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Persuading Scrivener (3.5.1) to use your folder names as chapter titles

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Because I’m either insane or a masochist, having got Scrivener working yesterday I decided I was going to import my document from word and then…
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Scrivener 3.5.1 on Ubuntu Linux 22.04

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Scrivener seems like the best available option for epub production on Linux, so I decided to install it… There is a linked guide in the…
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Finally…

Computing
So, after about two years I’ve finally built my keyboard. By which I mean, from a pile of keys and a circuit board and a…
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House Maths

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So, we’re moving the fuse box electrical panel (and replacing the shonky crappy old panel. I’ve spent this morning sat working through this document that…
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Tales of the Pinebook and Linux fun

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So, I’ve continued to work on making the pinebook a comfortable usable device. It’s been a bit of battle – my mail server has some…
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Danger, Will Robinson!

Computing General
I have fallen into the dangerous territory of the mechanical keyboard. See, many years ago I had a rather nice IBM keyboard which died. I…
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In the years before…

Computing General
…when the internet was young[1] I used to collect the odd video. You’d find some bizarre things out there. They’d be uploaded in all their…
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Just a little bit…

Computing General
Because Linux’s move command is actually copy-then-delete if it’s not within one partition, I have to do this file shuffling in multiple chunks. Which means…
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So far, today has gone better

Computing
I spent this morning watching Big Clive tearing down a cheap USB charger which, for unfortunate part-failure reasons – passed mains straight through to the…
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Creeping Americanism

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So, my card holder finally no longer contains my British bank cards. They’re now securely & safely stored away… I’ve not quite had the heart…
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