Wiping Old Equipment's Hard Drives
Need to wipe an old hard drive or USB stick? Here's one approach.
Linux
MX Linux Rocks
My old laptop had stumbled on ZorinLinux when it came to NVIDIA support. T
Claude Code Setup on MX Linux: Wikifying My Gen AI Knowledge Stack (Part One)
Welcome to Part One of this series. The link to Part Two appears at the very bottom. After setting up an old laptop (Dell Alienware M15) with MX Linux, I decided to investigate the
Moving Fonts: Windows to GNU/Linux
Update: Instructions Worked! Original: Someone on Mastodon asked, and for fun, I ran it through
Rclone, anyone?
Every Thanksgiving break, I take a stab at backing up one of my external USB hard drives to another. It takes forever since the drives are huge and data is traveling over a USB con
Adding Audio/Video Transcription to ZorinOS
Since I'm spending a LOT more time on Zorin Core Linux OS these days, I've taken some time to install all my favorite apps on it.
Another Week on Manjaro Linux
Wow, it seems silly to write about the operating system one uses, but I have been so impressed with how fast, easy to use Manjaro Linux (KDE Plasma) has been to use. My journey sta
Exploring MX Linux
I have an old laptop (Alienware 15) that I got awhile back. With all the stuff going on about Windows 11 Recall, CoPilot, etc., I had been wanting to have one machine in my life th
A Brief Respite: Mistral on Local AI
After watching DeepSeek misinterpret my model instructions on Msty local AI tool, I dumped it. Who wants to have endless conversations with their device about how to do something?
AI-Powered Audio/Video Transcription with WhisperDesktop
Ever needed to transcribe the text from an audio file? I keep hoping that doing so will be as easy as submitti