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Cake day: August 11th, 2023

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  • I use kvm switch and run into this issue.

    I am currently on Fedora 41, Gnome. I’ve seen this issue when running Arch on the same hardware without kvm switch to the point that I disabled suspend.

    The fix for me is Ctrl-Alt-F1. It simply brings display manager’s login screen. Gnome on Fedora 41 uses gdm.

    The rationale here is simple: the display manager should be resetting screen to display login screen.


  • I switched to XFS.

    The most important feature to me is support for file deduction which is supported by XFS through reflink. BTRFS supports reflinks as well.

    Snapshot in BTRFS seems like the most desirable feature, but in real life I ended up not using it.

    I usually prefer drive mirror setup, but it can give its own headaches.

    These days I simply have 2 disks and nightly rsync job copies content of one drive to another. This protects from drive failure.

    Rclone job sends most important data to offsite backup.

    The biggest loss is missing data checksums, but it is a unique feature of BTRFS that most filesystems manage without.

    I don’t have setup to expand partition beyond one drive. It comes with its own headache. I simply use large enough disks.






  • I am a software developer and work on Kubernetes based project.

    I was given a Mac laptop when I joined. It was a few OS releases behind, because corporate IT didn’t support newer versions.

    Macs have to run some sort of VM to do docker based development.

    VMs are not that great.

    When time came, I requested a Windows laptop. I installed Debian on WSL 2. Then got it to run systemd properly and installed Docker on WSL. Then vscode on windows host with remote ssh into WSL.

    Vscode ssh integration is probably best least known feature of vscode. However, initial connection setup always requires tweaking to get that best experience.

    By the way, official docker setup is through VM on windows. WSL is not a recommended route, but one can get it working.

    This setup beats Mac any day for me.

    I wish I could run Linux on work laptop, but corporate IT doesn’t know how to deal with it.









  • I own old Chromebook.

    Chromebook software updates are not forever.

    It is my understanding that some Chromebooks might be locked in such a way that installation of Linux might NOT be an option or the might be a high chance of bricking the device.

    At least that was the case with my Chromebook.

    So, once OS updates are unavailable, the machine might become a weak link from security standpoint or stop running some software.

    Chromebook is still a great option, but be careful with very old ones.