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The 23rd personal pan pizza sized podcast I am doing my best to not fade out, but for more of my thought and opinions, subscribe to DLN Xtend, a podcast with the Destination Linux Network where I have a chat about Linuxy things with my co-hosts Matt and Wendy. Gaming Rack Design and Construction I have … Continue reading Noodlings 23 | Not Fading Yet
I am happy to say that I now have published my openSUSE Breeze Dark Plasma Style for the world to use. If the color scheme I have previously release is any indicator of interest, there will be a few dozen that download it and that is good enough for me. I will be quite content … Continue reading openSUSE Breeze Dark Plasma Style
About two years ago, I started using Kdenlive to do video editing. The dark theme I had been using, a modified version of the "openSUSE dark alternate" theme, was not getting along with Kdenlive and I had to use the "Breeze Dark" theme to be able to properly distinguish the widgets and such on the … Continue reading openSUSE Breeze Dark Plasma Color Scheme Published
I was given an incredible gift by my former employer as a parting gift, an HP EliteBook 840 G7. I didn't unpack it right away as I wasn't sure how I was going to integrate it into my mess of computer equipment. I have been very happy with my Dell Latitude E6440 and decided my … Continue reading HP EliteBook 840 G7 running openSUSE Tumbleweed
All the kids have been talking about the wonders of Matrix as the future of decentralized, secure communication. I have known about it, seen bridges being used in the openSUSE discord and Telegram rooms. Most of my experience has not been great, generally there were significant delays. I have used a few clients, Riot.im on … Continue reading Element | Matrix Chat Client on openSUSE
This is another gift to future me from present me. I made the mistake of not properly writing this down before so I had to search for the answer. The problem is, sometimes, it seems as though Plasma is not shutting off my external screens consistently. I can't say why but I have a suspicion … Continue reading Turn off Monitor using CLI
I have historically made my hardware decisions based on price, generally I get what I can get for as low or as reasonable as possible. Basically, I go for free or near-free and fabri-cobble something together. After seeing some other computer setups, I have really thought that I want to be able to function more … Continue reading LG 29″ UltraWide | Monitor Upgrade and Configuration on Linux
Really kicking it in to 3rd gear... not high gear yet. 15th Noodling of nonsense KDE Plasma 5.19 Experience It is another fantastic release with much attention being made to the finer details that enhance the usability experience without taking away from any of its functionality. KDE Partition Manager I have become quite the fan … Continue reading Noodlings 15 | KDE Plasma 5.19, Partition Manager and a BADaptor
I have become quite the fan of Gparted over the years of my Linux life and I started wondering if there were other partition management options out there. Specifically one that is Qt based instead. This is not a light on GTK based applications, I just find that they don't tend to look as nice … Continue reading KDE Partition Manager on openSUSE
It was not so long ago that Plasma 5.18 graced my computer and very excitingly, 5.19 is here now. Since Tumbleweed is my main Linux system I use, I decided to share my experience on openSUSE Tumbleweed but it should be noted that you can enjoy Plasma 5.19 on Leap as well using the backports … Continue reading KDE Plasma 5.19 on openSUSE Tumbleweed