Practical Linux tips and tricks – terminal shortcuts, productivity hacks, and configuration tweaks for Ubuntu and other distros.
A Node.js app can run fine with node app.js during development, but production needs something that can restart crashes, collect logs, and come back after a reboot. A single Node.js process runs one event loop, so busy services can hit a single-process ceiling before the server itself is out of capacity. PM2 is a Node.js…
Short one this week my friend, energy’s a bit low on my end, but two kernel vulnerabilities landed that are too important to skip, so let’s get into it. Two old, nasty kernel bugs got public exploits this week. If you’re running KVM or any kind of multi-tenant containers, this is a “patch today, not…
Among the mainstream Linux distros, Linux Mint has been an outlier, spending many years easing Cinnamon and its users, into Wayland one careful step at a time while other distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora made it the default experience. Now, that patience is paying off, as the project’s June update reveals that Wayland will no…
AMD on Thursday sent out another round of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver updates to DRM-Next of new feature material ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window. One of the changes standing put this week is enabling graphics “pipe1” support for GFX11 APUs. This work is around enabling a second graphics…
DankMaterialShell 1.5, codenamed “The Wolverine,” is now available as a major update to this Wayland shell suite designed to give compositors such as Hyprland, Niri, Sway, Labwc, MangoWM, and Miracle WM a more complete desktop environment experience. If you haven’t heard of it yet, DMS tries to replace the usual pile of separate tools many…
Open-hardware manufacturer Pine64 has launched a $50 smart speaker that runs open-source software on a RISC-V chip. PineVoice (previously known as PineVox) is built around a Bouffalo Lab BL606P RISC-V SoC with integrated Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0 and Zigbee radio interfaces. It’s equipped with dual microphone array and speaker with support for ‘local wake word detection’,…
12 Liam’s Desktop UX Brief: KDE Plasma 6.8 is dropping Desktop OpenGL from KWin in favor of OpenGL ES. This guide shows you exactly how to check your current rendering backend, switch it if needed, and understand what this change means for your Linux desktop. I have been running KDE Plasma for years, and this…
Most Bash scripts call sed, awk, or cut for jobs the shell can do by itself. Stripping an extension from a filename, providing a default when a variable is empty, or replacing part of a string are all built into the ${…} syntax, run in the current process, and cost no fork to an external…
If your Bash prompt still feels like it belongs in 2005, with no syntax highlighting, no fuzzy history search, and just a blinking cursor, Flyline can modernize it in about 30 seconds. I’ve used Readline for as long as I’ve used Bash, which is most of my adult life. It always worked, so I never…
There is no shortage of personal knowledge management (PKM) applications available today if you use Markdown notes. Be it Obsidian or Logseq or Tolaria, there is a pain point associated with almost all of them. They add a layer on top of the plain markdown files. From Wikilinks to custom properties, there is always something…
