Posts by matthewsnyder
After installing the InconsolataGo font from the Arch package extra/ttf-inconsolata-go-nerd, I see there is an Inconsolata Nerd Font, Regular and an Inconsolata Nerd Font Mono, Regular. Both are mo...
The obvious way to do it is: Find some way to get a list of the files Pipe it into wc to count Classically, this would be find /path/to/dir | wc. However fd does the same thing with better u...
I have a TLS certificate, let's say codidact.pem (downloaded as in https://linux.codidact.com/posts/292251/292257#answer-292257). But when I view it the file it appears to be base64 encoded: $ cat...
I noticed that downloading all the pacman packages for a full system install takes a lot of time, so I want to create a systemd time that will periodically download them for me. That way, most of t...
Is there a way to make nmcli run without sudo over SSH? nmcli works without sudo on my machines. But when I SSH into them, it starts giving "insufficient privileges" errors. Very annoying when try...
The system Python is for use by your system and it's better to not use it directly. It won't be good for you or the system. Most distros will install Python in a system-wide location so that packa...
Bottles has a builtin dependency manager which it looks like you are using. The manager downloads dependencies from their official location and installs them in some way that works "better" for Wi...
Headless chromium gives me many errors: $ chromium codidact.com --headless [0914/093555.796025:ERROR:angle_platform_impl.cc(44)] Display.cpp:1086 (initialize): ANGLE Display::initialize error 0: ...
This is not a full answer, but my hypothesis is: Your system is configured to resolve domains exclusively through a single server running locally. Thereby, that local server can centrally control ...
I have a command check_mail that checks my mail. I have it configured to run hourly because I don't want to hammer the server too much. But, sometimes I am really at the edge of my seat for a resp...
Gnome Disk Usage Analyzer is a GUI program with similar purpose as du and ncdu. I haven't used it in a long time, but I believe caches scan results. Subsequent scans should become faster, barring ...
This varies because, being modular, Linux will have different components according to what it's used for. I'll write mainly for a mainstream desktop distro. Systemd manages most of the stack these...
I often need to fill out PDF forms, like government paperwork and stuff for banks. How can I do this on Linux? Best I could find was Foxit, but it has strange limitations in the Linux version, lik...
Early in boot, after triggering uevents but before the encrypt hook (decrypting drives) my system takes a very long time, over a minute. Actually, I bet it takes 90 seconds which is the typical def...
Sometimes Python packages fail to use your system's CA certificates (what your browser uses). For HTTPie, this is actually tracked in https://github.com/httpie/cli/issues/1581 One solution is to p...
HTTPie complains about TLS certificates ever for sites I know are fine: $ https wikipedia.org https: error: SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='wikipedia.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded w...
I want /home to be on a different partition than the rest of my files. How can I do this?
My guess is that this is an anti-cheat problem. The symptom of those is often everything working on Linux except the multiplayer, with no explanation. I don't play Titanfall 2, but apparently it u...
When I create a new Maildir account in Kmail, pointing to /foo/bar, I expect it to create directories like: /foo/bar/cur /foo/bar/new /foo/bar/tmp /foo/bar/some-folder/cur /foo/bar/some-folder...
Arch switched to Python 3.12 which broke offlineimap. I want to use Python 3.12 as the default on my system, but just offlineimap should run with an alternative Python 3.11 environment. Is it possi...
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...
How can I get notifications to dunst when systemd units fail?
When I run Kmail on i3, and then close it, it appears to continue running some stuff in the background. For example, I periodically get notifications about new mail from dunst, even though I have c...
You can try to search your shell's history for brew install. Every shell has its own history command, but for example on fish I can do history | rg brew install. (rg is https://github.com/BurntSush...
If I have an email in EML format, how can I determine its spam status from the terminal? My mail provider appears to insert a X-Acme-Spam-Status header. It looks like X-Acme-Spam-Status: v=1; e=b...
