Updated 12-Aug-2025 Note: It's out, and looking good. No Backports repositories yet. Trixie is release 13 of Debian GNU/Linux. It will be officially released likely sometime in August. It is common to answer the question: When will Debian (number) be released? with When it is ready. And so, an exact date cannot be predetermined, until ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 The venerable Neofetch hasn't been updated since 2020 (and was archived last year). Fastfetch is it's reasonable replacement (with a bit more info). Fastfetch is available in apt repositories and also from the git repository (latest editions). Fastfetch was last updated 18-July-2025 and gets ongoing support. The version in apt lags a bit ... Read more
Updated 06-Aug-2025 The One UI 7 battery indicator -- One UI 7 is now available in Asia -- which is part of the Android 15 release for various Samsung devices, in a word, sucks. In dark mode it is the bright pill-shaped blob with dark numbers providing the percentage left. In addition, there are a ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W25/2025: Monday 23 June - Sunday 29 June 2025 Caption: Camera view on BYD Dolphin 2024 Tech Tasks Trying out Gcore (to replace Cloudflare) Work Urk Health Finished reading How to Feed the World by Smil. Excellent work. Wrote up a post on Food and supplements which summarizes some of the issues for ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W25/2025: Monday 16 June - Sunday 22 June 2025 No notes this week, but do have for next week
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Leading with science and medicine, there are only a certain number of supplements that are needed, many of which can be obviated by a healthy diet (one that encompasses a diversity of foods with said trace minerals and vitamins). Vitamin A According to Smil, ~250m people do not have enough vitamin A. Vitamin ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W24/2025: Monday 09 June - Sunday 15 June 2025 Caption: Reading boy Tech Added a web scrobbler (downloaded .crx file, added to Ungoogled Chromium and Vivaldi). Need to add command-line (CLI, TUI) scrobbling. Maybe this set of tools that include SomaFM and YouTube/Invidious, and scrobbling? Tech Tasks Upgraded the SDCard in my phone ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W23/2025: Monday 02 June - Sunday 08 June 2025 Caption: Boys with football (soccer ball) Cooking Lovely split pea soup, overnight oats, miso soup, miso dressing, chicken, pork, eggs, rice, bread from Nana bakery. Work Huge problems with distribution at the moment. The printer I use is having severe communication issues. Hopefully this ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Originally this was a post about Kodi but it has become about NOVA, since NOVA is much better at what it does, that is being a video player front end and library organizer for video. We use this on our Android TV and it also works on mobile devices. Some old KODI info ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Any future music player needs: Chromecast Auto-mix (random function, some limit to number of songs Share (album cover, album, song) Don't mess with files directly, beyond liking them (turn off external artist info import) Normalize across collection (Symfonium does not appear to have this) Equalizer Android Auto support (an icon and interface, not ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W20/2025: Monday 19 May - Sunday 25 May 2025 Caption: Mussaman curry with chicken over rice. I split this with my youngest son, and we are both full. 60 Baht (<$2 USD) at Kad Farang, Chiang Mai. Stuff Did not keep track of things very well this week, so we are a bit ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W20/2025: Monday 12 May - Sunday 18 May 2025 Caption: Back to school Cooking Some good food these days, but nothing new. Split pea soup. Lovely breads from Nana Bakery. Pasta, tomato, and meat sauce. Hamburgers (pork) with baked potato wedges. Yoghurt with fruits and nuts. Fluffy scrambled eggs. Pancakes (on the weekend). ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 See also Ebooks and where to buy them which discusses DRM from each ebook seller. Kindle and other Ebook Readers Calibre Ebook Library, De-DRM, Conversion Jailbreak Kindle KO Reader open source ebook reader It appears that KOReader is the leading open source ebook reader, and besides being able to run on Kindle, Kobo, ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W19/2025: Monday 05 May - Sunday 11 May 2025 Caption: Boys Cooking Some good food these days, but nothing new. Work End of Boy's term vacation means I can get to work again. Tech Moving out of all US-based company tech. This means my VPS and all other third-party hosting and services. No ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 See also Ebooks and where to buy them which discusses DRM from each ebook seller. Kindle and other Ebook Readers Calibre Ebook Library, De-DRM, Conversion Jailbreak Kindle KO Reader open source ebook reader Update May 2025 It is still possible to decrypt (de-DRM) Kindle ebooks, just not possible to download them from Amazon. ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Mutual Intelligibility is the ability for two speakers (or writers) of different languages, to understand each other. Certainly there are degrees when it comes to mutual intelligibility, and not simply intelligibility or not. And there are many ways of measuring mutual intelligibility, with the sentence-level utterance a key feature. On the one hand ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 First, happiness is multidimensional. Second, happiness can be measured. And third, happiness cannot be dictated (though, indeed, there is a significant role for lawmakers and politicians). Happiness does not come from the barrel of gun. That is a concept only for armchair generals who never fought a war and still live inside some ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Of all the fairly ridiculous ideas, bicycle lanes in Thailand rank fairly high. First, let's discuss the law of unintended consequences. This is when you want to do one thing, but something unexpected (and usually negative, though not necessarily) results. As Merton writes undesired effects are not necessarily undesirable effects. One did not ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 The other day I was looking at the Thai keyboard (a fascinating subject, especially when we have to distinguish between Unicode characters, Thai letters, and Thai script elements, and keyboard keys (these do not match up). I noticed there is no space in the Thai unicode standard. Which means a Thai keyboard maps ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 While Induction Stovetops and Convection Ovens might not appear to go together, both can be considered cooking innovations which have significant advantages over other cooking technologies. Cooking Hazards and Disadvantages First we should illuminate the dangers and drawbacks of various other cooking approaches: Microwave ovens are likely not safe Gas stoves and ovens ... Read more