure and one other package I tried (I can’t remember the name). I did want to get it working, mostly out of stubbornness than because I think I will use it much, and, ...| Neil's blog
A month and a bit ago, I wondered if I could cope with a terminal-only computer.| neilzone.co.uk
I am writing this on the train back from a wonderfully successful day in London, teaching 70ish lawyers about the fundamentals of technology.| neilzone.co.uk
As I’ve said, ad nauseum probably, I like my secondhand ThinkPads.| neilzone.co.uk
wallabag is a web application allowing you to save web pages for later reading.| neilzone.co.uk
tl;dr: I set up fleamarket.neilzone.co.uk using flohmarkt. Over the years, I appear to have acquired quite a lot of tech-related stuff.| neilzone.co.uk
I’ve upgraded my desktop environment to GNOME 47. I haven’t spotted anything obviously different about it yet.| neilzone.co.uk
tl;dr I wonder if just running sudo ln -sft /etc/ModemManager/fcc-unlock.d /usr/share/ModemManager/fcc-unlock.| neilzone.co.uk