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I haven’t really posted anything new recently as I’ve just had a big transision in my career. I may or may not write about this in the future, as I don’t think it’s that relevant to you. Anyway, I’ve been having this trouble with window size of Alacritty being too small on launched.First what is Alacritty? It’s an terminal emulator written in Rust. It also makes use of GPU-acceleration, which should improve some performance in theory. I tried to make change to the config file of Alacritty, and it didn’t seem to work so I wasn’t sure I made the right change. ...

If you want to know what is Network Teaming, please check out this link. In this post, I’m going to just list all the commands required to setup a team interface. Let’s list the available network interfaces I have on my server. $ nmcli dev status DEVICE TYPE STATE CONNECTION enp1s0 ethernet connected enp1s0 enp7s0 ethernet connected student virbr0 bridge connected (externally) virbr0 enp8s0 ethernet disconnected -- enp9s0 ethernet disconnected -- lo loopback unmanaged -- virbr0-nic tun unmanaged -- From the above output, you probably can guess that I’m going to use enp8s0 and enp9s0 to create a team network interface. ...

If you’re a seasoned Linux user, you may have used source command once or twice before. You might also have used ., the exactly same command, instead. Both source and . are shell builtin commands. I have used this many times, but I only used for one purpose which is to read the environment variables from a file to the current shell environment. So, when I was asked during a job interview, “What does source do?”, the only answer I could tell them was - I personally only use source command to read the variables into the current shell environment. ...

I normally use dwm as the Windows manager on my laptop. However, I occationally need to switch to Plasma to test some applications out. This laptop is currently running Fedora 34 which has been upgraded from previous versions as old as 28, I believe. When I run Dolphin, there is an annoying error message “Could ont enter folder tags:/”. Though it doesn’t cause any problems, it’s very annoying. I found a solution from bug report #437176 suggesting to purge Baloo database. Here is the command to run: ...

I just setup a new server with a minimal installation of AlmaLinux 8. AlmaLinux is a variant of free Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. It’s like a CentOS 8, but will have a full support until the end of RHEL 8 life cycle. This server is to serve as a new proxy for all VMs inside my home lab. I want to use tinyproxy which is need to be compiled from source as the RPM package is not available as of the time writing. After downloading the source code, and try to decompress it, I was presented with the following error message: ...