Posts tagged: linux Archive

stow local ignore

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:36:00 +0000

Stow comes with a local and global ignore list that you can use to ignore certain files or directories.

💭 No one under 18 installs Linux

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:46:15 +0000

!https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxVmrLKcNieh6FffrnSu2-iXD8SVFzSCzj?si=rV4k2piZM3Jcq9w0

💭 POV: You install Clawdbot on VPS - YouTube

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:22:40 +0000

!https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bof8TkZkr1I

setup bambu-studio in distrobox

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 21:17:39 +0000

gpus-are-awesome and I need one for Bambu Studio to be usable in a distrobox. Adding the flag to bind mounts the nvidia devices and sets up the necessary...

💭 Microsoft keeps losing - YouTube

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:51:23 +0000

!https://youtu.be/AyuMdNoL1Vs?si=QQ3BoV33nXR_TPnC

💭 2025 The Year Of The Linux Desktop - YouTube

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:14:37 +0000

!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQJZ96l-XQ4

💭 "Pacman is currently in use, please wait."

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 01:26:33 +0000

!https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=67729

tar over ssh

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 10:50:42 +0000

Today I learned how to use tar over ssh to save hours in file transfers. I keep all of my projects in ~/git (very creative I know, I've done it for years and...

bash timestamp

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 15:35:36 +0000

Today I needed to make a backup of some config. I wanted to add a timestamp so that I knew when the backup was made. This would make unique backups easy, and...

💭 DHH on X: "Rewiring your muscle memory for copy/paste when you...

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 15:39:42 +0000

!https://x.com/dhh/status/1956645753255805151

💭 Omarchy is on the move

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 14:28:34 +0000

!https://world.hey.com/dhh/omarchy-is-on-the-move-8f848fa4

Dolphin Remote Storage Previews

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 14:58:09 +0000

I've got a few samba shares going in my homelab, and I'm struggling finding a great app to scroll through vacation photos with my wife. I want something...

💭 An Ode To My 10-Year-Old Thinkpad T440

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 01:33:47 +0000

!https://mbrizic.com/blog/thinkpad-t440/

💭 2025-07-10 Notes

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:26:28 +0000

!https://pype.dev/2025-07-10-notes/

💭 Vimothée Chalamet shares his new favorite shell command from a...

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 12:56:59 +0000

!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-SUk1G9xMg

fc

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 07:52:53 +0000

I am a linux user through and through. Desktop, server, vms, containers, everything except my phone is linux. With this I spend a lot of time in the...

💭 Quickshell

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:30:48 +0000

!https://quickshell.org/

💭 Stop Complaining About Ubuntu...Just Switch To Arch Already! -...

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 01:48:46 +0000

!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbBF-bmGe2I

💭 I was wrong - YouTube

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 16:53:47 +0000

!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH3iKbEiks0

gpg setup for kdewallet

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 13:52:43 +0000

I'm trying to setup gpg for kdewallet on archlinux with hyprland so that brave shuts up. I've tried this, but brave still complains about the wallet setup,...

brightnessctl adjust screen brightness

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 08:42:36 +0000

Today I discovered to adjust the screen brightness on my AwesomeWM machine. Its a command line utility that you can use to adjust the brightness of your...

💭 Arch Wizard Brodie Robertson vs My Mac Life - Will He Convert ...

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 01:05:25 +0000

!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAmJQuX4-ak&t=1684s

unset multiple environment variables

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:21:11 +0000

You can unset multiple environment variables at once. I did not know this was a thing, its something that ended up happening organically on a call and asking...

i3lock on AwesomeWM

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 14:40:56 +0000

is a fantastic lockscreen for tiling window managers.

💭 Command Line | gitignore.io / docs

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 29 May 2025 16:22:42 +0000

!https://docs.gitignore.io/install/command-line

Linux Is About Choice

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 27 May 2025 13:37:00 +0000

This Luke Smith video came across my feed Linux, Bitcoin: When Tech Projects Become "Too Popular..." Don't forget the goal.. It's interesting to hear his...

💭 The Worst OS - YouTube

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 01 May 2025 12:54:13 +0000

!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T5pyGiTPdE

💭 The Worst OS - YouTube

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 01 May 2025 12:54:12 +0000

!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T5pyGiTPdE

backup distrobox image

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 17:35:50 +0000

Today I'm upgrading my distrobox, but don't want to end up in a situation where I can't get anything done becauase I work out of my distrobox.

Use pbpaste for clean shell history

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Using for command substitution keeps sensitive or long URLs out of your shell history. Instead of typing , copy the URL to clipboard and run . This prevents...

aptitude why

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 13:55:04 +0000

Today I ran into an interesting question, why am I being asked to configure tzdata while installing npm. Turns out that the cli has a why command that very...

configure timezone

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 13:35:24 +0000

Today I ran into this interactive prompt on ubuntu while installing node and npm, and I do not want to manually configure this interactively every time I run...

bc

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 09:30:08 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03KsS09YS4E&t=610s Today I learned about the basic calculator, bc. At the very end of this video prime uses it to add numbers in vim. REPL # You can start a calculator repl at the command line, by running bc. Vim # Since bc supports standard unix pipes you can easily pipe data from vim into bc and back out using !!bc. All you need is a string of math on the line you want to calculate, go to normal mode and run !!bc to get the answer. Traditionally I will...

💭 Releases · bootandy/dust

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 18:58:42 +0000

!https://github.com/bootandy/dust?tab=readme-ov-file

nvim-manager

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 21:14:19 +0000

I recently built a cli application as a nearly-one-shot-app called nvim-manager. It manages your nvim dotfiles install.

💭 Why You Should Game on Linux (feat. GloriousEggroll of Nobara)...

