Fedora

After coming back from lunch multiple times to a blank locked screen in Hyprland, I found a workaround with a DPMS toggle.

Networking between podman quadlets isn’t automatic as it is with docker-compose, but the setup only takes a few extra steps.

After trying various performance monitoring tools over the years, I found that Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) provides tons of useful data.

Podman’s quadlet system combined with systemd timers makes container updates easy and automatic.

A recent switch back to i3 (from sway) left me wondering how to examine just the Xorg logs sent to journald.

Get spell checking in multiple languages automatically within input fields in Firefox. 🗣️

My new PC has an AMD GPU, but it didn’t appear inside btop.

The local LLM easy button, ollama, won’t work with the AMD Radeon 6600 XT out of the box. The fix is a quick one!

Redirecting local ports with iptables directly isn’t too difficult, but can we use firewalld to get the same result? 🧱

The amazon-ec2-utils package in Fedora makes it a bit easier to find devices in an AWS EC2 instance. ️🌤️

Java applications under Wayland seemed to have all different sizes of cursors, but some were way, way, too big. 🐘

Fedora’s cloud-init package now uses dhcpcd in place of dhclient, which went end of life in 2022. 💀

I gave two talks at this year’s event and ran into lots of old friends and colleagues. 🐧

Static blogs are easy to serve, but so many of the free options have no analytics whatsoever. This post talks about how to serve your own blog from a container with live updating analytics

Now that AMD’s Zen 4 CPUs landed in lots of laptops, I picked up a ThinkPad Z13 G2 with an AMD Ryzen CPU. Did I put Linux on it? Of course I did. 🐧

Here’s a blog post to answer the question: Why do you write so much about CoreOS? 📦

Sure, docker-compose is great, but could we get similar functionality using just the tools that are built into CoreOS? Can we get automatic updates, too? Yes we can! 📦

Fedora now has the AWS Elastic File Store (EFS) mount helper available for Fedora 38 and newer releases! It chooses optimized NFS mount options for you and makes mounting and unmounting a breeze.

Ghost delivers a great self-hosted blogging platform that deploys well in containers. Let’s deploy it on CoreOS along with Caddy. ️📝

Podman’s new quadlet feature lets you specify container launch configuration via simple systemd-like unit files. 📦

CoreOS provides a fast track to running containers with a light weight immutable OS underneath. This doesn’t mean that you can’t keep it around as a pet instance. 🐕

My issues with open source mailing lists aren’t with the technology, but with unorganized pattern of the discourse itself. 🖇️

Add a Fedora x86_64 or aarch64 image to Oracle Cloud and launch an instance. 🚀

Segment your home network easily with a VLAN on a Mikrotik router. 🖥️

1Password has a handy quick access launcher and you can bring it on screen for fast access to passwords and two factor codes in Sway. 🔐

Watchtower keeps an eye on your running containers and updates them when new containers appear upstream. 📦

My go-to method for managing containers easily is still docker-compose. It works really well on Fedora CoreOS. 📦

Automatically switch your system audio to your bluetooth headset as soon as they connect. 🎧

Avoid cloud provider modifications and deploy a genuine release version of Fedora 37 on Hetzner Cloud. ⛅

Get systems online quickly or rescue a broken system by PXE booting from netboot.xyz using a Mikrotik router. 🛠

Some people say I just enjoy the sound of my mechanical keyboard too much. 🤭 I see it as a simpler, more consistent workflow.

Add encrypted ssh keys to your workflow more efficiently with gnome-keyring in the sway window manager.

Because nobody wants an inefficient emoji workflow. 🙈

Reload your sway config without disrupting Firefox. 🔥

Upgrade your Supermicro BIOS firmware from Linux using their SUM utility. 🔧

Learn how to install TD Ameritrade’s ThinkOrSwim desktop application on Linux and get everything working. 💸

The alacritty terminal on Fedora enables HiDPI mode by default. Break out your magnifying glasses as we disable HiDPI. 👓

Want to build your own Fedora 35 image for AWS? Use Image Builder to build and deploy an image made just for you. 🏗

Provision services on Microsoft’s Azure CLI on Fedora 35. 💙

Tailscale provides a handy private network mesh across multiple devices but it needs security just like any other network. 🕵

One of the smallest ThinkPads delivers one of the best experiences I’ve had on a laptop. 💻

Package up graphical applications in containers and run them with podman. 🚢

Adjust the LED backlight on your laptop quickly in i3 on Linux. 💡

Learn how to forward ports with firewalld for IPv4 and IPv6 destinations. 🕵🏻

Launch your containers on Fedora CoreOS instances in Hetzner cloud with a few workarounds. 🚀

Sometimes network interface autonegotiation doesn’t work as well as it should. Luckily, you can fix it with systemd-networkd. 🔧

Build images for AWS and deploy them to your AWS account all within GitHub Actions. 🤖

Use the new DHCPv6 prefix delegation features in systemd-networkd to make IPv6 subnetting easy! 🎉

Firefox allows you to set dark mode as the default without changing themes or changing your desktop configuration. 😎

Enable tap-to-click on your laptop’s touchpad in i3 with one of two methods. 💻