Jay Versluis Distrobox is a fascinating project that lets us run apps made for other distributions right on the one we’re using — a Debian app on Fedora, an RPM inside Ubuntu — without a VM, dual-booting, or a second desktop. Under the hood it uses Podman containers, but not the way Docker uses them: instead of … Read more
We do so much in browsers these days, and it’s super easy to get lost with so many tabs open. Despite the best organisational options modern browsers offer us, I prefer a stand-alone app for certain things. Notion is a good example: I really need for it to be a completely separate item so I … Read more
I’ve just spun up a Vm of AlmaLinux 9 through Cockpit, but to my surprise it didn’t come with a desktop environment installed. It was an auto-download so probably didn’t contain any such components (it would come with GNOME by default). I had to do a little digging and found out how to install KDE, … Read more
I have an exFAT partition on a dual-boot MacBook so both operating system can share data. macOS mounts it by default, but of course Linux would never be that practical. In KDE Plasma’s Dolphin I can click the unmounted partiton and the drive becomes available, but it means an additional step for me I’d like … Read more
Git is great, even for fully-fledged Unreal Engine projects. However, the built-in tool at the bottom right of the editor leaves a LOT to be desired. While it can place a project under version control, it does We can however make it work by doing a few things manually from the command line. Let me … Read more
Funny story: I downloaded Nwiro from Cosmos. I got it as part of a Humble Bundle purchase, not really knowing what it was until recently. I thought it was as easy as download, copy into my project and run. But no. Of course not. That’s because the Cosmos version doesn’t come with pre-compiled binaries. Here’s … Read more
CTRL + / VS Code is clever and will use the appropriate comment mark in front of a multi-line selection, and either comment or un-comment the selection. For Verse specifically, we can use <# and #> to start and end a block manually, or use <#> to comment an indented block.
Funny story: while I was working today, Windows 11 decided to restart my computer – without warning – and apply a bunch of updates I couldn’t avoid. They made my Start Menu go all wonky and display ALL pinned apps I had in a previously neatly grouped arrangement of pages. It’s so bad, it makes … Read more