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Installing hledger
Read more →When entering any new open source software community, I expect to encounter some bumpy parts getting started. I had problems installing
hledgerthat reflect both some unknown unknowns of mine and some missing details in the documentation. Nevertheless, I managed to install it. -
Pop! OS Won't Mount Any External USB Disk
Read more →I recently upgraded the kernel and needed to reboot.
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Why My Spreadsheet File is So Big
Read more →I don’t remember asking to embed fonts in this file, but evidently, I did.
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When Your Site Can't Find Its Discourse Comments
Read more →It’s November 2022 and I insist on having comments on my professional blogs, even though nobody really cares. In 2021 I began migrating comments away from Disqus (which I dislike for various reasons) towards Discourse. With Discourse, I embed a topic into each blog post, so that each post corresponds to a Discourse topic. Discourse creates a topic for each post and the comment thread of the topic becomes the comment thread of the post. Nice.
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Fix the Automatic Time Zone on Pop! OS
Read more →First turn on Location Services, then turn on Automatic Time Zone.
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Remap Keys on System76 Less Painfully
Read more →Use the package
system76-keyboard-configurator. -
Fixing Your Virtual Camera On Microsoft Teams for Linux
Read more →Reduce your resolution to 720p. :P
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Exclude Big Files From Your restic Backup
Read more →I use
resticfor backups. My backup repository was looking too big and new snapshots were adding much more data than I’d expected. I managed to cobble together a few tools to help figure out which additional directories to exclude. -
Get Push Notifications for Rate Alerts at wise.com
Read more →Wise (aka Transferwise) offers push notifications for foreign currrency exchange rate alerts, but when I tried to use them, I couldn’t figure it out. This is one of those things that is obvious in retrospect, but easily misunderstood while trying to do it.
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Stop Using My Microphone As a Speaker!
Read more →When I connect my Røde lapel microphone to my Pop!_OS machine, the OS insists on trying to use the microphone as an output device. Today I learned how to stop it from doing that.