As an IT professional I get really pissed off when it comes to North Korean knock-off quality products, and worse, North Korean knock-off quality customer service like MSI Graphics has. Long time ago Newegg or someplace had a sale and I picked up an MSI Ventus XS OCV3 Edition GeForce GTX 1650 for not a lot of money. Don’t remember how much, just remember I was going to install it in my HP Z820 but … Avoid MSI Graphics Like the PlagueRead more
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Updating CachyOS – and others
CachyOS uses pacman and paru under the hood so this will work for any linux distro using those. Too many Linux distros don’t include an obvious update method that updates both repo and “other” installed software in one shot. By default CachyOS does not install flatpak. They discourage it. (You really want to avoid any distro supporting snaps!) Yes, I’ve written about CachyOS before on this blog. Personally, I prefer flatpak over docker type containers … Updating CachyOS – and othersRead more
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Your Floppy, LS-120, or Other Legacy Media Won’t Work With New Motherboard
Despite what kids today and motherboard designers wish to believe, floppy disks and LS-120 drives are still in use. Many Cessna and other plane models have floppy drives built into them for log extracts and updates. Not just little planes either. You don’t replace a multi-million dollar jet or a $30+K test system just because someone thinks floppy disks are obsolete. In order for these things to load from a disk, you must first put … Your Floppy, LS-120, or Other Legacy Media Won’t Work With New MotherboardRead more
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Setting CachyOS Environment Variables
One of the massive problems with software development today, especially in the CachyOS and Linux world in general is that nobody does the documentation. Hack on the fly, make grand sweeping changes, and never update the doc! Fish Almost all of the documentation you find online for fish is wrong, at least when it comes to setting environment variables. Fish, not bash, is the shell CachyOS uses. All of those pages telling you to edit … Setting CachyOS Environment VariablesRead more
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Funny Numbers – WordPress Statistics
WordPress statistics is a murky, at best, topic. Most sites seem to choose the package that makes them seem more important then paste screen shots all over. The official WordPress statistics plugin makes your servers groan and has all kind of conflicts with other plugins. Same goes for their cache. I’ve had to uninstall both. Thankfully there is no end of substitutes. Koko Koko is a plugin I recently installed when my previous statistics package … Funny Numbers – WordPress StatisticsRead more