Over the course of many years, I have developed a deep familiarity with Ubuntu, the operating system that I use daily. My relationship with Ubuntu is complex, it’s a mix of love, hate and frustration. I’m so used to working on it, but sometimes find myself struggling with certain quirks and limitations, and updates can be a source of both excitement and anxiety. On one hand updates bring enhanced functionality and features, and on the other hand something stops working. How exciting!
That’s right. I did this and forgot about it, and was wondering why my laptop freezes after running a single IntelliJ, Chrome with 20 open tabs, docker desktop with 4 running containers and maybe a single nodejs process. I thought it would be a good idea to minimize swap space Read more…
I’m a long time user of Ubuntu, and still can’t remember some simple tasks…like how to create a launcher icon on Ubuntu. Keeping a cheat sheet here, so I won’t forget next time Jetbrains pushes an update. Btw this works for any kind of launcher, not just IntelliJ… Step 1: Read more…
Earlier today I got a cold sweat moment after I accidentally ran a sudo rm /etc/group. I just wanted to edit a line, not to delete an entire file! Good thing is that system occasionally backs up files in /etc folder. If there’s group there’s also an older group- file. Read more…
It wasn’t an easy task for me, so posting a solution here: The Easy Part Install latest network-manager l2tp package: At the time of writing it was 1.20.4, useful resource is github repo – https://github.com/nm-l2tp/NetworkManager-l2tp. I suggest you go through reported issues and Wiki for Known Issues. Go to Settings Read more…
Mailgun is a free alternative for receiving and sending email using a custom domain. Why not just use gmail? Because this setup is free, just a little more work. Mailgun will act as an email service, and Gmail as email hosting. Visually it would work like this: Prerequisites you have Read more…
Recommended installs sudo apt update -yq && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt install nginx fail2ban htop supervisor screen iptables-persistent mc -y nginx – reverse proxy fail2ban – scans logs, bans failed password attempts htop – pretty process viewer supervisor– monitors and controls applications screen – manage persistent virtual Read more…