I’ve been a proud Kobo Aura H2O Edition 2 owner and user since 2017, and I couldn’t be happier. But a few days ago, I was importing a pdf file to calmly ready to my son, and allas trouble in paradise! The pdf file was somewhat corrupted, and while transferring to my device using Calibre, it borked and corrupted the internal database. It kept freezing a 6% and rebooted. It rendered unusable for transferring any other files. I could use it, but not to import new files.
Solution: do a factory reset.
With a factory reset comes a caveat: while giving the device a clean slate and making it essentially new again, it looses all the files, notes, annotations, soduku’s scores (my wife’s) from all theses years of usage.
Luckily I had a back-up made last august for something like this I actually didn’t expect to happen. I strongly recommend you make one at least one by trimester.
How to perform a backup? Quite easy!!
So in the chance of Kobo Armageddon – like I had – you don’t have to panic.
Illustration by Art Attack on Unsplash.
So in order to install further features to your LibreOffice installation, like spell checking, dictionary, localization and some other features, in a a very easy way, just copy these simple commands. Mind you that the tag after the package name, refers to my personal taste/installation, i.e.: libreoffice-l10n-pt where pt is my country localization files. in myspell-pt-pt pt-pt is specific to European Portuguese. To get a full list of options and choose your own check the Debian Package page.
To have a better understanding of your code please check this link.
$ sudo apt install myspell-pt-pt hyphen-pt-pt \ libreoffice-l10n-pt mythes-pt-pt libreoffice-help-pt \ aspell-pt-pt aspell-pt
For further info on how to buff up your LibreOffice installation, check Debian Wiki.
Like I’ve previously said, to take more advantage of Fedora, one needs to install (activate) RPM Fusion repository in order to have some software updates and activate some restricted packages. Continue reading “RPM Fusion on Fedora”
Where is Debian? What you mean where is it? Right there! On the website, dummy. No quite.
If you’re someone like me that has temperamental hardware that needs some not-open-source software to use Debian or to even boot on your machine, then you’re in trouble, cause Debian website is a maze.
I’ve only been able to use Debian on my current laptop by using a non-free live cd image. Other than that, I’ve failed successively. I tend to hop between stable and testing, but I’m mostly on stable on my machine.
So here a the links to get live images with both stable and non-free firmware:
On the non-free side of things, you can choose (better imho) to download the ISO via BitTorrent.
And that’s it, now you have the keys to the kingdom.
This is an updated of the post, dated from 2016. There’s a written tutorial after the video.
Today let’s make that IP Static and change the dns address.
Continue reading “Static IP Address and Custom DNS on Fedora”
Two years after my post on the beaver, it has come the time to tune this fine free software to my liking.
It was released with a few significant changes, particularly under the hood. To check whats new, please check these posts by Canonical here and here. Visually its the best Ubuntu yet (at least in my perspective) even better than the long 10.04 (my favorite), a wonderful kernel for future proofing and running things smoothly.
Still, I need to make a few adjustments, hence this new cheat cheat. I’ve made a small script to automate 98% of the commands listed here. It’s available on my GithHub, here.
But for now, let’s get dirty.
Continue reading “Focal Fossa | Tuning Ubuntu”
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