Lenovo Y510p has been out for more than 7 years, to this date I am still using it as my go-to workstation. The specification is quite old and I have upgraded and replaced everything that I could, except the wireless card, due to the infamous BIOS whitelisting.
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Lenovo Legion 5 Gen 6 AMD with nvidia backlight issue under Manjaro
The Legion 5 Gen 6 AMD Ryzen with NVIDIA graphics (15ACH6H, model 82JU00APUS) is what I have on my hand. The Linux system I use is Manjaro due to its simplicity. I’ve experienced a very common backlight issue, Fn key won’t adjust the backlight at all, it’s always on 100% brightness. I use discrete / …
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Purchased a Minisforum X35G
Just when I was thinking of what gift to buy for myself for the Christmas holiday, I came to an Indiegogo crowd funding project: Minisforum X35G.
Resolve virsh start a domain (VM) failed problem
After CVE-2019-11477 and a few other CVEs broke out, Linux kernel released 5.1.11 to address the vulnerabilities. My VM host machine is constantly running on the latest kernel (provided by ELRepo). When I reboot into the new kernel and want to start one of my KVM boxes, this error appears: Host CPU does not provide …
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tmux select then copy to clipboard
Using mouse to select text with tmux sometimes is inefficient. For my setup, I’ll have to press shift key during text selection and keyboard copy will convert empty line as spaces. The following 2 lines in the configuration file works with version 2.8 (latest at the time of writing).
Currency Conversion on Bash
Currency.sh
WPS library fix for Linux for WPP
WPS for Linux is a great software for processing Microsoft Office files, however after installing the latest RPM on Fedora 27 I failed to start WPP (presentation).
Weechat – FiSH key exceed 56 bytes (448 bits)
Recently I came across a problem. My friend could not decrypt the channel message in IRC as the channel has a blowfish key exceeds 56 bytes of size. I don’t know about the mIRC implementation (fish10) but in weechat under Linux, I found a solution.
Operate Django from directly executing python file over command line
Recently I came across a problem which took me some time to find out. I want to write a script that can take arguments to add user to my Django app. This problem was encountered:
Fix Mutt auto complete problem
I was using 1.5.x version of Mutt and recently upgraded to 1.6.x. When I tried to use tab key to select from my aliases, it wouldn’t work and will show Query command not defined error.