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For someone who works a lot with Git repositories, it is interesting to see some basic information in the console while working on the repo. Stuff like which branch or tag is currently active. Sure, there are commands to show that kind of information, but after a while, it becomes tedious to have to put… Read more
Keeping your kernel up to date on Gentoo can be a bit daunting, especially when you are running the “keyworded” kernel, meaning not the stable version, but the “always latest” version by keyword ~amd64. There’s a new version almost every week and updating it manually can be quite annoying over time. At least it felt… Read more
One of the challenges when installing a new Gentoo Linux is getting the correct compiler and CPU flags for your /etc/portage/make.conf file. Maybe not only while installing the system, but also when optimising things, it is nice to set the correct flags here. I’m not going into a long and drawn-out explanation of why it… Read more
If you want to install Go on your Raspberry Pi you have a few options. In the past, there was a lot of cross-compiling and hacking to get it done, but now you can install it through Apt. However, you’re likely to find an older version. For instance, at the time of this writing, an… Read more
There are times when you want to mount a remote network location into your local file system. Especially when you have a NAS or cloud storage with a provider who provides CIFS or NFS access to it. One way would be to add some lines to your /etc/fstab file to mount them every time your… Read more
Install ‘rpi-eeprom’ (Older Versions of Raspberry Pi OS / Raspbian) Newer versions of Raspberry Pi OS come with this utility already but if you are upgrading/have upgraded from an older version you may not have it in some cases. We can install it with the following commands: Once the utility is installed Raspberry Pi OS… Read more