If your keyboard seems to take a keystroke to “wake up” on Linux it could be USB power-saving. If the output of cat /sys/module/usbcore/parameters/autosuspend is not -1, you can disable this by adding the kernel parameter usbcore.autosuspend=-1 and rebooting.
Started using foot terminal on a new EndeavourOS install. But it upsets ssh, here’s a fix
Tactile is a really well executed keyboard-driven tiling extension for Gnome
Sadly, Samsung seem to be winding down their SmartThings Zigbee/ZWave home automation setup and it has always been quite painful using devices that weren’t officially supported. I’ve recently migrated my non-SmartThings native devices to Zigbee2MQTT, here’s how I did it: Purchase a SBC, in my case an OrangePi 4 running Armbian/Ubuntu – but a Raspberry …
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As Alpine Linux uses busybox for a lot of its system tools it won’t set up the necessary routing if you have a default gateway on a non-local subnet to the IP. You want /etc/network/interfaces to look something like this: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address IP.ADDR.ADDR.ADDR netmask …
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That’s because there’s a bug: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/15593-no-network-with-590-sunxi-on-banana-pi-m2-berry/ Either get the patch or downgrade. Wifi appears unaffected so you can use that to connect.
5 modern alternatives to essential Linux command-line toolsI already use ag as an alternative to grep and di as an alternative to df, but fd was new to me.
It has some weird build dependencies like xsltproc, asciidoc & gettext to build docs & cargo (seems to be built in a mix of c++ & rust). Others include: libcurl4-openssl-dev, pkg-config, libkrb5-dev (needed for curl-config), libstfl-dev, libjson-c, libsqlite3-dev. Then the xmllint check run by a2x fails as it won’t download the DTD, so replace all …
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Wondering *which* version of java is running as a daemon? ls -l /proc/PID/exe