In my last post I found out who was to blame for filling my complete disk. It was this new and fu**** slow snapd added to ubuntu in the last few moments before release to get into the app market business. I decided to live without this feature and uninstalled it: After letting this run […]
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The new snap system starts eating my system partition. Next to being slow it also holds old backups of upgraded snaps. Ubuntu itself has no option to disable that. You can only lower the number of old versions by using which will limit the number to one live and one backup copy. But what if
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As an admin I have to work with http and https sites quite often. Firefox started to put https in front of everything automatically and clearing the cache all the time is not what I wanted to continue. I found a quick workaround that avoids this issue. Open a new tab and enter about:config in
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If you need to get the script directory of an executed bash script you can use the following snippet to cd to the script directory:
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If you want your server to install docker updates automatically then you need to add the docker repository to the list of allowed origins. Otherwise docker updates will stay untouched by unattended-update which will looks similar to this when you login and check which updates need to be installed. Had that quite some times until
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If you want to host your own teamspeak server this can be done quite easily with a server and docker-compose. Here is the example I tried: You will need a dns entry or the ip of the server to connect with your teamspeak client. With the client you can then add a password to protect
After some updates the installation/the database needs to be fixed. This can be done with the command line tool on a debian system where the installation belongs to the apache user www-data:
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Zoom didn’t want to accept a background video so I tried to find a way to shrink its size to 1080p. There is a simple command to do that with ffmpeg:
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DaVinci Resolve doesn’t support import or export of mp4 format on Linux. It is working on Windows 10, but I really don’t want to switch to boot into Windows for rendering. So i looked around and found a workflow for using Resolve under Linux: ffmpeg is my tool of choice to change formats so that
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You can use softlinks (linux: ln -s source target) under windows. The example mklink /D jdk11 jdk-11.0.7.10-hotspot will create a softlink with name jdk11 to folder jdk-11.0.7.10-hotspot in the same directory.
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