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17 from 19 Jun 2023 to 7 Sep 2026
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now and then (5 in the last year)
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2026 3

  1. Getting AVIF thumbnails in XFCE4 thunar (Debian Trixie)
  2. xsane-1.0.0-fit-003 (752kB, AMD64 executable for Trixie)
  3. Resizing Xterm fonts with Ctrl+<plus> and Ctrl+<minus>

2025 7

  1. Getting scanning to work with Gimp on Trixie
  2. smartmontools_7.4-2~bpo11+1_amd64.deb
  3. Polkitd (Policy Kit Daemon) in Trixie ... allowing remote users to suspend, reboot, power off the local system
  4. Polkitd (Policy Kit Daemon) in Trixie ... getting rid of "Authentication is required to create a color profile"
  5. Make `apt` shut up about "modernize-sources" in Trixie
  6. Seagate old hard disks sold as new, smartmontools v7.4 for Debian Bullseye and Bookworm
  7. Printing labels with the DYMO LabelWriter Wireless (and LabelWriter 5xx) on Debian Linux

2024 4

  1. Weird times ... or how the New York DEC decided the US presidential elections
  2. Fixing esptool read_flash above 2MB on some cheap ESP32 boards
  3. htop and PCP have a new home at Hack Club
  4. Opencollective shutting down

2023 3

  1. Removing the New Event Button from Thunderbird v115 Calendar
  2. Xfce4 opening links in Chromium despite Firefox having been set as the default browser
  3. Linux kernel USB errors -71 and -110