Courage to be disliked is a book that explains Adlerian psychology. It does so in the form of a dialog, between a student and a master. Here are the various ideas I got from reading the book:
Etiology is when someone focuses on the past, and uses …
Wayland is a display server that should work as a replacement for X. I've been thinking of trying it out for some time now. Detailed information about wayland and its history can be found in this article. The differences between xorg and wayland can be found here or in this …
This year has been meh for me ;( The highlights for the year include:
I have been having this problem with my laptop where the fonts seem too small. To fix this, I first had to check out my laptop's screen configurations:
xrandr
Part of the output of this command is shown below. As can be seen it shows that my laptop screen is …
To connect to the bluetooth speakers, I use the bluetoothctl commandline options. The following are commands I run for this to work:
sudo systemctl start bluetooth.service
bluetoothctl
# Within the bluetoothctl environment
power on
agent on
default-agent
scan on
pair A4:A7:B5:22:E6:F5
connect …I have a 256GB SSD on my laptop. This is rather constrained and I occasionally end up with less than 10GB drive space. When this happens, I have to figure out what is taking up all my space and fix this. This prompts some form of search and cleaning up …
This year so far has been tough.
I thought I would have read around 10 books by now but I'm barely half that mark. Most of the books are mostly fiction, but at least I've got some variety this time. The books I've completed so far are:
Using a scanner in arch is pretty perplexing at first, especially if you want to try it from the command line. Here are my steps to end up with something that works.
First install the sane package. Sane provides a command line tool for using scanners.
sudo pacman -S sane …A computer or server suddenly freezes or crashes. You don't know what the problem is and you really need to complete this task. One of the options is to consider memory. You might have just run out. To confirm this, you can monitor memory usage using the htop command while …
I jog frequently. I needed to track the various times I spend jogging my various routes. There are pretty awesome android apps for this but carrying a phone with me while jogging did not work. I was ok with a wrist watch though. So I jog and afterwards store the …