October 2024 3 posts
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 …
May 2016 1 post
SSH Tips: Changed Host Keys, Killing and Parking Connections
SSH tips: remove changed host keys with ssh-keygen -R, kill hung connections and park sessions.
