Linux distributions agreeing to a single universal packaging system? That sounds like a joke, right? That’s because it is. It’s been a tradition of sort to prank readers on 1st of April with a humorous article. Since we are already past the
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The portable AppImage format is quite popular among developers and users alike. It allows you to run applications without installation or dependency issues, on virtually any Linux distribution. However, managing multiple AppImages or keeping them updated can sometimes be a bit cumbersome.
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Rust in Linux kernel is not news. You already know about that. But Rust in GNU is a big move. It seems that a Rust rewrite of GNU’s coreutils (meta package that gives us commands like cp, ls, dd, mv etc) will
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Ollama has been a game-changer for running large language models (LLMs) locally, and I’ve covered quite a few tutorials on setting it up on different devices, including my Raspberry Pi. But as I kept experimenting, I realized there was still another fantastic
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How do you update Arch Linux? You run sudo pacman -Syu command. How do you install a package on Arch Linux? You run sudo pacman -Syu package_name. Which might make you wonder why do you need a system update while installing a
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We reached the 30,000 followers mark on Mastodon. This is an unexpected feat. We have 140,000 people on our Twitter profile but that’s because Twitter/X is a bigger platform. I am pleasantly surprised to see so many people on an alternative, decentralized
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Imagine you found a cool text editor like Pulsar and downloaded it in the AppImage format. You enjoy using it and now want to make it the default application for markdown files. You right-click on the file and click ‘open with’ option,
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Ollama is one of the easiest ways for running large language models (LLMs) locally on your own machine. It’s like Docker. You download publicly available models from Hugging Face using its command line interface. Connect Ollama with a graphical interface and you
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Keeping your laptop always plugged-in speeds up the deterioration of its battery life. But if you are using a docking station, you don’t have the option to unplug the power cord. Thankfully, you can employ a few tricks to limit battery charging
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In case you didn’t know it already, regularly charging the battery to 100% or fully discharging it puts your battery at stress and may lead to poor battery life in long run. I am not making claims on my own. This is
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