My history in gadgets - update 2020

June 26, 2020 less than 1 minute read

An second update on the My history in gadgets, the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2019 bis updates:

Phone history:

I upgraded from the OnePlus 6 (which is going to my girlfriend) and got the

OnePlus 8 Pro

through my employer at a nice discounted rate.

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Installing Displaylink drivers on Fedora 37

January 1, 2023 1 minute read

I have an Asus ZenScreen MB16AC which uses Displaylink as its display technology. On usb-c you can just plug this in and it’ll work, but on my ancient laptop I only have usb-a ports. The display does come with an USB-A to USB-C convertor - so let’s try ;)

Increasing Mastodon’s post size

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Mastodon comes with a default post size of 500 characters. This is not set in stone, and can be increased fairly easily (last tested on Mastodon 4.0.2):

Enabling H.246, H.256 and VC1 VA-API codecs in Fedora 37

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Dark theme in Flatpak apps

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To get flatpak’s to honor your systems dark mode and not show you horrible white menubars, you can use this little snipplet:

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