To upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to the latest LTS (Long Term Support) release, you’ll need to follow a series of steps. The current Ubuntu LTS at the time of writing is 22.04.3, and this process is unlikely to change in the near term future. Here are the steps I followed to upgrade from Ubuntu … Read more
My computer is dual use. Gaming, and work. It runs pretty much 24/7/365, but when I play a game at night in Windows, then reboot back into Linux, I have to manually log in and mount my drive(s) or my overnight backups don’t work. Of course, I frequently forget to log in. And even when … Read more
All week now I’ve been wanting to have a try with JetBrain’s Compose Multiplatform Desktop. The demos I’ve found looked great. As a heads up though, those demos are all showing OSX as the run target. I am aware that Compose for Desktop can run against Windows, and (interesting to me) Linux. What I was … Read more
A very specific issue today, but one that I found quite a nice solution for – albeit with the need to install some extra things. The issue I faced was that I have a large number of directories, each containing 10-15 images. For each directory I needed the file name, and image dimensions for every … Read more
Here’s the requirement: you want to work on your Linux (Ubuntu, in my case) desktop, but your data lives on an OSX / Mac machine. You need to share your folder from Mac, and connect to it from Linux. How do you do that? Well, there is likely more than one way to do this. … Read more
In this post we will cover how to use the Linux command line to create a new file in each sub directory, only if that file doesn’t exist. Of course this can be done by hand, but we are all lazy people, right? So why not make the computer earn its keep? Essentially then, quite … Read more
Here’s a very quick little thing I just had to do, that maybe useful to you at some point in the future. The idea is that I had a JSON file (technically some JS to begin with), and I wanted to create a new file in the current directory for each entry in the JSON. … Read more
