Posts tagged: linux

💭 No one under 18 installs Linux

2026-03-09T11:46:15Z

😂 Should I be concerned that My 12yo installed Arch BTW on his own?

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💭 POV: You install Clawdbot on VPS - YouTube

2026-02-16T10:22:40Z

Use a linux vps, It’s easy, just follow these simple instructions.

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setup bambu-studio in distrobox

2025-12-06T21:17:39Z

gpus are awesome and I need one for Bambu Studio to be usable in a distrobox. Adding the --nvidia flag to distrobox create bind mounts the nvidia /dev/ devices and sets up the necessary environment variables. Once we are in there are a couple of packages to install to make it work.

distrobox create --name bambu-studio --image archlinux:latest --nvidia
distrobox enter bambu-studio
sudo pacman -S nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils vulkan-icd-loader
nvidia-smi
glxinfo | gprep OpenGL
sudo pacman -Syu --needed base-devel git
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru-bin.git
cd paru-bin
makepkg -si
paru -S bambustudio-bin

bambu-studio

distrobox-export --app bambu-studio

💭 Microsoft keeps losing - YouTube

2025-11-15T17:51:23Z

👏👏👏preach it prime! M$ continues to prove that they are not making products for you something else is affoot and shit you don’t want is shoved down your throat and forced on you.

Prime points out that the agentic is prompt injected itself😂. Rather than making a better os experience it’s assuming you are stupid and need everything done for you. But what I don’t get here in the text scaling example. Why the F does it not just fix it for me. When I ask the machine to make text bigger it puts a flashy circle where to click. This is a one time setup for someone who gives no fucks to remember how to do it. Why is the machine doing this weird hand holding watching us do it’s work rather than just doing it? I like the pattern when you change display setting it gives you a counter that reverts everything if for some reason shit is so bad you can’t even see it. Do that, not this help me click bs.

Now in parallel we have steam making Linux desktop better and better. Allowing you to just access the hardware you own to do what you want to do with it. Providing a fantastic hands off out of the box experience for the price of the hardware. No ongoing fees, no upgrade cycle, soft lock, aribraray cutoff date, tpm bs requirements. Good stuff as it was supposed to be created.

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💭 2025 The Year Of The Linux Desktop - YouTube

2025-10-10T13:14:37Z

The Year of the Linux Desktop is a meme, every year is the year of the Linux desktop as it gains rounding errors of market share. Outside of Linux nerds, developers that use servers on the regular, cheap asses reviving old hardware that is dead in the eyes of other OS’s, the average user wont even notice a difference with the right distro. I ran bazzite with plasma for over a year, It would be super beginner friendly while allowing users customization on levels never seen on non-Linux machines. Other than adobe, roblox, and EA games with easy anti-cheat most users probably aren’t going to run in to any issues. They probably wont even notice at this point, which is where the meme comes in. Why would anyone switch if its not noticeably different for the average user, they wont, until what is working for them stops working for them.

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

2025-09-16T01:26:33Z

"Pacman is currently in use, please wait." / Pacman & Package Upgrade Issues / Arch Linux Forums

bbs.archlinux.org

I ran into this issue today, never have I ever before though. Omarchy looking a bit sus on me. This was even after a fresh boot, no pacman process running. just realized I forgot to check yay which it has installed for me. I had to force it in.

sudo rm /var/lib/pacman/db.lck

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tar over ssh

2025-09-13T10:50:42Z

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 haven’t changed). I just swapped out my main desktop from bazzite to hyprland, and wanted to get all of my projects back. Before killing my bazzite install I moved everything over (16GB of many small files), it took over 14 hours, maybe longer. I had started in the morning and just let it churn.

