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Friday, August 28, 2026

pi-intercom over SSH: the 30-second guide

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pi-intercom is same-machine only — it talks via a Unix socket at ~/.pi/agent/intercom/broker.sock. sshfs won't forward it (sockets ar...

gentoo: Fixing Flameshot's Wrong-Monitor Bug on XFCE

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If Flameshot's screenshot selector on Linux keeps popping up on the wrong monitor — even one that's turned off — check your primary ...
Wednesday, August 12, 2026

xpra: insufficient permissions to use socket path '/var/run/xpra/tux-5'

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On the remote host, you have to be added to xpra group, e.g: sudo gpasswd -a user_name xpra
Tuesday, August 04, 2026

Reasonix: use openrouter as provider for DeepSeek

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In ~/.reasonix/config.toml: [[providers]] name = "deepseek-flash" kind = "openai" base_url = ...

xpra: USE flags to install on gentoo without using nvidia

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/etc/portage/package.use/xpra should be: x11-wm/xpra -video_cards_nvidia x11-base/xorg-server xvfb
Thursday, July 30, 2026

open terminal in docker

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docker run --rm --network=host -v open-terminal:/home/user -e OPEN_TERMINAL_API_KEY=your-secret-key --name open-terminal ghcr.io/open-web...

open-webui: Account Activation Pending

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If you get the following error: Account Activation Pending Contact Admin for WebUI Access Your account status is currently pending ac...
Thursday, July 16, 2026

horizon-client: invalid locale and no font don't work well with xfce4 black theme

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env GTK_THEME=Adwaita LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 horizon-client
Monday, July 13, 2026

flameshot error: Screenshot portal timed out after 30 seconds

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On a linux (arch or gentoo) with xfce4 and X server, flameshot does not run and gives an error: flameshot: error: Screenshot portal timed ...
Friday, June 12, 2026

Gentoo and nvidia: open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory

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Gentoo upgrade broke Xorg? It's probably your NVIDIA module. After a Gentoo system upgrade that includes a new kernel, Xorg can fail to...
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