March 2025 7 posts
Ad Blocking by Group with Pi-hole
With groups in Pi-hole, you can exempt devices from ad blocking and tailor the ad filter to each one individually.
Termsonic: A Subsonic Client for the Terminal
Termsonic is a lean Subsonic client for the terminal. It lets you play and manage your music straight from the command line, which makes it a good fit for minimalists …
Better Firefox integration in GNOME: WebDAV and more in the file dialog
Here's how to enable the GNOME file dialog in Firefox: get direct access to WebDAV, Nextcloud, and remote drives by using the native GNOME file picker, for better integration on …
October 2024 3 posts
Text-to-Clipboard for the Nautilus/Files File Manager
The Copy File Contents extension copies the contents of a text file straight from the Nautilus file manager to the clipboard, no detour through an editor needed.
Add Water installs the GNOME theme for Firefox
The Add Water app makes installing the GNOME theme for Firefox easy. It lets you blend the browser into the GNOME desktop and improves how browsing looks and works.
Kate as a Markdown editor with live preview
Kate offers a live preview for Markdown documents. As is typical for KDE, though, the feature is hidden away in the almost endless depths of the settings, and you also …
July 2023 1 post
Battery Health Charging: Extend Your Battery’s Lifespan on GNOME
Many laptops and smartphones today come with built-in batteries and glued-shut cases. That makes for compact, waterproof devices, but it also leads to planned obsolescence. To go easy on the …
June 2023 1 post
Impression: A GTK4 Tool for Flashing ISO Images
Impression writes ISO images to USB sticks and memory cards. The GTK4 program blends neatly into the GNOME desktop and only offers removable drives as targets.
December 2021 1 post
Checking USB Sticks and SD Cards for Errors
Unlike hard disks, USB sticks and SD memory cards have no mechanical parts that wear out. Even so, modern flash memory breaks too. With Badblocks and F3, you can check …
February 2017 1 post
PiShrink Shrinks Raspberry Pi Images
PiShrink shrinks the image of a Raspberry Pi SD card to the space actually used and automatically expands the system again on first boot.
