today's howtos

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 14, 2023

• Create Your Own Emacs Start Page - Invidious

  In the last few days, I have been playing around with creating my own "start page" for Doom Emacs. By default, Doom comes with its own "dashboard" program but I wanted to create my own, mainly for the experience, but also because I could create a start page that was tailored exactly to my needs..

• How to enable developer mode on Chrome OS Flex

  I have recently switched to Chrome OS Flex as main operating system. The experience so far is really great. It does everything what it should do. I can browse the internet with it, game with it (in the past Google Stadia, now Xbox Cloud), answer my mails and even work on Arch Linux. Even printing worked pretty much out of the box.

• [Fixed] VirtualBox Needs Microsoft Visual C++ 2019 Redistributable Package

  Here’s a quick guide to fix the error “VirtualBox Needs Microsoft Visual C++ 2019 Redistributable Package”.

  Oracle’s VirtualBox is a popular virtualization software that helps you create guest virtual machines for Linux distributions in any host system.

• Kubernetes App Deployment from the Command Line - The New Stack

  If you’ve been following my Kubernetes 101 series, you may have discovered that there are ways to make Kubernetes considerably easier. Thanks to MicroK8s and Portainer, the journey doesn’t have to be challenging all the time. But even though you can begin your dive into Kubernetes as a point-and-click affair with Portainer, at some point you might want to be able to work from the command line. That’s not a given but you never know if you’ll be thrown into a situation where you’re asked to deploy an app or service to a Kubernetes cluster and there is no Portainer GUI to be found.