The ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2017 has a CPU thermal throttle at 75°C. Meaning once your CPU hits 75°C it starts downclocking to keep itself under that line. Honestly that throttle exists for a reason — laptop lifespan, stability, all that. My old ThinkPad X250 didn’t have one, and the CPU would just sit at 100°C like it was nothing, until the motherboard died once… But I bought the top-spec i7 model. If this piece of junk throttle is still gimping it, my CPU is basically a cripple. So I had to find a way to kill the throttle. Besides flashing some modded BIOS, there’s a software route.

I forgot the root password of my NAS, which is running Debian. After some Googling I found an easy way to reset it.

Open your web browser and go to: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libinput

I installed Unity as the default DE on Ubuntu 18.04, but Nautilus really sucks at desktop management. So I decided to make a change.

Playing Blu-rays on Linux is a pain in the ass… but I got it working. The disc is the Japanese release of Kimi no Na wa (君の名は。).

The Fedora 25 here is the Gnome-Shell-based Fedora 25 release. Verdict first: after setup, Fedora 25 with Gnome-Shell is basically usable — and “basically” is doing a lot of work in that sentence.

BBR is a new TCP congestion control algorithm researched and developed at Google. More details here.

A breakfast I stumbled on while randomly watching Japanese cooking videos on YouTube. Takes about 10 minutes. Ingredients: Sliced bread Soy sauce Eggs Lettuce Chicken bouillon

So here’s the deal: LibreOffice has this feature where it supports OpenCL acceleration… And you can’t turn that acceleration on, because odds are you never enabled OpenCL support in the first place. Even if you tick the box, it just turns itself back off after a restart. To turn it on you need to install the required packages first, then Intel’s official driver, then edit a config file.

I’d set up libinput for my touchpad before, but it came with a pile of problems, so I ended up going back to it recently. Writing down the config process. sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-libinput