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Posts by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Get notifications to dunst when systemd units fail

How can I get notifications to dunst when systemd units fail?

1 answer  ·  posted 1mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by Iizuki‭

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Q&A How do I migrate my main filesystem to a new drive?

I'll add a specific, simple way that worked for me: Create some kind of Linux Live USB Boot into Live OS Use lsblk and blkid to figure out which drive exactly is the old and new one. Stay in t...

posted 1mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Copy to clipboard from terminal with Vim bindings

I use kitty as my terminal, which allows you to map a key for copying any text from the screen to the keyboard. The text is selected by pressing some hint keys, similar to the Vimium extension. It'...

posted 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Static IP on wired LAN

I did this with NetworkManager. nmtui to open the TUI interface and then select "Edit..." and the ethernet connection You can also use the equivalent GUI or CLI commands, but I find them hard...

posted 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A What is cat abuse/useless use of cat?

UUOC is an ancient Unix yarn. I can't find the original essay (I believe from Usenet, where else...) but if memory serves it's either from early 90s or before. cat is actually a program for concat...

posted 2mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Is PipeWire easier to use than PulseAudio? [closed]

I have always found PulseAudio to be difficult to use and overcomplicated. Recently I also discovered that it is written by Lennart Poettering, whom I dislike. I am now very motivated to use someth...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  closed 11mo ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A Recursively remove files with the same name as the ones that end in `.part`

For each file named foo.xyz, you want to delete foo.xyz.part. It doesn't matter if foo.xyz.part exists, you can just attempt it and skip errors. You can get a list of all files with find etc. But ...

posted 11mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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