After a small forced hiatus, userrepository.eu is back. The Covid-19 pandemic made a hit in my income and the wife’s income, so I had to temporarily suspend non-priority expenses. During this period, I had time to consider a few things about the future of the project and decided to change the provider from Scaleway to Hetzner, mostly because the Arch image they’re using is essentially abandonware. If you’re reading this, you’ll probably know that Arch Linux changed the default package compression to ZSTD....

Today, I’ve decided to try and improve the boot time of my laptop, running EndeavourOS. There was no special reason for it other than “Why not?”. The first thing I made was disabling or masking the following systemd services: systemd-resolved disabled tlp disabled NetworkManager-wait-online disabled lvm2-monitor masked org.cups.cupsd disabled packagekit masked bluetooth disabled (I rarely use the laptop’s bluetooth) blueman-mechanism disabled With this, I was able to save a few milliseconds and decrease the enabled systemd units to 15, but the impact was negligible....

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPdIwR4v6CDZXO4YTzbSAHjEogjsSskid Mais uma noite de insónias. Esta, no entanto, teve uma particularidade interessante: enquanto ouvia música no Youtube, acabei a descobrir as mashups dos DJs From Mars.

Quer no meu portátil, quer no da esposa, temos um problema irritante com o microfone de cada equipamento quando usamos o Jitsi Meet, Skype, Messenger e outras aplicações do género. A situação é a seguinte: quando o volume do micro está baixo, não se ouve nada; aumentando, só se ouve distorção que dá uma dor de cabeça horrível. Andei uns dias de volta do alsa ou do pulseaudio, porque pensava que o problema era aí, até que descobri a solução no askubuntu....