Linux

I had to do many things to get adguard-Home running as a container in fedora Server 43. This is how I set it up on Fedora Server 43, so your mileage with say, Tumbleweed might vary. There’s a number of steps that I had to take to get this to work correctly and as a brief overview they were: /etc/sysctl.conf to allow pasta to bind to port 53 Stop systemd-resolvd.service from using port 53 /etc/systemd/resolved.conf.d/no-stub.conf Use loginctl enable-linger run the container as my user-id and not as root: ~/.config/containers/systemd/adguardhome.container All port mappings and container start are to be done in cockpit itself I didn’t necessarily do them in the order above, as I fudged my way through it! Hopefully now you don’t have to! ...

Thought I’d make a list of the apps/tools that I find useful and so use on a daily basis: My regular apps Mail service: Proton Mail client: Proton Blog: Hugo Tasks/Notes: Obsidian.md Cloud storage: Filen.io Photo library: Filen.io Web browser: Zen browser Calendar: Apple Calendar Weather: yr.no Music: Apple Music Passwords: Proton Social Media: Reddit, Mastodon, and Bluesky Office Apps: Open Office Code Editor: Visual Studio Code Git: sourcetube.lol Search: Kagi.com AI: Claude Opus, Mistral Large Technical Service Providers Domain registrar: netim.com DNS: desec.io CDN & Storage: bunny.net VPS: upcloud.com

Once I’d installed the base fedora 43 Workstation with Cosmic Desktop, I was super-chuffed with the whole experience, and how the overall install went. tl;dr - Everything is working seamlessly. Here’s what I installed, and changed and why. This is as much a note for myself, as it is perhaps for you! 0.5) General config - non-oss codecs, and repos. CLI apps: Eza (COPR repo), tldr (man sub), trash-cli, bat, spf (cli file manger), fish (shell). ...

I recently - as in two days ago - bought a ThinkPad X1 off of eBay, and decided to try Fedora 43 Cosmic Spin out on it. I want to sell my MacBookPro M1 as I rarely use it. I find that I’m using Linux more and more these days. I have my iPhone and iPad Pro for everything Apple, so the MBP is relatively superfluous in the grand scheme of things. I still have my work ‘spare’ laptop which runs OpenSuse Tumbleweed (TW), but it has a truly terrible keyboard and screen. This Dell has now been superseded by the 16Gb/512Gb/2.8k OLED screen. Yea, welcome to #FirstWorldProblems - lols. ...

One of the reasons I got myself a home server is so that I can learn about containers. I’ve just got my first one set up, and as this was my first ‘rodeo’ it certainly took a while, but it turned out to be really quite easy in the end. So, here’s how I did it, and just as importantly - also what I learned. podman and quadlet I decided that I wanted to see if I could run a Minecraft server on my home server - because, why not? I’ve never had anything to do with containers before. However, I’m not an expert, but looking through the MicroOS docs I knew that I needed to use podman, which is like Docker, and that it came pre-installed on MicroOS. Later on, I realized that there was another app called quadlets - it’s now deprecated and merged into Podman since version 4.4 - that has really good functionality that I should use. ...

Setting Up a Token2 FIDO2 Hardware Token on openSUSE Tumbleweed I recently purchased a USB-C FIDO2 hardware token from Token2 to use with my openSUSE Tumbleweed installation. Unlike standard Yubikeys, this device doesn’t work with the default Linux Yubikey software, so you need to build the Token2 software yourself. We’ll be building libfido2, which will allow you to use your Token2 key. By the end of this guide, you’ll be able to view your hardware information through a basic GUI (gui.py) or via a more useful shell script that lets you actually interact with your Token2 key. ...

Recently, there was a discussion on omg.lol’ers about which good Linux distros are worth trying, and someone during the discussion mentioned Fedora Sway. So, I decided to overwrite my lovely Arch & Hyprland install on my Dell laptop, and install Fedora, which ultimately led me to installing openSUSE Tumbleweed. I started off with installing the Fedora Sway edition, and I have to say it mostly just works, and as a bonus it doesn’t have a garish colour scheme (here’s looking at you, Manjaro!). But after using it for 48 hours, I felt too constricted with the guardrails/distro decisions that they put in place—to be clear, all distros will, to a certain extent, put guardrails in place. For example, I wasn’t able to use systemd-boot, nor systemd-networkd. The power management out of the box really did not work well with my Dell laptop. I also wanted my regular dopamine hit with regular updates to Linux apps much like I had with Arch, so I realised quite soon that I really did want to continue using a rolling release distro. Fedora, I believe (happy to be corrected), updates their distro twice a year, and I think that Fedora 42 is coming out in a couple of months. ...

Here’s a list of no-nonsense packages that I immediately install after installing a fresh arch linux, and just as importantly why I install them. These are what I install because I might find the linux default apps - here’s looking at you man pages - are just too much hassle to use. Life is hard enough, so why make it harder for yourself? Eza Homepage | Arch page It brings colours to your ls commands! It’s also a more modern-day equivilant to ls, and it’s written in Rust. ...

Never underestimate the power of my human stupidity. So I opened my arch linux laptop to update Arch using pacman. Whilst doing that, I realised that my battery was at a stunning 6%, so I picked up the power cable, and plugged it into my laptop. two seconds later my laptop simply shut-down, mid-way through the mkinitcpio stuff. Why? Well, the eegit writing this blog post hadn’t checked to see if the other end of the power cable was actually plugged into the mains. Doh! Whenever I then started my Dell, it simply sent me to the BIOS screen, like the good BIOS that it is. ...