I'm performing some out-of-hours Sunday night server maintenance and Becky is playing some Hogwarts Legacy on the Xbox. I'm not sure who is having more fun?
This is Beebee, she’s full of tortitude and likes to wrap herself around my arm and fall asleep.
Giving the Firefox Nightly .deb package a spin. I normally just download the binary and set-up my own .desktop file etc, so it's nice that Mozilla are providing this option now. I'm hoping that now I'm not using a Nvidia display driver, Firefox runs a bit better.
Just configured fingerprint authentication on my ThinkPad T14s under Debian and it worked first time. The device is listed as '27c6:6594 Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co.,Ltd. Goodix USB2.0 MISC'.
Every time I remove a Linode from my pool and the IP address is assigned to another Linode customer, I receive an early warning report from the National Cyber Security Centre about potential security vulnerabilities on the customer's new server. I'm thinking there is a potential business opportunity here.
Starting my working day with some Shell scripting and task scheduling with cron.
Looking at my todo list, I'll mostly be writing PHP CRUD stuff today, nothing too interesting, just got to work through it.
After a couple of days using my new ThinkPad T14s, I really like the new keyboard, compared to the keyboard on the T470s. The keys have a slightly shallower stroke and feel more clicky/tactile. I thought it would be difficult to improve on the keyboard from the T470s, but then again, I thought that about the keyboard on my old X220 as well. To be fair, I think they are all good, but I'm really liking this new one.
I've just been asked to extract an audio clip from a recording of a local radio station where one of our team gave an interview. /me fires up Audacity
Giving Fedora 39 a try in a virtual machine. It looks and feels like another solid release. If I wasn't a Debian user, I'd be a Fedora user, no doubt.
Good morning, coders!
Listening to the ShopTalk Show episode 590. Interesting discussion around Mastodon embeds and performance. shoptalkshow.com/590
Asking AI to draw a man with a big beard thumping his fists on his desk and yelling "SYSTEMD" in the style of a 2000ad comic, on behalf of a friend.
Installed Debian on my new ThinkPad T14s tonight. Everything seems to be working nicely and it definitely feels like a good upgrade over my old T470s. Geekbench results:
T470s: 1242 single-core - 2592 multi-core
T14s: 2427 single-core - 10519 multi-core
TBH, the numbers don't mean much to me, other than being a metric to justify the investment in new hardware. Anyhow, I think I'm going to enjoy this device.
Mostly writing PHP today, just the normal input output stuff. I also updated the DNS records for a domain and switched it to a new server that I provisioned last week, so there is that.
I've ordered a ThinkPad T14s Gen 3 as a replacement for my T470s. It should arrive tomorrow. I'd better start making a backup of my home directory. I think I'm going to give Borg a try -- I remember hearing about it on the Linux Matters podcast and I've been wanting to give it a try since. www.borgbackup.org
Today, I ditched my desktop computer in favour of using my laptop. My desktop has a 10th gen Intel CPU and my laptop has a 7th gen Intel CPU. Other than that, both machines have a 1TB NVMe drive and 16GB of RAM. The laptop is perfectly usable, but also noticeably slower. I may require a new laptop.
This morning I am provisioning a new Debian Bookworm server and migrating a bunch of websites.
Reading and watching all the news about the new Qualcomm Oryon chips and I'm excited for the future. What I would really like to see is a Linux compatible laptop with:
1. The build quality/look of a ThinkPad.
2. The performance and battery life of MacBook Pro M1/2/3.
3. The fanlessness (definitely not a word) of the MacBook Air.
Not asking for much really.
"sudo: zip: command not found"
What? How long have I been using this system? Why is zip not installed?
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