Leigh Brown

Finally a press release I can get behind. “LibreOffice 26.8 brings professional typography, deeper support for the world’s writing systems, and no artificial intelligence” blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08...

The bread machine cycle: 1. Hey, look at this bread machine, we haven't used it for years. Let's make bread! 2. OMG this bread is just so delicious!!! 3. OMG I just ate 4000 calories of bread, hide the bread machine and forget it exists.

Woken to scream from the missus, turns out the intruder was easy to deal with.

Unexpected bonus when visiting the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park today

Had a bacon and fried egg sandwich and the egg yolk exploded and went all down my arm, and I didn't mind at all. Glorious!

Self service tills are great, except when you need assistance, which is EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

Years ago, I wanted an ISDN line. Just when it became cheap enough, Cable internet came and offered 4 times the speed for a 1/4 of the price. Similarly, it is now cheap and easy to get a VOIP telephone with tons of features - just as everybody is stopping using land lines. Still got one though 😃

Misty at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park today

I feel as though there should be a prize for figuring out libnl. Just to be clear, I have NOT earned that prize yet,

Just completed my regular sweep of the radiator thermostatic valves to turn them back down. My suggestion of a change request system did not go down well.

I realised the network dropping out was due to the high traffic at 4am when all my backups kick in. Anyway, I have moved the server to a different switch port and last night no drop out.🤞

Apparently I'm not "normal" because I like to keep my iPhone battery between 30% and 70%

I migrated some VMs from Xen to Qemu/KVM and they stopped working over night. I angrily went down to reboot the server but it turned out to be a dodgy connection to the switch. The migration continues...

The circle is complete. Started with KDE about 20 years ago, then switched to Gnome, Xfce, and then Mate. Now, back to KDE. Just installed it in my new laptop and it is rather nice.

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Why are my jumbo frames not working? Because my switch that says it supports jumbo frames DOES NOT support jumbo frames. arrrrrgh

Wow, backing up 5.5TB to a USB hard disk takes a lot longer than you might think. Over 12 hours at 120MB/s...

The dopamine hit from sending a one line fix to a random project on GitHub should not be underestimated. github.com/tomm/ez80/pu...

Yes, I have a bit of a problem.

Reflecting on the fact that I did not discover houmous until my late forties. What other amazing food am I not aware of?!

I love the Linux bridge vlan functionality and I've cooked up a very rough patch for libvirtd to let you put each virtual machine on a different (or more than one) vlan using nothing more than a single iproute2 bridge. Now to do a bit more testing.

Outrageous! My wife's Christmas party today and it will be just her and the IT guy. Okay, she's self employed and I'm the IT guy, but still...

Thanks, but no thanks, I guess??

Just got a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W and plugged it in to my Pico-ResTouch-LCD-3.5. Display output works but the sdcard isn't working. Further investigation required...

The combination of a microwave and air fryer is a powerful thing. Crispy hash browns in 6 minutes!

My rules for cream on scones are quite simple: if the density of the cream is equal to or greater than that of butter, it goes below the jam, otherwise above the jam.

Started playing Alien Isolation again and I knows it a program, I've watched the YouTube videos on how the AI works, but I still get terrified playing it!