My external USB backup drive started misbehaving: it took ages to mount, sometimes did not mount at all, and when it did mount it would flip itself to read-only within seconds. It turned out to be two problems feeding each other – a buggy USB-to-SATA bridge and a corrupted ext4 filesystem – and crucially they had to be fixed in the right order, or the repair simply would not stick.

I seemed to temporarily lose the rounded corners in SwayFX and I think the reason for this is that the gaps inner need to be a certain width, for example the following doesn't seem to work:

There are quite a few different ways to reduce power consumption on a laptop, most linux distros will be geared towards desktop, but I am always installing on a laptop, generally I was looking to use tlp but the options are quite bewildering and can be daunting so I was looking for something more lightweight and in fact garuda has a good starting point for this:

Here are the steps to create a new advent calendar.

Once a digital piece of art has been created then it is time to print it. A few tweaks are required in my image editor of choice and that is GIMP.

This year I have been starting to archive anything of interest from the family VHS collection. There are certainly slim pickings and it is difficult to find anything when most of the 200+ videos contains either a western or a Dire Straits concert!

Currently I am just displaying the title of my posts with no filtering. Now that I have developed a general format to help with some emacs Deft categorisation I have run into a little bit of a problem.

I am currently polishing up my web page and I am now focussing on the little annoying formatting / alignment issues.