I recently wanted to install Steam on my Fedora Linux laptop. A quick search on the proper way to do so showed that it could be done via RPM Fusion. Instead of following the CLI steps, I decided to be lazy and just use Gnome Software to do it via…

This post is a bit of an oddity since I had originally written it when I (briefly) returned to Hugo for my personal blog. I have since decided that I didn’t blog frequently enough to feel like maintaining that, but I figure the content could still be useful regardless. By…

I had written a few months ago on Medium that I was trying to switch from using VS Code as my main editor to Vim. As I mentioned in that post, I’ve used Vim for years now, but never as my “main” editor for when I need to get serious…

As the title alludes to, this morning I tried updating my Pinebook Pro running Manjaro Linux through my normal method: sudo pacman -Syu Today, this resulted in an error message about the libibus package: warning: could not fully load metadata for package libibus-1.5.26–2 error: failed to prepare transaction (invalid or…

Just a few moments ago I needed to extract the audio component out of a video file into some type of standalone audio file, like .mp3. Since I've been working with Audacity to record audio, I figured maybe it had some capability for ripping it out of video. My initial…

I recently ran across an interesting error with my development Kubernetes cluster, and while I still have no idea what I may have done to cause it, I at least figured out how to rectify it. As is commonly the case, most of the things I end up deploying to…

Lately I’ve been working through getting WinRM connectivity working between a Linux container and a bunch of Windows servers. I’m using the venerable pywinrm library. It works great, but there was a decent bit of setup for the underlying host to make it work that I had been unfamiliar with…

I recently found myself working on a project which required the GSS-NTLMSSP library. The application is going to be delivered via Kubernetes, so I needed to build a Docker image with this library. The project’s build instructions are pretty clear about what the dependencies are, but given that this was…

I’ve recently been working on a project that requires me to use PowerShell. I actually feel relatively fluent in PowerShell since it was my main scripting language for a little over a decade while I worked as a sysadmin in highly Windows-centric environments that involved me automating as much of…