Why my Steam/Proton games had no sound on Arch while the desktop worked perfectly — and how a USB DAC that wouldn’t resume from PipeWire’s idle-suspend turned out to be the real culprit.
No Sound in Steam Games: A USB DAC That Wouldn’t Wake Up
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Per-App HiDPI Scaling Fixes on Omarchy
How to fix individual apps that render too large under Omarchy’s global GDK_SCALE=2, using per-app desktop file overrides.
Connecting Obsidian to Claude Code with Docker’s MCP Toolkit
How to set up Docker Desktop’s MCP Toolkit on Linux and connect your Obsidian vault to Claude Code — giving your AI assistant direct access to read, write, and search your notes.
Backing Up Self-Hosted Docker Services with Restic
Backing Up Self-Hosted Docker Services with Restic Self-hosting is great until you lose everything. A dead SD card, a botched upgrade, or a misconfigured volume mount can wipe out months of data in seconds. If you’re running services like Nextcloud, Immich, or Linkding on a Raspberry Pi or home server, you need a backup strategy that actually works.
I use Restic with a Hetzner Storage Box. Here’s how I set it up.
Hardening and Mfa on Linux
Hardening Linux and Setup 2FA
Unclutter on wayland
Unclutter works for X11, for wayland you need to do it another way.
Asciiqarium - How To
How to install Asciiquarium on Arch Linux. The last screensaver you will need…
Configuring SSH on your CISCO Switch
The definitive guide to configuring ssh on your cisco switch
Tuxedo and Arch
Tuxedo Laptop with Arch. Why?
Cloudflare Tunnel and containers
How to setup a cloudflare tunnel using your docker-compose file