On a Surface Go 2 running Fedora, the internal speakers sometimes clicked every second after waking up from suspend, until the next reboot. The culprit was not the audio stack: the system clock had jumped two hours ahead, and the way chrony corrected it slowed down the clock PipeWire uses to time playback.

An unofficial Sailfish OS port for the Sony Xperia 10 VI. Sailfish OS is a Linux-based mobile operating system by Jolla. The port runs it on top of my LineageOS 23.2 port for the same phone.

A unofficial LineageOS port for the Sony Xperia 10 VI. LineageOS is a free and open-source operating system for various devices, based on the Android mobile platform.

A Linux configuration tool for Endgame Gear wireless mice (OPiw and XM2w), based on a reverse-engineered USB protocol used by the Endgame Gear Windows-only configuration tool.

Deshrouding a Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT NITRO+ and using regular Noctua fans decreases the fan noise to just ambient noise levels. However, Sapphire uses a special cable to connect its fans to the PCB. The single 8-pin header controls all 3 fans.

Resx Formatter is an extension that allows to define the sort order of the XML data nodes when saving a resx file. Therefore, this extension can help to mitigate merge conflicts by sorting the resx keys in a particular, well-defined order. Additionally, it’s possible to remove the XSD schema or the document comment during the sort to save space.

wpa-supplicant is WPA supplicant for Linux, BSD with support for all major WPA version. However, being a user space demon it has performance issues resulting in lag spikes every few minutes. Switching to iNet Wireless Daemon (iwd) results in stabler ping times preferred in gaming and real time applications.

TumblThree is the code rewrite of TumblTwo, a free and open source Tumblr blog backup application, using C# with WPF and the MVVM pattern. It uses the Win Application Framework (WAF). It downloads photo, video, audio and text posts from a given tumblr blog.

TumblTwo is a downloader (crawler) for the Bloghoster Tumblr.com based on TumblOne. After supplying a url, the application will search and download all types of images and videos in a given resolution. It’s possible to download only tagged images and download simultaneously from multiple blogs and enqueue others.

I’ve got a new notebook, the Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E330 (Intel i3 31110M modell, around 500EUR), which is quite exact covered in in this review. I just wanted to add a few things I’ve noticed concerning Linux compatibility.