Technical Wizardry

I like to tinker with my PC and get things working exactly how I want. At those times when I’m bound and determined to break my computer, (frying my eyebrows off in the process if I do a really good job of it), I often have to go do some research. And then I have to write down exactly what I did to turn my poor abused computer into a smoking hole in my desk. That is called “learning”.

In my warped imaginings, people might want to see these notes, and so this page exists to foist my semi-skilled technical fumbling on the unsuspecting masses. Enjoy!

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How To: Increase the Text Carat Thickness in GTK3 Applications

I use Linux Mint for the operating system on my home computer, and find the default thickness for the text carat leaves me scratching my head and muttering “where’d the blasted thing go now?”. Altering the thickness of the carat however, is really easy to do! This method works with pretty much any operating system …

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Connecting your iCloud Calendar to Thunderbird/Lightning

While my desktop PC runs Linux I, like many other suckers, have an iPhone. I also use the calendar on my phone, and I want to have access to that calendar on my PC. This is entirely possible, but as with most situations where you try to combine Apple and the land of Tux, Apple …

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