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Writing code with a Copilot by your side can make tedious and mundane tasks, such as writing yet another API client, fun. Some notes on my experience updating an old node module I wrote years ago. Language MattersI have Github Copilot set up in

If you're developing Android apps using Android Studio, it's not uncommon for you to experience a sluggish overall system performance when Android Studio is doing its thing. More specifically in my case, on my laptop with 24GB RAM, running a web browser along with

I'm instantly skeptical of people who acclaim products and services over concepts or market-problems they solve. When I hear someone spend several minutes lavishing praise over a brand or product before eventually coming to describe what it does or the problem it solves, I

Keycloak server v20.0.1 returns a not-before-policy flag with value 0 in the OAuth2 callback after successful sign in. This flag is supposed to be persisted in the Account table managed by Prisma, but since the Prisma schema won't correctly map the not-before-policy

This is an update to an earlier post I made. This post uses a systemd user service instead of a global systemd service (that lives in /usr/lib/systemd/system and runs as root or some other user explicitly configured). PrerequisitesSSHFS (sudo apt install

Make a note of the device name allotted for your hard disk/SSD, i.e. /dev/sda or /dev/sdb. Lets assume its /dev/sda for the rest of the post. Run lsblk -f and ensure that no partitions of this device /dev/sda

These are just notes for me to revisit if I have battery issues in the future. Got my ThinkPad battery replaced today after ~4 years of great service. https://linrunner.de/tlp/ tlp recalibrate Currently discharging battery BAT0: voltage = 9915 [mV] remaining capacity = 3080

Most people can connect their Chromecast to their hotel TV and use their phone to have it use the hotel wifi. This runs into the following hurdles: Some hotels apply limits on no. of MAC addresses that can connect per roomYour Chromecast becomes visible

WARNING: ONLY DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK Steps for Linux-based distros: Close Android Studio. Ensure that no Gradle daemon instance is runningDetermine the location of your Gradle home directory. On Linux, this is typically $HOME/.gradleTemporarily move your transforms directories to a backup

If you're using the Jetpack Compose Navigation component with routes set up with arguments, you may be looking to use data passed in Compose route arguments in your MavericksState. Note that if you're looking to consume Fragment arguments, then you should be looking at

Some micro SD cards fail to list their partitions and filesystems on Thinkpads with the O2 Micro SD card reader. This is apparently due to a bug/quirk in the Linux Kernel 4.4+. See here. Verify that you have an O2 Micro, Inc.

If the script: - command: "whoami" become: true become_user: "{{ deploy_user }}" register: u tags: - f - debug: msg="{{ u.stdout }}" tags: - fProduces the error: Failed to set permissions on the temporary files Ansible needs to create when becoming an unprivileged userInstall

PrerequisitesA system on the network with sufficient free storageopenssh-server and rsync installed on the remote systemA user on the remote system, say remoteuser, that can do key-based passwordless login via SSH and has sudo accessremoteuser configured in /etc/sudoers for passwordless sudo access for

These UFW Block messages on my local network devices were driving me nuts. I have fairly restrictive UFW firewall rules on all network devices running Linux, but after the initial set up, logs have been clean...until recently. Feb 27 17:56:43 kestrel

So you're looking for a way to print a document but you just realized you're out of black ink? Printing in another colour would work for you? Nifty lil' GIMP (above). Photoshop and some online image editors may have a similar "Color Exchange" optionOpen

I've been a long time Jellyfin user since the Emby days. The server as well as clients are well-designed and do the job most of the time. The latest version irons out quite a few long-standing issues. So, out of no real necessity, I

Use screen to run long-running commands, such as port-forwarding ssh sessions, on your local or remote machines. As opposed to nohup shenanigans, the advantage here is that this is just like a terminal session, but out of sight. The session is addressable, recallable by

This isn't a code copy/pasta post.The ExoPlayer library is a great place to start building your own video player. It's extensible in the right places and gives you great customization options, while giving you a bucket-load of features out-of-the-box. However, one tiny

Prerequisites:Laptop/PC with a Linux distribution OS w/ PulseAudio and Bluetoothadb: Android Device Bridge (more info)scrcpy: apt install scrcpy (more info)USB Debugging enabled on your device Steps:Connect your Android device with USB Debugging enabled under Developer Options (more info)To

I've been trying to workout a convenient way to consume audiobooks. Far too many times now, I've started an audiobook and lost interest after failing to recollect characters and plots. Age! Perhaps I take parsing stories too seriously; am a bit OCD about letting

A few days ago, I lost access to all my saved passwords in Vivaldi. I was looking to securely store database passwords on my system using the "Password and Keys" app (GnuPG/seahorse) in Linux Mint and inadvertently regenerated the default "Login" keyring where

Ctrl+R in the VS Code Terminal doesn't trigger the reverse-i-search function the way its supposed to in a normal terminal session. To enable it, follow the steps below: Open VS CodeOpen the Command Palette using Ctrl + Shift + P, select Preferences: Open Keyboard Shortcuts

...so that you don't impulse buy/sell portfolio stocks that you're sure you wish to hold long term. You're going to use Console for any serious portfolio evaluation, annual tax P&L calculation anyway, so hiding stocks in Holdings is a decent measure.

For some baffling reason, Swiggy doesn't clearly display the exact location of restaurants. Not sure if this is the restaurant hasn't listed its address properly or Swiggy decides to hide this info away from its customers. You could say Swiggy only wants it's customers

Chronograf dashboards display data adjusted to your local timezone. This can be annoying if you're trying to correlate timeseries data stored in UTC in InfluxDB with other databases. Unlike Grafana which provides an option to view in UTC, Chronograf doesn't have this option so