I'm documenting this for myself as much as anyone else, but if it helps, great. I wanted to run vanilla Debian 11 (i.e. not Raspbian) on a Raspberry Pi 4. This is because I want to have LUKS Read more

Update: since writing this, I've also tested it on Debian 11 RC2. I had a bit of a hiccup with it on a Raspberry Pi 4, but I've got it to work using these intructions on both the RPi and a VM (amd64) Read more

The problem As part of my project of using Linux on my GPD Pocket 2, I wanted to get LibreOffice set up in much the same way I have Pages and Keynote set up for macOS. I needed to get my templates Read more

Well, this was easier than I expected: enable "Personal Hotspot" on the iPhone's settings menu plug the iPhone into the GPD Pocket 2 and, well, that's it. It Just Worked. Read more

I like natural scrolling — the inverse of how most Linux systems configure a mouse. If I want to scroll upwards, I pull down on the mouse. And vice versa. There is a GUI for this in Lubuntu but, Read more

I have been hankering after a properly portable computer for a while. I honestly don't know why, as it is not as if I am travelling much at the moment, but there we go. As a bit of a project, Read more

I've used iOS and macOS for many years now for my mobile and desktop computing needs and, while I've run Linux (mostly Debian) on servers, I have not used it for desktop computing for well over 10 Read more

Yes! I bought a taxi online, as a personal car. Well, not strictly a taxi. A car which used to be a taxi. Now it's just a car. But it is the iconic London Taxis International TX4. For ease, I'm going Read more