Fedora Linux - Review
Still my favorite Linux for desktop use, but every once in a while you're reminded that IBM (via Red Hat) still has an out-sized influence on it.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
Vivaldi, Orion, Waterfox and Zen are my current favorites. I like Firefox, but I'm not so sure about Mozilla these days. Safari's OK. LibreWolf and IronFox are good for everyday privacy, Tor for advanced scenarios. Falkon and Dillo are good for slow hardware.| Hyperborea: New Posts
★★★★★ - Rosemary Mosco: A delightful collection of comedic 'definitions' of various terms one might encounter while watching birds (or interacting with people who do), filled with the style of humor and illustration the author brings to her comics.| Hyperborea: New Posts
★★★★★ - The best Marvel TV I've seen since the first seasons of Daredevil and Jessica Jones. Solid cast, with Sixth Sense-level twists that grow organically over the course of the show.| Hyperborea: New Posts
★★★★★ - Ursula K. Le Guin and Fred Fordham: Fordham's watercolor-style art is absolutely gorgeous. The adaptation plays to the medium's strengths, allowing the visuals to tell the story when possible, keeping Le Guin's prose when needed. Wide seascapes, rocky coasts, forested landscapes, people (not whitewashed!) and dragons...| Hyperborea: New Posts
★★★★☆ - A lightweight, fast, stable, and capable text editor for Linux.| Hyperborea: New Posts
Still my favorite Linux for desktop use, but every once in a while you're reminded that IBM (via Red Hat) still has an out-sized influence on it.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
The Wizard of Oz meets The Dark Crystal by way of 1930s scifi was fascinating as a concept, but they managed to make it dull and tedious.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
Collection of computer problems I've run into and how I solved them.| Hyperborea Tech Tips
★★★★☆ - Sue Burke: A different sort of book than Semiosis and Interference, taking place entirely on Earth long after the second Pax expedition returns. Can the bamboo keep humans' chaotic conflicts in check? Where do the robots fit in? With so many forms of intelligence, who counts as a person, anyway?| Hyperborea: New Posts
★★★☆☆ - The old Mozilla Suite lives on! Featuring web, email, news, an HTML editor, IRC client and more. Recent work has mostly been to keep it working and backport security fixes, so web app compatibility lags way behind even the ESR Firefox.| Hyperborea: New Posts
Yes, you can still connect it after the switch to OAuth2. You need to create a placeholder account first, and find the right settings, which Gmail doesn't seem to tell you anymore.| Hyperborea: New Posts
★★★★★ - Ursula K. Le Guin: The Earthsea series is one of my regular re-reads. It starts here, with the tale of how a goatherd grew into a wizard in a world where magic is woven through everything from the poorest village to the greatest palace. How he released a terrifying evil in his youth, and how he sailed the world seeking how to make up for his mistake.| Hyperborea: New Posts
★★★★★ - A citizen science project for reporting and identifying wildlife observations, plus a phone app for use 'in the field.' Think of it as Pokémon Go for real animals and plants.| Hyperborea: New Posts
Windows Update is a bit flaky about making the offer to enroll a Windows 10 system in an extra year of security updates. If it's not showing the offer, this can make it re-check whether your system qualifies: cmd /c ClipESUConsumer.exe -evaluateEligibility| Hyperborea: New Posts
You can reinstall Windows on a Surface tablet or laptop using a hardware-specific recovery image and a USB drive. Microsoft will want you to log in and provide the serial number of the device you want to reinstall.| Hyperborea Tech Tips
A great ultra-light Windows 10 tablet with detachable keyboard. Or an annoyingly slow Windows 11 tablet.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
An intriguing followup to Semiosis that weaves several drastically different sentient species (both plant and animal) into a story about factions, community, freedom, communication and war.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
Invasion of the Body Snatchers from the POV of an alien plant person who grew up human. Now the invasion has started, and she's sorting out friends, family, and who she can trust from either planet.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
A fast, enjoyable read with a few gut punches hidden throughout. Not so much about the moon turning into cheese as how lots of different people *react* to the moon turning into cheese.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
A short, fast tale of frozen people reawakening after the fall of civilization, built around the premise that you need to keep a frozen person's consciousness active in VR, and there are very different reasons you might put people into cryo storage and a simulation.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
A lightweight Fediverse server, with a clean web interface for viewing public posts. Compatible with Mastodon apps and interacts with other ActivityPub platforms.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
A surprisingly capable Chromium browser for KDE and other Linux desktops that runs well even on low-end hardware and virtual machines.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
The most ridiculous Linux bug I've encountered in ages: Installing XFCE changed a mouse cursor setting for GNOME that caused the login screen to crash when trying to log into GNOME/Wayland.| Hyperborea: New Posts
The MacBook would boot as far as the login screen, but any attempt to use or repair it would just reboot, even at the Genius Bar. I managed to recover recent files by connecting from another computer over the network and copying them, 60 seconds at a time.| Hyperborea: New Posts
I can go with your scifi/fantasy story's super-impossible thing being associated with an eclipse. It's activating or deactivating people's super-powers? Sure! C| K-Squared Ramblings
