All Linux Things

We had a couple of trackball fans where I worked. The only problems came (regularly) when they started to get jumpy due to a build of of crud on the rollers underneath the ball. Basically human skin, grease and dust. Such fun to clean out.....

Ubuntu without snap - looks like a possibility. https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/05/15/asmi_2404_ubuntu_without_snap/ https://blog.teejeetech.com/2024/04/27/asmi-24-04-release-notes/ https://blog.teejeetech.com/2024/04/27/asmi-24-04-final/ I normally read The Reg every day, ...

This was not exactly unexpected, I've been banging on about exactly this since 2022 when it became obvious that Canonical intends to drag linux into a snap walled garden one way or another. By 26.04 they will have made it impossible to install deb files at all because of changes they have made to &q...

https://www.osnews.com/story/139462/mic ... rocessing/

Sort of inevitable really.

Disguised with a load of microsoft feature doublespeak, but it is only going one way.

We are just entering the first spell of dry weather (more than 2 days without rain) since October last year. It does seem very strange, the lawn is not waterlogged, the lakes that have formed in fields starting to dry up, soon they'll stop overflowing onto the roads - so they'll be dry. Potholes wil...

Given that Softmaker is a German company and that Softmaker Office is far less alien (to an MS Office user) than LibreOffice - and is better with MS Office files - I am puzzled that they didn't go down that route. OK there's a cost but it is a well supported product and I reckon a good deal was to b...

Cue Bob Marley!

There's Q4OS version of 22.04 Quark + Trinity https://sourceforge.net/projects/quark- ... o/download

It's not so much a process of conversion as gradual slide. For example our road distances are in miles, but the BBC have decided that for broadcast purposes we use metres/kilometres as well. We buy fuel in litres but still use mpg (miles per gallon) as a measure of fuel efficiency - well lets face i...