Thursday, June 18, 2026

rewrite of restic backup script and adding email alert

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Found that our restic backup script had stopped running from Apr 20th - the log files were dated as last modified on that date. This could ...
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Updating expiring Azure Linux Virtual Machine Secure Boot 2011 certificates

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Microsoft Azure's email notification asked us to update the secure boot certificates before the end of the month, and pointed us to veri...
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Samsung phone Gboard voice typing icon vanished

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At some point of time, after some upgrades / updates, the voice-typing mic icon vanished, for the Gboard keyboard on my Samsung M34 5G phon...
Sunday, June 07, 2026

income tax filing has become simplified

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Income tax filing for us in India has now become further simplified. Bank interest and salary income are automatically being pre-filled via ...
Saturday, June 06, 2026

in-place upgrade Ubuntu 22.04 web server to Ubuntu 24.04

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One of our web servers was running Ubuntu 22.04 and showed that an upgrade was available via 'do-release-upgrade' I took the plunge,...
Monday, June 01, 2026

lobby Raspberry Pi not booting

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We had multi-day issues booting the Raspberry Pi in the lobby, which would play a video loop. Disconnecting the USB power and re-connecting ...
Friday, May 22, 2026

visuals on planetarium dome getting washed out

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Copy-pasting from an email thread -  Just a follow-up on the issues with washed-out visuals we were facing. When slowly fading in particular...