Privacy in Computing
For anyone who has been upgrading their Fedora installs from version to version
there was a surprise event with the upgrade from 38 to 39. At that point the
boot process was changed from using grub to systemd-boot. It's a testament
to the smoothness with which Fedora maintainers execute even …
Digital photography workflows tend to be dominated by a relatively small number of proprietary, commercial software suites that have been optimized over years or even decades. Adobe Lightroom, Capture One, or Affinity Photo are household names, and they're all available for both MacOS as well as Windows. Which also means …
I've avoided delving into the calendaring topic for a long while. It seemed a hassle and also I wasn't sure how to best integrate work and private calendars. I don't have very many private appointments anyway, and the ones I do have should ideally also block out the respective times …
Recently in the Fediverse @joel@fosstodon.org announced a blog post he had
written about some niche FOSS mobile apps that he has found
useful and I thought
that is a great idea if everybody did that. So here's my pick.
You can find all of them on F-Droid by …
Fans of tiling window managers generally do not have a full-featured desktop environment such as Gnome or KDE installed. One of the more obviously missing UI elements is the search bar for quick access to programs and to search for things.
dmenu is an extremely versatile utility that can best …
Here's a quick pointer to a piece of software that I like a lot. It's called the
Powerful Quick Image Viewer, or pqiv for
short and it is - as the name suggests -
a rather powerful image viewer that can be used from the command line (and thus
in a scripted …
Undoing the damage
Sway, the tiling window manager for Wayland
Make sure you're still getting the goods
The Good and the Bad of indexing software
Works fine; nuff said