This was not going to happen for re-seeding all of my projects on my new system, I knew there had to be a better way, I looked at rsync, but for seeding I ran into this tar over ssh technique and it only took me 6m51s to pull all of my projects off of my remote server.

ssh user@192.168.1.100 'tar -C /tank/git -cpf - .' \
  | tar -C "$HOME/git" -xpf -

bash timestamp

2025-08-22T15:35:36Z

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 I could tell when they were made.

cp configfile configfile.backup.$(date %s)

If you want to decrypt the timestamp into something more human readable. You can list backup files, strip out the timestamp, and then convert it to a human readable date.

/bin/ls | grep backup | sed 's/configfile.backup.//' | xargs -I {} date -d @{}

or just throw it to the date command by hand.

date -d @1755895402

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

2025-08-17T15:39:42Z

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Today I learned that its spelled “Rite of Passage”, and is short for ritual. Mac has so many of these things that are just different, but do not let you reconfigure them and you are stuck with it. copy / paste I don’t get, the 3 times I’ve touched a mac since I was a kid its frustrated me. Is it lock in? or is it them actually thinking this is the right way and you all shall do as we say.

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💭 Omarchy is on the move

2025-08-07T14:28:34Z

Omarchy is on the move

Omarchy has been improving at a furious pace. Since it was first released on June 26, I've pushed out 18(!) new releases together with a rapidly growing community of collaborators, users, and new-t...

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It’s facinating how many people are making the jump from mac/windows, not just to linux, not just to archlinux, but to a full on tiling window manager. DHH has omakub and omarchy. Omakub is advertised as easy and for beginners, but many are skipping right over that to go straight for the hard stuff.

DHH mentions hyprland here, one thing I think he is missing is that this is the first real mainstream tiling window manager that is a competitor to i3, awesomewm, qtile that runs Wayland. I think they were able to pull a bunch of great benefits such as lack of screen tearing and animations from this.

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Dolphin Remote Storage Previews

2025-08-02T14:58:09Z

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 intuitive, non intimidating, and just works. Turns out that the default file browser application for hyprland works great, but you need to enable previews for remote storage for it to work for my use case here.

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

2025-07-25T01:33:47Z

An Ode To My 10-Year-Old Thinkpad T440

mbrizic.com

I like reading about old hardware and how to keep it running, sending shit out to e-waste after barely using it for a year makes my skin crawl. I find it interesting how most of these resurrections start with a linux build, and the author giving in and going for linux for the first time and enjoying being able to use something they thought was useless for real work.

That being said I have weird thoughts similar to this guy about being able to take a machine and write a novel somewhere off in the distance, but any time I try to do real work form any laptop these days the ergonomics become so unappealing that I tend to just not do anything away from my desk. Theres something that sounds so great about opening vim on old hardware that could last for hours, sip on coffee and write away, but it never works out like that in practice.

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💭 2025-07-10 Notes

2025-07-18T15:26:28Z

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2025-07-10 Notes | Nic Payne

2025-07-09 Notes from yesterday I have temporal stuff kind of going with postiz in a windsurf session working on [[thoughts-to-nostr]] Been cleaning up my z

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big fan of eza and dust, I like these aliases to have some common commands at my fingertips. I often use the tree command and yes it sometimes goes too deep to actually be useful.

    alias lt='eza -T --level=2'             # Tree view, 2 levels deep
    alias ltt='eza -T --level=3'            # Tree view, 3 levels deep

    alias du1='dust -d 1'                   # Show only 1 level deep
    alias du2='dust -d 2'                   # Show 2 levels deep

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

2025-07-18T12:56:59Z

Love this dudes casual dry humor style, not afraid to poke fun at things with his dry ass satire. that being said, fc is new and as a long time fan of up arrow and !! I will be using this often.

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fc

2025-07-18T07:52:53Z

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 terminal, and have been a long time user of !! to rerun the last command, but with the ability to tack something on at the beginning or end.

