dm-crypt Causing System FreezesFor the past year, I had been having frequent system freezes on my NixOS desktop and laptop. The system would become completely unresponsive, to the point where only SysRq commands would work.
This is my preferred Git workflow for projects.
A comparison of two memory compression techniques in Linux, which aim to be faster than just using swap, and also reduce writes to swap.
Logging is an often overlooked part of software development, and something I have been neglecting only up till recently. In this post, I compare several logging frameworks.
Some notes on how I setup Moonlight to auto-launch on a Raspberry Pi 4, as well as random display/audio issues.
Sometimes your laptop might run too hot and you want to reduce the temperatures.
Apart from cleaning the fans and changing the thermal paste, there are 2 software options available to you.
asyncio in PythonWhat do you think the output of the following code will be?
This is a short guide on how to setup Fedora with a Windows VM via libvirt, optionally sharing a RAID-1 Btrfs volume from the host to the Windows guest via SAMBA. I'm assuming you are coming from Windows.
Reasons why you might want to do this:
For a few months, while running my Windows 11 VM with a GPU passthrough-ed, I was getting random reboots/screen hangs. There was a clear pattern - the reboots/hangs occured whenever I launched a resource-intensive application on the VM, such as a game.
In an effort to trace down the problem, I looked through dmesg (truncated for brevity) for various boots:
I own an Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (2nd generation). For the longest time, I was looking for a solution that would enable me to sync my reading progress between my phone and Kindle, as well as transfer books between all devices wirelessly.
I finally managed to accomplish this with Syncthing, KOReader and Calibre-Web.