Posts tagged: linux

- This man is responsible for making gaming on linux what it is today. Such a heartfelt story to hear that reviving his dad’s machine was at the core of what drove him to do what he has done for the wider gaming on linux community. Update on your schedule, remove all the tracking and bloatware, this is what drove him to start using linux before making it accessible for his Dad. But really do update, this is not your 2002 PHP box, things need updated and regular updates help the process.

curl with partial files Back in September 2023, we extended the curl command line tool with a new fairly advanced and flexible variable system. Using this, users can use files, environment variables and more in a powerful... daniel.haxx.se · daniel.haxx.se [1] This is a cool new feature coming to bash, I can’t think of a use case I have out of the gate, but it looks cool. I’m thinking this might be good to keep in the back pocket for something like CI where I don’t have a hightly tuned bashrc file, and I want a dynamic curl request based on some state that exists as a fille. References: [1]: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/12/30/curl-with-partial-files/

- Red Hat has donated the whole open alternative to docker to the CNCF, the hosts weigh in with thier opinions all being pretty positive as they seem to be a legitimate donation and not dumping crap on open source. - podman - podman-desktop - buildah - compose-fs - podman - bootc - scopio Personally I’ve been running podman exclusively at home since switching to Bazzite in August. I’d like to use buildah in ci. I gave it a try, but was unable to swap out my use of kaniko for buildah, I will get there, but it was not quite as drop in as I wanted.

- Damn Glorious Eggrolls is still making gaming on linux better. Of course its containerization that drives everything on linux these days. This is a pretty badass talk. Umu is already running in steam and bazzite. Bazzite gamemode uses this to get a gamescope session running.

Dedicated Servers | Intel Servers | AMD Servers - Dedicated Hosting reliablesite.net [1] Dax talked about this in a recent How about tomorrow podcast https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com/post/461. He is using it as his dev machine, he just ssh’s in and devs on it. Feels like quite an interesting workflow, their prices seem competitive, but as a cheap ass homelabber I see their prices and think I could grab a used optiplex for the cost of a month or two of these and probably wouldn’t know the difference. DAX mentions longer compile times so maybe he does notice. References: [1]: https://www.reliablesite.net/dedicated-servers/

- This is a pretty great episode talking shop with typecraft. They talk setups, cameras, content creation. I found them talking about their linux setups particularly interesting. Dax talked about his flow from building his own machines to using reliablesite.com. tmux default leader # [1] Dax hates on c-a, both typecraft and dax use c-s, which normally freezes a terminal, we can all agree that is useless. I use the default c-b, it seems fine for me. type crafts setup # [2] - Ubuntu - Ghosty - Tmux - Nvim - Ruby Selling coffee without a web front end # [3] Dax talks about terminal.shop and how they originally planned to have a web front end, but after they had so much success they stuck with it. now they are leaning harder into it and are building out integrations with a bunch of languages and an api, but no front end. References: [1]: #tmux-default-leader [2]: #type-crafts-setup [3]: #selling-coffee-without-a-web-front-end

GitHub - casey/just: 🤖 Just a command runner 🤖 Just a command runner. Contribute to casey/just development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com [1] new versions of just now come with color variables already set. [group('manage')] version: #!/usr/bin/env bash version=$(cat version) echo current version {{BOLD}}{{GREEN}}$version{{NORMAL}} References: [1]: https://github.com/casey/just?tab=readme-ov-file#constants

pipely/justfile at main · thechangelog/pipely I like the idea of having like this 20-line Varnish config that we deploy around the world, and it’s like: Look at our CDN! - thechangelog/pipely GitHub · github.com [1] I found this nugget in thechangelogs justfile, it lets you add color to your justfile with variables quite easily. # https://linux.101hacks.com/ps1-examples/prompt-color-using-tput/ _BOLD := "$(tput bold)" _RESET := "$(tput sgr0)" _BLACK := "$(tput bold)$(tput setaf 0)" _RED := "$(tput bold)$(tput setaf 1)" _GREEN := "$(tput bold)$(tput setaf 2)" _YELLOW := "$(tput bold)$(tput setaf 3)" _BLUE := "$(tput bold)$(tput setaf 4)" _MAGENTA := "$(tput bold)$(tput setaf 5)" _CYAN := "$(tput bold)$(tput setaf 6)" _WHITE := "$(tput bold)$(tput setaf 7)" _BLACKB := "$(tput bold)$(tput setab 0)" _REDB := "$(tput setab 1)$(tput setaf 0)" _GREENB := "$(tput setab 2)$(tput setaf 0)" _YELLOWB := "$(tput setab 3)$(tput setaf 0)" _BLUEB := "$(tput setab 4)$(tput setaf 0)" _MAGENTAB := "$(tput setab 5)$(tput setaf 0)" _CYANB := "$(tput setab 6)$(tput setaf 0)" _WHITEB := "$(tput setab 7)$(tput setaf 0)" Usage echo: echo {{_BOLD}}{{_GREEN}}hello there{{_RESET}} References: [1]: ...

