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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 app)…
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…