A coredump is something the kernel initiates when an application crashes/segfaults. Nowadays it usually passes that task on to systemd. This takes time, storage and CPU. I'm not a system developer. I have no idea what to do with a coredump. I don't need it. There's also some threads online suggestin...

Applications that use Pango (the software) cannot use good ol' X bitmap font formats anymore. But they still can use the OTB format for bitmap fonts. If your favorite old bitmap font is not available in this format, here's how to convert it. Prepare For once I found the instructions on Fedora's wiki...

I recently purchased a second device to install Sailfish OS on. The documentation recommends installing the latest compatible Android baseband version - which essentially means re-flashing Android - before installing SFOS. Olf's excellent guide goes into more detail here, esp. for my XA2 Ultra (H321...

I got me a used XA2 Ultra (model no. H3213) that already had SFOS installed - albeit an old version, 3.0.something, so I wanted to reflash. On Linux, this requires fastboot, part of android-tools on ArchLinux,and a script (provided with the image download) to do all that over a USB connection. Howev...

Sometimes I get a creative kick when writing a reply on some forum, and then I feel a little sorry to think that this "gem" will soon be forgotten and unfindable. So I decided to copy-paste some of these outbursts to a dedicated page. It's a little narcissistic. The typical Internet user The interne...

(before LTS support runs out) I have now dist-upgraded several times, always from (old)stable to stable. Originally written for a Jessie => Stretch upgrade, this text still applies for Buster => Bullseye and likely so on into the future. So just replace "jessie" and "stretch" in this text wit...

Context I'm in the process of finally upgrading my Debian install from oldstable (buster) to stable (bullseye). My DAViCal installation uses PostgreSQL for its database backend. Strangely, I have two versions of PostgreSQL (9.6 and 11) and I purged the older one (without deleting the databases, than...

Two chapters in this article are Debian-specific, the rest is more or less Archlinux-specific. It never grew into the device-specific alround tutorial I envisioned and has been partially superseded by this article. The ThinkPad itself is in daily use. No regrets there! BIOS Update The latest BIOS ...