My Little Pocket Universe
Just got my shiny new Steam Controller. I like the feel of it so far. However, the setup on Ubuntu 26 was less than smooth. On MacOS, it “just worked” as you would expect. On linux, it could have “just worked”, but didn’t. The problem was that I had it plugged in to a USB … Read more
I wanted to stream one of my Ubiquiti cameras without exposing the rtsps stream directly to the internet. They do offer a “public” URL option directly with the camera, but that is limited to one stream/watcher at a time, which is fine for a one-off or very specific scenario. But I wanted to be able … Read more
This page is going to be random notes and discoveries about my new Insta360 Pro 2 VR camera. The camera is impressive. The documentation, not so much. I will likely take sections of this stream of conscience and make them into their own pages once I have enough information. The camera runs Linux for Tegra … Read more
These procedures were performed/tested on Ubuntu Desktop 22 LTS. On other versions, YMMV. I like to use ZFS on the root/boot volumes, however with Ubuntu (as of 22), you can only install it that way with the desktop installer. But that, of course, installs all the Desktop stuff I do not need on a server. … Read more
When you install Ubuntu with the default partitions, for some reason, it uses only half of the available disk. If you forget to create a home/var/whatever partition during the install process, you can do it after the fact. To use all of the remaining space in a volume group, you can use the following syntax: … 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 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
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 try, 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
Sometimes you need things in life to slow down. Modern terminal emulators are great tools, and they can render text very quickly. This is usually the desired effect. But there are times when you need things to come at you a little slower. I have some old vt100/ansi animations that essentially do nothing when they … Read more