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Monday, January 26, 2026

kde plasma: set kde theme from a command line in a distrobox

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List current themes: lookandfeeltool -list can return org.kde.breeze.desktop org.kde.breezedark.desktop org.kde.breezetwilight.de...

Bazzite (Fedora atomic): install virtualbox from RPM fusion

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Bazzite has rpm fusion repositories added in /etc/yum.repos.d/ . However, even though they are enabled, by default you can't install any...

distrobox: Basic programs for archlinux in distrobox

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yay -S mc vim htop tmux fd zoxide fzf terminator freerdp rdekstopt bash-completion firefox firefox-developer-edition brave-bin vscodium-bin...
Saturday, January 24, 2026

Use GLM through OpenRouter in Claude Code

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ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN="your-openrouter-api-key" ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL="https://openrouter.ai/api" ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

arch: Uninstall nvidia-open drivers due to second monitor being not detected

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sudo pacman -Rd nvidia-open nvidia-utils
Monday, January 12, 2026

Systemd: autostart Ansys SAM

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sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/sam.service [Unit] Description=Ansys SAM Web Application Container Requires=docker.service After=docker...
Saturday, January 10, 2026

SSL certificate keystore for Ansys SAM tomcat server

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Getting SSL certificate for a domain using certbot (https://certbot.eff.org/) gives you four files: cert1.pem, chain1.pem, fullchain1.pem, ...
Friday, January 09, 2026

ssh: LocalForward in ssh config file

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Example to forward vnc 5901 port from server to client's 5903 port: Host myserver     HostName serverip     User ubuntu     Identit...

tigervnc: on ubuntu example settings

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/etc/tigervnc/vncserver-config-mandatory : $session = "startfluxbox"; $SecurityTypes = "none"; $geometry = "2...
Friday, December 26, 2025

Gentoo: Only dummy output in PipeWire shown in pavucontrol and no sound

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sudo emerge -av sys-firmware/sof-firmware https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2280101#p2280101
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