Posts tagged: linux

^M for carriage return

2026-07-12T11:02:28Z

I don’t run into windows file endings very often, so when I see little ^M’s all over your file, I think “shit I know what these are and cant remember” They represent the windows carriage return.

Linux vs Unix Line Endings #

The difference here is that Unix uses \n and Linux uses \r\n, going all the way back to the typewriter it represents the two keys that a typist would have to press to get a new line and return the carriage back to the beginning.

Vim/Neovim #

When I open up a file and see this garbage all over, its not cozy, I want them gone, I dont want them all over my editor. I’m not sure what this would look like on windows, I haven’t been able to afford a windows machine in years, but its gross on my machine.

Remove them with a substitution command from normal mode.

:%s/\r//g

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removing carriage returns with a substitution command

rpm ostree status

2026-07-05T17:16:21Z

I’ve been running fedora coreos on my home servers for awhile. I really liked the stability I got from bazzite, and have since enjoyed the stability of fedora coreos. Since it’s an immutable system I’ve never quite known if I need to reboot or not, and was unsure how to check for updates. Today I learned you can use rpm-ostree status to see if your fedora coreos system is up to date.

rpm-ostree status

For me it listed security advisories with a count of each severity unknown, low, moderate, and important.

fixing a corrupt zshrc

2026-06-29T08:39:59Z

This morning I had a machine crash on me and came back to an error.

Error

zsh: corrupt history file /home/u_walkews/.zsh_history

Dammit I don’t want to redo my shell history, I checked with a clanker and they came up with this solution using strings that only prints printable characters.

cp ~/.zsh_history ~/.zsh_history.bak
mv ~/.zsh_history ~/.zsh_history.corrupt
touch ~/.zsh_history
chmod 600 ~/.zsh_history
strings ~/.zsh_history.corrupt > ~/.zsh_history
chmod 600 ~/.zsh_history

Malicious Aur Packages Jun 2026

2026-06-16T20:27:26Z

Recent Arch linux vulnerabilities are a good reminder of a few things.

AUR is not the official package repo
The AUR is community driven
AUR packages are not always safe

The first thing I’m doing to stop myself from running any aur updates automatically is removing any arch helper.

sudo pacman -Rns yay paru paru-bin

Currently the reported vulnerabilities are supply chain attacks limited to the aur, keep your arch system up do date, BUT do not update packages from the AUR right now. In fact I’m auditing my aur usage and removing anything I have not used in awhile.

Here is a nice script I’m using to walk through my packages and get rid of things I installed and probably don’t need anymore.

pacman -Qemq |
  fzf -m --preview '
    echo "== package =="
    pacman -Qi {} 2>/dev/null
    echo
    echo "== required by =="
    pacman -Qi {} 2>/dev/null | grep "Required By"
  ' |
  xargs -r -o sudo pacman -Rns

Supply chain attacks are getting real scary in 2026, maybe we should listen to Ginger Bill a bit closer.

Turning my Desktop into a Production Machine

2026-05-09T15:58:24Z

The crontab output details a scheduled task to navigate to the project directory and run the 'just' command hourly.

> I'm setting up production workloads on my desktop, perhaps against my better judgment, building my blog hourly without much fuss

No one under 18 installs Linux

2026-03-09T16:46:15Z

😂 Should I be concerned that My 12yo installed Arch BTW on his own?

POV: You install Clawdbot on VPS - YouTube

2026-02-16T16:22:40Z

Use a linux vps, It’s easy, just follow these simple instructions.

setup bambu-studio in distrobox

2025-12-06T21:17:39Z

gpus are awesome and I need one for Bambu Studio to be usable in a distrobox. Adding the --nvidia flag to distrobox create bind mounts the nvidia /dev/ devices and sets up the necessary environment variables. Once we are in there are a couple of packages to install to make it work.

distrobox create --name bambu-studio --image archlinux:latest --nvidia
distrobox enter bambu-studio
sudo pacman -S nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils vulkan-icd-loader
nvidia-smi
glxinfo | gprep OpenGL
sudo pacman -Syu --needed base-devel git
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru-bin.git
cd paru-bin
makepkg -si
paru -S bambustudio-bin

bambu-studio

distrobox-export --app bambu-studio

Microsoft keeps losing - YouTube

2025-11-15T23:51:23Z

👏👏👏preach it prime! M$ continues to prove that they are not making products for you something else is affoot and shit you don’t want is shoved down your throat and forced on you.

Prime points out that the agentic is prompt injected itself😂. Rather than making a better os experience it’s assuming you are stupid and need everything done for you. But what I don’t get here in the text scaling example. Why the F does it not just fix it for me. When I ask the machine to make text bigger it puts a flashy circle where to click. This is a one time setup for someone who gives no fucks to remember how to do it. Why is the machine doing this weird hand holding watching us do it’s work rather than just doing it? I like the pattern when you change display setting it gives you a counter that reverts everything if for some reason shit is so bad you can’t even see it. Do that, not this help me click bs.

Now in parallel we have steam making Linux desktop better and better. Allowing you to just access the hardware you own to do what you want to do with it. Providing a fantastic hands off out of the box experience for the price of the hardware. No ongoing fees, no upgrade cycle, soft lock, aribraray cutoff date, tpm bs requirements. Good stuff as it was supposed to be created.

