The Catling Mindswipe

This is simply why Mint wins over Ubuntu;  I get to choose when my browser updates. Front and centre. No background updates, no incomplete, ambush restarts in the middle of something urgent. No demands to restart before the browser will open a new tab.  The one thing Canonical appears to forget; user choice. It's a simple thing.

I am now on a newly Minted HP Elitebook running Linux Mint 21 as my full-time workhorse. With the demise of both Lenovo's and a Dell, it felt like the right time to make the change from Ubuntu.

Changes announced this week effectively puts MailChimp's Free Plan in freefall. From March 10, 2023, drastic limits on the number of contacts number of daily and monthly emails renders the free plan all but useless.

Failing to mount shared folders on Linux hosts is most likely an issue with VirtualBox Shared Folders permissions.

The search for the ideal Linux distro continues with the question Ubuntu or Linux Mint? Alighting on Ubuntu from Mandriva and Suse back in 2010, the Ubuntu experience hasn't always been plain sailing. A three-year defection to Debian ended with a return to Ubuntu a couple of years ago, but the core issues with Canonical remain.

  Automattic recently split the substantial Jetpack plugin into a suite of smaller ones that you can install separately. 

After years as a hapless amateur creating thousands of blog posts, I think I've finally got it right with this six-step blog post authoring process.