GeniusMusing

Kind of... This is post 23 of 52 on week 28. In theory this should be post 28 but it is not. This is not to say I have been lazy, I actually have seven posts in different stages of research that are not yet ready and am in the process of changing four of our five computers from Fedora to OpenSuse. I have one done (this desktop), well mostly done except for things I am trying out like the K* things for email/calendar/etc [...] Read more

Well... maybe more of a mouse. Actually a trackball. A Logitech MX Ergo to be specific. Details can be found here. Logitech MX ERGO Advanced Wireless Trackball with Tilt Plate And what do you use to catch a rat mouse? Well... that depends on if you are running Xorg or Wayland and if you switch between both. For Xorg I am using xinput to configure my mouse and on Wayland I am using ratbagd. As I sometimes bounce between [...] Read more

I think I finally have a flavor of Linux and much moar This post is to wrap up several threads left hanging in other posts and my latest adventures in Linux-landia. TLDR: I am now in the lounge1 with the other lizards and have almost everything I need to kick Windows to the curb. In post 13, I was complaining about not being able to program my mouse buttons, solved mostly now. In post 14 I had complained about the [...] Read more

So a while back I had an idea. Yea, I know, dangerous. Music and songs typically tell a story in lyrics. What if I took the songs and reversed it to make a story out of a song? While the story could be just a longer version of the lyrics, this is not my goal. Music can evoke many different emotions and even instrumental works can lay the groundwork for a story. While I am working on a few other things I thought I would [...] Read more

Almost five years ago my father passed, I wrote this as a way to deal with his loss. It seems like a good time to post this. My dad was a teacher, not just in history and economics but in my life as well. He taught me the normal things like how to throw, catch and hit a baseball and how to ride a bike. He also let me learn about things like force, velocity and gravity at the same time, like what happens when you suddenly [...] Read more

Tom awoke with a start, sitting up in his bed, drenched in sweat and his hands shaking. He had never had a dream be so real. Or at least it seemed real. Very real. Also very fuzzy. While the effect on his body was real, his memories of the dream were not all there, it was almost more of an emotional memory rather than a visual memory. Tom didn't remember most of his dreams. As he thought about it, he hadn't remembered [...] Read more

This adventure started many years ago, in a place far away. Really, about a decade ago and 2500 miles away from where I live now, is when I my first major drive failure that was not fully recoverable. And by fully recoverable I mean I lost some data. I did back up then but not on a regular basis. The drive that failed me was a Seagate 3GB drive. I was not alone. Seagate faces class-action lawsuit over 3TB hard drive [...] Read more

mother is someone who will: Be there when you are in need Call you out for your BS Help you up when you are down Kiss your boo boo when it hurts Guide you in the direction you should go but not lead, that is for you alone Lead by example, even if it means using a hammer to get the garbage men to do their job Show you the proper way to do things like clean a bathroom or a house so you are ready to go out into the world [...] Read more

Maybe the grass looked greener or the bits looked brighter. Anyway I'm back! Whether you want me or not. Lets start with the not so good and work our way to the better things. I know there are people who like colorful things, me and my icons are not one of them. The graphics drivers (maybe it is still new) may not be quite as good as other distros but then I can only guess they (the larger distros) have a lot more hands [...] Read more

It's not me, it's you. I was looking forward to your 34 release and had thought of doing a fresh install just to get the full benefits of things like BTRFS that won't change with an upgrade. I even did the upgrade on my Asus T100 Transformer as a test to see how things worked and ran. It was looking pretty good even if I think that Gnome 3/40 is a crap desktop environment. But the Transformer is closer to a tablet with a [...] Read more