rustdesk

To install the -more-and-more-every-day Wayland-centric- nightly version:
1. Grab it from here.

2. Remove the old version

sudo dpkg -r rustdesk

3. install the new version e.g. for today's nightly:

sudo dpkg -i rustdesk-1.4.5-x86_64.deb

It should look something like this:
Selecting previously unselected package rustdesk.
(Reading database ... 305573 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack rustdesk-1.4.5-x86_64.deb ...
Failed to stop rustdesk.service: Unit rustdesk.service not loaded.
Unpacking rustdesk (1.4.5) ...
Setting up rustdesk (1.4.5) ...
Created symlink '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/rustdesk.service' → '/usr/lib/systemd/sy
stem/rustdesk.service'.
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.28-1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.18-2) ...

4. Launch:

5. If you haven't already allow rustdesk clients through the firewall:

sudo ufw allow 21114:21118/tcp
sudo ufw allow 21116/udp

6. Configure (I think for both client and server...?):

7. Unlike me, don't forget to actually start the service on the box you want to control😉

SASPro layer mask

We have three images:

A sharpened crab      crab m1-seti-hp-2_01
A denoised crab      m1-seti-hp-2_01_duplicate
A crab mask      Mask

 We want the sharp crab on the denoised background. Using the layers module:

•  drop the sharpened on top of the denoised
•  apply the mask to both 
•  invert the mask of the denoised

That's it. BUT... don't forget to Merge the layers, e.g. Merge --> Push to View

hp z420 firmware

It's something to do with Microsoft and UEFI. No idea what it does, but evidently, it's important. So...

sudo fwupdmgr update

minimal crab

 A sort of minimalist crab using the new Nadir star removal in SASPro.

supernova m1 crab in taurus
atr533 on gso203    best of 81x4min @ hcg100

plasma 6 Dolphin

 Always open with Home folder is disabled in kubuntu 25.10, so edit:
~/.config/dolphinrc

and add the RememberOpenedTabs=false line under [General]

MenuBar=Disabled

[General]
RememberOpenedTabs=false
DoubleClickViewAction=none
Version=202
ViewPropsTimestamp=2026,2,3,10,32,10.024

[IconsMode]
IconSize=48
PreviewSize=48

[KFileDialog Settings]
Places Icons Auto-resize=false
Places Icons Static Size=22

[MainWindow]
MenuBar=Disabled

[PreviewSettings]
Plugins=rawthumbnail,fontthumbnail,djvuthumbnail,ffmpegthumbs,exrthumbnail,ebookthumbnail,cursorthumbnail,appimagethumbnail,imagethumbnail,opendocumentthumbnail,svgthumbnail,windowsexethumbnail,audiothumbnail,comicbookthumbnail,kraorathumbnail,blenderthumbnail,windowsimagethumbnail,gsthumbnail,directorythumbnail,mobithumbnail,jpegthumbnail,gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer,librsvg

...and yeayhhh...

siril python venv

Not working? Help it along:

cd ~/.local/share/siril
python3.12 -m venv venv

Now choose your processing scripts 😀

new old computer

It's a seen-better-days workhorse from 2015. The only way I'm ever going to get 128 Mb...