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This entry is part of my Project Zebra series covering migration to Linux for personal computing use.
Title reference: was reminded by a Reddit thread about small bands of something I've had an MP3 of apparently since the 90s and probably from the defunct free-music.com, the only mention of which I can find now being this re-upload of a FortuneCity site (NSFW) so here's the MP3 for Church of Crotchy - Rabid Goat (don't say I don't spoil you).
Some models of ThinkCentre can be woken with a keyboard shortcut of Alt+P if you plug the keyboard into a specific USB port, but I've never managed to get it to work with the M92p, and there's nothing in the BIOS that suggests it's possible. This is a bit inconvenient as it's attached to the back of a monitor on a bracket as they were designed to be. However, since it currently uses a wired connection (with the magic of powerline adapters and a switch) it's straightforward to get the desktop MAC address with 'ip link show' and send its usually static IP address a wake on LAN magic packet with e.g. the MR-Webb Android app, rather than awkwardly contorting an arm and frequently knocking things over. Considering I added the switch years ago due to the wi-fi dongles used with my desktop being a bit flaky (and had the powerline adapter setup years before that, likewise the switch was in a storage tub) it's taken an embarrassingly long time to realise how simple this is and set it up.
I don't have access to the preboot environment on a work laptop but it appears wake on LAN is enabled by default, and it's also on a wired connection. The only reason I haven't tried it yet is the machine is only restarted for updates (it's also set to not charge unless below a certain point, to protect the battery, which Lenovo have done a fairly good job of). Update: it works, which is useful to know, but waking via LAN is also slower than the much older desktop.
A bit of tablet weirdness with the last surviving Samsung Tab A8 I keep as an alarm refusing to charge until it was restarted. Don't think that's happened before.
Used this to disable some additional stock apps on a 10" TV tablet
https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation/releases/tag/v1.2.0
Installed fstl for viewing stl files from the Debian repo. Have found a number of useful TF/MOTU 3D CAD files recently for missing accessories.
Edge complaining about a SHA-1 signing key, which MS haven't handled well
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/247505
sudo wget -P /etc/apt/keyrings https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc
change the signed-by ref in /etc/apt/sources.list.d to /etc/apt/keyrings/microsoft.asc
Which seques into a link dump...
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/12/suse_runs_ms/
Particularly unwisely given MS being compromised by nation state attackers
Vivaldi comes out against AI, which is a refreshing change for browsers
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/29/vivaldi_release_ai/
AI versus insight
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/
Another milestone release from a user point of view, and will probably not look at it until it (or a more recent version) rolls into Debian stable.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/kde-plasma-6-6-released
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/24/kde_plasma_66/
Hopefully the round corners can be turned off... pixels are square, whydo people feel the need to do this?
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.7-Rounded-UI-QtWidgets
https://blogs.kde.org/2026/02/28/this-week-in-plasma-vietnamese-lunar-calendar-and-rounder-highlights/
Also, this tiling bug (last particularly noticed in 2023, personally) reads as fixed in 6.1.2 but I'm still finding that accidental drags in Plasma 6.3.6 are amending the snap areas with no way to reset to 50%
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465937
refers to this linked effort to make it optional which was rejected reads as a developer throwing their toys out of the pram, Gnome-like, and insisting everyone live with it
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/5665
and therefore impacting users who accidentally click and resize the border between two snapped windows and are left with no quick undo method, and inconsistent with other DEs that don't implement resizing adjacent windows or provide an option to disable or modify that specific behaviour, including previous versions of Plasma. Something that's unfortunately noticeable about Plasma and FOSS development in general is that the user experience for older and less able people is rarely considered. Everything like this should have an easy undo option.
Went hunting and en route to a fix/workaround it seems it's been a buggy POS
https://discuss.kde.org/t/tiles-editor-shortcut-stopped-working-after-6-2-2-upgrade/24915/6
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1174781-start-0.html
recommends deleting all [Tiling] sections in ~/.config/kwinrc plus under [Plugins] there's a tileseditorEnabled=false to re-enable following the upgrade from to Plasma 6. Having done that and restarted, i.e. the tile editor is on and mapped to Meta+T, it appears that kwin no longer remembers the sizes when windows that were resized as an adjacent pair are snapped out of the tiling, and goes back to 50%. This seems to apply whether you have tile areas configured or not (although I haven't left any configured now) and does make it possible to use a set of defined tile areas by shift-clicking and dragging windows, which is a much more sensible arrangement: there if you want it, but not overriding snapping.
FOSS modern speech generation and replication:
https://github.com/OpenBMB/VoxCPM
Haven't looked at ReactOS in years but glad it's still around:
https://reactos.org/blogs/30yrs-of-ros/
History of Acorn, seems worth keeping an eye on
https://www.doitonce.net.au/#
https://www.riscository.com/2025/acorn-biographer-rougol-15th-december/
I've got a stalled Acorn-related project myself to dust off eventually
And further off-topic, a Magic of Terry Pratchett DVD by unofficial biographer Marc Burrows
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2617264151983654&id=2174439579599449&locale=en_GB
He's also doing a couple of reading companion books
https://www.marcburrows.co.uk/product/reader-s-guide-to-terry-pratchett-volume-one-1962-1999-pre-order/DYISM7TVCQSXYZKC7TPBXZ4H?cp=true&sa=true&sbp=false&q=false
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