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Using Visual Studio Code Flatpak with 1Password for SSH and Git signing

https://davejansen.com/using-vscode-flatpak-with-1password-ssh-git-signing/

Published: April 1, 2024 05:50

Configure your Flatpak-installed Visual Studio Code to use your system-installed 1Password for SSH keys and Git signing.

Publish to Netlify using Gitea or Forgejo Actions

https://davejansen.com/publish-to-netlify-using-gitea-actions/

Published: December 9, 2023 04:02

Netlify's built-in auto-deploy support is quite nice, but is sadly limited only to hosted versions of GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps. Self-hosted support of some of these is further limited to their Enterprise plan only.Fortunately with Gitea…

Chuwi MiniBook X and Linux

https://davejansen.com/chuwi-minibook-x/

Published: August 19, 2023 07:54

Never did I feel this reluctant to write up my impressions of a device.Chuwi is a China-based manufacturer of computers, primarily focused on smaller desktops (ie. the "NUC-like" category), along with laptops and tablets. Generally speaking they tend to…

Synology DS920+ Final Impressions

https://davejansen.com/synology-ds920-final-impressions/

Published: August 19, 2023 05:18

After almost two years of having used a Synology DS920+ as my NAS and light home server for a few services, I thought it would be good to take a look back at how it had treated me these past two years.Those who may have read my first impressions

Install RPM Fusion that automatically stays up-to-date alongside future Fedora Silverblue releases

https://davejansen.com/install-rpmfusion-automatic-updated-fedora-silverblue/

Published: June 1, 2023 03:40

I'd like to show a slightly Inception looking way you can install RPM Fusion in a way that you don't have to worry about needing to remove-and-reinstall it with every Fedora update. The issue lies with the "normal" method of installing RPM Fusion being

Hardware-accelerated video playback in Fedora Silverblue

https://davejansen.com/fedora-silverblue-hardware-accelerated-h264-video-playback/

Published: May 29, 2023 11:36

More recently, Fedora removed support for hardware-accelerated playback of H.264 and H.265 content. This was done due to the need to avoid licensing complications (and costs) that surround these codecs. While understandable, this is less desirable to those…

Delayed starting of Docker service until expected mounts are available

https://davejansen.com/systemctl-delay-start-docker-service-until-mounts-available/

Published: May 29, 2023 11:09

(Or for any other systemctl controlled service, for that matter)If you've ever run into the situation where you reboot your computer (or virtual machine) and the Docker service kicked in a bit too fast, even before some of your fstab defined mounts are…

TrueNAS Fix: Cannot mount 'directory': failed to create mountpoint

https://davejansen.com/truenas-fix-cannot-mount-directory-failed-to-create-mountpoint/

Published: May 15, 2023 02:17

I've you've at any point used TrueNAS' replication functionality to move or copy data from one dataset to another, you may have run into an issue later on where you're suddenly no longer able to create additional datasets in the root of the

Using 1Password with Visual Studio Code Remote SSH and Dev Containers on Linux

https://davejansen.com/linux-1password-ssh-git-signing-vscode-dev-containers/

Published: December 8, 2022 05:19

1Password is a great and powerful tool that helps you use better, more secure passwords for all the accounts, services, and tools you may use. In October 2020, a beta version of 1Password for Linux was announced, which I was very excited about. 1Password…

Correctly set resolution, scale, orientation, and display placement at login with GNOME

https://davejansen.com/correct-resolution-scale-orientation-placement-at-login-with-gnome/

Published: November 30, 2022 06:04

If you have a multi display setup, make use of scaling, or have a display that defaults to its non-native resolution, you might have run into the situation where your GNOME login screen is not showing up the way you want it to. While there is no built-in…

Enable webp image support on Fedora

https://davejansen.com/enable-webp-support-fedora-nautilus-preview/

Published: June 29, 2022 03:34

I was surprised to find out just last week that webp images are basically universally supported by web browsers these days, which is something I somehow completely missed up until now. And so last week I went through my entire blog post history and…

Disable Pipewire Suspend on Idle to avoid audio pops, delays, and white noise

https://davejansen.com/disable-wireplumber-pipewire-suspend-on-idle-pops-delays-noise/

Published: June 22, 2022 06:07

In case you're experiencing a sound pop whenever sound is played after a a certain amount of time – or a little while after sound has played. Or perhaps you have more sensitive hearing or headphones/speakers and can notice white noise coming from your…

Synology Surveillance Station Client on Linux

https://davejansen.com/synology-surveillance-station-on-linux/

Published: May 27, 2022 09:59

If you're using Synology Surveillance Station with security cameras that use H.265 and/or AAC encoding and are running Linux, you might have run into the issue of not being able to actually view your camera feeds in the Surveillance Station web view. Even…

Use git patch to update a deployed project or website

https://davejansen.com/use-git-patch-to-update-deployed-project/

Published: April 27, 2022 03:31

Whether you're maintaining an older client website or you have a side project that you just can't afford to buy fancier services for, there will be times where you have to manually deploy an update. For those cases, git's built-in patch functionality might…

Configure Fedora with full root level snapshot support

https://davejansen.com/fedora-root-snapshot-support/

Published: April 18, 2022 05:28

A guide walking you through how to configure your Fedora installation to get full root snapshot and rollback support.