A short while ago I moved a couple of laptops from Ubuntu to Manjaro. It's all going well, except today the kid came to me and told me: 'Can't open the SDcard from my camera. It's not working.' Don't you like it when all you get is 'it doesn't work'? Usually such a message by itself is not helpful, but in this case that was all he was able to tell me. Checked and indeed, when the card reader is attached, KDE pops up a notification, and the 'mount and open' option does nothing when clicked on the drive.
Posted by ads' corner on Monday, August 12, 2024
If you are running Ubuntu and using the Firefox browser, you may have seen a notification indicating that an update is available for 'firefox'. Here's what this means and how to address it.
Posted by ads' corner on Thursday, August 8, 2024
One of my older Python scripts is throwing a deprecation warning in the 'datetime' module after the recent switch from Ubuntu to Manjaro. The Python version is '3.12.4' now, previously it was '3.11.4'.
Posted by ads' corner on Monday, August 5, 2024
Installed the AUR Spotify client on my new Manjaro Linux system, started the app, tried to login - nothing happens. It is supposed to open a browser window where I enter my credentials, but that does not work.
Posted by ads' corner on Saturday, August 3, 2024
Our laptops all have a semi-public Samba share which allows us to share files with each other. After upgrading the laptops from Ubuntu to Manjaro, this stopped working. Was no longer able to connect to the share as anonymous user.
Posted by ads' corner on Thursday, August 1, 2024
Moving my systems away from Ubuntu, I also have to reinstall a server at home. This system has two equal disks for a RAID system, and my plan is to install Debian on it. Turns out, setting up a Software RAID on Debian and booting from EFI is not a straightforward approach. This blog posting describes the steps.
Posted by ads' corner on Friday, July 19, 2024
Switching laptops from Ubuntu to Manjaro Linux. One of the packages which I want to install is the Microsoft True Type Core Fonts. That works different in both distributions.
Posted by ads' corner on Thursday, July 11, 2024
Obsidian snap version was upgraded on my Ubuntu system - and stopped working. The whole promise of having a snap or containerized version of an app is to avoid dependency problems. That's a broken promise.
Posted by ads' corner on Friday, June 7, 2024
Ran into a curios problem while updating the GitHub Actions Workflow for the ansible-lxc-ssh project.
Posted by ads' corner on Wednesday, January 18, 2023
If you use GitHub Actions to run Workflows and tests, you might have spotted a deprecation warning recently.
Posted by ads' corner on Friday, January 13, 2023