Category: Technology
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Lubuntu, Xubuntu – It’s 2025. Seriously, WTH?
I was going to write a quick post about installing Xubuntu 25.04 on my old Dell laptop. It turned into something else entirely. Originally, I planned to install Lubuntu 25.04. But every time I reached the end of the setup, it failed with a partition creation error. Tried three times. That was enough. First impressions matter, and…
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The Kindle Is Dead. Long Live The Kobo.
I’ve been an Amazon Kindle user since the 2009 Kindle 2. Over the years, I’ve upgraded three times—first to a Kindle, then the Kindle Paperwhite, then finally to the Kindle Oasis. My e-book library now holds over 400 books. I even bought Kindles for my partner and daughter, so they have their own collections. My…
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My Personal Backup Plan
We need to talk about backups. I started a previous post about recovering my system, from trying out a Beta Operating System, with the following paraphrased lyric (from Baz Luhrmann’s Sunscreen)… Do backups. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, backup would be it. The long-term benefits of backups have been…
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Maximising Productivity: Apple Macs Workspaces and Stage Manager
Coming from Linux, I have had decades of experience with the productivity boosting tool that are ‘workplaces’. They are spectacular, and I have loved using them since I first discovered them. What are Workspaces? I think of them, and utilise them, as virtual monitors. In each workspace, I will have specific applications living. This allows…
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Crash Course In Rolling Back From Apple macOS and iOS Beta’s
Do backups. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, backup would be it. The long term benefits of backups have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.
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Multiple Logins For The Same Online Services? Try Out Firefox Multi-Account Containers To Ease Your Life.
Seriously, you will thank me later. This may effortlessly cross over to other aspects of your life. The most obvious and simplest, being able to keep your personal and public lives separate easily. Many Chrome-based browsers will allow you to create profiles, but the problem with those is that the information from the different profiles…
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Unmasking the Power of Email Aliases: Taking Control of Your Online Privacy and Security
I hate getting asked for my email address, I find it as personal as asking for my home address. Every website you log into now seems to have a pop-up asking for your email address, and it drives me bonkers. They are going to take it, use it to market to and profile you, but…
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Reflecting On My 20 year Linux Journey
Now I get what Gnome is trying to emulate. I have been playing with MacOS the last two weeks, and having never used it before I was struck by just how familiar it is. If you can get on with Gnome, you can get on really well with MacOS. The problem with emulation though, is…
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Spiral Linux – You Little Wonder You
Have you heard of SpiralLinux? If you are a fan of Debian Linux based distro’s then it is well worth your time putting onto a USB and trying out. It has impressed me enough to become my daily distro. My own laptop is following Debian Testing, while the family PC is following the default Debian…
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Adventures with Manjaro Linux – Installation and Setup
I have roamed from the safe lands of Ubuntu and Debian based Linux and arrived at the shores of Manjaro, an Arch Linux based distribution. I could have gone the whole way and spun up Arch, but my command line skills rely heavily on finding the answers online so Manjaro with its GUI interface seemed…
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