today's howtos

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 29, 2022

• Day 25: scrollbar gutters in body and html

  When I wrote about the scrollbar-gutter property, my first thought was “omg! I'll put this in my reset stylesheet and use it on the

  by default”. I wanted to do that in order to prevent the page from “jumping” when switching from a long to a short page, a page with overflow to one without.

• Untappd data with jq - my top brewery countries

  I'm an Untappd supporter and an early adopter, joining in early November 12 years ago in 2010. Recently Untappd celebrated 12 years of operation and 10 million users. It got me thinking back to my very first checkin (it was a Leffe Brune, in case you're wondering) and then I remembered that as an Untappd supporter I could get access to my entire checkin history, in JSON.

• How To Install FileRun on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - idroot

  In this tutorial, we will show you how to install FileRun on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, FileRun is an open-source and web-based file-sharing application for Linux based operating system. It alternative to Google Drive and NextCloud and offers many features like virtual drive support, native mobile apps, metadata support, etc. FileRun allows you to host your own file sharing solution on the cloud and access all your files anywhere via secure cloud storage.

  This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the FileRun on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pop!_OS, and more as well.

• Install Arch Linux on ChromeOS

  Hello there.

  I have not written a new article for quite a time now, but the waiting is finally over. Here comes the article everyone of you ever waited for.

  Let us install Arch Linux on ChromeOS together. Yihaaaa…

• Set up a Matrix to Discord bot

  Matrix is a popular open source chat application that makes it easy to chat securely with people all over the world. Similarly, Discord is a non-open source chat application that's also popular with many online communities. Discord, like Matrix, provides a chat client for all major platforms both mobile and desktop, so it's perfectly usable on Linux. However, it's not open source and so, given the choice, you might prefer to use Matrix. The good news is that when not given a choice for any reason, you can also use Matrix to interface with Discord by running a Matrix-to-Discord bridge. This article shows you how to set up and run a Python Matrix bot to bridge chat between a Matrix room and a Discord channel.

• How to change themes on Tmux | FOSS Linux

  The ability to customize Tmux is one of its most notable features. You may modify the themes in Tmux to ensure that you work in an environment that suits you. This article guide will show you how to change your theme in Tmux. Let us go over the steps.

• Install FFmpeg On Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | Itsubuntu.com

  FFmpeg is a cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It is an open-source tool that is used to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter, and play multimedia files.

  In this tutorial, we will show you the easy way to install FFmpeg on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

• How to Install Ubuntu in VirtualBox [Tutorial]

  A simple beginner’s tutorial on how to install Ubuntu in Oracle VirtualBox.

  VirtualBox is software which allows you to try out several operating systems (Linux, Windows, BSD and so on) in your current Laptop/Desktop without actually installing them in hardware.

  There are many software available such as virt-manager or GNOME Boxes. And VirtualBox is among them, which brings additional features.

  This guide will teach you how to install Ubuntu in the latest VirtualBox.

• How to Use Snap Package Manager on Linux - Linux Nightly

  This tutorial shows how to install Snap package manager on all Linux distros, and use it to install, remove, and update software packages.

• How to install MariaDB on Fedora 36

  Fedora 36 is home to many novices and not so many developers who see it as the ideal system to do their jobs. Today, in this post for newbies, you’ll learn how to install MariaDB on Fedora 36.

• How to install FL Studio 20 on a Chromebook

  Today we are looking at how to install FL Studio 20 on a Chromebook.

• Making the mounting of an encrypted /home optional on a home server

  I have a computer that serves as a home server as well as a desktop machine. It has an encrypted home directory to protect user files and, in the default configuration, that unfortunately interferes with unattended reboots since someone needs to be present to enter the encryption password.

  Here's how I added a timeout and made /home optional on that machine.