I’ve been using my XPS 13 developer machine more and more over the past few months after recently installing POP_OS (Ubuntu based with a very nice and usable Gnome 3 theme). Last week I updated to POP_OS 18.10, which brought lots of changes. One of those unexpected changes was the function (F buttons) stopped controlling […]
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Can’t extract rar files on Ubuntu?
I’m trying to extract a RAR file (a type of compressed file) on my new Ubuntu machine. I use the built-in archive manager application and keep getting this error message: Originally I thought it was a problem with the file (maybe corrupt), but after doing some DuckDuckGo’ing I found a […]
The Open Sourced User Centred Designer – Introduction
Hello, I’m Bernard I’m a user centred designer. I work mainly as a user researcher and interaction designer. In my day job, I work in a UK government department. I spend my days mostly doing: user research to build services that are sometimes completely digital, and sometimes a mixture of digital and non-digital interaction design […]
Installing Trisquel GNU/Linux on a MacBook Pro
If you try to install Trisquel 7.0 1)Trisquel Operating System website: https://trisquel.info/en on a MacBook Pro using Virtual Box 2)Virtual Box website: https://www.virtualbox.org/, you’ll run into a problem. When you configure the VM, and go to start it, you’ll get the following error: This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU: pae. […]