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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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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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Long Term Storage of Gmail/Email using Mozilla’s Thunderbird (on Linux)

Posted on December 18, 2020June 30, 2022

I have email going back to 2003. There have been times when I have actually benefited from my email archive. Several times, I have gone back 5 or more years…

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Unethical Amazon Review Modifications

Posted on January 7, 2020February 12, 2020

I don’t always review products on Amazon. I don’t have the time. But there have been two instances over the past year when I have been contacted by someone because…

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Change Doorbell Sound on Ring App and Amazon Echo

Posted on November 30, 2019

I’ve had a Ring doorbell (and security system) for quite a while. I never bought the chime that goes with the doorbell because it has always worked through my Amazon…

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Linux – Failing to Read Encrypted DVDs

Posted on October 5, 2019February 4, 2020

Thanks to the fine folks at VLC and Ubuntu, watching DVDs on Linux is generally pretty straightforward. Install “libdvd-pkg” and follow the prompts and you’re generally good to go. That…

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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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