YubiKeys stopped working with GnuPG (PGP) after a release upgrade from Ubuntu 22.04 (focal) to Ubuntu 24.04 (noble) on my device(s): GnuPG device error on Ubuntu 24.04 with attached YubiKey GnuPG did not detect the attached YubiKey after the release upgrade. Similar issues have been reported on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu. Yubikeys & GnuPG on Ubuntu 24.04 Required […]
After upgrading my mediacenter to the latest Ubuntu LTS version, Kodi on Ubuntu 22.04 crashed continuously. Turned out these frequent Kodi crashes resulted from the default Python 3.10.4 on Ubuntu 22.04 (see this Kodi bug). In the end of August 2022, Python 3.10.5 was not available for Ubuntu 22.04, which would have fixed the issue. […]
My new laptop is a Lenovo Thinkpad T14s AMD Gen 1 and I opted for Ubuntu 20.04 as the laptops operating system. Ubuntu 20.04 is a LTS release and therefore has the advantage of longstanding security updates + security Livepatches. In the following, I briefly outline some (obvious) configuration I needed for my setup. I […]