Maël Valais maelvls

My hundred struggles while using Linux as my desktop driver (Ubuntu 24.04)

Hi! On Thursday 25 April 2021, I entirely switched from macOS to Linux: https://maelvls.dev/evolution-of-my-home-office/. I took note of every adjustment I had to make along the way. I use Ubuntu "vanilla" (with Gnome as my desktop manager).

🔥 Update 26 June 2023: I am abandoning "desktop" Linux! I can't bear having to work around everything all the time, not even counting the tons of problems that occur whenever I do a major version upgrade (e.g., when I upgraded from 21.10 to 22.04, my PPAs broken obviously, and also I lost all the hack I had made to the /etc to work around problems). I am officially back to macOS starting 26 June 2023. I'll still use my Linux workstation remotely over Mosh, but not as a desktop environment. To learn more: https://hackmd.io/@maelvls/my-macos-tweaks

My other articles:

Setting up the Synology DS920+

Moved to https://hackmd.io/8bZlqm9sQh6b0HH7Jr2YzA

To remove the vendor/ diffs in Go, add a bookmark in Firefox with:

javascript:(function(){ var q = prompt("Example filter: vendor/"); if (q != null) { $(".diff-file:contains(" + q + ")").detach() }}())

To expand all the resolved comments in a GitHub pull request, I used to use a bookmark with a javascript snippet using this Gist, but it seems like GitHub silently added a feature where pressing Option while clicking on "Expand comment" on one of the folded comments expands all the comments at once.

Dealing with secrets

GNOME comes with libsecret. You can use libsecret to store your git credentials:

sudo apt install libsecret-1-0 libsecret-1-dev libglib2.0-dev
sudo make --directory=/usr/share/doc/git/contrib/credential/libsecret
git config --global credential.helper /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/credential/libsecret/git-credential-libsecret

I had a bug with golangci-lint that would time out on some Github Actions builds. In order to investigate the issue, I wrote this Deno script that would scrap all the logs and look for the memory used (we used golangci-lint with the -v flag which prints how much memory was being spent).

If you also use golangci-lint and have weird time out issues, turn on golangci-lint's -v mode and run this script.

brew install deno

Run it:

kubectl run tcpd -it --rm --image=a --overrides='{"spec": {"hostNetwork": true, "containers": [{"name": "tcpd", "image": "corfr/tcpdump", "tty": true, "stdin": true, "stdinOnce": true, "securityContext": {"capabilities": {"add": ["NET_ADMIN"]}}, "args": ["-i", "any", "-U", "-w", "-"]}]}}'

Don't forget that only the DNS names with .local are forwarded by the sshuttle VPN. If you want e.g. example.com to be also forwarded to the cluster, you need to add --also-proxy example.com.

Example:

telepresence --namespace cert-manager --swap-deployment cert-manager --mount=false --run-shell --also-proxy 'example.com'

	#! /bin/bash

	help() {
	cat <<EOF
	I often need to remember what I was doing on a certain day. So I built
	this tool to help me find that out. Note that it requires GNU date.

	To configure which repositories are looked into, edit the EOF block at
	the end of the source of this tool.

	#! /bin/bash

	set -euo pipefail

	CM_VERSION=v1.3.0
	CLUSTER=
	PROJECT=
	DNS_ZONE=
	INLETS_TEXT=

	[
	"Snippets",
	1615367745215,
	{
	"name": "/none",
	"body": "/release-note-none",
	"timestamp": 1618436050723
	},
	{
	"name": "close",

	"""
	Enable the streaming mode [1] whenever a request contains the query
	parameter ?watch=true. The watch=true parameter is passed by Kubernertes
	clients (such as client-go) when they intend to be notified of object
	updates.

	Use with:

	mitmproxy -p 9090 -s watch-stream.py