Linux Using a Logitech StreamCam on Linux Last week I finally purchased a webcam for online meetings, something I had been holding off on for quite some time. I was using a 12" MacBook for these up
Linux Quick: How to fix screen tearing in Ubuntu with AMD GPUs and X11 Every now and then you run into a little oddity that reminds you you're running Linux. Something that you really shouldn't even have to think about, but somehow lacks any
Hackintosh Install macOS Big Sur 10.0.1 public release in a VM (QEMU) This is a small addendum to my main article on how to install macOS in a VM, which I'll keep as-is as that's effectively the normal way. But, if you'd
Linux Increase thumbnail cache in Ubuntu You might have noticed that with the thumbnail view enabled in Ubuntu (or, the Nautilus file browser) that thumbnails seem to have to be re-generated quite frequently. This is due
Development Audit & Fix your NPM packages when using Yarn Yarn is a nice alternative to NPM, with pretty much feature parity and, depending on the version, some speed benefits too, though these days perhaps slightly less so as compared
Linux Install a Linux kernel of choice under Ubuntu. Checking this one off of the "did not expect I'd ever have to figure this one out" list. Here's a quick guide on how to install a Linux kernel version
Quick Quick: Give full filesystem access to Flatpak-installed applications When installing applications using Flatpak you'll sooner or later run into a situation where the default filesystem access permissions the application has been given can get in the way. Sometimes
Linux Enable Korean input on Ubuntu 19.10 & 20.04 Here's of those things that are on the surface straight-forward but in practice require a few steps that might not be easy to remember for future (re-)installs. Here are
Quick My Recommended Firefox Settings A bit of a minor post today. I have been meaning to write down my preferred settings for Firefox as its defaults leave a lot to be desired. This is
Quick Quick: How to dump & restore a MariaDB/MySQL database from a docker container In the same vein as my previous post on dumping and restoring your PostgreSQL database, here are mostly copy/paste-able commands for when you're using a MariaDB or MySQL database.
Quick Quick: Taming Photos.app when using iCloud Photos Anyone who uses iCloud photos and has syncing turned on on your Mac or Hackintosh will likely one day run into challenges with it. Whether it's the uncontrollable hard drive
Quick Quick: How to dump & restore a PostgreSQL database from a docker container Sometimes you need to quickly dump and restore a PostgreSQL database, but what's the easiest way to do this when your database is in a Docker container? Check out this
Quick Quick: dd with progress indication on macOS While newer versions of dd on Ubuntu or the like come with a new option called status=progress, the one included with macOS sadly does not. A nice way I
Hackintosh Quick: Enabling TRIM support on your Hackintosh As you may or may not know, TRIM support is not enabled by default on macOS on any SSD not provided by Apple directly. This is done because not all
Quick Guide: How to run Steam when your macOS drive is case-sensitive Unfortunately companies like Steam and Adobe have still opted not to properly update their apps to be compatible with case-sensitive file systems, so if you have opted to choose this
Quick Quick: Docker Credential Helper Or; not storing your password in plaintext, because duh. This one got me by surprise; if you log in to something like Docker Hub or so using Docker, by default
Quick Quick: Monitoring your computer's temperatures in Ubuntu 18.10 After recently re-applying better thermal paste for the GPD Pocket 2, I wanted to also be able to keep an eye on system temperatures while running Ubuntu. Fortunately there is
Quick Quick: Unzip multiple files with spaces in their filenames using command line. You might have run into a similar situation; You need to unzip several ZIP files, but running unzip *.zip command results in errors shown about files not being found. Joy.
Quick Quick: How to get your full CPU info in macOS Because I keep forgetting how to do this myself, too, here's an easy command that reports back your CPU's info: sysctl -n machdep.cpu.brand_stringThis will return a string
Homelab Proxmox VE 5.3 The new version of Proxmox was released a few days ago, and brings several very nice new features with it. For me the most interesting is that they've added PCI
Homelab Server Padding Due to part luck and part perseverance from a colleague I somewhat quickly ended up with several servers. My original plan was to purchase just the one, but these things
