October 2020 – Homo Ludditus

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The Sorry State… and the Quick Fix

October 21, 2020 The Sorry State… and the Quick Fix2020-10-21T23:25:03+01:00 Technical No Comment

I was indeed wasting my time: there is a classic answer to the question “what if I want to run Linux instead of Windows on my laptop or…

Modern Times, Here I (Slowly) Run Away From You

October 11, 2020 Modern Times, Here I (Slowly) Run Away From You2020-10-11T19:10:21+01:00 Technical 13 Comments

Four months ago, I said I'll switch from Windows 7 to a pure Linux machine. At some point, I said I'll install Neptune (basically Debian 10 with a…

Béranger on Modern Times, Here I (Slowly) Run Away From YouYou're mean to Dedoimedo; but yes, Debian is the answer. Say, debian-live-10.6.0-amd64-kde+nonfree.iso
Béranger on Modern Times, Here I (Slowly) Run Away From YouIt's simple, fast, and proven. I liked it 25 years ago, I'd like to be able to use it now
Alex on Modern Times, Here I (Slowly) Run Away From YouDedoimedo stopped being relevant long time ago. I'm actually surprised that anyone serious reads his reviews... He is typical example
Alex on Modern Times, Here I (Slowly) Run Away From YouOh, okay... Let's try again then - is there any particular technical background for this choice or is it simply
Béranger on Modern Times, Here I (Slowly) Run Away From YouBecause I want so.
Alex on Modern Times, Here I (Slowly) Run Away From YouWhy the JFS?
Lucian on Le Twitter des consSocial media as a general opinion exchange and news platform is a cesspool of retards, fake news and bullies. Its
Béranger on Modern Times, Here I (Slowly) Run Away From YouDo I look like someone willing to waste my time that much? Here's something to read for you: The Year
gicu on Modern Times, Here I (Slowly) Run Away From YouIn final o sa incropesti propria-ti distributie si POATE vei fi multumit.
Béranger on Modern Times, Here I (Slowly) Run Away From YouI forgot to mention that in the Neptune live session, Chromium crashes all the time. All the other Debian live
Béranger on Modern Times, Here I (Slowly) Run Away From YouI wasn't paying attention to it, but Xfce 4.16pre1 was released one month ago («If everything goes as planned Xfce
Béranger on Modern Times, Here I (Slowly) Run Away From YouAh, I forgot to test Netrunner 20.01, another Debian 10 derivative. Well, it works well, and it's only a minimal
Béranger on Modern Times, Here I (Slowly) Run Away From YouProvisional additional notes, after some extra hours of running both MX KDE and Neptune: • MX seems slightly buggier than
Béranger on Modern Times, Here I (Slowly) Run Away From YouThe rendering of text in Kate in (top-to-bottom) Neptune, MX KDE, and LMDE4, with full hinting and without color subpixel
Béranger on Le Twitter des consFrom ARTE: L'Europe des clichés: La France. Note how the first time the German guy is actually pronouncing iPad with
HAL on KDE and Debian aren’t exactly my cup of tea; or should they?Hum, with a rolling distro you never know when something will break. Because it always happens at some point. And
Béranger on KDE and Debian aren’t exactly my cup of tea; or should they?Manjaro 20.1 KDE properly detects when the headphones are inserted, and generally seems reasonably bug-free, but I really hate Pamac,
Marius T on Le Twitter des consStop using that garbage, Twitter used to be fun, these days I don't even know how the site works, it's
Béranger on Internet Radio, Mon AmourAdded the German public stations belonging to hr (Hessischer Rundfunk), WDR and MDR: stations_2020-08-29.xml and RadioMaximus_2020-08-29.xml. I'm not going to
Béranger on When Italian Design rhymes with kitschOK, I tried the current openmamba. It reads 4.95, so I suppose there is an intention to release a version