suspend-then-hibernate is a neat feature in systemd that allows a computer to suspend (aka sleep) for a period of time, then wake up, and hibernate. To configure this required a few steps on KDE Neon, though: Configure Hibernate To configure hibernate, you need to have a swap partition that is as large as your system’s […]
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To backup my server I uses a tool called restic (https://restic.net/) – It’s great. I’ve recently been testing out using MEGA (https://mega.io/) as the backend storage for my backups, and to integrate that with restic, you use rclone (https://rclone.org/) as a storage driver. Sounds complicated, but it’s really not:restic –talks-to–> rclone –talks-to–> mega However, during […]
NOTE: This is no longer needed! ? KDE Neon have now rolled out the latest version of xdg-desktop-portal in the normal repo, which fixes the problem. Note the version is v1.14.1 and the repo is archive.neon.kde.org Old Guide: I’ve been testing the new Wayland session in KDE Neon, and it’s working pretty great, but one […]
I’ve been trying to use OneDrive as my restic backend – which is supported through the rclone backend. Using this, restic can use any backend that rclone supports, which is very cool. However, it has revealed that the OneDrive API is very buggy and unreliable! I’m surprised by how many issues I’ve been getting. I’m […]
This is a simple ansible config that will set your machine to use the bfq scheduler: Put this in a file called enable_bfq_playbook.yml and then run it with ansible-playbook: Reboot, and you should now have bfq enabled on your disk:
Here are some tools that I really like using when I’m working from the command line: Fish shell The fish shell is an awesome shell with loads of autocomplete and helper tools: https://fishshell.com/ Mosh Mosh is an SSH replacement that has a much lower latency implementation: https://mosh.org/ Restic As the tagline says, backups done right! […]
I recently decided to move away from using my Wifi access point as a router, and instead use an old my Raspberry Pi 2 as my router. I had a few reasons for doing this: I wanted a more up-to-date device as my internet facing box. My Wifi AP hasn’t received any firmware updates in […]
Note – 2020-01-06 – The latest version of Kodi is now available in the standard Raspian 10 repository, so installing the standard way will get a working, up-to-date version, no need to add extra sources. To install just run: Kept for historical purposes: Since the release of Raspbian 10 Buster, I have really enjoyed using […]
I was trying to enable the BFQ scheduler on my laptop running Ubuntu 19.04, because as I moved around and created some large files my computer became basically unusable. After some investigation I found the page on the BFQ scheduler and how it is meant to address these sorts of issues. There is some instructions […]
Under my TV I have a Raspberry Pi 3 running Kodi, which works great for watching/listening to all my media. However, with it idling and always-on, I thought it would be great to be able to use it as a Nextcloud server as well. Here’s some details on my setup, as well as a some […]