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Using a Wacom tablet with Debian Buster
🕓 Jan 12, 2018

I had difficulty getting my tablet to work as expected after upgrading from Stretch to Buster the other day.

The tablet was recognized, and I could configure it and test it in the gnome settings and everything worked there. However, when I tried to use other applications like Krita and Gimp the...


Getting Steam to work in Debian Stretch (Intel Ivybridge)
🕓 Dec 14, 2016

I recently made the jump into stretch. Previously I had steam working fine, and the games I played loaded. After the update, steam itself wouldn’t even start. This appears to be a common issue between the “steam-runtime”, which ships olds libraries no longer compatible with others...


HTTP Streaming Audio with Remote Control using CMUS, PulseAudio, and VLC
🕓 Sep 17, 2016

Set-up on your computer

  1. Start CMUS listening on your network
  1. In CMUS, set a password
  1. Set up pulseaudio to stream via RTP
  1. Set CMUS to output to the newly made sink
  1. Set vlc to retranscode

Hook up with a phone:

  • Android: Cmus Remote (control volume, playback settings, skip, turn off,...

Using AlternC's REST(ish) API
🕓 Jul 27, 2016

I recently wanted to try and use AlternC’s API to see how it worked in the hope that some tasks could become more automated with external clients.

In AlternC 3.1-3.5 there are two sections of the github repo which deal with the api, first of the panel api index, which documents how you are...


Mnemosyne 2.3 Headless Syncing Setup on Debian Jessie
🕓 Jul 19, 2016

Introduction

Debian Jessie ships Mnemosyne 2.2.x. As of Mnemosyne 2.3.x, the sync feature was much revamped, and a headless sync (& web server) modes were introduce into the application - making it possible to more easily use remote headless servers for central storage and synchronization. Rough...