Tag: linux

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• Rode AI-1: works on Linux

  May 4th 2026 (week 19 of 2026)

  Rode AI-1 is a small USB-C audio interface with an XLR port. It works well on Linux.

• IB-HUB1436-CPD: klein aber fein USB hub

  May 2nd 2026 (week 18 of 2026)

  The hub is exactly what I wanted: a bare-bones, no-nonsense device that does what it needs to do, and nothing else.

• Delay accounting in the Linux kernel

  May 1st 2026 (week 18 of 2026)

  Delay accounting is something you should enable in your kernel if you want to see IO% in iotop(1).

• Clean Room Guildelines of the Wine project

  May 1st 2026 (week 18 of 2026)

  Wine is, in my opinion, a very interesting project with unusual set of constraints, pitfalls, and threats. Here are their Clean Roomm Guidelines.

• Disk usage calculators for btrfs RAID

  April 27th 2026 (week 18 of 2026)

  So you want to create or expand your btrfs RAID filesystem, but have no idea how much space you will have (or want to check your math)? Here's a couple of links to help you.

• Adding a device to btrfs RAID1

  April 26th 2026 (week 17 of 2026)

  Adding a new device to a expand space on nearly-full btrfs filesystem in RAID1 configuration is easy. Rebalancing the filesystem to make use of the extra space is less so.

• Working 1 Gbit/s Ethernet USB-C adapter

  April 23rd 2026 (week 17 of 2026)

  Early this year I bought a new laptop that has everything that I need except an Ethernet port. And so, I also had to get an Ethernet to USB adapter.

• In defense of swap

  January 13th 2026 (week 3 of 2026)

  "In defense of swap: common misconceptions" is an article by Chris Down, a Linux kernel developer at Meta.

• Automatically unload inactive tabs in Firefox

  January 12th 2026 (week 3 of 2026)

  Even if you are using a completely reasonable amount of tabs, say around a thousand, memory usage of Firefox may grow over time. Tab unloading to the rescue!

• Brother DCP-1610W on Arch Linux

  December 25th 2025 (week 52 of 2025)

  DCP-1610W is a printer-scanner combo produced by the Brother company. It is a good choice if you need a reliable black-and-white laser printer that works well on Linux.

• 2009 interview with UNIGINE by Phoronix

  December 16th 2025 (week 51 of 2025)

  Here is the link.

• run0 devoured my disk!

  December 13th 2025 (week 50 of 2025)

  How I got slapped with a "No space left on device" when trying to run with elevated privileges, and what I did about it.

• Upgrading PostgreSQL with pg_upgrade

  December 10th 2025 (week 50 of 2025)

  Upgrading PostgreSQL from one major version to another requires some extra steps.

• AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT

  November 28th 2025 (week 48 of 2025)

  I bought a new graphics card.

• GNU Guix and its directories

  October 14th 2025 (week 42 of 2025)

  GNU Guix needs two main directories to run: /gnu/store and /var/guix. By default, they are both mounted on / which can be problematic.

• Fat Android filenames

  October 3rd 2025 (week 40 of 2025)

  Not all file names that can be used on Linux can be used on Android. Beware the : and the ..

• Sixel and viu

  September 16th 2025 (week 38 of 2025)

  Graphics in terminal? That is crazy talk!

• The Tragedy of systemd

  September 2nd 2025 (week 36 of 2025)

  I quite like systemd.

• btrfs

  August 31st 2025 (week 35 of 2025)

  I recently changed the way I use my disks, and this involved doing things with btrfs.