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Update from 2024-01-12: I’ve updated the scripts to support both 50mm and 62mm wide labels, and added some more whitespace trimming to the basic stamp. The post has been adjusted accordingly. I recently acquired a Brother QL-820NWB label printer to be able to quickly create labels for boxes and such, and ideally also print out Deutsche Post’s “print yourself” stamps with it. The Deutsche Post stamp shop allows me to download PDFs targeting the 62mm wide endless labels for that printer, for the two types of stamps I’m interested in (stamp, and address label with stamp)....

My partner just ran into an issue after updating his SteamDeck to the latest SteamOS version (3.4.x to 3.5.7). He has a dual boot setup running using rEFInd, and while that survived the OS update just fine, when he wanted to return to SteamOS after a quick stint in Windows today, he was greeted by a GRUB boot menu. Detective foosel to the rescue. Attempting to boot the SteamOS entry in grub resulted in an error like this (with another device UUID):...

I recently did a software update on my laptop running Fedora 38, and that also brought in a kernel update. Starting my Win10 VirtualBox VM afterwards no longer worked as it needed the kernel module to be recompiled. However, that failed: $ sudo /sbin/vboxconfig [sudo] password for gina: vboxdrv.sh: Stopping VirtualBox services. depmod: WARNING: could not open modules.order at /lib/modules/6.3.8-200.fc38.x86_64: No such file or directory depmod: WARNING: could not open modules....

I’m currently trying to figure out some internal network issues1 and for that need to monitor the traffic of a specific device on my network. I’m using a Unifi USG as my router (behind the ISP’s Fritzbox that I consider hostile since it’s not mine). I found this post on reddit that explains how to capture traffic on the USG via tcpdump and send it through the SSH session to Wireshark on my laptop:...

For accounting and some windows only software (👋 Affinity Designer) I have a Windows 10 VM running in VirtualBox on my Framework running Fedora 38. Apparently I got a kernel update recently and as of this morning the VM refused to start. It just hung, and a look into journalctl showed something like this: Jun 13 10:23:50 draper kernel: traps: Missing ENDBR: 0xffff9b688c308f30 After some searching I came across this thread on the VirtualBox forums which explained the issue and also includes the solution....

Update 2023-06-07: It turns out that these days, the by far easiest way to get Battle.net on the SteamDeck is using NonSteamLaunchers-On-Steam-Deck, as I recently saw on Gaming On Linux. I haven’t gotten a chance to try this myself yet, but it certainly looks very much straight forward, albeit not featuring individual game entries in Steam. For your quick Diablo fix, it should hopefully be just fine though. Battle.net is currently having a spring sale and I’ve been eyeing Diablo II: Resurrected for a while now, so I jumped on the chance (and while at it also got StarCraft Remastered)....

I’m slowly but surely fixing all the issues I had after switching back to Linux as my main OS, so here’s another TIL 😉 My secondary monitor is a 24" DELL with a resolution of 1920x1200, so 16:10, instead of the more common 1080p and 16:9. In order to be able to connect all my three monitors to my laptop, I make use of both the laptop’s HDMI port as well as a USB-C dock that has 2 HDMI ports....

A few weeks ago I switched back to Linux as my primary OS, on a newly acquired refurbished Framework Laptop 11, and one thing that’s since been bothering me on my chosen desktop environment Gnome1 has been the HUGE titlebars: So I finally dug into solving this quickly, and came across this post on Reddit with a quite nice solution. I modified ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css and added the following contents: window.ssd headerbar.titlebar { padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; min-height: 0; } window....

OpenSSH’s ssh command supports a bunch of escape sequences while a session is running, by default triggered by the ~ character. According to man ssh a list of available commands can be requested with ~?. And indeed, hitting ~? within an open SSH session prints some helpful information: $ ~? Supported escape sequences: ~. - terminate connection (and any multiplexed sessions) ~B - send a BREAK to the remote system ~C - open a command line ~R - request rekey ~V/v - decrease/increase verbosity (LogLevel) ~^Z - suspend ssh ~# - list forwarded connections ~& - background ssh (when waiting for connections to terminate) ~?...

After recently switching to work under Linux, I needed a way to replicate my existing solution for delaying audio under Windows under Linux/Pulseaudio. To once again explain my situation, I use OBS also for video conferencing, through the virtual camera1. OBS does not offer a built-in way to provide a virtual microphone with all the filters and such applied as well (in my case noise reduction and a limiter), so I need to solve this in a separate way....