A fascinating, inspiring, frustrating and entertaining exploration of the innards of the new Spectrum Next computer| gld.mcphail.uk
I’ve been a happy Project Bluefin user for several weeks. I was excited to read the official announcement that the underlying Fedora OS has had a major version upgrade. I have gone through the upgrade process, and wanted to document it as a “HowTo”, as there aren’t many out there for the small Bluefin community. Many years of using and updating other Linux distributions such as Ubuntu have taught me to hope for the best but prepare for the worst when performing a major version update....| gld.mcphail.uk
I’m getting grumpier as I get older, so I wanted to post a very positive computing experience today. I’ve been a full time Windows user for a few years now, ever since Ubuntu MATE tried to murder my beloved Thinkpad X230 (this may be a story for another post). Windows actually suits my needs very well as, these days, I’m more of a consumer than a producer of computery things. The software compatibility is peerless, games run well, Office 365 dumps all over Libreoffice and Onedrive is th...| Posts on Grey Lumpy Dinosaur
This site is created using HUGO and it is driving me up the wall. You may have noticed the theme and layout of this site has changed a bit. That’s because I have been wrestling HUGO. HUGO is a static site generator. It takes my blog pages and applies a theme, then mashes them together into a blog site. HUGO is created by the people who make HUGO and the theme is created by the people who make the theme.| gld.mcphail.uk
I have to be honest, I’m not fond of social media. I’ve dipped my toes in Mastodon a few times (including running my own instance) but it has never stuck. Neither am I particularly interested in Bluesky. But I do like to mess around with computers, so when I read that Bluesky were releasing their Personal Data Server (PDS) for self-hosted federation, I decided to see what all of the fuss was about.| gld.mcphail.uk
I’ve been struggling to understand why Canonical would withhold security fixes on a Long Term Support release| gld.mcphail.uk