hostnamectl to easily change hostname | Nic Payne hostnamectl is apparently a linux utility for easily changing your hostname in a variety of ways I learned there's transient and static hostnames, so that& pype.dev [1] For some reason the ublue ecosystem does not prompt you to set your hostname on install and you get a hostname like bazzite showing up. Looks like this is the fix. hostnamectl –static hostname babyblue-aurora References: [1]: https://pype.dev/hostnamectl-to-easily-change-hostname

Using OPNsense with Tailscale · Tailscale Docs Set up a Tailscale VPN on OPNsense. Get secure communication across your devices without the need for complex configuration. Tailscale · tailscale.com [1] On reboot of my opnsense router it did not tailscale up. I’m not sure if a key expired or what happened. The fix was to first enable ssh, then ssh in and run tailscale up. enable ssh # [2] In opnsense System > Settings > Administration > Secure Shell > Enable Secure Shell tailscale up # [3] ssh <opnsense ip> 8 # to select shell tailscale up Follow the link to log in. disable ssh # [4] now uncheck secure shell to lock down the opnsense machine. In opnsense System > Settings > Administration > Secure Shell > Enable Secure Shell References: [1]: https://tailscale.com/kb/1097/install-opnsense [2]: #enable-ssh [3]: #tailscale-up [4]: #disable-ssh

Taildrop · Tailscale Docs Send files between your personal devices on a Tailscale network. Tailscale · tailscale.com [1] Tailscale comes with a feature called taildrop that lets you easily share files between machines on your tailnet. If you have tailscale on ios/android it shows up as a share target when you try to share something, and you can pick the machine to share with. What was not obvious to me was how to receive the file on linux. The linux tailscale service does not automatically receive the file, which can be kinda nice that you can put it where you want, but was not obvious to me at first. Use this command to receive files. sudo tailscale file get . References: [1]: https://tailscale.com/kb/1106/taildrop?tab=linux

External Link unix.stackexchange.com [1] today I learned that /dev/pts is a pseudo-tty. It amazes me how much linux is still built around things like hardware terminals. References: [1]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/93531/what-is-stored-in-dev-pts-files-and-can-we-open-them

pacman/Tips and tricks - ArchWiki wiki.archlinux.org [1] The arch wiki is always full of good content, and pacman tips and tricks does not disappoint. Today I discovered this command to remove orphaned dependencies on my system. pacman -Qdtq | pacman -Rns - References: [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/pacman/Tips_and_tricks

Inside 22,734 Steam games About a year ago I blogged about games that use curl. In that post I listed a bunch of well-known titles I knew use curl and there was a list of 136 additional games giving credit to curl. Kind of ... daniel.haxx.se · daniel.haxx.se [1] Interesting to see that curl is used in so many places. I often think of things like games being so windows centric and curl being so linux centric I don’t even think of these things crossing paths as much as they do. References: [1]: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/06/20/inside-22734-steam-games/

wcurl is here Users tell us that remembering what curl options to use when they just want to download the contents of a URL is hard. This is one often repeated reason why some users reach for wget instead of cur... daniel.haxx.se · daniel.haxx.se [1] interesting, seems like such a simple way to completely remove the need of a whole other cli. No offense to anyone working on wget, but generally I use it out of lazyness or something wierd is happening and I am looking for a second opinion. Cool to know that wcurl exists and will start shipping with curl. References: [1]: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/07/03/wcurl-is-here/