Ram's Technology Notes
Amazon Music does not have a desktop client for Linux. The web application works fine but is restricted to SD only. After rooting about a bit, I found that using bottles gets you an easy working install of the Amazon Music Windows application on Linux that allows you to play HD and UltraHD tracks. Download…
Finally decided to take network security at home a bit more seriously and put all my Internet-of-Shit devices into a contained network that I can monitor, control and isolate better. I am still in the process of setting this up and toying with both OpnSense and OpenWRT. My current plan is to run either one…
If you need to disable the physical button in CD/DVD/Blu-ray drives in Linux, you can use these instructions on Ubuntu based distributions:
I have an old Bluray internal drive that does not support UHD/4k (hardware limitation – this drive predates UHD/4K availability in consumer devices). To be able to view them on my machines, I ended up purchasing an AmazonBasics external UHD/4k capable drive. This drive turns out to be a rebadged LG BP60NB10. While the drive…
This is a write up of what I needed to do to enable passthru of NVidia discrete GPU with host access to the dGPU. System: What I want to be able to do: Apart from following the guides from my previous post, the NVidia proprietary drivers + X11 + Kernel Mode Setting combine to make…
I recently built a new home server (post about this later) and as part of this reboot decided to setup proxmox and utilize containers for improving security and isolation for different services hosted in my home server. Everything has worked quite well (another post about this later) but because I wanted to keep my old…
Here are some useful commands for managing a Proxmox server and containers:
I am setting up a new home server and before I install final headless software, I am doing burn in tests where I am using a desktop install (Kubuntu specifically). I wanted to set up remote access for the desktop. Played with different VNC servers and clients and experienced terrible latency issues on a multi-gigabit…
This was way more annoying than it should have been – I am using imwheel to increase scroll speed and wanted to set up my Manjaro 5.15 KDE environment so that it starts automatically at startup. The following things did not work: Setting up an autostart shortcut to imwheel Setting up a login script for…
You should in general prefer to install from the official Manjaro or AUR repos whenever possible. But in the rare case (cough Microsoft Edge cough) where this is not possible, here are a sequence of steps you can follow to install a .deb package in Manjaro (and other Arch based distros) You need to install…