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Cleaning Arch Linux
Chris Titus wrote an article (and did a video!) about cleaning Arch Linux. I wanted to add a bit more that I find helpful – something that he didn’t cover: Uninstalling UNUSED dependencies! He covered cleaning the pacman cache, pruning timeshifts, checking usage and several other things, but not removing orphaned dependencies. Here’s a great…
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Upgrading from AMD Ryzen 9 7950x to 9950X3D
The patient, as viewed under the operating room lights… If you’re interested in my old CPU, it’s for sale here: https://columbus.craigslist.org/sop/d/columbus-amd-ryzen-processor/7834796843.html
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100 gigabit to the Desktop
Truly overkill for ANY purpose. But still fun as hell. 😀
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qemu 9.1.1-1 / virt-manager Audio Shenanigans
The upgrade of qemu packages from 9.1.0-2 to 9.1.1-1 broke the audio output of my Windoze 11 VM that I typically work from. Arch Linux is a rolling release, so it’s not as easy to just specify the version of a package you want to install using any of the normal commands with Pacman –…
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Updating Dell XPS 15 9530 Firmware on Linux
Today marks the first time I’ve updated the BIOS in my Laptop since I bought it. When I initially powered it up, Windows 11 was “installed” (more like present, it took almost 2 hours for it to fully update itself before it was usable) so I used that to update the BIOS and various firmware…
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See you around, Apple
I wrote a blog post a short while back about why I loved Linux. I waxed nostalgic for a while about my history with the OS and how it impacted my life. In the same post, I talked about my then-current setup utilizing a MacBook Pro, but I managed to get a bit off track…
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Install and trust DoD Certificates on Arch Linux
Continuing our journey to install and configure DoD Certificates on various platforms – this time I submit for your reading pleasure: Arch Linux! This one is relatively easy. Like other platforms, trusted roots can live in a few places on Arch (Personal NSS or System stores, as well as some various Apps that have their…
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Making W3-Total-Cache work with Storage Accounts in Azure Government
So you thought you were going to be slick and save some time by using the Marketplace template to deploy “WordPress on App Service” in Azure Government? You likely even selected the ‘Recommended’ tick-box to offload media content to Azure Blob Storage via the template add-on section and then hit “Review and Create!” But when…
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How to host WordPress without it being a SNITCH
I hate companies that make users think they’re getting something for free but then have these hidden functions that report back to the mother-ship what users are doing with them. WordPress’s parent company, Automattic, doesn’t have the best reputation as of late (check out the deal they made to sell your data to OpenAI). Just…
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Why Linux?
Because Windows and MacOS both suck. I’ve dabbled with Linux since I was a kid. I remember asking my uncle to buy a copy of Red Hat Linux (I think it was Red Hat 5?) on CD from eBay for me when I was just a middle-school aged nerd. We had painfully slow dial-up internet…