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After using Gentoo Linux and KDE for 15 years I have switched to Lubuntu (LXQt)
The demise of my laptops Recently both my laptops – a ten-year-old 14″ Clevo W230SS running the stable version of Gentoo Linux, and a fifteen-year-old 15.6″ Compal NBLB2 running the testing version of Gentoo Linux – died. The Clevo laptop was my main machine. They had been heavily used in succession for work and personal tasks for more than a decade in several countries and hot climates, so I was not surprised when they finally packed up.
Stuttering audio in Linux: PulseAudio strikes again
Stuttering audio in Linux: PulseAudio strikes again I unmasked PulseAudio 10.0 back in January 2017 and installed it in my Gentoo Stable amd64 installation, and everything worked fine… until a couple of days ago, when the audio in streaming YouTube videos started to stutter every so often. It sounded rather like a scratched LP jumping. At first I thought the problem lay with Firefox, but the stuttering audio also occurred in Chrome.
How to change the height of the Kickoff Application Launcher menu in KDE Plasma
The height of the KDE Plasma Kickoff Application Launcher menu is not user-configurable, which is odd in a Desktop Environment with a reputation for being highly user-configurable.
Using WS-Discovery to enable Windows 10 to browse SMB shares in my home network of Linux computers
I have not used Windows 10 for more than two years now (see ‘Bye bye Windows 10, and good riddance‘ regarding my failed attempts to upgrade Windows 10 Version 1607 to 1703 and 1709). Nevertheless I am aware that, since Version 1709, Windows 10 no longer has SMBv1 and Computer Browser service installed by default. Computer Browser service used NetBIOS and SMBv1 to provide what Microsoft named ‘My Network Places‘ or ‘Network Neighborhood’.
Investigating an OpenVPN connection problem in Gentoo Linux and Lubuntu 22.04 but not in Android 13
Investigating an OpenVPN connection problem in Gentoo Linux and Lubuntu 22.04 but not in Android 13 Back in 2020 I successfully used OpenVPN to access a remote server from my laptop and from my smartphone. Fast forward to 2023 and I needed to use OpenVPN again to access the same remote server. Again I could access the remote server when connecting from my smartphone, now running Android 13, using the OpenVPN client app.
Using adb tools in Linux to remove bloatware from my Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra
Samsung included a lot of bloatware on my Galaxy Note 20 Ultra 5G, and it is not possible to uninstall it using Play Store. However, it is possible to remove this stuff using adb tools. I got rid of the bloatware I don’t want very easily using the Linux version of the adb tools. I have never had a Facebook account and never will, so I decided to remove all trace of it as follows: 1.
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