Running WebEx under Wayland
You need to set it's launch options to have the environment variables
GDK_BACKEND=x11 QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb
and launch command line options
-u WAYLAND_DISPLAY /opt/Webex/bin/CiscoCollabHost %U
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Linux
Connecting to very old SSH servers, like Buffalo HS-DHGL LiveStation's
At some point in the past, you've used a process like https://web.archive.org/web/20241230212150/https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/Informatique/ssh_access_to_a_buffalo_LS210_NAS.writeback/?lang=en along with https://buffalonas.miraheze.org/wiki/ACP_Commander (from https://github.com/1000001101000/acp-commander/tre
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Fix "The key(s) in the keyring ... are ignored as the file has an unsupported filetype"
cat /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/chanty.gpg | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/chanty.gpg
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Use P110 TP-Link smart switches with Home Assistant
TLDR: works fine.
https://python-kasa.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cli.html#kasa-help works to provision. No stupid app.
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Adding a USB device, like the Zigbee USB controller ZBT-1, to Home Assistant on a Pi
Got a https://thepihut.com/collections/latest-raspberry-pi-products/products/home-assistant-skyconnect and need to pass it through to your HA virtual machine ? The VM will be using lxc, because all the other ways are terrible.
- Read more about Adding a USB device, like the Zigbee USB controller ZBT-1, to Home Assistant on a Pi
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Actually install Home Assistant container image on Raspberry Pi 5
My understanding is you shouldn't use linuxserver's Home Assistant image as this is only "HA Core", so you can never use addons. Maybe you don't need them now, maybe you do, but locking yourself in seems poor.
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Newton on Windows on Linux
If you want to know the gory details, please read https://rachaelandtom.info/content/newton-linux
You will need
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The end of btrfs
Well that's the end of btrfs for me; barely a month in it's shat itself and taken my /home with it.
I've lived this long without metadata checksum and snapshot...
I was able to extract a list of trees, even though it wouldn't mount, even with the various recovery options, using
btrfs-find-root /dev/mapper/vgkubuntu-home
This will split out a bunch 'well' things. I got lucky and when I passed the number of one of those to
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Things to change on a default Linux install
O/S
/tmp as tmpfs - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/tmpfs
logs that don't go on forever - https://github.com/azlux/log2ram
systemd logs that don't go on forever /etc/systemd/journald.conf:
SystemMaxUse=50M
Faster, more responsive kernel (if stuck on an LTS for everything else) : https://liquorix.net/#install
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Monitoring Powerline speeds ( TP-Link TL-WPA8630P, TL-PA8033PKIT, AV1300)
Get or compile https://github.com/qca/open-plc-utils in particular `plcstat`
For some reason it only reports devices other than the one connected to, so you will need at least two machines to monitor the whole network, and it has to be run as root.
So I have two root crontab's that sync to the same place the results of `....plcstat -i wlan0 -t` which looks like
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