Using a package out of date since more 2 years ago does not sound like a success story but that is the only way so far I found to get suspend/resume to work without systemd within KDE5 without headaches. pm-suspend and pm-hibernate, on the command line, work perfectly though. Why? Because Powerdevil, KDE’s power management […]
A while ago, I was encouraging to give a try to systemd. Well, now I know better and decided to get away from this tool that clearly wants to replace many parts of my system at once. There are many articles about systemd, why it’s good and why it’s not. I kept on open mind […]
Not really a very informative post, but I thought you’d be interested into the following: I moved most of my computers to systemd. On most of them, the boot process is tremendously faster. I haven’t noticed any problem (with somehow heterogenous hardware – but all i686/IA64/AMD64 though). Plus logs got more relevant messages. Have a […]
These days, considering the amount of data are stored on an average computer and how easy is it to get access to it once you get physical access, running such computer without any form of encryption seem unsound. Especially since it is reasonably easy to set up a en encrypted system and does not seems […]
Turned out that my kitchen device was not satisfying. Not for the reasons suggested in comments, not because I wanted to use cheezy OS like the ones actually supported for most tablets (last time I checked, you cannot get a decent libre OS with full hardware support) for instance. But the Raspberry Pi B+ is […]
As a followup to my article Replicating IMAPs (dovecot) mails folders and sharing (through ownCloud) contacts (kmail, roundcube, etc), I’d like to point out that, these days, I almost completely dropped Kmail (only use it on a laptop, mostly because I do not use the laptop frequently enough to bother) and switched to Thunderbird. Using Thunderbird […]
I won’t comment once again systemd, I think my mind set on the topic and future will tell if I was right or wrong. Still, dislike for the humongous scope self-assigned by systemd does not equate to consider that sysv-rc cannot be improved, it does not mean being stuck with sysv-rc for life. Good thing […]
On some occasion, it is practical to have a terminal in the kitchen, mainly to check on recipes. While a phone screen is not that great, a tablet would do. I do not have any tablet and I am not that fond of systems readily available on tablets. But I do have a few old […]
Sound on GNU/Linux never have been convenient. Right now, de facto standard is PulseAudio: yeah, made by the same people that does this nightmare of systemd. When it works it is better than just ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture). When it doesn’t, you’re in for a headache. Anyway, I had this situation where I wanted […]
Something like 6 years ago, I already described desktop environment I used over years. I was, since then, decently satisfied by KDE/Plasma/however you name it. Mostly because kmail works properly with IMAPS and handle CardDav-cloud server out of the box, because Dolphin is the best file browser (immediate filter and group files and directories by […]
