Mastodawn

I am happy to report that, on a 2011 Macbook Air (4,1) that I inherited, I upgraded it to a 500 GB SSD and have #debian 13 (Trixie) running on it.

I made a minor tweak to the boot parameters (thanks to another open-source enthusiast publishing their journey with the same laptop) to deal with the laptop freezing up while connected to wifi. #justlinuxthings

While its specs are modest (4 MB ram, dual core i5), thanks to the great array of open-source software tools, I have light-weight options available for email readers, RSS readers, browsers, and code editors. Writing and testing programs in Python or Nim is absolutely doable on this system.

I also like having a lower-spec machine which will help me be more mindful of memory and cpu-efficient programming patterns while I am writing software and games.

𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 Mar 1

Trying #eww (here) is fun! You can fully customize anything and can create widgets from the ground up.

… but you need to fully customize anything and create widgets from the ground up.

#JustLinuxThings #ricing #LinuxDesktop #widgets #Linux

Eww - Widgets for everyone! - eww documentation

hell \ Rebekah Hellberg Jan 19

The only thing a Linux enjoyer hates more than Windows is other flavors of Linux.

#justlinuxthings #linux

grizeldi Jan 13

My package manager: you need to update your Mother
Me: I'm sorry, *what*?
Me, rereading the message: Oh, #Mutter has an update

#justlinuxthings #gnome #foss

𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 Jan 5

I cleaned up my packages and now the kernel creation spams tons of possibly missing firmware warnings.

==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'radeon'
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'nouveau'
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'i915'
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'amdgpu'
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'xe'
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'ast'
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'xhci_pci_renesas'
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'bfa'
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'aic94xx'
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'cxgb3'
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'cxgb4'
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'qed'
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'qla2xxx'
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'isci'
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'qla1280'
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'advansys'
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'wd719x'
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'csiostor'
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'ums_eneub6250'
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'cs42l43'

None of the firmware is needed, my system operates as expected, and everything works … Oh well 🙄 … Time to create some dummy modules, I guess.

#ArchLinux #pacman #mkinitcpio #JustLinuxThings

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Ankit Dec 29

did some troubleshooting on my smb issues and it turns out it might be a kde bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494981

i say might because all of this goes over my head and i cant do shit anyways since im on an immutable distro.

#JustLinuxThings

494981 – Kerberos auth doesn't work since libsmbclient 4.21

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Ankit Nov 27

so i ran a live environment on @viz suggestion and enabling hdr was possible.

unfortunately couldnt test video file playback since the wifi driver didnt work and the video player would crash everytime i tried playing a video from external storage.

#JustLinuxThings

Nicd Nov 18

Ah yes.

#snap #JustLinuxThings

Anisse Aug 31, 2025

TIL on Linux you cannot rely on the timestamps of files in /proc/<pid> to give you information about a process start time: those might be reset on suspend of if a process gets a SIGSTOP.
Instead, one should look at the 22nd field of /proc/pid/stat: starttime.
But it gives you the process start time in system clock ticks, not seconds. So you must divide it by sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK) to get seconds.
But wait, it gives you the start time in ticks since boot. So you must use clock_gettime(CLOCK_BOOTTIME, ...) to get a usable comparison to the current time.

Anyway, now progressrm should be more accurate at guessing the file arguments progression (and remaining time) of rm commands.

#Linux #ProcPid #uapi #JustLinuxThings

𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 May 5, 2025

A bit of overoptimizing caused some weird color glitches, but that is sorted out now, and it actually works. (and looks as expected on an actual terminal. The confetti was just some testing.

Import and export are also optimized, and there is a crude permalink function that causes thousands of characters long URLs but works up to a certain complexity.

… and all of this for such a niche 🙃

#IssueDrawer #RecreationalCoding #ArchLinux #JustLinuxThings #TTY1