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 01:38:57 +0000

!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwpTAk_IiyU&t=28s

💭 curl with partial files | daniel.haxx.se

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 21:29:52 +0000

!https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/12/30/curl-with-partial-files/

💭 Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 20 - YouTube

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 04:58:50 +0000

!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXUtIXYjFDM

setting up ucore-zfs

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 08:55:50 +0000

I just setup my oldest hardware on the newest hotest server distro ucore-zfs. This is a gateway FX6860 manufactured in 2010.

💭 Ubuntu Summit 2024 | UMU - A unified tool for easily running y...

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:47:13 +0000

!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuBzGked-JU&t=559s

💭 Dedicated Servers | Intel Servers | AMD Servers - Dedicated Ho...

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 20:29:13 +0000

!https://www.reliablesite.net/dedicated-servers/

💭 Talking with Typecraft - YouTube

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 20:24:42 +0000

!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEykeKfAnJQ&t=1068s

💭 casey/just: 🤖 Just a command runner

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 17:04:06 +0000

!https://github.com/casey/just?tab=readme-ov-file#constants

💭 pipedream/justfile at main · thechangelog/pipedream

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 16:54:34 +0000

!https://github.com/thechangelog/pipedream/blob/main/justfile

💭 hostnamectl to easily change hostname | Pype.dev

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 14:30:41 +0000

!https://pype.dev/hostnamectl-to-easily-change-hostname

💭 linux - What is stored in /dev/pts files and can we open them?...

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 01:08:38 +0000

!https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/93531/what-is-stored-in-dev-pts-files-and-can-we-open-them

💭 pacman/Tips and tricks - ArchWiki

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 16:52:09 +0000

!https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/pacman/Tips_tricks

💭 Inside 22,734 Steam games | daniel.haxx.se

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 16:48:21 +0000

!https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/06/20/inside-22734-steam-games/

💭 wcurl is here | daniel.haxx.se

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 16:46:19 +0000

!https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/07/03/wcurl-is-here/

arch remove orphaned packages

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 11:34:31 +0000

playerctl fixes arch media keys

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 18:23:41 +0000

I've long had issues with my qmk keyboard media keys on my arch install, I always thought it was on the keyboard end. Today I learned that playerctl fixes this.

💭 podman requries qemu-system on ubuntu

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 19:29:18 +0000

!https://askubuntu.com/questions/1490805/how-do-i-install-qemu-on-ubuntu-23-10

💭 catppuccin/ulauncher: 🇺 Soothing pastel theme for Ulauncher

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 03:59:30 +0000

!https://github.com/catppuccin/ulauncher

💭 Ulauncher — Application launcher for Linux 🐧

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 03:58:16 +0000

!https://ulauncher.io/

💭 basecamp/omakub: Opinionated Ubuntu Setup

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 16:20:19 +0000

!https://github.com/basecamp/omakub

💭 How to Force Dark Mode on Every Website in Google Chrome

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 18:52:25 +0000

!https://www.howtogeek.com/446198/how-to-force-dark-mode-on-every-website-in-google-chrome/

tailscale ssh

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:40:18 +0000

Tailscale allows you to ssh into all of your tailscale machines, it busts through firewalls and accross networks without complex setup. If you have used...

💭 Distrobox

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 22 May 2024 18:13:13 +0000

!https://distrobox.it/usage/distrobox-host-exec/

💭 Are We Anti-Cheat Yet?

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 22 May 2024 12:37:55 +0000

!https://areweanticheatyet.com/

💭 Install Pokemon TCG Live on Steam Deck - Installation Guide - ...

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 11 May 2024 13:27:19 +0000

!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfN4hk7FelI

just picker

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 08 May 2024 20:48:23 +0000

has been by go to tool for saving commands in a way that I can replay them and have team members replay them without relying on the shell history of any...

💭 Bug #2006590 “gdm3 crashes with SIGTRAP on startup” : Bugs : g...

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 02 May 2024 00:54:02 +0000

!https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm3/+bug/2006590

showmount-e

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 20:15:29 +0000

TIL how to display the list of nfs mounts on your network.

Redka Runs on SQLite

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 19:54:24 +0000

With the liscense changes to redis there are several new forks out there. One that I am particularly interested in is redka.

Am I vulnerable to the xz backdoor?

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 07:53:54 +0000

The main system that I am concerned about is my arch BTW machine. I found a great article from the official archlinux site covering it.

arch dependencies

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 07:42:21 +0000

paru has some nice features that I rarely use, and hav to look up when I need them. Here are two commands to help with dependency management.

💭 Arch Linux - News: The xz package has been backdoored

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 13:00:33 +0000

!https://archlinux.org/news/the-xz-package-has-been-backdoored/

How to kill ollama server

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 18:31:36 +0000

I recently updated ollama, and it now installs a systemd service that I was not expecting. Seems like a great option, but I hadn't expeted this and I was...

💭 How to run pods as systemd services with Podman | Enable Sysadmin

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 01:12:19 +0000

!https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/podman-run-pods-systemd-services

💭 sharkdp/bat: A cat clone with wings.

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 13:28:06 +0000

!https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

💭 Relocating the Docker root directory - IBM Documentation

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 01:07:06 +0000

!https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/z-logdata-analytics/5.1.0?topic=compose-relocating-docker-root-directory

💭 containers/aardvark-dns: Authoritative dns server for A/AAAA c...

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 01:05:22 +0000

!https://github.com/containers/aardvark-dns

💭 Podman - ArchWiki

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 01:03:23 +0000

!https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Podman

💭 TestDisk Step By Step - CGSecurity

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 01:00:51 +0000

!https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_By_Step

💭 How to Manage 'Systemd' Services and Units Using 'Systemctl' i...