At work I had a branch with a large amount of updated VRT (Visual Regressen Tests) (.png) files and this made the review process in GitLab near impossible. To make the Merge Request reviewable I wanted to rebase the branch into 2 commits. The first one containing just the code chages and the second one containing all the updated VRT(s).

In you need to remove multiline comments (/* Comment */) from files in VSCode here is an easy regex to help you find them:

\/\*\*([\s\S\n]+?)\*\/

It finally happened to me. The other night after installing an update from debain bookworm and restarting my WiFi was no longer working. On the desktop there was no longer a signal strength indicator and my browser informed me I was disconnected from the internet.

So I plugged in an ethernet cable and got started researching. After 2 minutes of searching I had the answer. I used nmcli (network manager cli) to see the state of my network devices. On my WiFi adapter there was an error plugin missing. Simply reinstalling network-manager with sudo apt reinstall network-manager fixed the problem and I could use my WiFi again.

I recently purchased a Lenovo ThinkCentre M715q and wanted to install debian on it but after starting the installer the screen was completely corrupted. This forum post provided the solution. I had to press tab and add vga=normal fb=false to the boot string. After that the installer was displayed normally.

As a long time Windows user it probably is no surprise that I enjoy using the Cinnamon Desktop Environment. Although I have used and enjoyed using Linux Mint one goal I had when I started replacing Windows throughout my house was to be the same distribution on differnt machines. So I settled on installing Debian everywhere and customizing it to each systems individual needs.

I wanted to run Cinnamon on my Thinkpad Laptop and Debian can install it out of the box. The only problem is the defaykt theme leaves a lot to be deisred. Luckily the theme from Linux Mint can installed using a few commands from the terminal.