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I recently installed the Arch Linux based Omarchy on my Laptop, replacing Linux Mint which I’ve used for the last year or so. As you can see, I haven’t posted for over two years, which is a testament to how completely boring (in a good way!) Linux Mint is. I’ve been running Omarchy for about a week now, and I’m already writing a blog post… The Problem As I was migrating my files, I found the GoG…
I’ve tried a few times without success to boot Alpine Linux images on very old Intel Macs. Following the standard instructions, I download the ISO, then image it directly to a USB flash drive. Using this process, the standard x86_64 image boots fine on my more recent MacBook Pro 11,2, but crashes the bootloader on older Macs. (I’ve also confirmed it crashes the bootloader on a 2010 model MacBook.)…
Recently I received some RTF files via email. I wanted to read them on my phone, but I didn’t have any apps installed which understood RTF. I thought it would be nice to have a tool in Termux which would dump nicely formatted RTF to the terminal. At first I thought I might write something to do this myself, but then I discovered unrtf . unrtf will read an RTF file and can output plaintext or html,…
This is a quick one. I installed MX Linux 21.3 on an old iMac 8,1 for use as a general purpose living room PC. It’s mainly used for streaming videos and music. However, sometimes it would be nice to use it for Skype. It’s got a built-in webcam which worked out of the box, but for some reason the microphone was not detected. Strangely, I could record audio using arecord as root ( sudo su ), but not…
Some time ago, I spent some time trying to configure scrolling in Firefox on Ubuntu 20.04 . At the time I discovered Pavel Fatin’s recommendation to launch Firefox with the environment variable MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 set. This was a good start, but scroll acceleration was still wonky, and kinetic scrolling was non-existant. Recently, I updated to Ubuntu 22.04 on Wayland, and discovered a couple of…
“And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.” ― Galadriel in The Fellowship of the Ring Big thanks to Lace Querux from the LegacyJailbreak community on Discord for patiently guiding me through the steps below. Also check out r/LegacyJailbreak on reddit. The…
NOTE : The following is almost certainly the WRONG way to do this. The right way is almost certainly to install Theos and create a custom Theos based Makefile to link everything together. (I’ll probably try to do this next) Aim To get the Twitch chat to appear on the screen of my brother’s original iPad . Obstacles iOS 5.1.1 is the latest version of iOS which runs on the original iPad. It was…
Today I got the Twitch chat running using the rirc command-line IRC client. Here are the steps so I remember next time I want to do this… Build rirc The generic instructions are on the rirc website . But I had some mac specific issues which are only solved in the dev branch as of this post. So, for me I needed to do the following: Clone the dev branch of rirc from GitHub : git clone…
Have you ever noticed that for any two people with different ages, you can always figure out a moment in time when the younger person was exactly half the age of the older person? Let’s say that you are \(18\) and your friend is \(23\), so there is a \(5\) year difference in your ages. Then, when you were \(5\), your friend was \(10\), so that was the moment when the ratio of your ages was exactly…
I recently installed Ubuntu 20.04 on my mid 2014 MacBook Pro 11,2. Most things worked out of the box, but there were a few things which required tweaking. The following post records these tweaks. The most useful sources for this post were the Arch wiki pages, specifically the MacBookPro11,x page and the general Mac page . My first impression of Ubuntu 20.04 was that it was extremely slow. It was…