Danny's Space

I upgraded from Ubuntu 20.04 to Ubuntu 22.04 both LTS editions. I am keen on staying on the more stable line of linux and doing what's less audacious. I am trying to upgrade from one long term support release to another LTS to see if that kind of upgrade choice has improved. I did a "do-release-upgrade -d" procedure and in the back of my mind I entertained dark thoughts of upgrading to a "d" release even though Ubuntu 22.04 has been officially released. What I actually did was: (1) looked at my /home directory and my files. Made sure these are backed up/ sync to somewhere else not your local computer, the computer I am upgrading.   (2) #apt update && #apt upgrade.  These dual commands updates all packages in my current Ubuntu version.    (3) #apt autoremove.  This command removes all packages that are no longer necessary.    (4) #do-release-upgrade -d....

I am a new user of keepassxc. This is a password manager for Windows, Mac and Linux. Originally I downloaded it using the ubuntu repository. But the developers of keepassxc released a new improved version not a week ago, so I decided to upgrade. Unfortunately, I can get the new version using snap or a PPA and decided to download the snap from the website . After the installation, I tested the password manager with my browser and it is broken. It worked before with the old version. So my search for a solution pointed me to this page: troubleshooting browser integration with keepassxc . If you have keepassxc and using Linux, first check your version and how you install it. Then if you want browser integration which is a very neat thing to have if you are a password manager user, open the browser integration tab within the application. I use Mozilla Firefox and I need to download an add-on called keepassxc-browser. Keepassxc should be connecting with my browser but there's a glitch. A...

Last year, my 78 year old mother decided to close her old bank account and open another with me as co-owner of the account. A few weeks after she had to stay ten days at the hospital for a heart trouble. She kept telling me and reminding me  about the house payments, the loans and the new bank account. It was prescient of her to make such a move. She's a very practical lady.  I am mentioning this today because as a consequence the bank, her bank, got my personal information, specifically, my financial information and in the succeeding months sent me credit card applications. With our combined financial status I got a deal with a platinum credit card. It introduced me into the world of cash management and credit card purchasing. The lockdowns due to Covid made it crucial that people do business online and online meant using cards - credit cards. Online purchasing steadily become popular in the Philippines starting 2014. The forced isolation of the lockdown, the need for credit ...

It is the third day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The reports have told of tanks entering border crossings and aircraft bombing airports and military targets well inside the country. It is clear that these actions by Russia is unwanted and uncalled for even taking into account the two separatist regions. There are no armed conflicts within Ukraine. Ukraine should have the right to work out its own problems with these separatist regions.  More over there are no guarantees that Russia will stop its invasion of Ukraine once security is restored to these separatist regions. In fact Putin explicitly calls for the government of Ukraine to surrender. It's open war against an independent European country!  There are around 400 Filipino workers in Ukraine according to our embassy. The plan is to evacuate them to Poland and Polish authorities have allowed this even if they don't have a visa.  The United States and the European Union are implementing a series of economic sanct...

BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:4.0 EMAIL;PREF= 1:d327roque@gmail.com FN:Donato Roque N:Roque;Donato;;; TEL;VALUE=TEXT:09185721710 X-MOZILLA-HTML;VALUE=BOOLEAN:TRUE UID:670c5491-a0ad-486f-9d33-8caa2afc7516 END:VCARD Thunderbird email client has been updated since I last used it. I am using version 91.5 in Ubuntu 20.04. I like the smooth desktop integration in the Ubuntu Gnome hybrid. I regard it a hybrid because it isn't pure Gnome. It has a lot of modifications. It handles better than evolution. My issue with evolution went away when I open Thunderbird. My issue is mainly how slow evolution downloads or syncs messages. It is so bad that I would rather open Gmail in the browser than wait. I still compose my emails in the desktop application. Encryption in Thunderbird is no longer an add-on. It is integrated in the application. This makes it easier to use OpenPGP to sign and encrypt my emails. I can open Google Calendar (yes, the web interface) within the clien...

Two things I've been focusing for a few days lately are keepassxc and thunderbird. Congratulations to keepassxc devs and all the people involved. It works and it works well. It works in linux and it works in android. I am also keeping thunderbird as a sort of backup to evolution. I know most of you use Gmail in the browser but hear me out. There's a reason for desktop email still. I still prefer desktop email clients for customization and security. Configured well that is.

I really like Converge ICT my ISP, my Internet provider. I got it last year April. After barely seven months of the initial base plan I applied to have a speed upgrade to 300 Mbps. They notified me that they are working on it. I thought that because of the lockdown it is going to take some time. No. Within days I am getting 590 Mbps downloads and 300 Mbps uploads. My Statement of Account, my bill, meanwhile remained the same.  So after four months of enjoying fast speeds and not getting billed for the upgrade plan, my "correct" bill arrives by email.  They welcomed me to the new plan and here's your official bill thank you.  I used to post every upgrade to software in Linux. I am more interested in amazing stuff. Like when such changes prove to be an addition to more efficiency and stability across the board. Like what? Like bluetooth in linux, like printers in linux and like ZFS. ZFS is new and experimental but I've been using it for two years now. I love it. My data...