I recently bought a new (used) laptop, a Lenovo Thinkpad T430, and decided to install Linux Mint with KDE on it. I used to use Cinnamon but decided to give KDE a chance because I’ve used KDE apps before and they’re the finest.

It’s been running fine since then except, I’ve had this problem where once in a month or so, when I close the lid, the laptop sleeps for a second and then wakes up instantly. First I thought it was a kernel issue, so I updated the kernel and that fixed that somehow. So I kept using it but then again in about a month it happened again. I updated the kernel again, it went away. Then today morning it happened again. By now I’m pretty sure that it’s not a kernel issue. Something is stopping the system from falling into sleep. So I looked in to syslog and looked for logs around the time the wake up happened to see if there is any error logged there. I didn’t find any error and the log looked like this -

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Happy new year 2017! As we celebrate the beginning of this new year, I’d like to jot down what all I did in 2016.

January

Got married!

Everything was decided in the last quarter of 2015. And finally on 29th January, Ayanti and I got married on a not-so-cold winter evening. The journey that started 5 years ago at an Anime club meetup (Yeah!), evolved to it’s next stage. Got some photos on Flickr to share with you all. :)

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I love graphic novels. They are a visual treat, the best way to tell stories. And I also like to travel and reading about travel stories. I’ve come across some graphic novels on travel that tells you about real places and real people. So thought of mentioning them here. I’ve read some of them, and plan to read the others soon.

Japan Ai: A Tall Girl’s Adventures in Japan

Author: Aimee Major-Steinberger

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DuckDuckGo community builds up in India