technical problems, programming examples, quirks of running a Linux system
The Steam Deck is a great piece of techonolgy, and very versatile thanks to the fact that its easy to switch to desktop mode. However the default configuration is rather limited, and there are a set of customizations I had to apply to make it fit my workflows.
I think we're all enthusiastic about the scheduled release of Rocky Linux on the 31st of March. At the same time, I think this is also a good moment to give CentOS 8 Stream a quick test drive with the software we develop and maintain. Just a plan B. Some cloud providers don't yet have Stream images, so I wrote a cloud-init configuration to convert any CentOS 8 distro to CentOS 8 Stream.
When following getting started guides for Lisp/Scheme languages, most of the resources I find tend to prefer EMACS instead of vim. Understandable, considering the *almost* built-in development environment you get with EMACS. This is my attempt at trying to setup, and use, a scheme development environment using vim.
When taking notes I prefer to launch a note-taking application, write a line, or two, then close the application. Having used Vimwiki for a couple of days, I had to create a desktop entry wrapper around it, just to avoid the "Open Terminal first", step.
Last couple of months, I had to write a large amount of Ansible playbooks, to the point that the slow write/test cycle became a major annoyance. What seemed to work well for me was a mix between Ansible tags and Vagrant snapshots.
Frustrated by some weird default keyboard backlight timeout on your laptop under Linux? I know how you feel, had the same frustration with my Dell laptop until I found a workaround.
A great feature to use when experimenting with different system setups. I no longer have to worry about polluting my system with extra packages when I want to test a new desktop environment, or a new driver version, or even a botched system installation. With LVM I can snapshot a working system and restore it if something goes wrong.
After reading various sources on the topic I've written notes, and a sample project, to illustrate a working setup for the task. Also tried to go a little more in depth in certain parts, to clear up some confusion I've dealt with when researching the topic.
Common debugging steps you can try if it doesn't get automounted like it should.
Repository setup that I've used in the past for static blog publishing via Sculpin. Model inspired by Octopress in it's repository setup.