A routine update day on my Omarchy/Debian dual-boot travel laptop turned into a lesson in boot internals. I installed Zoom from the AUR after auditing its PKGBUILD, then caught a Debian update quietly shrinking my boot file to a quarter of its size. The cause was a helper script tripping over its own files. Here’s how I diagnosed it, repaired it, and made sure it can’t happen again.
A complete reference inventory of my Rust development environment on Debian 13, including Rustup toolchains, targets, components, Cargo-installed tools, compiler and linker ecosystem, project inventory, Rust AI/web/GUI experiments, Cargo configuration, and disk usage.
After years on Debian, I tried openSUSE Tumbleweed in a VM — and ended up preferring it. But migrating my host before a trip to Spain and France? No way. Here's why running Tumbleweed as a VM on a stable Debian host is the setup I actually recommend, and how I'm carrying the whole thing to Europe on a USB drive.
From a fresh Leptos project to a working reactive web application running locally on Debian. Goal acheived Today I started working with Leptos, a Rust framework for building reactive web applications. The project is located at: I used two terminals:…
I recently set up the Cursor + Linear integration for my development workflow, and it’s already saving me hours. Here’s exactly how I did it step-by-step so you can do the same. What This Integration Does for Me Tools I…
Today I decided to do something a bit crazy: I installed MINIX 3.3.0, a Unix-like operating system from 2014, in VMware on my Debian machine. I had just started reading The C Programming Language (K&R) and wanted to get into…
Let me start by saying this: installing a printer on Linux shouldn’t be this hard. But here we are, in 2026, and I just spent a solid chunk of my day wrestling with a brand new HP LaserJet MFP M140w…
📌 Overview This guide covers setting up a complete AI/ML development environment on Debian Trixie with NVIDIA GPU acceleration, using Miniforge for Python environment management. 🧹 System Cleanup 🎮 NVIDIA GPU Setup Commands: bash sudo apt install nvidia-driver nvidia-smi nvidia-smi # Verify GPU detection 🐍…
After several evenings of troubleshooting and setup, both my HP Laptop and Asus Desktop (running Debian Linux) are now fully configured and perfectly synced for Paul Deitel’s Python Fundamentals with GenAI, 2nd Edition on O’Reilly. Key Achievements: Lessons Learned: Linux…
After dealing with many frustrating errors — Anaconda package conflicts, slow NVIDIA endpoints, and VS Code configuration issues — I finally got Kimi K2.7 Code working smoothly. I created a simple chat script, saved my API key permanently, and set…