Author Archives: chris

Easily create a bootable external drive

By | October 23, 2025

I like having a bootable partition on my external drives and larger USB flash drives. This makes a great emergency rescue, cloning device or a bootable private PC environment without disrupting the actual computer and without taking up much space on the external drive. The 2 bootable images I like to use on external devices… Read More »

Never ever install Nextcloud from Yast

By | August 29, 2025

Years ago, when I spun up my OpenSuse VM to run my website and Nextcloud, I used the Nextcloud installer from the software repository included with OpenSuse. I realized after a few years now that decision was a huge mistake! Don’t ever do this! The Nextcloud version still listed today in the OpenSuse repo is… Read More »

Stop Wayland from being used

By | July 14, 2025

Yeah, I heard, Wayland is the future, but for remote access to your desktop, screenshot utilities and more, Wayland just sucks. I prefer to use Xorg for now and don’t care what the general consensus is. If you want to know how to stop Wayland from being used on your machine (If using the Gnome… Read More »

I still don’t care about cookies

By | February 14, 2025

This is my new favorite extension to use on my browser. This little utility blocks all those annoying, “This site uses cookies” pop-up messages. This extension is a version of the extension that is not associated with AVAST. It works great. Along with uBlock Origin, this extension makes web browsing a little more less annoying.