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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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Launching HandBrake 1.4.0 in Kubuntu 21.04

Posted on August 22, 2021August 22, 2021

The fine folks at HandBrake have updated their software and distribution system to a Flatpack approach. Their Flatpack for Linux is based on Gnome, not KDE, which is fine, but…

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Kubuntu – Audio CD Ripping

Posted on July 25, 2020July 25, 2020

I mostly buy digital audio these days. My preferred source is bandcamp as they provide files in FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec). However, I ended up buying a CD recently…

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LibreOffice – How To Change Icons to a Darker Theme

Posted on July 25, 2020July 25, 2020

I prefer darker themes for my desktop environment (Kubuntu 20.04) and browser (Brave). For the most part, this isn’t a problem, but it does cause an issue with some applications,…

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Linux/Kubuntu – Disable Network Printer Auto Discovery

Posted on October 5, 2019

I don’t know when Kubuntu started automatically discovering printers on networks and then adding them to my list of printers, but it is a problematic feature in certain environments –…

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Restarting KDE’s Plasma Shell via Konsole (command line)

Posted on July 21, 2019

As much as I love KDE as my desktop environment (on top of Ubuntu, so Kubuntu), it does occasionally happen that the Plasma Shell freezes up (usually when I’ve been…

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Building My Own NAS (with Plex, Crashplan, NFS file sharing, bitTorrent, etc.)

Posted on January 26, 2019February 5, 2023

NOTE: As of 2020-06-22, I have a new NAS build. You can read about it here. For about the last seven years (since 2012), I’ve been using a Synology NAS…

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Linux – tinyMediaManager on Kubuntu 18.04

Posted on September 8, 2018November 14, 2021

I run a network attached storage (NAS) device at home to manage all my media (e.g., music, videos, photos, etc.). I have used various programs over the years to manage…

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Kubuntu: How to Map Windows Network Share

Posted on October 25, 2016November 30, 2019

My workplace is largely a Windows based institution.  Due to a collaborative project, I was recently asked to access some documents on a Windows Network Drive.  I was sent directions…

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