Today I had to cheer up y daughter who was quite desperate about thermodynamics… so I recalled this “Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.”…
Author: Paolo Redaelli
Tricks
An happy end
Today I was installing Debian on the old laptop of my sister-in-law. We bought it in first place in 2016 for my daughter, with Windows 10, “because of compatibility”, because at school they “required” the proprietary OS. Then we discovered that it wasn’t required that much so I installed Ubuntu in multi-boot with Windows, and…
Food, Mood
L’anno scorso elogiavo i tortellini Pagani. Ora che ho scoperto le spezie della Borghini sono indeciso su dove prendere i pensieri natalizi per amici e colleghi. Per tacer di Profumo di te, il negozio di te di Seregno…
Documentations, Tricks
NAS with Autosuspend, WakeOnLAN and SSHFS Automount
NAS with Autosuspend, WakeOnLAN and SSHFS Automount
Mood, Musica
I think I will start following the Gælic singer Julie Fowlis, the Danú See also www.juliefowlis.com
Ethics
Proprietary or unreleased?
Yesterday I got lost listening celtic music on Youtube, ending up listening to many tunes and songs from Brave movie. I love that movie and especially its soundtracks. The Wikipedia entry says that Brave … is their first film animated with a new proprietary animation system, called Presto. Well, I’d rather say that Presto is…
Comparisons, Mood, Software, Software Libero
Favnyr, Rust and the NIH syndrome
Today, in my Fediverse flow of posts I found the Italian article «Favnyr il moderno file manager per Linux e Windows», i.e. «Favnyr the modern file manager for Linux and Windows» about a new multi-panel file manager. I was going to start my usual old-man rant (yelling at clouds) as there are already at least…
Mood
Ok, I do feel old (2)
For the second time today I do feel old. I issued on my Debian machine. The list of changes notified me that gsettings-desktop-schemas (50.1-1) experimental; urgency=medium Since GNOME 50, X11-style middle-click paste (pasting the primary selection, usually activated by a middle mouse button click) is disabled by default, because it was often done accidentally by…
Mood
Ragazzi, quando ho iniziato 576Mb ci avrei messo quasi trentatre ore. Mi sento vecchio