Chapter 9 – windows as a virtual machine under linux
by September 2024 Oh the glorious irony after all those years… well, I have a dual-boot setup on my PC with Fedora Linux and Windows 11. …
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Chapter 9 – Update September 2024
September 2024 It has been a while since I posted here, probably for all the usual reasons. RL has been busy and I was away …
Chapter 9 – finally taking the plunge with an apple iphone
June 2024 Jump to bottom of the page! On the day before travelling back from Lavarone, Italy, I did a daft thing and left my …
Chapter 8 – Revamping the old Lenovo T430 for the next 8 years!
Round about when I started this blog in 2019 I bought a used Lenovo T430 for noting things down when travelling. It has been great over the last few years but was slowing down under Windows 10 and the drives were filling up.
Chapter 8 – the Ubuntu Touch project is up and running (again)
I have been using the Volla phone 22 since it arrived in August… and, after a few initial hitches, reboots in the night and griping about the camera, I have got used to it and it’s a good daily companion.
Chapter 7 – the Volla Phone 22 part 2
The Volla phone 22 has now been in daily use for about a month and I have gained much useful experience and a few gripes from it.
Chapter 7 – the Volla Phone 22 part 1
I signed up for the new Volla Phone 22 on Kickstarter with a view to getting my degoogling and, if possible, Ubuntu Touch project back off the ground again.
Chapter 7 – a new chapter opens up in the Ubuntu Touch / Ubports project
Now, in a moment of evening madness I signed up to the Kickstarter campaign for the Volla Phone 22.
Chapter 6 – Four interesting replacement smartphones
First of all, a couple of steps back, a phone used to be mainly a phone, it seems currently to have become a mobile communications centre, desktop and office with which you can also do real-time or delayed voice messaging.
Chapter 6 – today is the first day of “new normal”
“The future starts now”, “today is the first day…” and “every new day starts in the dark”. I was looking around for a picture for …