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In September 2025, I attended the annual LibreOffice conference in Budapest, Hungary.

On the 7th of September 2025, my friend Dione and I had a day trip to Vienna—the capital of Austria.

In September 2025, I attended the LibreOffice Conference in Budapest, Hungary, on the 4th and the 5th, and a community meeting on the 3rd.

The annual LibreOffice conference 2025 was held in Budapest, Hungary, from the 3rd to the 6th of September 2025.

Before reaching Vietnam Continuing from the last post, Badri and I took a flight from the Brunei International Airport to Kuala Lumpur on the 12th of December 2024.

In December 2024, Badri and I went to Brunei’s capital, Bandar Seri Begawan.

Disclaimer: The goal of this post is not to attack Riseup.

In my last post, Badri and I reached Kuala Lumpur - the capital of Malaysia - on the 7th of December 2024.

Continuing from where Badri and I left off in the last post.

Last Updated: October 7, 2025 Welcome to ravidwivedi.in.

In December 2024, I went on a trip through four countries - Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, and Vietnam - with my friend Badri.

Motivation On the 8th of August 2025 (a day before the Debian Trixie release), I was upgrading my personal laptop from Debian Bookworm to Trixie.

In December 2024, Badri and I went to Vietnam.

If your bank is like mine, its website doesn’t allow you to copy your password and paste it by performing a simple Ctrl+V.

In December 2024, my friend Badri and I were planning a trip to Southeast Asia.

In November 2024, Badri and I applied for a Singapore visa to visit the country.

Last month, I attended the KDE India conference in Gandhinagar, Gujarat from the 4th to the 6th of April.

After attending the 2024 LibreOffice conference in Luxembourg, I visited Paris in October 2024.

Last year, I attended the annual LibreOffice Conference in Luxembourg with the help of a generous travel grant by The Document Foundation (TDF).

In 2024, I was sponsored by The Document Foundation (TDF) to attend the LibreOffice annual conference in Luxembourg from the 10th to the 12th of October.

In September of this year, I visited Kenya to attend the State of the Map conference.

Last month, I traveled to Kenya to attend a conference called State of the Map 2024 (“SotM” for short), which is an annual meetup of OpenStreetMap contributors from all over the world.

Vienna - the capital of Austria - is one of the most visited cities in the world, popular for its rich history, gardens, and cafes, along with well-known artists like Beethoven, Mozart, Gödel, and Freud.

Prior to arrival in Kenya, you need to apply for an Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA) on their website by uploading all the required documents.

Recently, I got vaccinated with yellow fever vaccine as I am planning to travel to Kenya, a high risk country for yellow fever, in the near future.

Introduction I visited the Taj Mahal this month with my friend Badri.

Arrival I was staying at a hostel in Bukit Bintang, a shopping hub and entertainment center of Kuala Lumpur, which was like 200 metres from the monorail station, where I took a metro train for KL Sentral.

Introduction In January of this year, my friend Snehal invited me to Vienna, Austria, but our plans were thwarted when Austria refused me a visa.

I have used LineageOS in many Android devices and face internet connectivity issues with mobile data.

List of my online profiles Mastodon/Fediverse: @ravi@toot.io.

Software Freedom Law Center, India, also known as sflc.in, organized an event to celebrate the Software Freedom Day on 30th September 2023.

My social profiles My Talks Free Software Hardware Freedom Books

A trip full of hitchhiking, beautiful places and welcoming locals.

I recently bought an HP Chromebook from Abhas who had already flashed coreboot in it.

Official logo of DebConf23 Introduction DebConf23, the 24th annual Debian Conference, was held in India in the city of Kochi, Kerala from the 3rd to the 17th of September, 2023.

Earlier this year, gandi.net’s ownership changed and it was acquired by Total Webhosting Solutions.

I installed FreeBSD 13.2 with KDE today on my Dell Inspiron 5482.

Snikket is a server side software for XMPP chat communications.

Recently, I read news about Karnataka state government announcing free bus rides for women in the state.

Recently, I was packaging silent_stream for Debian. sbuild was showing error because there was git in gemspec file.

Earlier this month, I gave a presentation introducing Prav along with my friend Arun.

In 2020, I uninstalled WhatsApp due to its proprietary nature and being backed by a surveillance company.

After attending DebConf22 in Kosovo, Akshat and I planned to spend a couple of days in Shkodër, Albania.

I updated my gpg keys because I had a 3072 bits RSA key and Debian requires 4096 bits RSA or elliptic curve.

Finally, Elon Musk is the owner of Twitter.

This year, The Document Foundation (TDF) invited me to attend the LibreOffice conference in Milan, Italy.

A few days ago, I had a layover in Dubai while returning from a fun DebConf in Kosovo.

I just came out of what has been one of the most wonderful experiences of my life– DebConf in Kosovo.

Yesterday I went to Prizren stone bridge, which is in Prizren, Kosovo.

DebConf is the annual conference of the Debian community.