Pesky Touchpad

Hey all, So i tend to mostly work off of laptops and lately i have been using a USB mouse but in doing so the touchpad was still enabled and if i moved the wrong way it would click so i decided to write this little script that when set in alias in either the … Read More

Maintain your DB backups

Hey all, As the couple of you have noticed that read this site every year or two i’ve lost a couple of years worth of posts that i am slowly trying to recover out of some fragments of SDI files which is about as painful as it sounds. Here is what i’ve learned so far: … Read More

Traefik, pihole, DoH, and some heavy handedness……..

[EDIT] This was recovered due to a massive db crash and losing a couple of years worth of articles. Dates are mismatching. [EDIT] Hey all.. Lately i have converted my Docker Swarm setup to use Traefik as a proxy due to some complex configurations i wanted to test and implement. In this article i will … Read More

Learning morse code from a shell script

[EDIT] This was recovered due to a massive db crash and losing a couple of years worth of articles. Dates are mismatching. [EDIT] Hey all, As i am learning to understand morse i decided to write a shell script that would help you learn also. Why in shell script ? why not. Here is the … Read More

Site refreshed

[EDIT] This was recovered due to a massive db crash and losing a couple of years worth of articles. Dates are mismatching. [EDIT] Whats up all…. It has been a while. life happened. the pandemic happened. and i moved this site from dreamhost to a docker swarm setup… while configuring the compose file i decided … Read More

Gentoo, ALSA, On-board sound card, and a USB DAC

Hey all So recently i bought an amp that could also be used as a dac. This article assumes you have ALSA, a working sound card, and another device (USB DAC, etc) Here is what i did to get it to work with and included script to make life easier. First, i had to ensure … Read More

Plex, media management, and all the other fanciness

Hey all, sorry for the lack of updates in a while but life took over. This article is a combination of a bunch of mini texts i had on my system and after seeing more and more streaming services popping up it was time to combine the all and publish it. At some point i … Read More

xscreensaver, mpv, and drone videos

Sup all. So for a while i’ve had a folder with drone videos that i wanted to use as screensavers. So after a little digging in some xscreensaver and mpv settings i came up with this : mpv \ –shuffle \ –really-quiet \ –no-audio \ –fs \ –no-stop-screensaver \ –wid=$XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW \ $HOME/ss_videos/* as you can … Read More