Integrate Firefox with the Plasma Desktop

Image from the addon page Image from the addon page Lately, I’ve been switching between Gnome and Plasma. Both are great desktop environments and, like all the other software in the world, both have some shortcomings. So, this is not a flamewar post, nor is intended to start yet another one. Yesterday, I logged on a Plasma session and opened Firefox to check my email, social network accounts and read the news....

15 de outubro de 2018

Is Facebook an anti-democracy tool?

Read The Autocracy App, published in The New York Review of Books, and draw your own conclusions. It’s a long, but well worth, text about the impacts of Facebook on our societies and the apparent inclination it has for favoring dictatorships and autocracies. It gave me the chills…

11 de outubro de 2018

Spaceship-like cat beds

If we get a cat (we’ve talked about it one or two times), we’ll have to get one of this spaceship-like cat beds, from Myzoo Studio, eventually. Most likely a DIY one, because these ones are too expensive. But they are so cool! Even I would like a bed like this.

11 de outubro de 2018

Things to do after installing Fedora

WARNING Third-party repositories will be enabled and it was only tested on Fedora 28. This could have an impact on your system ranging from none to destroying all cat videos on the internet. You have been warned. Disable annoying AMD iommu warnings on boot Only for some AMD CPUs, like mine, an AMD A9-9420 Edit the /etc/default/grub file and append the following to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX line: iommu=soft amd_iommu=off Full example:...

07 de outubro de 2018