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https://pdewey.com/blog/gaming-on-linux · 11 Aug 2025
## Introduction Gaming on Linux has come a long way in recent years, but it still presents unique challenges compared to Windows gaming. While tools like Proton and the advent of the Steam Deck have drastically improved the out-of-the-box Linux gaming exp...
https://bruce.leaflet.pub/3mmvzuybjq22e · 17 Jun 2025
The better alternative to buying an iPad for university: drawing tablets - a review of the Wacom One. Plus: my recommended settings for Xournal++
https://bruce.leaflet.pub/3mmvzrtbezc2s · 23 Mar 2025
NixOS is great, but it is a bit tedious to always type out vim /etc/nixos/... etc to make changes to your system, nor do I want a complicated setup for my nix configuration files. So I devised a little script to speed up the progress, which I saved to conf...
https://octet-stream.net/b/tt/no-route-to-host-firewall.html · 26 Feb 2025
HOME BLOGS PROJECTS GITHUB 26 February 2025 My old laptop recently failed catastrophically due to a hardware or driver issue and the filesystem was corrupted so badly I had to reinstall the OS. I installed the latest Debian testing (trixie) releas...
https://edafe.de/2025/02/shrink-optimise-and-expand-an-existing-qcow2-image/ · 1 Feb 2025
edafe.de/qcow A virtual disk image is a block device in a file. There are a number of different disk image formats to choose from when setting up a virtual machine. QEMU Copy On Write version 2 (QCOW2) is the default virtual disk image format for the Quick...
https://octet-stream.net/b/tt/disabling-the-led-on-razer-cobra.html · 14 Jan 2025
14 January 2025 Recently my mouse began to die and I went searching for a replacement. I wanted something not too cheap but also not too expensive and gamery and eventually picked up a Razer Cobra. It's wired, nice and light, doesn't have an excess of bu...
https://octet-stream.net/b/tt/managing-various-artists-mp3s-on-linux.html · 9 Jan 2025
HOME BLOGS PROJECTS GITHUB 9 January 2025 One of the most useful tags that shows up in MP3s (or most annoying, depending on your point of view) is TCMP. Setting this to the string 1 is often a good way to indicate that a track belongs to a compila...
https://octet-stream.net/b/tt/bash-ctrl-o-timesaver.html · 22 Dec 2024
HOME BLOGS PROJECTS GITHUB 23 December 2024 I have long been an enthusiastic user of the reverse search (ctrl-r) feature in the bash shell. To recap, if you have a history of typed commands that looks like this: ... make build make test make dep...
https://octet-stream.net/b/tt/dns-issues-on-a-nokio-fastmile-5g.html · 21 Dec 2024
21 December 2024 Nokia FastMile 5G Gateway ProductClass:3TG01797 HWVer:3TG01797AMFA SWVer:1.2304.00.0445 For around six months my home internet has been provided by a Nokia modem, a unit my ISP supplied and I am obliged to use. I have various device...
https://bruce.leaflet.pub/3mmvzgkbpp22s · 16 Sep 2024
Steps to fix display and battery issues everyone with an NVIDIA laptop should take