Launch a separate 'backup' thunderbird instance offline

To store and access a completely separate 'backed up' Thunderbird profile under Linux we can simply move the old…

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Published : 31 October 2019

Manage separate Git configurations for work and personal

As of Git 2.13 git allows for Conditional Configurations. This means that a specific set of configurations can be used…

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Published : 31 October 2019

Launch Discord app minimised on Linux

discord --start-minimized

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Published : 25 October 2019

Git Workflow Diagram

I stumbled across this very clear representation of the Git Workflow.  

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Published : 21 October 2019

Create and restore a backup of all packages in Arch Linux

BACKUP Create a list of all currently installed packages Native (manually installed via pacman) sudo pacman -Qn…

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Published : 10 October 2019

Install yay AUR package manager on Arch Linux

Simply paste the following into shell: cd $(mktemp -d) git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git cd yay makepkg -si…

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Published : 10 October 2019

Configure sensisble Virtual Memory and Swappiness settings for a Linux desktop

/etc/sysctl.d/100-vm.conf vm.dirty_ratio = 10 vm.dirty_background_ratio = 5 vm.dirty_expire_centisecs = 2000 vm.…

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Published : 07 October 2019

Install Private Internet Access OpenVPN on OpenWRT

Install OpenVPN onto the router SSH into OpenWRT ssh root@<openwrt> Update OpenWRT package repositories…

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Published : 21 September 2019

Ignore powertop suggested tunables with systemd

Add additional ExecStart lines for each tunable to be overwritten/ignored, after the inital powertop --auto-tune.…

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Published : 20 September 2019