2025 The Year Of The Linux Desktop - YouTube

2025-10-10T18:14:37Z

The Year of the Linux Desktop is a meme, every year is the year of the Linux desktop as it gains rounding errors of market share. Outside of Linux nerds, developers that use servers on the regular, cheap asses reviving old hardware that is dead in the eyes of other OS’s, the average user wont even notice a difference with the right distro. I ran bazzite with plasma for over a year, It would be super beginner friendly while allowing users customization on levels never seen on non-Linux machines. Other than adobe, roblox, and EA games with easy anti-cheat most users probably aren’t going to run in to any issues. They probably wont even notice at this point, which is where the meme comes in. Why would anyone switch if its not noticeably different for the average user, they wont, until what is working for them stops working for them.

Kubernetes-Inspired Keycap Test Print

2025-09-24T18:48:48Z

This test print features a custom keycap designed with a Kubernetes logo.

"Pacman is currently in use, please wait."

2025-09-16T06:26:33Z

"Pacman is currently in use, please wait." / Pacman & Package Upgrade Issues / Arch Linux Forums

bbs.archlinux.org

I ran into this issue today, never have I ever before though. Omarchy looking a bit sus on me. This was even after a fresh boot, no pacman process running. just realized I forgot to check yay which it has installed for me. I had to force it in.

sudo rm /var/lib/pacman/db.lck

tar over ssh

2025-09-13T10:50:42Z

Today I learned how to use tar over ssh to save hours in file transfers. I keep all of my projects in ~/git (very creative I know, I’ve done it for years and haven’t changed). I just swapped out my main desktop from bazzite to hyprland, and wanted to get all of my projects back. Before killing my bazzite install I moved everything over (16GB of many small files), it took over 14 hours, maybe longer. I had started in the morning and just let it churn.

This was not going to happen for re-seeding all of my projects on my new system, I knew there had to be a better way, I looked at rsync, but for seeding I ran into this tar over ssh technique and it only took me 6m51s to pull all of my projects off of my remote server.

ssh user@192.168.1.100 'tar -C /tank/git -cpf - .' \
  | tar -C "$HOME/git" -xpf -

bash timestamp

2025-08-22T15:35:36Z

Today I needed to make a backup of some config. I wanted to add a timestamp so that I knew when the backup was made. This would make unique backups easy, and I could tell when they were made.

cp configfile configfile.backup.$(date %s)

If you want to decrypt the timestamp into something more human readable. You can list backup files, strip out the timestamp, and then convert it to a human readable date.

/bin/ls | grep backup | sed 's/configfile.backup.//' | xargs -I {} date -d @{}

or just throw it to the date command by hand.

date -d @1755895402

DHH on X: "Rewiring your muscle memory for copy/paste when you...

2025-08-17T20:39:42Z

DHH (@dhh) on X

Rewiring your muscle memory for copy/paste when you go from Mac to Omarchy is an important rite of passage. Not friction to be whittled away. We need more rituals in society. More tokens of sacrifi...

X (formerly Twitter) · x.com

Today I learned that its spelled “Rite of Passage”, and is short for ritual. Mac has so many of these things that are just different, but do not let you reconfigure them and you are stuck with it. copy / paste I don’t get, the 3 times I’ve touched a mac since I was a kid its frustrated me. Is it lock in? or is it them actually thinking this is the right way and you all shall do as we say.

Omarchy is on the move

2025-08-07T19:28:34Z

Omarchy is on the move

Omarchy has been improving at a furious pace. Since it was first released on June 26, I've pushed out 18(!) new releases together with a rapidly growing community of collaborators, users, and new-t...

world.hey.com

It’s facinating how many people are making the jump from mac/windows, not just to linux, not just to archlinux, but to a full on tiling window manager. DHH has omakub and omarchy. Omakub is advertised as easy and for beginners, but many are skipping right over that to go straight for the hard stuff.

DHH mentions hyprland here, one thing I think he is missing is that this is the first real mainstream tiling window manager that is a competitor to i3, awesomewm, qtile that runs Wayland. I think they were able to pull a bunch of great benefits such as lack of screen tearing and animations from this.

Dolphin Remote Storage Previews

2025-08-02T14:58:09Z

I’ve got a few samba shares going in my homelab, and I’m struggling finding a great app to scroll through vacation photos with my wife. I want something intuitive, non intimidating, and just works. Turns out that the default file browser application for hyprland works great, but you need to enable previews for remote storage for it to work for my use case here.

An Ode To My 10-Year-Old Thinkpad T440

2025-07-25T06:33:47Z

An Ode To My 10-Year-Old Thinkpad T440

mbrizic.com

I like reading about old hardware and how to keep it running, sending shit out to e-waste after barely using it for a year makes my skin crawl. I find it interesting how most of these resurrections start with a linux build, and the author giving in and going for linux for the first time and enjoying being able to use something they thought was useless for real work.

That being said I have weird thoughts similar to this guy about being able to take a machine and write a novel somewhere off in the distance, but any time I try to do real work form any laptop these days the ergonomics become so unappealing that I tend to just not do anything away from my desk. Theres something that sounds so great about opening vim on old hardware that could last for hours, sip on coffee and write away, but it never works out like that in practice.

2025-07-10 Notes

2025-07-18T20:26:28Z

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2025-07-10 Notes | Nic Payne

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pype.dev

big fan of eza and dust, I like these aliases to have some common commands at my fingertips. I often use the tree command and yes it sometimes goes too deep to actually be useful.

    alias lt='eza -T --level=2'             # Tree view, 2 levels deep
    alias ltt='eza -T --level=3'            # Tree view, 3 levels deep

    alias du1='dust -d 1'                   # Show only 1 level deep
    alias du2='dust -d 2'                   # Show 2 levels deep

Vimothée Chalamet shares his new favorite shell command from a...

2025-07-18T17:56:59Z

Love this dudes casual dry humor style, not afraid to poke fun at things with his dry ass satire. that being said, fc is new and as a long time fan of up arrow and !! I will be using this often.