For anyone daily-driving a high-performance gaming laptop on Linux—specifically an ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 (GA402RJ) with an AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS and discrete Radeon RX 6700S—Linux battery life has long been an exercise in frustration. A few weeks ago, I opened an Antigravity AI session with a simple, desperate complaint: *”While working in Windows, this
Picture this: you close your laptop lid, slide it into your backpack, and an hour later your bag feels like a portable furnace while your battery is drained to 10%. On an ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 (GA402) running Fedora (Linux, GNOME Wayland), closing the lid stopped suspending the machine. Sometimes the screen would turn off
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What is 1Password? More Than a Password Manager: In an era where data breaches and cyber threats loom large, safeguarding your digital existence demands a robust, intuitive solution. Enter 1Password – an advanced security suite that transcends the boundaries of a conventional password manager, now with enhanced functionality on Linux. Linux Compatibility I had been
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Recently I moved from Fedora 38 to Ubuntu. After the move, I was faced with a rather difficult situation. Howdy wouldn’t install or fail to install. The error looked like this : So why does Howdy fail to install? The reason? Python 3.11. Ubuntu 23.04 introduced this new Python version which was causing new howdy
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So, wireguard is being used quite a lot these days and everyone is trying ways to get a wireguard UI to manage the connections. My previous blog post about managing wireguard via network manager doesn’t seem to work for Ubuntu 22.04 and up. There is an open bug report for that here . The only
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So, Wireguard is the latest sensation in the the VPN world. It’s got the best of the best you can think of when it comes to VPN performance, security, ease of connectivity and power saving. All new distros support it. Unfortunately, there is no default GUI for Ubuntu’s network manager yet. Here is how to
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Ever since Ubuntu ditched Unity and switched to Gnome3, I’ve been trying to get the correct combination of extensions to mimic my Unity experience. Throw into the mix a heavy usage of MacOS X over the last 2 years. After spending a considerable time with the gnome extensions, I’ve finally managed to get my desktop
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Ansible is a very flexible automation tool. It can be used for a wide range of system administration task and also infrastructure administration task. Many a times, for application administrators, there is a requirement to sudo to a different user specific to an application. The application or user may need to pull in information from
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Mint repo server setup Recently I successfully created a Linux Mint local repo server. Below are the steps to create and sync the repo server. Step 1 Create a Linux mint server with Static IP / DNS and with at least 150 GB disk space. There are lots of tutorials on that, I won’t go
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