Linux

What is this? It’s just what is says on the tin. Somebody asked me for some screenshots of LXQt using Miriway as the Wayland compositor. Not entirely certain what else to say.

UPDATE 2024-08-13 This setup has already broken. Back to the old Drawing Board. What the hell do you mean, “Full Window Video”? Exactly what it sounds like. I would like the video I’m watching, to “fill” the window it’s running in. If you take your handy dandy browser window, with youtube, in this example, and make the window smaller, the video is going to scale with the window size, based on the aspect ratio, I assume. I’m not really a video guy, and didn’t really feel like diving into the code, to figure out how this all works. ...

The Scenario If you’re anything like me, you use Discord for things, and if you use their “Official” Linux electron client you know what a wonderful piece of software it is, and how the developers have helpfully chosen default window/panel sizes for you, because obviously they use your computer, and know what your screen configurations, preferred window arrangement, and everything else are. Now, you can certainly go to a third party client/mod like Vencord, or BetterDiscord, both perfectly valid choices. ...

What prompted this blog post? So if like myself, you’ve got a large number of openSUSE machines on your network, it can be advantageous to run a local mirror, for updates. And it just so happens that one of the openSUSE developers, firstyear, has put together a nifty caching server that really speeds all this up, the proxy-cache itself isn’t the point of this blog post, but if you want to know more, you can find it at: opensuse-proxy-cache ...

The Story. I have a machine, setup as a NAS, that lives in my closet, running TrueNAS Scale, which I also use to run some various Virtual Machines, because why not, it’s relatively beefy hardware for a NAS (Ryzen 7 5600G, 64MB of Ram), and when I built the thing, It had 4 X WD Red 2TB Drives, in a RAIDZ1, and a spare 256GB SATA SSD from an old machine, that I used for the boot-pool. ...

So if you’re anything like me, you’re aware that tools like Docker and Podman exist, which allow you to run containers on your host. Simple enough. You might also be aware of things like Docker Compose and Quadlets for automated management and bring up of those containers. Problem is, I had a pretty stupid simple little container that I wanted to bring together, and have running on a server. And for the life of me, I couldn’t find a relatively simple “How-To” online to do what I wanted to. All of the offerings that I found were dealing with big pre-built containers for things like Wordpress that have multiple containers, and setup pods, and such. All overkill and more complicated than I needed. ...