I have been trying out Startpage search for a week or so. But going back to DuckDuckGo for now. Because Startpage seemingly doesn’t offer sentence or word completion or close match in results. At least that’s my perception. Which is important to me. I often use this feature as a spellcheck.
Category Archives: Computer
Raspberry Pi’s
I meant to comment on this a few days ago. I find it ridiculous that Raspberry Pi’s are so hard to get…hence expensive. The main reason they became popular was their surprising low cost and size. That’s what attracted me to them. Now apparently people are willing to spend $150 and more for one. I …
FreeOTP…Wow!
Wrote about FreeOTP reinstalling itself here. So I haven’t been using 2FA since. Since it was asking for a password and I didn’t have one. Today I thought I better find another 2FA app. Thinking I don’t want to use FreeOTP just incase I read about some fix. Anyway I looked at Authy and another …
Couldn’t start sound settings from sound icon in bottom panel
Also couldn’t start settings in menu. Also no error message. So try to invoke from CLI gave…bill@bill-MS-7B79:~$ cinnamon-settingsNo module named ‘PIL’ A little strange because if I start python I can import PIL Sounds related to yesterday’s configure menu problem, no response and no error. Which I no doubt caused recently with this PIL issue/fix. …
Continue reading “Couldn’t start sound settings from sound icon in bottom panel”
Flatpak’s been on a diet
This was supposed to be a Flatpak rant. I know that the downloads use to be huge. But I just checked a few apps that I downloaded the appimage and somewhere along the way the flatpak has become much smaller than in the past. I checked Krita and Kdenlive and the file size reduction is …
Add appimage to user menu
I was tired of always going to my appimage folder and double-clicking the appimage to run it. I looked at so many write ups on this with no success. This didn’t seem like rocket surgery. TBH many of them didn’t even seem logical. For example just create this text file and the app will show-up …
Where did my start About page go?
Where’s my Popular Electronics Altir 8800 issue cover…it’s gone! I’s been my Start page since I started using WordPress. Luckily I have backups. Still it’s concerning. Well I found it. It’s visibility somehow got set to private.
Data General and new channel
I had this video suggested to me a week ago or so… I was interested because a company I worked for had a DG Nova 3…I believe. His Data General is not the same but the colors and console are familiar. My first thought when seeing this is Where’s Garth? I immediately thought of Wayne’s …
Derek Banas’s Go course
At this point, I think I’ve got as much as I’m going to get out of his course. I like him and have learned a few things. However he’s at a point where he’s building a hypothetical app…in this case a web app. Which seems like a popular thing to do in tutorial videos. But …
My TRS-80 sales receipt
Purchased for me by my parents…$849.00!