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The Framework Laptop is praised for its modular design and repairability, essential for travelers.

The author shares a creative project of combining a DVD/CD RW drive with a floppy drive in a retro-inspired 3D printed case to declutter their desktop.

The author expresses frustrations with the GTK file dialog in Thunderbird, advocating for the use of KFileDialog instead.

The author highlights their dissatisfaction with Thunderbird's built-in PDF viewer, which lacks essential features like annotations and easy window management.

The article offers a guide for unbricking an ESP8266 NodeMCU that has become unresponsive.

I am a Framework Computers enthusiast.

It appears to me that data breaches are no longer an infrequent alarming event but rather, it has become a troubling trend in the digital world.

The author shares their experience troubleshooting firmware update failures on a Framework Laptop 13 equipped with an Intel Core Ultra processor.

The author has utilized the Gridfinity system to organize their workbench and office due to its modular flexibility.

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.

The author transitioned from KDE's Kontact to Thunderbird for personal information management due to increasing issues with Kontact.

The author discusses their preference for a compact laptop and the necessity of a number pad for tasks like light accounting while traveling.

After a laptop freeze due to a corrupted Btrfs filesystem, I found a solution in single-user mode.

The author shares their experience with a 5-drive enclosure intended for backup, encountering a "ghost" RAID issue on their system after testing software RAID with mdadm.

Framework Computers' 2nd Gen Event showcased exciting announcements, including the Framework Desktop and Laptop 12, emphasizing modularity and repairability.

The author discusses ongoing issues with fractional scaling in LibreOffice, leading to oversized UI elements on certain displays.

On March 27, 2025, openSUSE announced experimental parallel downloads for its Zypper package manager, aimed at enhancing speed and performance.

This week, an update on my openSUSE Tumbleweed introduced a kernel module for the Framework Laptop, enabling battery charge limit adjustments directly in KDE Plasma.

I have experienced a recent weird issue on KDE Plasma 6.3 where the screen brightness controls disappear in the Brightness and Color applet in the system tray.

The author discusses issues with mouse "stickiness" at screen edges on a multi-screen desktop using Plasma 6.3.4.

The author recounts a weekend tech project involving cleaning a Framework Laptop 13's fan, which led to accidentally damaging the fan.

I recently encountered an issue with the Vision Client Launcher used for the Ignition Platform by Inductive Automation.

The author shares insights on improving admin privileges management in openSUSE systems, contrasting it with Ubuntu's sudo approach.

The author encountered issues with keyboard input in Flatpak games GZDoom and Xonotic while using Wayland.

The discussion explores various computer sleep states defined by the ACPI standard, ranging from S0 to S5.

The author faced an issue with their computer where the "]" key was persistently pressed.

Quick Web Apps enhances web application accessibility by allowing users to launch them in separate windows, avoiding cluttered browser tabs.

Typically I like to avoid the cloud based applications as I find them to be far, far to dependant on the Internet and all the annoyances that go along with that.

The post highlights the benefits of the KClock application for KDE Plasma, expressing its utility as a desktop clock, timer, and alarm tool.

This is a quick summary of my solution for mounting an access point and neatly routing the cables in my shop that I call “CubicleLabs.”

KVM is a Linux kernel module enabling hypervisor functionality since 2007, allowing multiple virtual environments.

I am not what you would call a fan of Apple products.

The author expresses a strong preference for the 24-hour clock and the DD MMM YYYY date format, finding it more readable than US formats.

The author discusses their experience with the Framework 13 laptop, initially appreciating its portability and features but ultimately needing more screen space.

The post discusses QR codes' functionality, highlighting their use in various applications like URL sharing and WiFi settings.

The author shares their experience with the Atari VCS, purchased after years of anticipation.

A strange thing happened recently where my son’s SteamDeck was not detecting the internal screen.

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.

After a kernel upgrade on my Framework 13, I encountered recurring issues with non-responsive media keys.

openSUSE Tumbleweed offers features like root system snapshots and Zypper integration with GRUB for easy rollback of updates.

The author reflects on two decades of using Linux, starting with Mandrake Linux in 2003 and evolving through various machines, including laptops from Dell and HP.

Dolphin is the default file manager in the KDE Plasma desktop environment and although it is the most feature-rich file manager available on any computer in any time in history, it can always use a few more functions.

One of the neat things that you can do in Linux or Unix for that matter is the ability to schedule events with Cron.

I had a mild annoyance when trying to browse the Steam store on multiple machines.

This is a quick fix, should you find you have a ghosted entry in your application menu on KDE Plasma.

The user has been a dedicated user of PDF Studio since 2008.

I make a lot of digital things and need the space to store the information.

I had a need for writing an image file for FreeDOS to a floppy drive.

I have been running IPFire on an old Pentium 4 for many years.

Some years back, I bought this Dell Chromebook 11 (Candy) on eBay for no more than $80 in 2017, I think, to test out using a smart card on ChromeOS with sites that require such things.