Blog posts about #linux

Install Dropbox using NixOS in your preferred way.

In order to play Anno 1404 on Proton, follow these steps.

With following command you can print a random string of a certain length on Linux.

You sit in a cozy coffee place and you just finished your coffee.

You are still not connected to the WiFi while the MacBooks and Surface devices around you have sent and received Gigabytes of data since you sat down.

You are a Linux user.

3 months ago I installed NixOS, i3wm and XFCE on my new Thinkpad T14 (1st Gen). It is the main machine that I use every day.

In this blog post, I summarize my experience with this setup.

If you use urxvt to connect to your EC2 instance through Elastic Beanstalk, running

On Linux, you can set attributes to ignore files for syncing.

Following the NixOS installation guide I ended up with a setup using a stable NixOS channel that just keeps giving.

Upgrading NixOS so that it uses a different channel is simple.

Dropbox has some well-known issues on Linux which made me look at alternatives. I found an alternative that I am very happy with.

It took me three months and five attempts to fix this issue. Upon reboot two terminal panes and one Emacs instance auto-started and I didn’t know why.

Dokku makes it very easy to deploy and run simpler web apps.

Recently, I had to deploy a slightly more complex web app with multiple non-web worker services talking to each other. It’s surprisingly simple to get make this work.

Half a year ago, I replaced my Thinkpad T14 with a 14" MacBook Pro M1. I was a happy Linux and Thinkpad user for over 7 years.

This is how it went.