Paul Jobson pjobson

Installing Jellyfin

I do things a bit more custom on my server than most folks.

Using the install-debuntu.sh script, I was running into an issue where jellyfin would not start properly, due to the included ffmpeg not working.

I was getting this error when running sudo systemctl status jellyfin.service

MediaBrowser.Common.FfmpegException: Failed to find valid ffmpeg

Instructions for Disabling a PCI Device Linux

I want to disable the onboard WiFi card, as I use a better USB one. Having both of them was causing weird conflicts where they'd both try to connect to the network at the same time and would keep the machine from connecting outside of the netowrk.

Start with:

lspci

Install Balatro Mods on Linux Mint Steam

Install Balatro

If you're doing a clean install, follow this. If you're already installed just add the Launch Options at #4, then skip to Make Temp Path below.

Open Steam
Select Balatro
Click Gear Icon then Properties

Fixing Nvidia Drivers to Use With Plex

I've read through what seems like infinity stack**** posts and various other things, this worked for me on a server with a Tesla card running Mint kernel 6.8.x

Errors

$ nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure

that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

Installing USB Advanced Card Systems, Ltd ACR122U NFC Reader / Writer (Debian, Mint, Ubuntu)

Intro

I've found a lot of conflicting information on getting one of these up and running on Debian/Ubuntu/Mint, this is a guide to what I did to get mine working. This was tested on Orange Pi 1.0.2 Bookworm aarch64 and Linux Mint 21.3 x86_64.

The OrangePi (and possibly other SBC devices) does not provide enough power to the USB port to activate the reader. You will need to get a powered USB hub.

wget http://ftp.net.usf.edu/pub/ubuntu/pool/universe/n/ncurses/libtinfo5_6.3-2_amd64.deb
wget http://ftp.net.usf.edu/pub/ubuntu/pool/universe/n/ncurses/libncurses5_6.3-2_amd64.deb
wget http://ftp.net.usf.edu/pub/ubuntu/pool/universe/n/ncurses/libncursesw5_6.3-2_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i libtinfo5_6.3-2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libncurses5_6.3-2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libncursesw5_6.3-2_amd64.deb
    
rm -f libtinfo5_6.3-2_amd64.deb libncurses5_6.3-2_amd64.deb libncursesw5_6.3-2_amd64.deb

	#!/bin/bash

	# This was written for Mint/Ubuntu, should be pretty easy to update for other distros

	# install python wxgtk4.0 & pipx
	sudo apt install python3-wxgtk4.0 pipx -y

	# get the next release
	NEXT=$(curl -s https://archive.chirpmyradio.com/chirp_next/ \| grep "next-" \| head -n1 \| sed -e 's/.\+href="//' \| sed -e 's/">.\+//')
	# find the whl file

	"Factory" option in Car Settings
	000000

	Developer Options Password:
	yyyy.mm.dd

	ex: 2025.01.01

	#!/bin/bash

	# Steam on Linux doesn't seem to like to actually
	# quit, when you tell it to quit.

	# Get all of the Steam processes
	STEAMPROCESSES=$(ps aux \| grep Steam \| grep valvesoftware)

	# Loop and kill them one-by-one
	while read STEAMPROCESSES; do

	#!/bin/bash

	if [[ $1 = "" ]]; then
	echo "Shows video length in minutes."
	echo "Expects: videoduration.sh filename.mp4"
	else
	length=$(ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=duration -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 "${1}" \| sed -E 's/\.[[:digit:]]+$//')
	zpad=`printf %03d $(($length / 60))`
	echo "${zpad} min - ${1}"
	fi