Adventures in BTRFS: Replacing an array

Posted on Wed 20 December 2023 in Technical • Tagged with btrfs, self-hosting, cloud storage, hardware

Preamble ramble

There aren't a lot of real world examples of using BTRFS around online. Some of the most useful advice I found was in r/BTRFS on Reddit but it's hard to actually find user experiences beyond the theroretical.
This is sort of one, but the tl;dr is …


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Disabling a Wacom laptop touchscreen in an Arch Linux based OS

Posted on Tue 22 August 2023 in Technical • Tagged with tech, laptop, linux, manjaro, touchscreen, hardware

(Without disabling everything else)

My main laptop is a Lenovo X1 Yoga 2nd Gen running Manjaro KDE Plasma. Lovely machine and does what I want it to do. As a Yoga device, it has a touchscreen, which I don't use a lot and have often thought of disabling.

The other …


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