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When your beefy Ryzen 9 system locks up during a simple pacman -Syu, something is very wrong. Here’s how to stop Baloo, ClamAV, and poor IO scheduling from hijacking your desktop. ...

Got a Lenovo Yoga 6 2-in-1 and frustrated that your fingerprint reader isn’t working on Arch Linux? You’re not alone. The standard fprintd package doesn’t include the necessary firmware for this laptop’s Synaptics sensor. ...

When sudo mkinitcpio -P fails because your boot partition is full, you’ve got a fun problem. The culprit? That massive fallback initramfs taking up precious space on a tiny boot partition. ...

It’s a good idea to update your GPG key(s) before they expire. Mine is set to expire year, from whence I last updated the expiration. Let’s explore how this is done! ...

It’s generally good security practice to ensure that you’re running a secure kernel, and the best way to do so is by running a hardened Linux kernel. ...

Having been inspired by the HIBP1 password checker, I set out to write a script with the following goals: Check for duplicate/re-used passwords Check the strength of each password Check passwords against the pwnedpass API ...

From the moment that I first had my (used) ThinkPad X220, the bottom-right USB port nearest to the SD card reader had been broken. The pad (or bolster) was missing, along with 3 out of 4 pins having been completely broken off. Needless to say this required fixing. ...

I decided to start signing my Git commits for personal, and work Git repositories. Currently, most third-party Git repository hosts only support signed commits and do not support signed pushes. ...

I found out recently that using the maximum aperture for a lens can have deminishing returns. Simply put: it makes the image look “soft”, or otherwise out-of-focus. In this post I aim to find out find the best acceptable aperture setting for a specific lens. ...

A colleague offered a pair of Bern Bluetooth drop-in headphones to me fore free, with the catch being: I had to fix them ...