poop gems

At least they’re pretty.

And the you go on to use Termux, and encounter swipe from left to manage sessions.

More like taking sips from the bottle until “shit, that was all of it”.

Me.
A few times when I got smaller bottles of 100% lemon juice I just ended up drinking it as-is. But I’ll also eat lemons if they are easy to peel.

It even knows when you discover features by accident

Having exposed brain probably lead to significant damages to it.

When I tried PulseAudio over network in addition to VNC I just got a really choppy unusable audio.
I just gave up and restored to streaming audio with VLC.

Problem with plain Wireguard is if you can’t open ports on some devices to get a direct connection. It should be just fine with hub and spoke model, but NAT Traversal of Tailscale makes a huge difference. I can get a direct connection between 2 devices connected to mobile data and behind CG-NAT.
And also the config management if you have too many devices.

Hub and spoke, you just add new devices to Wireguard on the main device, and the new peer. Full mesh, oof.

But as far as configuring Wireguard goes, that’s pretty simple. And then there’s the weird stuff with MTU and fragmentation… but that’s not something Wireguard-specific.

And even if you don’t care, if you have an old machine booting from a HDD, the process at least isn’t so boring.

Yeah, just reminded me of this.

I went with Google.

Edit: I am just saying what I went with. I didn’t have another fitting option.

I recently tried Ubuntu.
Wait, no, I fought Ubuntu.

Firefox was snap. OK, remove it and apt install. Nope, that installs a snap. Now, one more thing, for some reason uninstalling the snap version of Firefox took several minutes each time where it was “disconnecting” it from a bunch of things, or something along those lines.

So I followed the Mozilla guide for Firefox installation on Ubuntu. Did it work? No. The higher priority setting for Mozilla repo from their guide didn’t work.
Finally, I found the answer on OMG Ubuntu, and I could finally install the regular Firefox package.

Here you go:

Wait, I am supposed to care about .pacnew files?

Anyway, so far all I found there is new optional dependencies.
I rather wonder what happens when manual intervention is needed, like when JDK started being in conflict with JRE.

I was just looking if something like that exists yesterday, but got disappointed. Nice timing.

Yeah, Gemini is… interesting. It said it’s a “one-way route” for the human.

I am still triple checking when I see /dev/sda as a target drive in such utilities. I use NVMe, so nowadays that’s probably a flash drive for me, but it still gives me adrenaline when I notice it.

I don’t know if it should be a bad thing. Inside the tar archive the configs were already organized into their respective dirctories, this way with --preserve-permissions --overwrite I could just quickly add the desired versions of configs.
Some examples of contents:

-rw-r--r-- root/root      2201 2026-02-18 08:08 etc/pam.d/sshd
-rw-r--r-- root/root       399 2026-02-17 23:22 etc/pam.d/sudo
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2208 2026-02-18 09:13 etc/sysctl.conf
drwx------ user/user         0 2026-02-17 23:28 home/user/.ssh/
-rw------- user/user       205 2026-02-17 23:29 home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys
drwxrwxr-x user/user         0 2026-02-18 16:30 home/user/.vnc/
-rw-rw-r-- user/user        85 2026-02-18 15:32 home/user/.vnc/tigervnc.conf
-rw-r--r-- root/root      3553 2026-02-18 08:04 etc/ssh/sshd_config

Keeps permissions, keeps ownership, puts things where they belong (or copies from where they were), and you end up with a single file that can be stored on whatever filesystem.