Psy-Q's Braindump

Mostly tech- or society-related articles, very rarely updated.

Posts

30 Dec 2024

Superior self-hosted music streaming without Spotify

25 Oct 2024

Fun with Citrix Escape Sequences

9 Oct 2024

Jumping the WordPress ship

15 Aug 2024

A better Google Photos alternative

5 Dec 2023

Rescuing an old Kobo Aura H2O that keeps bricking itself

6 Dec 2021

Render emoji in color even if your default font doesn’t want to

26 Jun 2021

Preventing MPD’s HTTP audio stream from turning silent on song change

17 May 2021

Google’s monopoly on the APK trust chain

22 Feb 2021

Fix for keyboard layout resetting to US on every login after installing Zoom

1 May 2020

Improving fan noise on AMD GPUs using software only

29 Apr 2020

Automatically unlock kwallet after KDE/Plasma login on openSUSE Tumbleweed

29 Dec 2018

Do you have a minute to talk about our lord and savior, Zen buddhism?

25 Nov 2018

Making Steam’s magic work when using a Dual Shock 4 controller

4 Sep 2018

Getting rtl8814au USB sticks like the ASUS USB-AC88 to actually connect

27 Jul 2018

Wanna use a Mayflash DolphinBar with Dolphin on Linux? You’ll need this udev rule

31 Jan 2018

Game recommendation: JYDGE

24 Jan 2018

Yet another way to get a tear-free, stutter-free desktop with Plasma/KDE and Nvidia

22 Jan 2018

Working around broken firmware for Realtek USB WLAN adapters on newer kernels

26 Dec 2017

Using Xbox 360-compatible controllers properly inside WINE

27 Nov 2017

Our terrible future of closed protocols and proprietary systems

27 Jun 2017

Google shutting down XMPP interoperability is a sad sign of the age of communication silos

7 Jun 2017

Google is trying to destroy the ad blocker market

10 May 2017

I'm pretty sure that Microsoft will buy (at least a stake in) Canonical

4 May 2017

How Microsoft and Google are manipulating your children

7 Apr 2017

Fix crackling audio in some games in WINE

30 Mar 2017

Bidirectional clipboards in KVM guests are as easy as spice-vdagentd

3 Nov 2016

My favorite vim color schemes have been ported to Atom

11 May 2016

Did your mouse turn all weird in Debian and now you suck at Quake?

26 Nov 2015

To defend the free web, you must save Mozilla

24 Nov 2015

Decentraleyes: An additional defense against large companies analyzing you

19 Nov 2015

Tear-free video on GNU/Linux when using Intel graphics cards

4 Nov 2015

Handling logspam like "action 'action 20' resumed (module 'builtin:ompipe')" on Debian Jessie

22 Sep 2015

Backing up email from any IMAP server (plus: syncing and migrating)

20 Sep 2015

Another way to fix tearing and vsync issues using the Nvidia driver

30 Jun 2015

For news junkies who want to stay organized and happy: NewsBlur and TinyTinyRSS

29 Jun 2015

If you get a lot of logspam from systemd in your /var/log/syslog, this might help

21 Jun 2015

Why I'm switching from Jolla's Sailfish OS back to CyanogenMod for now

28 Feb 2015

Ebook market still broken

25 Nov 2014

Presenting the EurKEYboard: A mechanical keyboard for Europeans and coders

24 Jun 2014

Marrying Pulseaudio to KDE’s multimedia settings

16 Apr 2014

Syncing Sailfish OS's native calendar/contacts with ownCloud

3 Mar 2014

An input method for Chinese in KDE 4

21 Feb 2014

A secure, free alternative to WhatsApp that is fully under your control

4 Feb 2014

Swiss churches pay for pro-church-tax campaign using church tax

3 Jan 2014

The first week with a Jolla phone and Sailfish OS

13 Nov 2013

The slow and painful act of ungoogling yourself, part 7: Deleting your account

10 Nov 2013

The slow and painful act of ungoogling yourself, part 6: Browsers and syncing

5 Nov 2013

The slow and painful act of ungoogling yourself, part 5: Translation, dictionaries and online video

23 Sep 2013

The slow and painful act of ungoogling yourself, part 4: Mobile phone operating systems

17 Jul 2013

You cannot buy an ebook in Switzerland without surrendering to two foreign companies

15 Jul 2013

The slow and painful act of ungoogling yourself, part 3: Maps

4 Jul 2013

Using joysticks/controllers with keyboard-based games in GNU/Linux

2 Jul 2013

Nvidia Optimus support now built-in on Debian testing

28 Jun 2013

The slow and painful act of ungoogling yourself part 2

25 May 2013

Cracking the DRM on Kindle ebooks

22 May 2013

Google no longer supporting XMPP/Jabber

16 May 2013

IT archaeology: Virtualizing RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon) with VirtualBox in the year 2013

13 Mar 2013

Proxying from Apache HTTPS to some backend server that only speaks HTTP

7 Jan 2013

The slow and painful act of ungoogling yourself

2 Nov 2012

Creating your own Steam Cloud (or how to reliably sync any two directories)

19 Jul 2012

Building your own Sublime out of free components with vim

27 May 2012

Super-legible Heiti-style Chinese font for Debian GNU/Linux

8 Sep 2011

Avoding "Invalid byte sequence in UTF-8" with Ruby and CSV files

7 Sep 2011

Watch TV on your PC, no ads, no Flash

20 May 2011

Vegan Black Metal Chef, Ep. 1

10 Nov 2010

Moving from Google Reader to Tiny Tiny RSS

27 Oct 2010

Why is Switzerland/Norway so rich/expensive/not part of the EU?

16 Aug 2010

Good quality music from your PC, Mac or NAS: Music Streamer

20 Apr 2010

Sidegrading from Ubuntu 9.10 to Debian squeeze: It's a breeze

7 Mar 2010

How to decrypt an Adobe DRM-crippled ePub eBook file

12 Oct 2009

Nitpicking: KDE vs. Windows 7 window controls

22 Aug 2009

A week with KDE 4.3

7 Aug 2009

Checking out KDE 4.3 – it's a winner

2 Jul 2009

How competition in the browser market helped all of us

6 Oct 2008

More than half of Standard Norge resigns over Microsoft OOXML fiasco

30 May 2008

KDE 4's ultra-sexy text editor control

20 May 2008

Popcorn Hour A-100: A proper media player box

19 May 2008

French court forces dealer to refund Windows price

21 Apr 2008

Chairman of Norwegian ISO mirror committee reveals whole story

10 Apr 2008

Norwegians protest against OOXML

2 Apr 2008

ISO approves broken standard amidst massive irregularities

25 Jan 2008

Gbarcode Support for Ruby FPDF

24 Sep 2007

Our OpenVZ Virtualization Experience

13 Apr 2007

From Zero to Virtualization: Linux-Vserver vs. OpenVZ

26 Mar 2007

Dell Germany Refunds Vista/Works Price to Swiss Customer

6 Jan 2007

How to get a refund for the unused copy of Windows that is chained to your new laptop

14 Nov 2006

Some brainlessness in rsnapshot