September 2016 – Homo Ludditus

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The myth of the well-administered German city

September 10, 2016 The myth of the well-administered German city2017-08-01T22:47:54+01:00 Miscellanea

I'm sure you might misunderstand this text, so let's put it upfront: Leonberg (71229) is a charming little town in Baden-Württemberg. There are many other lovely little towns…

4G is meant to kill the last trace of common sense in communications

September 7, 2016 4G is meant to kill the last trace of common sense in communications2016-09-10T19:54:11+01:00 Technical

Years ago, the problem when using some cheap Chinese phones in Europe was that they didn't support the 900 MHz WCDMA/UMTS-FDD (UMTS900) 3G band, but only UMTS2100 and…

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