today's howtos
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How to Cast Your Android Screen onto Your Linux Desktop
It may not be every day, but there will be times when you need to mirror your Android screen to your Linux desktop. You might want to give a presentation from your phone, check the app you are developing without touching your Android device, view photos and other media on a bigger screen, etc. No matter what the reason is, it is actually really easy to cast your Android screen to Linux.
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How To Install WineHQ on Linux Mint 21 - idroot
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install WineHQ on Linux Mint 21. For those of you who didn’t know, WineHQ can be used to run Windows software and games on Linux natively without dual booting windows with Linux or without using an emulator. Wine is not only supported on Linux but also on BSD, Solaris, and macOS.
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 WineHQ on Linux Mint 21 (Vanessa).
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Static network config with Debian Cloud images – Simon Josefsson's blog
I self-host some services on virtual machines (VMs), and I’m currently using Debian 11.x as the host machine relying on the libvirt infrastructure to manage QEMU/KVM machines. While everything has worked fine for years (including on Debian 10.x), there has always been one issue causing a one-minute delay every time I install a new VM: the default images run a DHCP client that never succeeds in my environment. I never found out a way to disable DHCP in the image, and none of the documented ways through cloud-init that I have tried worked. A couple of days ago, after reading the AlmaLinux wiki I found a solution that works with Debian.
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How to Install the build-essential Package on Ubuntu
Every OS has in-built dependencies to function smoothly. In short, these supporting programs are often required to compile software and ensure all dependent software is available when needed.
Ubuntu’s build-essential meta-package includes several such packages, which ensure your Linux experience is as seamless as you would like it to be. These packages are a part of Debian and contain all the components you need to create a Debian package.
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4 Ways to Install Microsoft Teams on Linux Mint 21 LTS Vanessa [Ed: Microsoft malware... better not]