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Linux on the desktop remains usable but with surprises

Posted on vr 10 maart 2023 in desktop

So lets get this straight, were the only option for me to use Linux, I could totally make it work proper enough. But comparing my general experience to my experience with Macos, it remains a more involved way to get work done.

So last week I had everything properly setup …


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Personal nextcloud instance moved to Raspberry PI4

Posted on zo 05 maart 2023 in hosting

Last year I set up a Nextcloud instance for personal/family use. This was running as a VM on my HP Proliant server/Proxmox setup. An archive of about 80 GB of pictures and movies was quickly accumulated there.

With energy prices what they were at the time, I shut …


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Slimbook ProX does support USB-C power delivery after all :-)

Posted on vr 03 maart 2023 in hardware

Ok so when I got my laptop it came with a leaflet stating that charging over USB-C was not possibly and should not be tried. So that was kind of a bummer, but I figured it would not cause me too much trouble.

Today I was browsing the Slimbook website …


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Improving microphone input by using noisetorch

Posted on vr 03 maart 2023 in software

So the audio quality I get from the internal microphone on my new Slimbook PROX is underwhelming when compared to the out the box experience on my Macbook Pro.

But surely I'm not the first one with this experience? Apparently not, because a quick search using Qwant revealed the NoiseTorch …


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Slimbook ProX review after one month of usage

Posted on wo 01 maart 2023 in hardware

In my efforts to get the simplest solution to the problems encountered with the Slimbook, I switched to Zorin16 after a couple days to get newer libraries and a newer kernel. But soon enough I was fiddling with the inner workings of Linux on the Zorin install too. So getting …


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