After a long hiatus, it’s back to blogging. I have converted my previous blog from WordPress to Hugo using the neat looking Bilberry theme. The next step will be to Indie-webify it as much as I can too.
Deleting Windows
My week involved deleting Windows from my personal laptop. It didn’t start out as my plan, but it was the result of my deciding to do a little partition “tidy-up and re-arranging”, to give me some more space where I actually needed it and where I could better use it. An unattended side-effect of this tidy-up was that I made my Windows partition unbootable. As I set about fixing this, I realised there was almost nothing left I actually needed it for… and if I did then either WINE or a VM would suffice. Continue readingEverybody should believe in something. I believe I’ll have another coffee.
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Linux not booting…
For the first time in quite a few years, I had a boot problem in Linux. Turned on my laptop and it went to recovery mode. My heart skipped a beat my mind went straight to the worst – dead drive! So, I took a breath and went into recovery mode. Ran: journalctl -xb Went through the log and saw that it was just an issue with one partition on my second drive. Continue readingTime for some Pine
I finally placed my first Pine64 order recently and it turned up today.
Three beautiful PineTime Smart Watches…
Our kids have been wanting smart watches and now they are getting open-source ones for Christmas! 🕺 🐧 🎄
They look nice and the build quality seems good. Plugged them all in and seamlessly upgraded to the latest 1.7.1 firmware build.
Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
Edward Snowden