Category: Featured
Becoming the Master of the Game
My wife and I are tabletop role playing gamers (TTRPG). We enjoy getting together with friends, telling stories, pretending to be new people for a while, and telling stories. It's a good way for all of us to make the…
By cynical13
My bucket list: 13 things I plan to do before I die
In Russian, we don't have a special term to name something you would like to do before you die, and it's a little weird. Maybe, Russians are too depressed to think about death more often than necessary, but for me, the…
By Alex Semёnov
Reading a binary watch, tips & tricks
I first learnt binary as a kid at school and on a few (admittedly rare) occasions it has been useful to know it for my day job (since I work in IT). However these days, it is primarily just something I use to read my…
By ruario
Whatever happened to ...
… studded winter tires? I was actually going to talk about snow tire commercials as they used to be everywhere this time of year but I haven’t seen a single one. However, the local tire place had a radio commercial so…
By dougpete
Once Again
Once again I walk in silent rooms and gloomy galleries. Dark portraits gaze from gilded frames at tragic ghosts who walk through walls in fruitless quest to escape this place of shuttered light and time forever…
By toomuchrose
How to use the AM/PM notation when talking about time
In the US (and a few other places) the 24 hour clock is not commonly used or understood by the average person. When context cannot distinguish between two similarly numbered hours from different parts of the day, AM or…
By ruario
Welcome Autumn !
Autumn waltzes in languidly in tropical countries. We often do not see her colors as those residing in colder climes do. We feel her mellow footsteps in the air with the gradual departure of the subcontinental monsoon…
How to Install KDE Plasma on Raspberry Pi OS Core / Debian 11 (No Desktop)
I decided to take an SD card and flash it with a Raspberry Pi OS without a desktop so I could use just KDE Plasma. Turns out most online tutorials don't work. Here's how I successfully got it running in 2023 (and…
By BusyBird15
Overview: How UEFI Secure Boot Works in Linux
Recently I've had to deal with issues booting using UEFI as outlined in my Linux Boot Failure! Debugging UEFI Boot Issues blog post, where I also go into detail about UEFI and the UEFI boot process. What I didn't cover…
By tiffybelle
Whatever happened to ...
… dressing up to go downtown? Today’s topic is courtesy of Sheila Stewart who also contributed this post on her family blog.…
By dougpete