Upgrading Simple Machines Forum (SMF) to Mint 21 and MariaDB 10.6.23
There are versious things to consider, here. A few are: I did this in a virtual machine Creating databases and users requires a different syntax than older versions of MariaDB…
Sources.list files for old debian releases
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security main restricted universe multiverse # Linux…
Get Filesystem Install Date
tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 | grep 'Filesystem created' This will output something like: Filesystem created: Mon Aug 27 14:32:01 2018
PopOS/Impish sources.list
## See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs # CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool. # deb cdrom:/…
These .deb files work on Mint 20, 21, and 22
Super Simple GUI Download Simple GIU for yt-dlp .deb file Demo Video Works with mint 20, 21, & 22. Simple Light & Dark Theme Download GIU – Dark & K…
Some build notes from ChatGPT – August 28th (Charlie’s Birthday!)
📦 Build Recipe: YouTube Downloader Standalone on Linux Mint Install prerequisites (system-wide, once only) sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y python3-venv python3-pip Set up a clean build environment python3…
Python – wildly random notes
get release info: lsb_release -a Note: The tips below (the tips for Mint 20) helped me rebuild a new binary when I had installed some conflicting python packages on my…
Kdenlive – Speed Up Rendering
This is weird: Using the same operating system (Mint 20, lately – even though it’s out of date) my rendering times for the same sized files will vary wildly from…
Built a GUI for Yt-dlp!
This was a fun project I did with ChatGPT. I really didn’t know what ChatGPT could do, frankly, given that I had never messed with anything of that kind before…
Some random notes on Vmware
Sometimes when I use Vmware to install a Linux virtual machine there is no 1920×1080 option for screen resolution. Simple copy the below lines and save the file as setscreen.sh…