Tag: arch
I consider the trusty Logitech MX Master 3, the
computer mouse I use to be a great
addition to my toolset. Even though I try to use mouse as little as
possible in times when keyboard is the main input source (when I am writing
something), the mouse is still very important.
Do not…
I have noticed that my
caffeine-ng in the tray is
seemingly enabling/activating at random, even though I had virtually
nothing running and I had no apps listed explicitly in the Preferences
dialog:
After running caffeine from the command line, I could see the following:
INFO:caf…
Some months ago I wrote an
article about the smartcard
and shown a possible way to initialize communication with it on Arch Linux
and the notebook equipped with smartcard reader, in my case a trusty T470.
The basis for making the smartcard reader work is to install the required
p…
A strange issue I could not find a meaningful explanation anywhere
regarding running docker-compose script and iptables firewall on Arch
Linux. Steps to reproduce assume bare iptables, Docker and docker-compose
available.
Step 1. Start Docker
Start the docker.service via systemct…
After adding support for PHP 8.0, Arch news reported they are
keeping legacy PHP7 packages
available back in January. I was quite out of PHP scene for now, but
recently, I had to test something.
The test obviously required the
php core package, now
the version 8.0 and a second ha…
You might be thinking there is a typo in the rrsync but it is actually a
legitimate command name. The command name comes from restricted rsync and
is usually distributed alongside rsync via the package manager. Lets find
out where it is located on Arch Linux:
$ pacman -Fy &&a…
There is no shortage of privacy related issues on the Internet. One of them
I decided to tackle today is EXIF metadata embedded to the photos I publish
here. I do not publish photos too often currently, but occasionally I do.
Before today, I did not strip any EXIF metadata and th…