A scene from Spiderman 2 using Linux + Windows?

What is going on here? Launching some kind of exe file on a Linux system. Who use `location_data.xml` as a folder name?

Lenovo SK 8821 hotkeys not working after upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04

Yesterday, I upgraded from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04LTS on my desktop PC. It automatically updated all the packages. Today I noticed that the hotkeys of my Lenovo SK 8821 is not working. These hotkeys functioned perfectly for the last two years without any need for manual configuration. The keyboard is using "Lite-On Technology Corp. Lenovo …

Are conventional Indian universities competing at global level at all?

If you see the NIRF's India University 2023 ranking, you will see IISc on the top followed by JNU, JMI, AMU etc. Although I don't consider IISc as a university because they only offer courses in science, thus, not a convectional university. But if you go to international ranks, for example, QS ranking, these universities do …

Found fitgirl in CeX.

I found this last week in CeX, Bristol, England.

Another thing similar to dowsing…

We all understand that standard dowsing is fake. This one is particularly interesting. Few years ago News 18 went to a village in Rajasthan. In this dowsing, a person sits on a coconut and another person with a incense stick roams in the land where they need a borewell. Now the claim is that the …

LyX 2.3.6-1 docker container

I have created docker images for LyX 2.3.6-1. You can download and use LyX with full-texlive (~2GB) without wasting time to install LyX and texlive. The instructions to run the container can be found in the readme. Just run the first command with your pwd in project's folder. I am planning to build the Docker image for 2.3.7 also, but …

42 days uptime on the daily driver.

Change the Dash to Dock App Launcher icon to a coloured icon

I explored this tutorial which basically tells you a way to change the default GNOME app launcher icon. I was able to change the icon in ~/.icons/<icon_fodler/actions/symbolic. I just need to replace view-app-grid-symbolic.svg. But the icon is always black and white. I used svgs from this website: www.svgrepo.com/ For example, I choosed this Windows 7 svg. Here is what I …

Reached an uptime of 1 month

So, for the first time I reached an uptime of 1 month on my personal PC. The PC is just working fine, no lags, BSOD etc. Just working as if booted it.

Found Charles Darwin hand written letters.

So, I went to nearby museum in Tenby, Wales. Found some hand written letters from Charles Darwin. TBH the letters are not readable after 200 years, but I have attached a transcript of the letter.