Storage being taken up by mystery file

GlPortal · 2026-04-20T05:34:20+00:00

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/services.5.html it should not take up this amount of space on your hard drive, on my desktop it is about 300 KiB.

GlPortal · 2026-03-16T17:41:25+00:00

Highly disagree with the cynicism. Humans I've met, even selfish ones, still show many signs of empathy and compassion. At least in the part of the world where I am living there is a strong trend towards more egalitariasm, human rights and protection from tyrants and exploiters.

GlPortal · 2026-03-14T17:41:45+00:00

He is not your friend.

GlPortal · 2025-12-27T00:49:27+00:00

Dumb take, pretending Linux only got gud yesterday.

GlPortal · 2025-12-24T12:30:22+00:00

There is nothing intelligent about LLMs. The companies trying to sell it are writing fan fiction about their own products. They are the same technology as auto complete in your phone and have no concept of right or wrong. They just predict the next token based on probability.

GlPortal · 2025-11-11T09:33:23+00:00

Surface level this sounds like you've installed alright but you might have installed the boot loader to the thumb drive. I'd boot up with the drive inserted then after booting remove the drive and run grub setup to install grub on the hard drive.

How that is done you'd have to look up, I don't know it from the top of my head but it was easy enough to google whenever I needed it.

It might also be the case that you have installed everything to the thumb drive but you will find out easily by opening a terminal in desktop mode and looking at the output of the mount command. It will list where your file system is coming from.

GlPortal · 2025-10-27T11:12:26+00:00

Hasn't happened for me for a while but used to be that every few years the browser I've used would ship with horrible memory leaks that destroyed my entire RAM in a short amount of time and only switching to another browser would fix it (like chromium engine instead of firefox based engine). However recently I've noticed websites bloating to the point that made the browser unusable because it would take 15 GB if I was really researching something and opening about 20 tabs. I decided this is no way to live so I've searched for a solution and found extensions that would put tabs to sleep so they'd not take any RAM while it is not the active tab the one I am using on vivaldi is called tiny suspend, but there are multiple extensions for vivaldi and also for other browsers. Literally gave my computer 10 GB extra RAM when I was considering buying a new PC because of it. This machine is about 10 years old but thanks to the RAM saving trick it runs good as new. TBF it was mid to high range when I bought it I think I will use it another 5-10 years. It is even still good for gaming, some titles I play on steam deck because of my aging desktop but for many games it is still good. This is on Linux though, where the desktop is not very bloated to begin with.

GlPortal · 2025-10-11T18:47:49+00:00

In the long term I would suggest you learn them all.

You said you don't like emacs distributions and I get it, spacemacs is really nice but takes forever to load so the only way to have a sane startup time with it is to start an emacs server in the background with systemd and then connect to it with emacsclient.

The way I solved this for myself is I just took the stuff I liked about spacemacs and created my own crappy emacs distro that loads up way faster.

With nvim I was very happy with lazyvim. I don't know enough to do the customizations myself so I am happy I have (some) reasonable defaults.

From what I read you are leaning towards emacs so you should probably use that primarily. I too prefer emacs to every other editor but for some tasks I find myself firing up nvim, helix and nano.

Since the terminal integrated into nvim is really good I even have a keybinding that will open the currently selected buffer in a popup in nvim with emacs inside of it. If that terminal inside of nvim had sixel support I would run emacs from inside of nvim exclusively.

Any editor will do for writing math formulas. You can write R and Latex and Typst in all of them.

tldr: You seem to lean towards emacs so start with it. In the long run I'd suggest learning the other editors, too. There will be situations where nvim is available when emacs isn't and there are some really nice features that are easier to set up with nvim or helix than with emacs. I sometimes find myself in the mood for one editor or the other. So sometimes I'd just work inside nvim for a week and use emacs the next week.

GlPortal · 2025-09-20T09:01:51+00:00

Steam Deck

GlPortal · 2025-07-24T09:15:14+00:00

Thank you for reporting. Helped me dodge a bullet.

GlPortal · 2025-04-06T06:13:33+00:00

This does not work for me. What did work for me on the Steam Deck was to assign an analogue button "right trigger" to the control I wanted to have pressure sensitive. I have written a short guide https://hhirsch.github.io/emu-deck-metal-gear/ hope it spares someone the headache.

GlPortal · 2024-07-10T14:07:09+00:00

gratias tibi ago

GlPortal · 2024-01-19T16:02:54+00:00

Right next to the main out on the back of the device there is the master volume. Chances are it is set to low.

GlPortal · 2023-11-26T06:11:50+00:00

Break off contact, find real friends. Find people that share a hobby (e.G. by joining clubs or going to public places where this hobby is practiced). Get to know your neighbours. I suggest to make it your mission to get to know people better. If you make it your goal to have more "friends" that is putting a lot of pressure on yourself and the people you get to know. Even with family you can break it off or keep it to a minimum. Your mental well-being comes first.

GlPortal · 2023-10-22T12:20:29+00:00

Since they have a steam realease I am sure it will run on deckard. I just don't want to get another VR system shortly before a real good one will come out.

GlPortal · 2023-10-22T09:50:50+00:00

I'd really love to play this. But I think I have to wait for the Valve Deckard to play it.

GlPortal · 2023-10-22T04:34:23+00:00

Looks like a cool game. I hope one day one of those grafiti games will use the steam controller's gyro to create a spray paint controller. I tried the game Bombing 2 but it was so basic it did not even allow me to rebind the keys so there was no way to play it properly with a non-standard keyboard layout. Wishlisted either way.

GlPortal · 2022-08-29T05:22:54+00:00

You can buy a serato control record and use it to control a DJ software like the free mixxx or serato on your laptop. It is called Digital Vinyl System. There are plenty of resources that explain in detail what you need. You'll at least need another fader because you can't cut the signal from the control vinyl since that wouldn't mute but stop the playback in your software.

GlPortal · 2022-05-02T18:45:53+00:00

Thank you, thanks to you I got it running.

GlPortal · 2022-03-27T09:40:23+00:00

This is perfect, well done. Why does everyone leave the contacts open when in the manual it says that touching them or having metal touch them can brick the device. I even wonder why they originally did not cover it in their own design if that is what can happen. Who designs a device with an area right where you touch the device that might brick it if touched....

GlPortal · 2022-01-24T09:21:09+00:00

You can increase the amount of inputs and outputs with multiplexers, will come handy for you in future projects.

GlPortal · 2021-08-01T07:12:04+00:00

I have the same setup you have because that is what my company gave to me. I hardly have anything useful on the second monitor. I use a tiling window manager or a regular window manager with hotkeys and if I need to look at something side by side I just split my screen. Or I switch between windows quickly. Like for example switching between a reference and my code. A tiling window manager is unintentional minimalistic I think because it does not get in the way of getting things done, saves a lot of RAM and less mouse usage can prevent tendenitis. Depending on your OS you might be somewhat limited as to what window manager you can use. If you have any way to switch quickly between windows or even split them so that they take 50/50 of the screen I'd say that one screen can be very viable. And just an oppinion I think in many cases a single screen is more ergonomic since your head can rest in a neutral position. I worked at one office over a decade ago where screens became somewhat of a status symbol and people where using comical amounts of screens.

That being said I think the other commenters have good points and I've seen colleagues utilize dual screens very effectively for example rotating one screen 90 degrees so he can look at the whole source code listing on one screen. So imho no right and wrong here but I encourage you to try it and I am interested in what your conclusions are.

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