Rhythmbox 3.4 is out, and you should upgrade. Plenty of reasons, but one matters more than the rest: it fixes the memory leak… Before, listening for too long would blow up memory usage. Not anymore — at least I haven’t hit it since upgrading.

Deadbeef is good software, and it already has its own PPA on Ubuntu 16.04.1 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:starws-box/deadbeef-player sudo apt update sudo install deadbeef

Ubuntu 16.04.1 came out on July 21, 2016. I’d been complaining that Ubuntu 16.04 was basically an unusable release, and apparently the folks at Canonical felt the same way — when 16.04 launched they said they wouldn’t recommend 14.04 LTS users upgrade until the first 0.1 point release, i.e. 16.04.1, shipped. Thinking about it is just painful. This is supposed to be an LTS release. Back with 12.04 I started using it from the alpha and never had a single problem. And this 16.04 ends up this unstable — no idea whose fault it is. There are still two fatal bugs hurting Ubuntu 16.04.1’s stability: One is the wildly ballooning memory usage everyone’s been reporting, possibly a leak: Ubuntu 16.04 Unity desktop uses much more ram than Ubuntu 15.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1572801 The other causes unstable network connections — the laptop drops offline on its own after waking from suspend: Not working network connection after boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1434986 The kicker is that neither bug shows as fixed in the 16.04.1 release…

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is out. Lately I’ve been upgrading the VPS, laptop and desktop I actually use, to fit my own needs. Writing the process down here so future me can look it up.

Ubuntu’s default terminal is Gnome-Terminal, and it always feels a bit off. Recently I tried Terminator, and I was thoroughly won over. Now this is a good terminal. But after using it, a problem came up: Ubuntu’s Unity has a bunch of shortcuts, and C+A+T launches Gnome-Terminal. Is there a way to replace them all with Terminator? I know that at first you, like me, probably thought of editing the shortcuts. Actually, there’s no need at all.

I was using Linux, but I recently needed to do some video work, so I figured I’d just install a Hackintosh. Looked at the specs and it seemed like my setup would be pretty easy to get working, so I gave it a shot — and in the end it actually turned out perfect…CPU is an E3 1230 V2, motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-B75-D3VGPU is an ASUS GTX 460 V2I tried a Clover install, but it felt like there were a lot of problems and too little documentation, so I’ll switch over to Clover later if I get the chance.The install method was manually making a UniBeast USB installer and booting straight from it. The GPU was detected automatically (occasionally it wouldn’t be, but a reboot with -v fixed it).Everything was fine after installation. Once in the system I installed drivers with MultiBeast — mine is the latest version, 5.3.0