Policy Templates for Firefox| policy-templates
I thought that it might be a good idea to have a local (well, on my local network) copy of Wikipedia, and some other bits. The go-to tool for this seems to be kiwix, and that’s what I used, running on a Raspberry Pi. The gist was: add a fresh 1TB SSD to the Raspberry Pi add some content for kiwix install kiwix and create a library file put an nginx proxy in front of it (for TLS termination) Adding a 1TB SSD to the Raspberry Pi I created a mount point: mkdir -p /media/1TB Using lsblk -f to g...| Neil's blog
A couple of years ago, I wrote about using NetworkManager’s dispatcher.| neilzone.co.uk
Do you have a phone, tablet, or laptop (or, well, any device…) which will only take a physical SIM, but with which you’d like to use eSIMs?| neilzone.co.uk
(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 my work, I write a lot of advice notes. I like to write in markdown (just as I do for presentations, with reveal.js), and then convert that markdown to PDF. An easy option for doing this is GNOME’s “Apostrophe”. You can have real-time preview, and the PDF export that it produces is fine. But one cannot (easily, at least) change the look of that output, or add in a logo, or anything like that. I’ve previously tinkered with pandoc, and exporting to PDF using different PDF engines, b...| Neil's blog
I am sad that RadioFreeFedi has gone away. I loved it. So when Andy Piper mentioned the existence of The Indie Beat Radio FM (run by MizKirsten), as another fedi, independent, streaming radio project, I was keen to give it a try. It currently has an impressive 1058 tracks, and four streams (ambient, electronic, jazz, and everything). I am sure that this will grow further in time. The website too is nice: clear, simple, and uncluttered. Personally, I prefer to listen to radio either through mp...| 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 have a project which looks like it requires - or, at least, would be easier with - a Linux mobile device. Some brief notes, for my future reference, on getting it working, as I haven’t used my PPP for a while. Flashing the Mobian installer to a micro SD card I wanted to use the installer, rather than a pre-built image, so that I could set up full disk encryption. To do this, I flashed the installer to a micro SD card (a 128GB card, since, price per megabyte, that seems to be the sweet spo...| Neil's blog
A month and a bit ago, I wondered if I could cope with a terminal-only computer.| neilzone.co.uk
tl;dr: for a lot of things, yes, but not everything| neilzone.co.uk
I have used Mozilla’s software - Firefox and Thunderbird in particular - for many more years than I care to remember.| neilzone.co.uk
Midori Browser is a fast and secure lightweight browser that respects users’ privacy by offering unmatched features for Windows, Linux, Mac and Android| Astian, Inc
People spend a lot of time making their websites look how they think they should look.| neilzone.co.uk