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Bluetooth Speakers Switch-on-Connect

As a postscript to my previous post about connecting Bluetooth speakers: Getting PulseAudio to switch to the newly connected speakers as the output (and the device receiving ‘Volume…

Post date September 26, 2015
Post categories In Desktop

Bluetooth dual-booting: Sharing a bluetooth device between linux and windows

If you’ve used Linux for several years across various devices you are going to run into some hazy déja-vus – the feeling that you’ve been here before, facing…

Post date September 26, 2015
Post categories In Desktop, Linux
7 Comments on Bluetooth dual-booting: Sharing a bluetooth device between linux and windows

My amazing aluminium lunchbox: Using a NUC5i3 as HTPC, web server, cloud server and living room gaming PC

I never did buy that Intel NUC D34010WYKH, the home server upgrade that I recognised some two months back was a completely frivolous investment. I didn’t buy it…

Talibash

Seriously? Moralizing about the use of colour on a console? Who the Hell are you, the Talibash?

Post date May 10, 2015
Post categories In Linux

Why I desperately require and really don’t need an Intel NUC D34010WYKH

This is my tech lust. I desire this consumer object like non-technical people crave the most recent iphone model. I have perfectly serviceable server hardware but it leaves…

Post date April 10, 2015
Post categories In Server

Everything in it’s Right Place 5: Toggles or Now you see it, now you don’t

This is the fifth and final post in a series on achieving an orderly desktop environment in GNOME 3, using no add-ons, only old school hacks. See also…

Post date April 4, 2015
Post categories In Desktop

NetworkManager and intermittent lags in Steam Home-streaming

Steam in-home streaming is great. I can play graphics/CPU intensive games on my laptop sitting on my couch. Or I can let the (Windows) laptop run Spelunky while…

Post date March 30, 2015
Post categories In Desktop
4 Comments on NetworkManager and intermittent lags in Steam Home-streaming

Why GNOME keybindings silently resist customization

Note: This relates GNOME Shell 3.10 in Ubuntu 14.04. Other versions may differ and YMMV. The keybindings of GNOME Shell can be changed using the system settings windows…

Post date March 29, 2015
Post categories In Desktop