Notes

Notes

Short thoughts and quick notes — not full blog posts.

You may do apt dist-upgrade or yay or pacman -Syu everyday, but do you nvm install --reinstall-packages-from=current 'lts/*' too?

Spent way too long debugging a “broken CLI tool” in Cursor… Turned out it wasn’t broken — it was Snap. Wrapper-based installs (like Snap) can quietly change how CLI tools behave inside IDE agents and scripts. Switched to a native package. Problem disappeared instantly.

Manjaro 25.1 “Anh-Linh” just breathed new life into my ASUS Vivobook Pro 15 (Ultra 9 + RTX 3050 + Intel Arc) — battery now lasts noticeably longer and games run way smoother, all with zero extra tweaking. Everything finally feels right out of the box. Massive props to the Manjaro team for this release. The hybrid Intel + NVIDIA setup on my laptop finally behaves the way it always should have, without me fighting…

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Pidgin confirmed today that ss-otr, a third-party plugin listed since July 6, contained a keylogger and shared screenshots with unwanted parties. If you installed it, uninstall immediately. Going forward, listed plugins must have an OSI-approved open source license.

https://pidgin.im/posts/2024-08-malicious-plugin/

I had problem with Firefox freezing whenever tried to open File Dialog, tried hundred of different solution and none worked. finally a true boolean of browser.download.lastDir.savePerSite in about:config fixed it

Done ✅ All #Ubuntu servers upgraded successfully.

sudo sed -i 's/mantic/noble/g' /etc/apt/sources.list