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Configuring an External PDF Viewer in Thunderbird on Linux
The author highlights their dissatisfaction with Thunderbird’s built-in PDF viewer, which lacks essential features like annotations and easy window management. They prefer Okular for its robust capabilities. Despite some frustrations in adjusting settings, they appreciate Thunderbird’s flexibility and customization, making it an effective tool for their email and productivity needs.
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Epic Earbud Recovery | Earbud-Finder
I lost an earbud in the woods and with a little help from a website called earbud-finder.com, I was able to recover it.
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Simplifying Admin Tasks in openSUSE with the Wheel Group
The author shares insights on improving admin privileges management in openSUSE systems, contrasting it with Ubuntu’s sudo approach. By utilizing the “wheel” group, users can gain easier access to root permissions without sharing the root password. This method enhances convenience while balancing security issues in multi-user environments.
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No Keyboard Input on Some Flatpak Games
The author encountered issues with keyboard input in Flatpak games GZDoom and Xonotic while using Wayland. After extensive searching for solutions, they discovered that unchecking the Wayland windowing system permission in Flatpak settings resolves the problem. This experience underscored the importance of adjusting such settings for optimal gameplay on Linux.
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Fight Flash Fraud | F3 Solid State Media Checker
Flash Fraud is a real and it affects hundreds of millions… or thousands… well, I have no idea how many people it really effects, but I have been a bitten by either “Flash Fraud” or just bad media more than once which is exceptionally irritating. What is Flash Fraud? In short the consumer is sold…
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Write .img file to USB Floppy Drive | FreeDOS
I had a need for writing an image file for FreeDOS to a floppy drive. I didn’t see any tools nor had I heard of any tools so I went to searching the great repository called the world wide web. Bottom Line up front: It’s pretty simple to write a disk image to a USB…
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Solving DNS Name Resolution Issues on OPNsense
I have been running IPFire on an old Pentium 4 for many years. It had served me very well until the computer itself had some sort of catastrophic hardware failure. The drive, surprisingly is still fine but the computer won’t power up. I have NOT investigated the cause as of yet but I did have…
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Hardware failure on IPFire | Blathering
As I was getting ready to call it quits for the day, relax and watch something nerdy on YouTube when I had a catastrophic hardware failure on my IP fire router, firewall system. I didn’t actually know it was the router that failed until I went through all my other checks first. This is a…
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Super Mario World Widescreen on the SteamDeck
The SteamDeck is a great retro gaming platform. I have loaded it up with many of my retro games and one of my favorites to play on it is Super Mario World but in a widescreen format. I have seen this done elsewhere but wanted to do this for myself. After a few tries, I…
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Kobalt 20v Drywall Cut-Out Tool Test & Tear Down
Tearing down a piece of technology that is no longer working is something of a hobby of mine. I like to see if I can figure out why something is no longer working and then figure out if it is worth my time fixing it. This Kobalt 20v Drywall Cut-Out Tool was not something I…