Baahubali (both parts) I have seen so many films, mostly Hollywood or American productions. One starts to tire of certain structures that seem to be repeating over and over, of getting force-fed the American (or in any case Western with a capital W) way of life (be it critically or appraisingly), an...
Hypernormalisation must be hands down the best documentary I ever saw. Two hours long, I watched it all in one go, I was so mesmerised.This is in fact part of what the author criticises: news and politics as entertainment, and it isn't even expected to have any connection to reality - that's hypern...
I feel the need to migrate all my github stuff to somewhere else. Because Microsoft is buying Github. Gitlab does not seem to be that much different. In the end, I chose two providers: framagit.org and notabug.org - just to be on the safe side. The migration itself happened via web interface and isn...
This is an older (kitkat) device which I wanted to factory-reset before selling it, but alas, it wouldn't boot anymore after that. This didn't surprise me because I'd made a lot of changes to it, on a system level. Actually, it did still boot, but got stuck loading the UI, hence half-bricked. This i...
The man command uses a pager, that is responsible for pagination, but also search and highlight. If your pager is less, you can search man pages with /search string. It will then highlight the search results, and they can be traversed with n/N. The highlighting helps to find the search string, but i...
Let's agree on a few things: the original infinality patched freetype packages are outdated and cannot ne used anymore at least 50% of what infinality did to improve the looks is about sane defaults, a careful configuration and installing the right fonts according to this one will need at least fre...
When trying to build an AUR package, i got this error: ==> Verifying source file signatures with gpg... freetype-2.9.tar.bz2 ... FAILED (unknown public key C1A60EACE707FDA5) ==> ERROR: One or more PGP signatures could not be verified! ==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build freetype2-clearty...
I have previously shown how to change default and fallback fonts with a user configuration. The results are already very good. Nevertheless, I have adjusted the substitutions a little more now, and went through all files in /etc/fonts/conf.dto see what is what and if I can delete some, and uninstall...