TIL about fc, which opens the last command in your shell history in your $EDITOR or pass in your editor -e nvim.

man fc

Rcap of how !! works #

!! pronounces bang bang and will run the last command in your history.

ls -l

!! | wc -l
# ls -l | wc -l

sudo !!
# sudo ls -l | wc -l

!!:s/-l/-l \/tmp
# sudo ls -l /tmp | wc -l

`fc` enters the chat #

Now making complex edits in your shell can be a bit of a chore, so fc moves this work to your $EDITOR.

fc

This pops open your $EDITOR with the last command in your history.

sudo ls -l | wc -l

Shell History #

fc shows up in shell history, but !! does not, !! gets replaced by the command that it becomes.

Up Arrow #

yaya yaya, I know you can also up-arrow c-e, but what fun is that, it’s barely a flex. fc just looks big brained and like you really know what you are doing.

💭 Quickshell

2025-07-16T00:30:48Z

Quickshell

A fully user customizable desktop shell

quickshell · quickshell.org

This has to be the most incredible looking Desktop experience I’ve ever seen, riced to the nines, more polished than macos, more features than kde plasma, this looks incredible and I want to try it and feel it.

https://quickshell.org/assets/showcase/end4.mp4

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

2025-07-15T01:48:46Z

DT says it so well in this video, I’ve never really been one to shit on software projects, with maybe a VERY small handful of exceptions. The shitting on ubuntu always rubbed me wrong, shitting on flatpak and snap I never got, shitting on systemd because of Leonard Pottering I never got, DT puts it in such good words here. If you don’t like it you are probably not the target audience.

If Ubuntu is too bloated, don’t try to debloat it, this is not windows, we have options, Ubuntu is one option and so much is intertwined together in something like Ubuntu if you think you want to try to “debloat” it good luck. If you have a problem with Snaps, this is probably not for you. You are probably looking for a distro with more control, probably something that you choose everything for.

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💭 I was wrong - YouTube

2025-07-04T16:53:47Z

Never did I think I would see the day that theprimeagen decided to run archlinux. Furthermore him to start ricing it, EVEN furthermore, Pewdiepie runs arch now, and thinks you should too?? and is promoting it on one of the largest YouTube channels ever?? Even DHH is getting in the mix with omarchy Such a cool transistion to see everyone find their way to linux and diving deep into the freedom and customization.

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gpg setup for kdewallet

2025-07-04T13:52:43Z

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, so this post is to be continued.

sudo pacman -S gnupg
gpg --full-generate-key
# use RSA
# key length 4096
# passphrase
gpg --list-keys

brightnessctl adjust screen brightness

2025-06-11T08:42:36Z

Today I discovered brightnessctl to adjust the screen brightness on my AwesomeWM machine. Its a command line utility that you can use to adjust the brightness of your screen. A command line interface like this gives you the ability to bind keys with something like [[xbindkeys]] or your window manager configuration.

sudo apt install brightnessctl
# or 
paru -S brightnessctl

Now that you have it installed you can use it to adjust the brightness of your screen, this worked particularly well for my laptop screen, I don’t think this works for monitors, in my experience they are usually controlled by the built in osd.

# Increase brightness by 10%
brightnessctl set +10%
# Decrease brightness by 10%
brightnessctl set 10%-
# Set brightness to 50%
brightnessctl set 50%
# Set brightness to 100%
brightnessctl set 100%

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on my machine I had to use `sudo` to run the command, otherwise I got the following error:

Can't modify brightness: Permission denied

You should run this program with root privileges.
Alternatively, get write permissions for device files.

Posts tagged: linux

💭 No one under 18 installs Linux

💭 POV: You install Clawdbot on VPS - YouTube

setup bambu-studio in distrobox

💭 Microsoft keeps losing - YouTube

💭 2025 The Year Of The Linux Desktop - YouTube

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

tar over ssh

bash timestamp

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

💭 Omarchy is on the move

Dolphin Remote Storage Previews

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

💭 2025-07-10 Notes

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

fc

Rcap of how !! works #

fc enters the chat #

Shell History #

Up Arrow #

💭 Quickshell

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

💭 I was wrong - YouTube

gpg setup for kdewallet

brightnessctl adjust screen brightness

`fc` enters the chat #