I was sent a whole load of .docx files. Not a problem, because LibreOffice opens them. But I want them as .pdf files, so I can scribble on them as I read them, using Xournal++. How to convert a whole Read more

In trying to upgrade a Raspberry Pi 4 from Debian 10 Buster to Debian 11 Bullseye, I made some mistakes, and basically shot my installation to pieces. It ran, but I had absolutely no faith in it Read more

Warning: this is a "quick and dirty" approach. It is the completely wrong thing to use if you do not trust the PDF that you are redacting, because it opens it to convert it. From the testing I have Read more

I saw the BusKill security project some time back, and thought "what a neat idea". In essence: BusKill is a Dead Man Switch triggered when a magnetic breakaway is tripped, severing a USB connection. Read more

A reminder for me. If you've got WireGuard configured as a VPN client in Debian 11 Bullseye's Network Manager, and it does not route IPv6, check Allowed IPs contains ::/0. Read more

I'm still in search of a Linux-based replacement for my iPad. The PineTab is interesting, but slow, and I have more work to do there. I found a Microsoft Surface Go at what I felt was a very Read more

By default, GNOME 3's VPN configuration tool for NetworkManager supports IPSEC VPNs, but not WireGuard. I want WireGuard support because: I can import settings from a WireGuard config file. I can 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 experimented a little using a Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop Linux machine (a future blogpost), but it was not to be: it was far too slow to be usable, even if I did manage to make it work correctly Read more

I'm still travelling occasionally for work. Far less than I used to, of course, and frankly still more than I would like, but there we go. The screen on the Surface Pro 6 is nice, but I am more Read more