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MCE hardware error finally resolved
My KDE Neon crashes intermittently for the past 2 years without a clear pattern or trigger. I suppose the only hint was that it often (not always) happens when I was using graphic intensive software, such as video player or remote desktop. …
GPU passthrough via VFIO
A retrospective note of a multi-weekend project from October 2021 - Feb 2022. Background I always needed both Windows and Linux operating systems for various reasons since the beginning of University. GNU/Linux offers tiling window …
Kernel choices on Ubuntu LTS
With my newly built dev machine, rocking an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X CPU and AMD 5700XT, the current LTS kernel (20.04 - Focal Fossa) from Ubuntu has very limited support, such as the occasional GPU freeze / tear / flickering, bios reporting EDAC …
How I settled with KDE Neon, for now…
Recently I discovered KDE Neon, a GNU/Linux distro based on Ubuntu LTS but with the bleeding-edge KDE plasma.
How to fix VS Code remote SSH for NixOS target
When you install VS Code with its remote-SSH plugin, and logs into a shell via SSH. VS Code will install its backend on the remote machine (at ~/.vscode-server) and turns the client into a front-end (after all, it’s just an Electron …
How to enable emacs-like keybindings for XFCE
Go to Settings → Settings Editor Find xsettings → Gtk → KeyThemeName Change the property value to “Emacs”
Short notes on function closure
The concept of closure may seem deceivingly easy to grasp – just a function that returns another function which could access the parent function’s environment.
The importance of personal webspace
I’ve just came across this article Into the personal-website-verse. It made a few points along with my comments:
Building a custom static website
I’ve been thinking of setting up a technical blog for quite some time now and I understand there are many options available online. None of them clicked for me however for various reasons:
Short notes on radiology and AI
There’s heated discussion on the impact of AI tools (or machine learning to be more accurate) on radiology. Here’s a points I summarised from various conferences and readings on the internet.