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The AVIF image format gets more and more popular in the web dev community, so I needed to teach XFCE4's thunar (file manager) and Ristretto (image viewer) to thumbnail these.

Xterm misses the convenient option to resize the fonts with Ctrl+<plus> and Ctrl+<minus> like xfce4-terminal or gnome-terminal do out of the box.

Trixie ships Gimp 3.0.4 and the 3.x series has gotten incompatible to XSane, the common frontend for scanners on Linux.

As per the previous Polkit blog post the policykit framwork has lost the ability to understand its own .pkla files and policies need to be expressed in Javascript with .rules files now.

On the way to Trixie, polkitd (Policy Kit Daemon) has lost the functionality to evaluate its .pkla (Polkit Local Authority) files. $ zcat /usr/share/doc/polkitd/NEWS.Debian.gz policykit-1 (121+compat0.1-2) experimental; urgency=medium This version of…

Apt in Trixie (Debian 13) has the annoying function to tell you "Notice: Some sources can be modernized.

Apparently somebody managed to resell Seagate hard disks that have 2-5 years of operations on them as brand new.

In 2020 my company bought a DYMO LabelWriter Wireless.

November 2024 will be known as the time when killing peanut, a pet squirrel, by the New York State DEC swung the US presidential elections and shaped history forever.

esptool, the Espressif SoC serial bootloader utility, tends to dislike cheap Flash chips attached to the various incarnations of the ESP32 chip family.

After the unfortunate and somewhat surprising shutdown of the Open Collective Foundation (OCF), htop and Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) have migrated to Hack Club.

Update 28.02.2024 19:45 CET: There is now a blog entry at https://blog.opencollective.com/open-collective-official-statement-ocf-dissolution/ trying to discern the legal entities in the Open Collective ecosystem and recommending potential ways forward.

Thunderbird in Debian stable (Bookworm) has received Thunderbird v115.3.1 as a security update.

Installing a laptop with the shiny new Debian Bookworm release finds a few interesting things broken that I probably had fixed in the past already on the old laptop.

After an upgrade of my PC's mainboard BIOS the boot would take a minute or more to complete and sometimes the lightdm login screen would sit there but not accept keyboard input for another minute or so.