Monthly Archives: October 2025

I have a directory tree whose overall structure is something like logs/ u1/ p1/q1/r1/info p2/q2/info u2/ p1/q1/r1/info p3/info p4/q4/r4/info p4/q4/r4/s4/info u3/ p1/noninfo p2/q2/info and I want to write a find invocation that e.g. returns all of the info files contained in a p1/q1/r1 subdirectory while pruning as much of the […]

I am currently using Jenkins 2.530 on an otherwisely unknown-and-inaccessible-to-me Linux machine. (E.g. no ssh.) Docker provider is podman 5.4.0, which I think is part of the problem. What I want to invoke: cd repo_folder docker build --file .devcontainer/Dockerfile --tag job:24 . docker run --interactive --mount type=bind,src=.,target=/folderA/folderB --name dev_container --rm […]

I’m trying to troubleshoot my Lenovo Thinkpad T14s Gen 1 (AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U), which has developed a strange issue. While I can enter and navigate the BIOS settings perfectly fine, the laptop reboots just seconds after trying to load any operating system. For example, when installing Windows 10 […]

How can I add desktop icons to my Windows 11 computer? The default set provided only has 9 available icons.

I installed Steam with apt. However, to uninstall steam I entered the following commands: $ sudo apt purge steam $ sudo apt autoremove –purge $ sudo apt autoclean $ sudo find / -iname ‘steam‘ -delete However, many Steam items remained in /snap. I couldn’t remove them. I tried to mount […]

I’ve recently switched from Windows to Ubuntu. DP has always been a bit flaky in my experience, but this is a new level of strange for me. When I reboot the system, both my secondary (over HDMI) and primary (over DP), connected to my GTX 3060 Ti will stop displaying […]

With Thunderbird online, if I send an email using the web browser with the mail provider’s (provider is “GMX”) web front end, this message automatically appears almost instantly in the Sent folder of my IMAP account in Thunderbird and is stored permanently (confirmed by shutting TB down and subsequently identifying […]