Proxy error in discover and pkcon
Finally found a solution to my problem of discover not working correctly after changing my KDE proxy settings: sudo rm /var/lib/PackageKit/transactions.dbsudo s...
Autor: Markus Fritsche
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German characters, Linux and Windows
Just in case you haven’t noticed: I’m german, and that requires to type some german characters, like ä, ö and ü (and ß) from time to time. One probl...
NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed!
The last couple of days I was having trouble with my GTX 980M NVIDIA (Optimus) integrated graphics card (with neon / ubuntu). The driver nvidia would load, but ...
Webcam, Linux, cheese, vlc, skype…
During the recent home office wave, I wanted to reactivate my webcam (Logitech Quickcam Chat, yes, it only has 176x144px but that’s fine for my use case)....
Pinebook Pro kernel compilation
I am a new, proud owner of a Pinebook Pro. The default OS (Debian stretch) comes with a kernel 4.4.190 (updates to 4.4.196). As there is no IO accounting suppor...
Schatzkiste
„Wir haben ein etwas gestörtes Verhältnis zum unbeschwerten Lachen, weil man unsinnigerweise glaubt, wo gelacht wird, fehle das kulturelle Niveau.“ – Geor...
Butterfly Keyboard
How long does it take before the first key on an Apple Buterfly Keyboard (MacBook Air 2018) is stuck? In my case six months and five days (186 days). I really, ...
OpenVPN connects successfully, then immediately disconnects
If you’re using OpenVPN 2.4 or higher, there’s a changed behaviour within OpenVPN: expired certificate revocation lists will no longer be accepted b...
Denial of service as a service
Twitter today announced it was acquiring the “trust and safety as a service” startup Smyte to help it better address issues related to online abuse, harassment,...
Infrastrukturapokalypse bei DHL?
Meine Amazon-Pakete, die mit DHL unterwegs sind, kommen derzeit nicht richtig an. Zusätzlich ist die Sortierung auf der Tracking-Seite kaputt. Kann es sein, das...