My Little Pocket Universe
Scott Garrett For some strange reason, with the new ARM based Macs with X11 xquartz from either the official download, or from Mac Ports, when a remote java (of course it’s a problem with java), when the mouse moves, the colors of the window(s) will invert, making them very difficult to see/read. Fortunately, there is a simple … Read more
With Ubuntu starting to push their snap architecture, more and more apps break using old school X11 remote display methods. With traditional applications, you can just ssh to a remote host with -X or -Y to get X11 forwarding. You just run the X11 command, and it’ll “magically” come back and display on your local … Read more
So once you have made a backup copy of your legally owned Mario Kart 8 game from your Nintendo Switch, and want to play it on your Steam Deck. Once you have copied the XCI file you created into the EmuDeck switch roms folder and run it with Yuzu, you might have run into the … Read more
Work in Progress! Pictures to come. I traded in my 2017 Toyota Prius V for a shiny new Prius Prime Limited because I now work from home and 98% of my driving is in range of the EV mode. The major problem I have with it is that the pedestrian alert whine from the AVAS … Read more
So you have your shiny new Mac, and you want to back it up to a Time Machine volume, but you don’t want to have it dangling from a USB cable, a great option is to back up to a linux host using Samba. In the past, you would have used netatalk over the AFP … Read more
If you have tried to export a filesystem from your Mac to be used on another host, you might have had problems getting it to connect. The problem turns out to be simple, though the errors are… obtuse. For me, when I set up a share in /etc/exports, and tried to mount it from a … Read more
If you are using Chrome/Edge/Opera and it will not let you past a self-signed cert, on the error screen, just click in the window somewhere and type “thisisunsafe” to get past it.
As anyone who has upgraded to Ubuntu 22+ will know, they have deprecated and removed the traditional firefox package, and only the snap version is available and supported. And this is fine for anyone running the desktop. But for those of us who use the server version of Ubuntu, and often need to use a … Read more
So you have your nice shiny linux box, and you are properly not allowing remote root logins, but you still need to be able to run X11 apps as root through ssh. But when you do, you get the dreaded error like: Gtk-WARNING **: 19:41:13.383: cannot open display: localhost:10.0 Well that is a pain. This … Read more
Someone has already made a nice wrapper that installs Emulation Station on the Steam Deck called EmuDeck. This provides a very nice interface for emulating older game systems. It is highly reliant on the RetroArch system, but takes a lot of the pain out of setting it up. One thing that is missing from RetroArch, … Read more