Warning: this is a bit of a long one. Skip to the end if you just want to see what I think I will do. I use Free / open source software a lot. Directly, it powers pretty much every system we use for Read more

In my ongoing attempt to use Microsoft Teams on Debian 11, I thought I'd would give Brave a go, as a replacement for Chrome. Teams works in Chrome on Linux; I've not yet got to test it in Brave. Read more

Fed up with YouTube's constant adverts and, on some platforms, the inability to do picture-in-picture easily? Me too. I didn't fancy paying a significant monthly fee and being tracked through a login Read more

Some quick thoughts, mainly to remind me, as I run through a pi-hole migration. Install pihole Here. Change the password to something stronger: pihole -a -p Install unbound Here. Install nginx Here. Read more

I have had a mastodon server running for a couple of years now, and I enjoy a very different social media experience on mastodon than I do on Twitter. Both are good, but they are different. I Read more

Update November 2021: the best solution I've found so far is to run it in-browser, in either Brave or Chrome. That - mostly - "just works". Basically, trying to get Microsoft Teams working reliably Read more

I've been fighting for a while with emulating a right-click using the Microsoft Type Cover under Debian 11 with GNOME 3. Apparently, clicking using two fingers at the same time works, but it has Read more

I've been working towards a move from macOS to Linux for a while now, and the very concerning announcement from Apple that it intended to write code to scan content on users' private devices hastened Read more

I wanted to install the 3D slicing software for my Elegoo Mars 2 3D printer on my Surface Pro 6, running Debian 11. Chitubox has an application for Linux, which is a brilliant start. But it is a pain Read more

This was harder than it should have been, and yet easier than I was expecting. Install software apt install cups cups-browsed libcupsimage2 -y Didn't work using the GNOME 3 Printer UI. Remember to Read more