I've finally found a (very obvious; I can't believe I didn't think of it before) solution to something that bugging me with LibreOffice Writer. The problem If you delete a comment in a Writer Read more

I spent a bit of time on Friday tinkering with postmarketOS. And, while it is definitely slower than my iPad, and the screen is definitely less good, I feel that it could be "good enough" for my Read more

I have wanted to replace my iPad with a Linux-based device for a while so, when I saw that postmarketOS ran on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 9.7", from 2015, I was keen to give it a go. I found one on eBay Read more

In this post, I introduce you to two lengthy papers which are likely to be of interest - if you are interested in end to end encryption/security, and child safety and client-side scanning. It really Read more

I've written loads about running Debian on the Microsoft Surface range of computers (tl;dr: it works really well), and also about my tribulations trying to find a working combination of Surface and Read more

I'm going out on a limb a bit here. I love self-hosting my own systems. I self-host almost but not quite everything for personal and work use. But I think that, typically, "host it yourself" is a Read more

I am about 10 20 meetings into my most recent experiment. And, so far, it is going pretty well. What am I doing? I am getting in touch with people with whom I chat online on social media (which, for Read more

Like most people, I spend a lot of my working life on video calls. I'm happy to use other people's Teams or Zoom accounts, and we offer Jitsi. All of them offer some kind of desktop client. And, in Read more

Pretty much exactly a year ago, I switched password managers, from 1Password to bitwarden. tl;dr. I am a fan... mostly. I am not going to dwell on the security aspects here, since you can read about Read more