Some boxes like Geekom IT12 with modern Linux like Mint 22 (wilma) or Ubuntu 24 (noble) based on Linux kernel 6.8 fail to start the Bluetooth adapter. This is how to resolve this initialization error.
How to set up a local development certificate authority and local SSL certificate on a local development environment HTTP server without using mkcert().
If you are doing local development and using no SSL transport or your own self-signed certificates, you may not be allowed to view your development sites.
How to set up Host-network for Host / Guest communication and simultaneously route Guest communications to Internet through Host assuming Manjaro / Arch Linux Host and Ubuntu Guest.
Periodically, you will scratch your head and ask the perpetual questions: Am I using Bionic Beaver, Xenial Xebec, Risky Rhesus? Ubuntu? Debian? Which kernel? OMG?
This article tells how to figure out the parameters of your Linux system.
The New York Times (nytimes) hides its digital crossword puzzles from its digital subscribers to drive people to subscribe separately to their crossword puzzle services.
Here is how to find the current crossword puzzles from the archive for digital subscribers. (Currently, only the past week is "current".)
In order to use public-key authentication for logging into systems, executing remote commands such as rsync and git, you must first generate a public:private key pair. Here is how....