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Solving my Intel GPU performance issues
For the last few days I had my laptop connected to an external monitor which has a 2560×1600 resolution. Whilst having a few websites open and doing a video chat the laptop completely ground to a halt with the fan going full speed. My laptop is a Lenovo ThinkPad X260 with an i7 CPU and… Read more
KDE Plasma Testing With Kubuntu
After my previous post on testing KDE Plasma on KDE Neon my friend and colleague Max commented with “Any thoughts on using Neon over Kubuntu”. That did get me thinking as to whether or not Kubuntu with the backports PPA is as good and as stable to use as KDE Neon. Read more
Another week with KDE Plasma
At the beginning of the year I gave KDE Plasma a try as the primary desktop on one of my devices. It wasn’t my primary laptop but I still used it heavily in that time. I enjoyed it but there were still some niggles that meant I wouldn’t have been happy with it being my… Read more
Making WiFi Great Again
TL;DR: Ubiquity UniFi gear is awesome! When I moved into my current house one of the bigger technical challenges has been to get WiFi that works throughout my house reliably. Since we can only get regular phone lines here I’m on a VDSL2 internet connection which runs at 80/20mbit. The problem is this comes in… Read more
MariaDB source visualisation with Gource
Gource is a tool which can take a source code tree and create beautiful visualisations out of it. I’ve used it a few times before for various projects. This weekend I spent a little bit of time playing with it and applying it to MairaDB Server to see what it would produce. The end result… Read more
One week with KDE Plasma
My go-to Linux distribution when I’m setting up my workstations is Fedora. I have been using it since Fedora Core 1 and RedHat 9 before that. I can’t even remember what RedHat version I started with now. I often try other distributions out and sometimes use them for a few months but I always end… Read more
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