I bought an Android tablet.

I bought an Android tablet.

It’s nothing fancy, although in fact it actually looks better than my daughter’s iPad: it’s a Lenovo Tab M10 gen3, if I got the branding order right, and I bought a Lenovo because haha, it’s a Lenovo and all our laptops at home are Lenovo. But it’s certainly not a high end tablet. My use case is going through my RSS feeds while having coffee and with my cat in my lap (according to the Law of the Cat if he’s in my lap, I can’t prioritise having a laptop there instead), and then maybe some light Reddit browsing. For this, I could justify a 200-something euro 10″ Android tablet; I could not have justified an iPad.

So I bought an Android tablet. Continue reading I bought an Android tablet.

I switched from Mint to Manjaro Gnome and I like it.

As the title says, I switched from Linux Mint to Manjaro. I’ve been playing around with it for a while in a vm, and I liked what I saw, so I decided what the hell, and took the plunge. I’m now about a month in, so here’s capturing a quick “why?”, and some first impressions. Continue reading I switched from Mint to Manjaro Gnome and I like it.

Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE) install and config, and other useful related things.

I couldn’t find a good comprehensive doc on installing Collabora native packages on Linux, and I had my fair share of trial-and-error while doing it myself, so here we go, I’m doing an organized dump of my notes on the subject.

Continue reading Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE) install and config, and other useful related things.