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Poor man's CD player

I mostly use streaming services nowadays to get music flowing in my home office, but I do have some CDs that I cannot get content from any streaming service provider. My old portable Panasonic CD p...

Remap shortcuts

Jumping back and forth between Mac and Linux is OK most of the time, but one the pain point has been keyboard shortcut. This is annoying when using Chrome, and is extremely annoying when copying t...

PPA priority

So I discovered this awesome theme. Installation was quite smooth and it looked gorgeous. But after sudo apt update, I found hundreds of packages to be upgraded. Weird. It turned out that the PPA ...

Connect to Bluetooth earbuds with a keyboard shortcut

For many reasons, I need to connect my earbuds to different computers from time to time. On Mac I can use Alfred + alfred+bluetooth-workflow, so convenient! To get similar experience on Linux, I di...

Boot to Windows

Of course I default to boot into Linux. But the problem is, with a Bluetooth keyboard, it is simply not possible to navigate through Grub menu if I want to boot into Windows. There is a workaroun...

Get Chrome issue fixed

As said here, I had to restart Chrome every time the computer wakes up from sleep and that had been very annoying. Luckily I found a workaround that is to set --use-gl=desktop as a Chrome startup ...

Bluetooth keyboard trouble 2.0

Man, this is disgusting! After upgrade to Ubuntu 20.10, the Bluetooth keyboard issue I mentioned before seems to be fixed, at least it has appeared to be better. However another thing is broken! ...

Give me back Super+Q

OK, this has been driving me nuts. I’m so used to Super+Q to start Alfred on Mac, and now Albert on Linux. I set it in Albert settings, but after a while it gets overridden by something and the sho...

Random Xid 61 and Xorg lock up

Well I stole the title from this looog thread. The gist is, sometimes Xorg gets completely frozen up due to unknown bug in Nvidia Linux driver and the only way to fix is a reboot. For me, every ti...

Make my Logitech MX Master 3 work better

I love my Logitech MX Master 3, to the extent that I bought two of those, one at home and one at the office. While it works most of the time, I do have encountered problems related to high resoluti...