misadventures

X-Face for Claws Mail on Windows 11

2023-05-15

Claws Mail, dead, HOWTO, misadventures, projects, Usability

TL;DR - You can't use X-Face because compface isn't available, and you can't use "Face" because of file size constraints.

There's also this tool (which didn't help): https://www.dairiki.org/xface/xface.php

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USB dock gets slower over time

2019-06-09

dead, hardware, Linux, misadventures, troubleshooting, USB hardware

USB >

In Linux, in particular in Debian 9.9.0-i386-xfce-CD-1, file operations will grow inevitably slower until the speed is unusable.

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Pale Moon default browser on Linux

2018-10-03

HOWTO, misadventures, Pale Moon, Usability

Software > Web browsers >
Pale Moon >

The "default browser" setting for Pale Moon does not work. This is how to do it manually.

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Devuan 1.0.0 avconv crash

2018-04-10

Devuan, HOWTO, Linux, misadventures, troubleshooting

Libav + Devuan >

Problem: On Devuan-1.0.0-jessie-i386-DVD, avconv crashes while building a video from an image and audio. It worked until a recent update.

According to old notes, 6:11.9-1~deb8u1 worked. However, I do not know if a more recent version worked before I noticed this problem.

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My heroes

2018-03-14

archivism, Karen Kenworthy, misadventures, my writing, personal, projects, writing, zombie

There are a lot of people who have been key, at least in hindsight, to my development.

I haven't really thought about populating this topic, but at a glance..

CanoScan LiDE 120

2018-03-03

desktop hardware, hardware, input devices, live, loved, misadventures, owned, proprietary hardware, reviews, scanners, things, USB hardware

Uses a single cable

Hardware > Scanners >

support page
product page

Canon CanoScan LiDE 120

I checked SANE's supported devices list, and saw that the LiDE 120 is supported, however the model I received uses a different and Linux-unsupported chipset! (GL848+)

Herein are notes of my misadventure.

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War for the Overworld - (2015 game) image

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/230190/
https://web.archive.org/web/20180610001951/https://wftogame.com/

An awkward dungeon management game, with walls you can't dig out, rooms you build but don't know how much of or what size, and an interface that could only be inspired by a 1980s DOS game.

Absolutely not recommended.

Inspired by Dungeon Keeper - (1997 game)

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dm-crypt

2016-11-05

encryption, freeware, HOWTO, Linux, Linux software, misadventures, open-source software, projects, security, software, todo, zombie

TODO - tested and working, though my most recent Lubuntu experimentation has problems I'm still troubleshooting.

At best, my computer hangs when prompting for a password. I think this is related to the 4.4.14 kernel but have not confirmed this.

Projects >

dm-crypt
https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup
https://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/docs/cryptfs/cryptfs.html

These instructions are a lot easier than they seem, and a smart and patient beginner will be able to follow them!

These notes were made from instructions from Slackware "current", as of 2016-11-05, and have been tested on Slackware 14.2, and 14.2 32bit.
These notes were made on an everyday system with one hard drive which I completely formatted for this purpose.
- If you are a new user, it is strongly recommended that you remove all hard drive's your using and do this on a spare unused/empty drive.
This concept and these notes build a full-disk Slackware installation which also uses LVM. You can safely ignore the entire LVM post and just follow this one.

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Making a USB stick bootable

2016-10-30

dead, HOWTO, Linux, LiveUSB software, misadventures, projects, storage, the kit, troubleshooting, USB hardware

Computers > Hardware >
USB >

Problem: A USB stick cannot boot with any of Porteus, the boot-repair LiveUSB, or SystemRescueCD. It used to be bootable with Porteus, and before that it could boot with other Linux LiveUSB distributions.

Solution: Ventoy

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