While waiting on dinner at the restaurant tonight, I noticed on my phone’s mail app (K-9 Mail) that my emails weren’t being filtered like they should. Automated notifications that normally would be Marked as Read by one of the many rules I have in Thunderbird were going unmodified. That’s when I remembered that, an hour …
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Permanently Disable Tracker in Ubuntu
Ubuntu Gnome Desktop comes with a background service called Tracker that runs a bunch of other sub-services such as tracker-miner-fs, tracker-extract, tracker-store, etc., that do the job of scanning and indexing the files in your user home folder. It’s a service used by the Gnome file manager for speeding up the search bar. This is …
Ubuntu 20.04LTS is Pain
Migrated my workstation this weekend from Ubuntu 16.04LTS to 20.04LTS (by way of 18.04LTS), and I don’t like it. A lot can happen in 5 years, and much of the software I’ve come to rely on in my daily flow is no longer around. Stuff that I’ve learned, used, integrated, trust, put all my eggs …
Ubuntu Have No Idea How Debian I Am On Freshness
I spent some time Saturday night nerding out by upgrading my laptop’s OS from Ubuntu 9.04 to Debian Testing (Squeeze). I say “upgrade” because moving to Debian is a major step up from Ubuntu. Canonical, Inc., the company that publishes Ubuntu, essentially takes a snapshot of the entire Debian project and all its software packages …
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