It might be heresy to use an Apple mouse and keyboard on Linux but, well, I like my Apple keyboard (and I might be the only person in the world who does...) and my Apple Magic Mouse. The keyboard Read more

Okay, dull even by my standards. I have a bash function which I use to generate a meeting URL for our jitsi video conferencing system. I type the function name in the terminal, and it generates the Read more

In case the title is not enough, I am trying to drive two 4k monitors, at 60Hz each, from my Surface Pro 6 running Debian 11 Bullseye, with Gnome 3 as the desktop environment, using Wayland. Perhaps 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 wanted to install the 3D slicing sofhttps://neilzone.co.uk/2021/08/3d-printed-microsoft-surface-pro-6-cable-strain-relieftware for my Elegoo Mars 2 3D printer on my Surface Pro 6, running Debian 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

Linux support for the Surface Pro 6 is quite superb, thanks to the people working on the linux-surface project. One of the last hold-outs was support for the cameras. The Surface Pro 6 seems to have Read more

I have an old Mac Mini which does just two things: it acts as a storage server, to which other machines back up automatically, and it runs the software for our Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner. The Read more

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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