Tag: Linux
Fell into a little file renaming rabbit hole today
Today I was going through my old uploaded Steam screenshots, and I realised that I had a bunch of pictures I didn’t really feel like keeping on there. I didn’t want to fully delete them though, so I opted to back them up locally. My first issue was I had about 160 or so screenshots and I couldn’t easily find an export all option? So I logged in on a browser and tried manually saving one picture to start, which gave me a JPEG file with no extension and a filename that looked like a complete URL. ...
An ideological split in the Linux desktop (LLMs)
So, Linus Torvalds has come out and said that LLMs are just a tool, and that Linux is not considered to be an anti-AI project. This has caused anti-AI people to crash out on social media, down to making very embarrassing conspiracies about Linus Torvalds being "compromised" when really he seems to be a no-bullshit...
Forty-Five Years
After forty-five years using computers, I still like technology. I just like it best when it helps me do my work and then quietly gets out of the way.
Where to even start?
So I found the phone I was looking for, funny how as soon as I complain online it remembers it's supposed to exist and re-enters the physical plane. It was in a crate with some old documents, idk how it got there. I'd like to build a custom OS for it, specifically I wanna build...
Clonezilla Live 3.3.3-15
There is a new version of Clonezilla Live 3.3.15 out there. Clonezilla Live is specifically designed Linux distribution, which works in live mode, and allows you to use the system in the special... https://linuxiarze.pl/clonezilla-live-3-3-3-15/ #linux #debian #rescue #clonezilla
Gnoppix 26.7
A new version of Gnoppix 26.7 has been released. Gnoppix is a Linux distribution based on Debian (previously on Kali Linux, Arch Linux). Gnoppix is a distribution designed for penetration testing and reverse engineering... https://linuxiarze.pl/gnoppix-26-7/ #linux #debian #pentesting
“I don’t wanna use Linux because terminal”
My thoughts on the whole aversion to Linux because of the Command Prompt.
06-29
Thoughts about Game Dev, Linux, stuff I've watched recently, and VRC happenings.
The tragedy of systemd (Benno Rice)
Great video detailing the arguments against systemd and why they don't hold water.
Why desktop Linux sucks (for me)
A long-ass post detailing the problems I've personally experienced with desktop Linux.
Making AppImages suck less with AppHerder
Lifecycle management for your AppImages.
Linux Is Not an Operating System. Also, It Kind of Is.
I was on TikTok recently – which is an experience I continue to have mixed feelings about – and I watched someone argue with complete confidence that Linux is an operating system. Someone else told them it wasn't. The first person doubled down. The comment section descended into the usual chaos. I typed a reply, decided against it, and closed the app.
I gave a Raspberry Pi Zero W a Bluetooth soundbar to drive
I've had a Raspberry Pi Zero W sitting under my soundbar for about a year. The job description was simple: be the one device on the soundbar's Bluetooth allowlist so I never have to repair anything, and play whatever audio my MacBook shoves at it. That's it. No screen, no DAC, no hat. Just a tiny board acting as a permanent Bluetooth client.
Install Chrome as the www-data User
After recently rebuilding the 4RoadService web server on Debian 13, Browsershot wasn't working right. It wasn't working at all. We run Laravel on a slightly old-school LAMP setup with PHP-FPM, and run the Laravel workers as the www-data user, the same user that runs the web server, so that user needed to be able to...
btrfsのディスク使用量を分析するbtduが良さげかも
btrfsファイルシステムのディスク使用量をサンプリングで分析するプロファイラbtduの紹介です。
Fix for Arch users with broken Geoclue
tl;dr: Enable a URL in /etc/geoclue/geoclue.conf
Le frisson de la mise à jour au matin
Si je vous écris, c'est qu'elle s'est bien passée. Infimes sont les soucis avec Linux Ubuntu. Surtout si je compare à ce que je vivais avant 2015 et l'enfer Windows. Mais, il y a toujours ce petit frisson d'inquiétude au moment de la mise à jour. Le noyau 7 est passé à une nouvelle version....
Homelab For the Beginner: You Can Self-host Your Own Server on $50 Hardware
A beginner-friendly guide to building your own homelab on inexpensive hardware. Covers finding old computers, setting up Linux, SSH, Docker, and self-hosting services like password managers, RSS readers, and your own Fediverse instance. Digital sovereignty doesn't require expensive equipment.
Cheap x86 Linux tablet speedrun any% [CHEATING]
If Panos Panay really doesn't like this, he can always gift me a new Surface. I'll still install Linux on it, though.
Enable browser access to keyboard firmware on Linux
today iain learned: How to enable browser access to a keyboard's QMK firmware on Linux, via the USB HID interface and udev rules
Direct USB Network connection RPi and Linux
After deciding to host my own Gitea server, I also wanted to be able to take my repositories on the road with me. And what better device to do this than a Raspberry Pi! I already had a spare Pi 4 with 4GB of RAM just sitting around and plenty of SD cards*. And I had previously tried connecting a Pi via USB to my laptop so I knew I could have it working with a direct connection rather than as a server sitting on the same network. But I quickly found out that things have changed, and previous meth...
waving goodbye to windows - part 1
Okay, so the title might be a little misleading. I waved goodbye to Windows in favor of Linux (obligatory "I use Arch, btw") some time ago. Given that my personal laptop's hardware was of the 2016 era, I just couldn't run Windows very well any longer. Not that I wanted to anyway. I opted for an Arch-based distribution called CachyOS, set it up once, and didn't fiddle with it at all. It worked great! But as the aging hardware continued to cause problems, it became apparent that it was time to mov...