pixelfed is under heavy development, so it’s imho still beta this howto is unfinished, because pixelfed setup is too complicated and (sorry) author dansup ignored UNIX KISS principles so the project seems to be a wee bit messy maybe this […]
OpenSource will always win over closed source, so OpenAI (AS THE NAME SAYS) used to be (at least partly) OpenSource available accessible for every user (with the right hardware) in theory ollama https://ollama.com/ https://github.com/ollama/ollama WasmEdge https://github.com/LlamaEdge/LlamaEdge https://www.secondstate.io/articles/deepseek-r1/ should both use […]
how to install GNU Linux Debian 13 (Trixie) re-tested (2025-02-08) and graphical installer now works 🙂 (thanks all involved) https://chuangtzu.ftp.acc.umu.se/images/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso (sha512sum: 64632b0d93d0aa3b164ecdaa4a0a4882dd58cb018b20a635a49215d56cc00969a9f9d2fc2b01b2188531882e85599cfc1523da68e392fe9a672e218e1e19e787) but this is a weekly build, so the build next week will have a different sha512sum and might […]
with the bash history it’s a very useful but also a bit confusing thing X-D whenever a bash terminal is exited, it saves the histoy to cat ~/.bash_history did the user know that with the super cool hotkey-shortcut: Ctrl+R then […]
WARNING! don’t do this on productive systems! 😀 only on test systems! (it has worked twice before 😀 on 2024-10 on a very used and very fresh Debian 12 but be careful) backup the whole system and all data via […]
echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE x11 <- not wayland yet # remove the settings dir rm -r ~/.ssr # start it from a non-root terminal to get more details: /usr/bin/simplescreenrecorder [libmp3lame @ 0x556275c64000] Specified channel layout ‘2 channels’ is not supported by the […]
sometimes the most simple things are the trickiest X-D the question was, why if shutdown -r now is specified in a script or crontab directly: why won’t the server reboot (to activate newly via updates installed kernel?) the answer: crontab […]
hostnamectl; # tested on Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-25-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 Hardware Vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Hardware Model: B550 AORUS ELITE AX V2 Firmware Version: F16d ls -lah; # show content of this dir lsblk; […]
pluma is minimalistic graphical text editor to work with (unless it has to handle very big files than vim is definitely better) it is basically the better version of window’s notepad X-D one such neat feature is text zoom: Ctrl […]
https://github.com/LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs hostnamectl; # tested on Static hostname: ubuntuxts Virtualization: kvm Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-107-generic Architecture: x86-64 hostnamectl; # also tested on Virtualization: kvm Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-34-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 Hardware Vendor: […]
whenever the inet goes down, do something, wait until inet recovers, then restart program x. hostnamectl; # tested on Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-20-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 ping -V ping from iputils 20221126 libcap: yes, IDN: yes, […]
taking screenshots is important 😀 it is very useful and mate-screenshot is an easy to use screenshot tool that can be started by the simple press of the ancient otherwise useless “print” button (found on almost every keyboard) if mate-screenshot […]
pluma text editor shortcuts and hotkeys pluma is an excellent basic plain text editor (basically the notepad++ for GNU Linux :D) the ONLY thing that pluma does not do as well as vim: opening BIG files beyond 10MBytes… some shortcuts […]
has the system been shutdown properly “gracefully” or has it crashed? it does not have to be a software or hardware problem it could also be: insufficient shielding from terrestrial microwaves satellites lightning strike near by? or extra-terrestrial (the cosmos […]
sometimes it is required to generate a lot of test data vim /scripts/copy_x_times.sh #!/bin/bash # copy given file x times # usage: copy filename.jpg a 100 times # ./copy_x_times.sh filename.jpg 100 for ((i=1; i<=$2; i++)) do cp -v “$1” “$1-$i”; […]
out of space? howto upgrade and grow lvm2 luks encrypted root home harddisk the process is like this: lvm2 can use a new empty partition or even harddisk to extend an existing logical volume group and logical volumes inside those […]
might be minor change to some but it is actually pretty interesting to see that: what is the state of resources? from the left to right: CPU usage, RAM usage, NETWORK usage, SWAP usage, disk usage GNU Linux is not […]
“os-prober is disabled with the grub 2.06 upload, which is obviously a bit controversial and the outcome is not necessarily in the best interest of our users” “os-prober is inherently insecure as it mounts all partitions on your disk using […]
scientists predict human leven AI by 2047 ChatGPT says 2035 https://www.nomic.ai/gpt4all so DON’T HOLD THE BREATH What is GPT4All-J?: An Apache-2 Licensed Assistant-Style Chatbot What is Mistral Orca? https://huggingface.co/ “The AI community building the future.” “The platform where the machine […]
if there is a website or a writing, that the user fears will be offline tomorrow… go archive it 😀 (https://archive.org/ is doing a good job, but often-sometimes they only have stored the front page) it is possible to archive […]
so every android user is in a hurry to update update update to Google’s latest firmware because of it’s security issues really would like to see a smart phone that can run almost unchanged GNU Linux kernel 😀 (yes would […]
“wlx123 Interface doesn’t support scanning : Device or resource busy” this error occurs during manual terminal bash based scanning of wifi wlan networks: hostnamectl; # tested on Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-13-686-pae Architecture: x86 su – […]
system A mounts the share just fine, but system B won’t? mount -t cifs -o username=admin //192.168.123.123/sharename /media/username/mointpoint/ dmesg; # reports [17666.614556] CIFS: Attempting to mount \\192.168.123.123\sharename [17666.641743] CIFS: Status code returned 0xc000006d STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE [17666.641755] CIFS: VFS: \\192.168.123.123 Send error […]
once upon a time… found a strange looking cable.. Double micro audio jack? WHAT ON EARTH IS THAT? It is a serial-to-usb programming radio cable for RETEVIS handheld “walkie talkie” radios, that allows to set different modes of the radio […]
always say something positive first: then the critique: follow the excellent guide: https://getcomposer.org/download/ mkdir /var/www/html/composer cd /var/www/html/composer php -r “copy(‘https://getcomposer.org/installer’, ‘composer-setup.php’);” php -r “if (hash_file(‘sha384’, ‘composer-setup.php’) === ‘THISWILLHAVECHANGEDBYNOW’) { echo ‘Installer verified’; } else { echo ‘Installer corrupt’; unlink(‘composer-setup.php’); } […]
Yes… … well… YESSS finally it works! BUT! IT’S VERY BUGGY! programs crash now and then… so it’s not “production” ready. … the foxlet approach worked 😀 (also got stuck in the last minute of setup of mojave… but after […]
if the spice tools are installed, clipboard sharing between host and guest (copy & pasting text and even images (!)) should (!) work 😀 What is not working virtualbox-easy-style (yet) is easy-host-to-guest-and-vice-versa-file-transfer (which IS VERY ANNOYING (RedHat are you listening? […]
The Flashplayer was a (unfortunately closed source, why not release the source NOW? Adobe? 😀) runtime binary to enhance multimedial capabilites of the browser THE FIRST possibility to stream videos inside the browser (youtube once used flash, now they shifted […]
https://app.diagrams.net/ there is also an cross OS offline version but: Security “draw.io Desktop is designed to be completely isolated from the Internet, apart from the update process. This checks github.com at startup for a newer version and downloads it from […]
hint! this script works! BUT: it can not deal with complex filenames, it needs “easy filenames” (yes no kidding). so something like: 2.mp4 and 3.mp4 in the same directory will work. or it will output: concat Unsafe file name: Operation […]