VPS opinion: Contabo

Linode was my first choice as a VPS for at least 8 years by now. Back then when I started purchasing virtual server instances there weren't so many choices as there are today. Today, it looks like everyone who does something remotely associated with computers offers Virtual Priva…

Why I voted for support rms letter

Richard Matthew Stallman (rms) is an iconic figure. He has returned to the Free Software Foundation (FSF) board of directors this month. The act created quite a stir in the community revolving around free software movement. As all my recent articles, this one is also subjective. …

Automotive chip famine events

For the country where I live, Slovakia, automotive industry is a pretty significant sector. Since 2007, Slovakia has been the world's largest producer of cars per capita, amounting to 12% of the Slovakia's GDP. Before the COVID-19 pandemic started, my professional background was …

Hide blueman-applet in Gnome Shell

In my previous post, I have described why I have installed XFCE alongside my daily driver, which currently is Gnome Shell. XFCE required me to install and run nm-applet and blueman-aplet during startup. Gnome Shell does not need these packages. Network and Bluetooth functionality…

Solutions to a buggy system package

There was bug in mutter, a default Gnome Shell compositor for Wayland. There was a bug fixed in v3.38.4 fixed via !1784 that made Gnome Shell crash certain click event (like every ~5 minutes of usage or so). When I have found out I cannot use my system like this anymore, I basica…

Inverting colors helps Tesseract

Been doing some work with OCR automation using Tesseract and discovered that it is really helpful to invert the image before doing the character recognition. Especially on black surfaces with the laser engraved characters. This quite makes sense, since the background is already i…

Rules in the Fediverse

There are many ways people communicate and share ideas. Or memes. Or anime girls. No matter what you are a fan of, there is some place in the Internet for it. I am almost sure. What's more interesting, is the fact, that due to abundance of software contributions, it is becoming e…