August 2017 – Homo Ludditus

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Guessing the weather forecast

August 28, 2017 Guessing the weather forecast2017-10-28T19:56:13+01:00 Technical

Weather apps: a tricky topic; most people wouldn't understand my obsession with weather apps and widgets. But I had to move the section about weather apps out of…

Finding happiness in simple gizmos

August 3, 2017 Finding happiness in simple gizmos2017-12-07T23:11:27+01:00 Technical

Every now and then I read reviews of Bluetooth speakers, and I'm baffled how a same device can have both eulogistic and vilifying reviews. I know that any other…

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
Béranger on When Italian Design rhymes with kitschFrom their site: ● October 25, 2015: openmamba milestone3 available for download with release 3.0.1. ● January 5, 2017: ***
David on When Italian Design rhymes with kitschFrom Distrowatch: openmamba GNU/Linux (Italy) is a distribution for personal computers (Intel i686-compatible) that can be used on notebooks, desktops
Béranger on When Italian Design rhymes with kitschNan. Pas toutes. Not all the crap. Not to mention that there might be some "undiscovered gems" in the Waiting
HAL on When Italian Design rhymes with kitsch> Which Linux distro “Designed in Italy” should I try next? The list is here.
Béranger on KDE and Debian aren’t exactly my cup of tea; or should they?I just got an idea wrt the initial empty search results for Muon Package Manager. It might be something similar
Marius T on 73 Minutes That Define Linux on the Desktop Today—Rather DepressinglyYast is the best and the worst of openSUSE, for me it's the best, I configure everything trough Yast point