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Kubuntu – KDE – adjusting screen brightness trick

Posted on February 24, 2023February 24, 2023

I just happened upon an interesting little bonus feature in Kubuntu 22.04 with KDE Plasma 5.24.7 that I thought I’d share since it’s so nifty. It’s possible to add a…

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Kubuntu/Linux – batch convert HEIF images

Posted on November 14, 2022November 14, 2022

My son recently went on a field trip. The teachers who went with him took hundreds of photos… on their iPhones. Since I want the photos of him, I downloaded…

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Kubuntu 22.04 – Pending update of “firefox” snap

Posted on September 10, 2022September 10, 2022

In the 22.04 version of Ubuntu/Kubuntu, Firefox was switched from a repository to a snap. I don’t know enough about the technical reasons for that, but it does mean that…

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LibreOffice – Set Image as Background/Watermark

Posted on August 30, 2022August 31, 2022

I don’t do this very often, but occasionally I need to write a letter or something of that sort and I want to use an image as a background to…

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Kubuntu 22.04 – How to Reset Plasma 5 Desktop

Posted on July 18, 2022July 18, 2022

Kubuntu is my distribution of choice. I really like the flexibility of the KDE Desktop. But, pretty much every time I install Kubuntu, something goes haywire with the desktop, typically…

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Google Calendar Time Zone tricks

Posted on June 16, 2022June 16, 2022

I regularly collaborate with scholars around the world. One problem that arises from that, however, is that we have to coordinate time zones. As a result, I have picked up…

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Credit Cards, Two Factor Authentication, and International Travel

Posted on June 13, 2022June 13, 2022

We recently traveled to Norway for a combination of work and vacation. As a tech enthusiast, I’m all about ways to make life easier and tech can often accomplish that….

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Backing Up Files to Prevent Data Loss

Posted on March 22, 2022March 22, 2022

It took years to figure this out and it’s not free, but I don’t ever lose files anymore. Not losing files is worth the $240 I pay for these services…

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Replacing Paragraph Breaks with Double Paragraph Breaks in LibreOffice Writer

Posted on March 15, 2022March 15, 2022

Here’s the problem I was facing. I had a document with a lot of text that I had to analyze. The text had been copied from a spreadsheet and pasted…

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LibreOffice Calc – Conditional Formatting

Posted on March 2, 2022March 2, 2022

I haven’t used this feature of spreadsheet software as much as I probably should, but I have a spreadsheet I have been working with a lot lately and conditional formatting…

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