Recently I noticed that the 500 GB SSD on my desktop was getting dangerously low on space. I cleaned out my Downloads folder, deleted some movies I had saved, and emptied the trash to clear up some space. I knew that this was only a temporary solution and that I would need to think about…
I’m working on building up a new VPS using Ubuntu 20.04 and Docker for all the services. This seems straight forward, but so far it’s presented some unique issues that I don’t think I’d have on a conventional setup. I think the first trouble I ran into is just the number of prebuilt images available…
I’ve been trying to figure out how to import Google contacts into abook for awhile. I was repeatedly disappointed that I couldn’t find any useful and up-to-date instructions or scripts. It turns out that abook is way more powerful and configurable than I thought. The answer was right in front of me the whole time….
This is not a definitive guide. This is just what I learned installing and booting to a command prompt with /boot, /home and root defined as logical volumes inside of an encrypted partition. As I’ve said, this is by no means an exhaustive guide. It’s more like a list of specific steps and resources for…
Using a simple “script” at the command line, you can rename a bunch of similar filenames with ease. Say you’ve got something like: foo-001, foo-002 and foo-003, but you want them to be bar-001, bar-002 and bar-003. The script will look like : $ for i in `ls -1 foo*`; do mv $i `echo $i…
The distro is actually Pop_OS, but I seem to remember having to do this in Debian as well. The GitHub Powerline page says that you can just install the fonts-powerline package through apt and angels will sing. I did not have any such luck. The way I finally got it to work was to actually…
For compiling and installing i3-gaps, basically just follow this guide. For Termite, you’ll have to install vte-ng, and you can use this guide to do both. NOTE: For the vte-ng dependencies, you’ll also need intltool. Initially, $ termite is returning termite: symbol lookup error: termite: undefined symbol: vte_terminal_set_cursor_position, but everything compiled and installed correctly. So…
Oof. This was a real trick and a little bit of guess work, but I finally got the visualization in ncmpcpp to work with mopidy and pulseaudio. First, I found the ArchLinux ncmpcpp config walkthrough. That seemed really straight foward… but it didn’t work for me. After some dicking around, I figured it’s probably because…
Not too long ago I wrote a short article about my findings in switching my default x-scheme-handler to Chrome for opening links from mutt. I used gio, and somehow it turned out to be pretty straight forward. I recently decided to switch back to Firefox for my browser, but now following links and viewing html…
Remember that time you were getting the hang of Blender, then you switched to XFCE and alt-mouse3 stopped working for Loop Select in Blender? Remember how annoying that was? Apparently alt-click is supposed to do stuff in XFCE even though it didn’t seem to really do anything in my case except mess up Blender. Well…