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Fix gnucash colours on kde breeze dark theme

Updated for Gnu Cash 4.4 on KUbuntu 21.04

The register input shows as black text on a black background even with the old overrides.

This snippet makes the …

Fix "Failed to set MokListRT: Invalid Parameter" on a Mac Book Pro 2015

In Ubuntu 20.04 on some macs (mine is a 2015 MBP), at boot there is the message "Failed to set MokListRT: Invalid Parameter"

To solve it run

apt-get purge …

Fixing immediate wake from sleep on a Mac Book Pro 2015

I have a late 2015 Mac Book Pro running KUbuntu (19.10 at time of writing).

When closing the lid or choosing sleep from the KDE menu it will wake …

Installing Ubuntu using debootstrap (2019)

This is an updated version of my 2017 post

In some scenarios you may wish to install vanilla Ubuntu without the ability to use an iso.

In my case this …

Adding discard to luks formatted volumes on Ubuntu Cosmic

I use SSDs on my machines which are luks formatted, to enable TRIM/discard I had to add the discardd option to /etc/crypttab

crypt_nas UUID=887c0b7c-3ef1-499c-a36e-e1842bebf69a none luks,initramfs …

Checking the ubuntu support status of a package

Ubuntu has a complicated support policy, to check what packages are supported run ubuntu-support-status if you're on Bionic then there is also hwe-support-status which checks the HWE stack status

Making Ubuntu the default boot option on a dual boot Mac

I have a late 2015 Mac book pro with Ubuntu 16.04 Mate as the default OS and Mac High Sierra as the secondary OS.

When upgrading to High Sierra …

Installing Ubuntu using debootstrap

An updated version for Bionic is here

In some scenarios you may wish to install vanilla Ubuntu without the ability to use an iso.

In my case this was an …