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Want to quickly copy file contents to your system clipboard from the command line? xclip is the tool for you.

I live on a property that has zero cellular service. This forces me to rely on Wifi for calling, and texting. Only loosely related, but that means when I lose power, I cannot make calls, texts, or use the internet. For that reason, I wrote a separate blog post how I work around this, and still leverage the internet during power outages. I’ve always founds Wifi calling/texting to not be as good as I had hoped....

When managing multiple servers, it’s important to have a reliable load balancer in place. In many cases, you may want to prioritize one server, using it as the primary, while having a backup server only take over when the primary is unavailable. This approach is called a “preference-based failover.” In this blog post, we’ll go through the steps to configure Caddy as a reverse proxy load balancer with a preference-based approach....

I’m a big fan of tiling window managers. Today I use i3, which I happen to have configured to use dmenu, which is an efficient tool for searching across all your applications. I often find myself wanting to add custom applications to dmenu, say a custom script I’ve written, and I’d like to capture how that’s done. Example Desktop File Let’s say you want to add Postman to your dmenu. You’ll need to create a desktop file for it....

How to run a Python script, but immediately drop into an interactive shell on exit

How I supercharged my Quest 2

Simple instructions for a dockerized Pavlov VR self hosted server

Simple approach to getting notified when a program finishes

How to add a custom application to the Pop OS Gnome Launcher so one can launch from the UI.

Simple approach to using Obsidian mobile, Git on Android